Japan Info Report: Series Endings and Series Beginnings (No Spoilers Please!)

[Aiia]

How about a thread for news about manga series coming to a close in Japan? I check a lot of homepages for my favourite comics and I thought there might be others interested in knowing. I'm not following all magazine publications though so maybe other readers could report as well.

It could also be a thread to report about new series starting up by famours authors (so people know what to bug the american publishers about, hehe).

Please keep this thread spoiler-free (i.e. don't discuss the ending).

Here's my two first:

Hanazakari no Kimitachi E (Hana-Kimi) is reaching it's final stage, according to the Hakusensha homepage (about time if you ask me). I hope she writes more Wild Kiss instead! Or a Umeda-sensei gaiden... *holds thumbs*

Not exactly manga, but the Mirage of Blaze novel series was finished earlier this year (in april I think) when the last novel was released. "The super long novel series has reached it's bold ending" or something is what the web page said. Fans mentioned crying while reading the last book. I wonder if that's a good or a bad sign... I'm still on volume 1, only 39 to go!

If someone can come up with a better topic, I'll edit it. My inspiration is pretty low right now.

edit: new topic

[memeguy]

Midori no hibi is definitely showing signs of coming to a close.

Does anyone else read Ai Yori Aoshi in Young Animal? The latest I've read is chapter 118 in YA 2004.12 (June 25th), and there's a big event indicated at the end of the story. That and other recent events indicate to me a story that could be finishing.

--memeguy

[Andrew Cunningham]

Black Cat ended.

Jump started three new series;
Home Tutor/Hitman Reborn! is a pretty funny series about a Jr High boy tapped to be the next mafia don and being groomed for the job with a series of magic bullets.
D Grayman is a rather dull demon fighting manga. Nice art, but nothing compelling.
Puyan, the fastest young ping pong boy on earth isn't as strong as the short story version, but picked up quite a bit this week with the introduction of some much more interesting characters than the original cast. It's about a boy who is struck by lightning and gains mystic numerical fortune telling perception powers when sexually aroused.

Magajin did a series of seven new titles a few months ago. I'm reading:
Tokyu! a really, really awesome coast guard rescue manga that is neck and neck with Death Note as the best new book of the year. Author also did Umizaru and the artist did 3.3.7 Byoshi.
Menking Futatsuki died in two volumes; by the Iron Wok Jan guy and was just as much fun, but didn't find an audience somehow.
Ahiru no Sora is a basketball book; the twist is that the main character is only 149 centimeters tall. Strong art and steals from all the right sources.
Kiseki no Shonen is a very tense psychic time travelling story. Ultra real art.

Sunday has a few new titles; Kekkaishi is on volume three; was a bit rocky at first but really chugging along now. About a school that is a source of demon power, so two students from rival branches of a very old family patrol the school at night using their barrier powers to capture and kill the monsters. Really good art.
Codename: Babyface I'm not sold on yet; retro art and boring briefings but some fun to be had in this spy book about children who transform into adults for missions.

[Kiril]

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Aiia said:
If someone can come up with a better topic, I'll edit it. My inspiration is pretty low right now.

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How about something like:
"Japan Info Report: Series Endings and Series Beginnings (No Spoilers Please!)" ?

[Noodle]

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Kiril said:

How about something like:
"Japan Info Report: Series Endings and Series Beginnings (No Spoilers Please!)" ?

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or just "Japanese Series Ending and Beginning (no spoilers please)" ? Simple and searchable is good? Though the search function seriously hates me... /images/graemlins/relief1.gif

Also, I didn't know Black Cat had ended - did it end well? (I don't need a big editorial, just whether it was satisfactory to the story or not.) Anyone know? I sort of followed it for a while (loved the art) but fell behind as I had too much else to keep track of.

[Andrew Cunningham]

Don't really know, since I never followed it. Looked like it wrapped stuff up well enough, but I just flipped through it.

[Aiia]

Meripuri Meruhen Prince by Matsuri Hino will end in the upcoming number of LaLa (Hakusensha). That should make it 4 or 5 volumes long if I'm not mistaken.

[littleharlock]

Yuzo Takada also completed some of his series. His Genzo Hitogata Kiwa, which started in Afternoon mangabon back in October 1996 (while Sazan Eyes was still ongoing), got recently completed (with June 2004 issue of Afternoon). Takada´s Kyûjûkyû Nemuru Shizume also got completed in Bessatsu Young Magazine No. 4/2004 (and the first Tank will be released in August).
Additional Takada will start a new series. The first chapter of Little • Jumper will be released with the September issue of Afternoon mangabon.

Speaking of Afternoon, Kenichi Sonoda´s Gun Smith Cats - Burst will also start in the September issue.

Also (a series I´m personally looking forward to) is Nariko Enomoto´s manga adaption of Natsume Soseki´s novel Kokoro, to start in Big Comics Superior mangabon No. 15/2004

Nihei Tsutomu started BIOMEGA in Young Magazine mangabon recently.

That´s all I can think of for the moment.

so far
yours
littleharlock

[Andrew Cunningham]

Genzo claims it is only on hiatus.
It's boring as hell, so I hope it stays away.
I tried to like it, but it just gave me nothing.
He also did a short series about, uh, maybe a nurse, maybe an angel, it wasn't very clear, for Uppers.

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Andrew Cunningham said:
Genzo claims it is only on hiatus.
It's boring as hell, so I hope it stays away.
I tried to like it, but it just gave me nothing.
He also did a short series about, uh, maybe a nurse, maybe an angel, it wasn't very clear, for Uppers.

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"Booking Life"? She was neither, just a patient in the hospital (It's a manga about transplants). IIRC she was the director's daughter or something like that, who has to go to the hospital all the time for check-ups and such.

Arvida

[littleharlock]

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Andrew Cunningham said:
He also did a short series about, uh, maybe a nurse, maybe an angel, it wasn't very clear, for Uppers.

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Takada also did a (short) manga adaption of Ultra Man THE FIRST for Newtype THE LIVE earlier this year.

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yours
littleharlock

[littleharlock]

Another one that started recently in Shôgakukan´s Big Comics Superior mangabon is Kanshiki kan Fabre by Kitahara Masanori (story) and Hideki Akiyama (illustrations) in cooperation with the Japanese Method Science Appraisal Center.

And starting with Bessatsu Young Magazine No. 5/2004 (on sale on 2004/08/16) a manga titled Steamboy Gaiden by Tony Takezaki is supposed to start (though I don´t know if that´s just a short story or anything else).

so far
yours
littleharlock

[Andrew Cunningham]

Second time typing this, since it randomly took me back to the original message halfway through the first one.
How about pinning this thread so we can find it easy?

The first volume of Kitoh Mohiro's new series, Bokura no (Our) came out yesterday. It appears to be a generic post-eva collateral damage filled giant robot battle manga at first. 15 characters, each one gets a turn as pilot. There's a big twist towards the end of the volume, though...<span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'> Each time a pilot successfully defeats the enemy, he promptly drops dead. </span>

[quenelf]

If this thread is going to become a useful reference then maybe it would help if everyone made sure to put the title and author in the subject line? E.g.

'Ends: XZsdgsdg SDGsdg by sdgsdg sdgsdg'

Also, it would probably be useful to have a time-based thread i.e. start a new thread once a quarter or something.

--quen

[littleharlock]

To add another one:

Kei Tôme (manga-ka of Hitsuji no Uta, Yesterday wo Utatte, etc.) also started...or better said will start a new series. Hatsukanezumi no Jikan will start with No. 33 of Morning mangabon (on sale on 2004/07/15).

Edit:

Oh and the first chapter of the Otogizôshi manga (Production IG´s upcoming TV project) by Narumi Seto just got released with the August issue of Comic Blade mangabon.

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yours
littleharlock

Tanemura's new manga, which starts in Ribon #9 (on sale 03.aug), now has a title: Shinshi Doumei Cross - The Gentlemen Alliance.
The preview pic shows a group of 5 characters: 3 girls and 2 boys.

Arvida

[populuxe]

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littleharlock said:
Speaking of Afternoon, Kenichi Sonoda´s Gun Smith Cats - Burst will also start in the September issue.

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And he's able to start that because Exaxxion just finished with the July issue.

Also in Afternoon, Kia Asamiya has begun a new comic series called Karapuri. I'm loving the art, but I'm still trying to work out if the story is any good.

[Ribby]

Knowing Tanemura, the guys must be delectable...picture?

Edit: adding some Nakayoshi news.

Natsumi Andou (Zodiac P.I.) is beginning a new cooking manga, "Kitchen no Ohime-sama" (with a writer) in the September Nakayoshi.
The magazine's also doing a special on the Japanese womens' volleyball team in honor of the Olympics.
Next month's furoku includes a Pocket Nakayoshi with three candidates for a regular series--you can vote for one of the three.

[Aiia]

Hiroyuki Asada's popular basket ball manga I'll Generation Basket ends with volume 14 (the last chapter was released in Monthly Jump vol 7). The last volume will be released on August 4th. They're releasing a box or something collecting all the volumes as a set. Link (http://mj.shueisha.co.jp/) Click on I'll and then on "I'll" again (below the newsbox) for a picture.

Since I haven't followed this in the magazine, but rather by reading the previews for each chapter on the I'll homepage, this was quite a surprise to me! But judging from the previews, this was probably the right place to end the story. I'm really looking forward to Asada-sensei's next project (will be announced next month).

[ayumu]

The next and last chapter of Hanakimi will run in Hana to Yume issue 18 (Aug. 20).

(Why do they have to make me wait three issues for one more chapter!? /images/graemlins/anger200.gif /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif)

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The next and last chapter of Hanakimi will run in Hana to Yume issue 18 (Aug. 20).

(Why do they have to make me wait three issues for one more chapter!? /images/graemlins/anger200.gif /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif)

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Probably they want each of their most popular series to appear in #18, since the Hty/Lala/Melody festa is right afterwards. /images/graemlins/sweat200.gif

Arvida

Complex (by SAKUCHI Kumiko) ended in Princess #8 (on sale today).

Volume #7 (last one) goes on sale September 22nd.

Edited: Gah, I forgot the "no spoilers/no discussion of the ending" part T_T

Arvida

[Aiia]

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ayumu-chan said:
The next and last chapter of Hanakimi will run in Hana to Yume issue 18 (Aug. 20).


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Good. About time. /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif

[Chepin]

Natsume Maya's page is reporting that Midori no Hibi will be ending July 21.
And it seems we'll also be getting a new Kindaicih mystery August 4. It's been a while since the last one, hasn't it? And it's the same author of Tantei Gakuen Q, right? I'm guessing he's doing those in parallel.

[fruitykogyaru]

There's a new story by Yoko Kamio (Hana Yori Dango aka Boys Over Flowers) in the latest issue of Betsuma (http://betsuma.shueisha.co.jp/). I think it's called "Cat Street", or something like that (seeing as I can't read Japanese, this is my best guess after viewing this (http://www.s-manga.net/girls/bm.html) at s-manga.net.) I was hoping somebody else had seen this and could tell what it's about and whether it'll be running for awhile or if it's a one-shot deal.

[Andrew Cunningham]

New series, yes. Those giant kanji on the cover say Rensai Kaishi, which means Series start.

[littleharlock]

Since Akira Nagai passed away on 7th July 2004 (due to liver cancer) I doubt Team Medical Dragon by him and Tarô Nogizaka (illustrations) which is still running in Shôgakukan´s Big Comic Superior will or can go on like that.
Shôgakukan didn´t announce anything about it yet though.

so far
yours
littleharlock

[Andrew Cunningham]

Depends on how large his role was, really.
A lot of the "gensaku" credits don't actually mean "writer" as such. Zebraman, for example, credits Kudo Kankuro as "Gensaku" but that just means he wrote the movie. Yamada Reiji is doing the manga entirely by himself.
Other Gensaku credits mean the writer is in the studio every day discussing panel layout with the artist. It's a very vague credit.
So the artist may elect to continue the series on his own, especially since it appears to be doing well.

[littleharlock]

Yeah true. Maybe Nagai was "just" the medical adivsor as he was on other anime related projects (Black Jack movie). Anyway, the upcoming Big Comic Superior No. 16 (on sale on 07/23) contains a new chapter according to the Official site.
Hopefully it will continue...I just ordered the first 2 Tankôbon of this series.

Btw. Andrew, do you by any chance read Young Magazine? If so, how many chapters of BIOMEGA have been released (back when it got announced it was said that Tsutomu will release a new chapter each week)? And is it as good as the fans say?

so far
yours
littleharlock

[Andrew Cunningham]

I actually picked it up and leafed through this week, but there wasn't an issue in.
So I've seen officially none of it. There's nothing about it on their website either, but then again, Kodansha's website leaves a lot to be desired. I can't believe they don't even have a homepage for Morning.

[littleharlock]

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Andrew Cunningham said:
I actually picked it up and leafed through this week, but there wasn't an issue in.
So I've seen officially none of it. There's nothing about it on their website either, but then again, Kodansha's website leaves a lot to be desired. I can't believe they don't even have a homepage for Morning.

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Haha /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif that´s sooo true! I actually thought it was a short or got cancelled (or that I´m not searching the right way on the Official site) as it´s not listed there (besides the little pop-up they added once it started)...but thanks to the jp. fans I at least know it´s still running ^_^
An Official site for Morning would be a good thing...today Kei Tôme´s new series starts in Morning.
At least Shôgakukan has a IMO clearly arranged site.

so far
yours
littleharlock

[ceatra]

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ayumu-chan said:
The next and last chapter of Hanakimi will run in Hana to Yume issue 18 (Aug. 20).

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So how many volumes will there be total then?

~seichan go boom

[Andrew Cunningham]

Kei Tome...Hitsuji no Uta?
Bio whatsit started only a week or two ago, right? Even obvious crap tends to get at least 9 issues in a weekly before getting the bullet.
Course, I basing this entirely on jump, but I have a few good but cancelled series and the shortest was nine issues.
One advantage of getting published in Jump is that you're guaranteed a trade. Gaki Rokku was serialized in Champion but massive unpopular. Daito picked it up and released it. They have this happy habit of doing that with good manga that didn't find their audience; Osada Yuuko's Magara and Arai Hideki's Itoshii no Irene made it out there as well.

Not new, but the August listings have Sekimatsu Leader Den Takeshi! coming out in a wideban. This series was cancelled abruptly mid storyline when the author was arrested for sex with a teenage prostitute. There were issues drawn but not printed and they released no further volumes. However, he recently popped up in Young Jump with a new series, so I guess he's out of prison and forgiven.

Nishimori Hiroyuki's new manga, Doushirou de gozaru, about a native american? who is obsessed with samurai culture and totally oblivious to modernization will release its first volume next month.

There's also a new manga, Cloth Road, by the author of ROD. Drawn by Okama. Both ROD manga have been killed by bad art (and writing; I presume he's a hands off writer) and I've avoided Samurising because the artist was the same as the Read or Die manga. All I know about Okama is he used to do porn. I don't hate his art style, which is very different from most ex porn guys. The story appears to be ROD with sewing.

Only other new thing of note here is the Yuu Yuu Hakusho Perfect Edition. It was a cute series, and deservedly popular, but the serious problems with the art throughout mean I don't really think it deserves the Kanzenban treatment. I liked it at 100 yen a pop, but 15,000 for the series? No thank you. Just a big ole waste of time when the should be doing Jojos.

[littleharlock]

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Andrew Cunningham said:
Kei Tome...Hitsuji no Uta?

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Yup. The first chapter of Hatsukanezumi no Jikan has been released today in Morning and tomorrow (or is it already 16th in Japan? ^_^) Tankôbon 4 of Tôme´s Yesterday wo Utatte will be released. KUROGANE by Tôme will be (or better said it already started) re-released as Bunkoban (3 in total) and according to fansites, Tôme returned for ACONY (Afternoon if I´m not wrong)...and at the end of this month a new chapter for Tôme´s Genei Hakurankai will be released in Comic BIRZ. Quite the busy manga-ka /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif

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Andrew Cunningham said:
Bio whatsit started only a week or two ago, right? Even obvious crap tends to get at least 9 issues in a weekly before getting the bullet.
Course, I basing this entirely on jump, but I have a few good but cancelled series and the shortest was nine issues.
One advantage of getting published in Jump is that you're guaranteed a trade. Gaki Rokku was serialized in Champion but massive unpopular. Daito picked it up and released it. They have this happy habit of doing that with good manga that didn't find their audience; Osada Yuuko's Magara and Arai Hideki's Itoshii no Irene made it out there as well.

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BIOMEGA started with Young Magazine No. 29 (2004/06/14).
Yeah, but assuming it would end with 9 chapters published...I doubt they´d publish it in Tankôbon format or?(of course that depends on how long the chapters are). Hopefully it´ll run long enough (need more Tsutomu ^_^).

Speaking of re-releases, Mitsuru Adachi´s H2 gets the Wide Ban treatment as well, starting 2004/08/06 and Leiji Matsumoto´s Queen Emeraldas manga got re-released (as part of Kodansha´s Platinum Comics series) as well (though it once again didn´t contain the Emeraldas prototype). Hopefully some more of Matsumoto´s online published chapters for Shin Uchû Senkan Yamato will be published in printed format soon (like the chapters for Ginga Tetsudô 999 in the Ginga Tetsudô Monogatari Big Comic Superior special).

so far
yours
littleharlock

[Andrew Cunningham]

Established manga artists don't have to worry about getting trades. They always do, even for big flops.

Ogino Makoto released Oboko today; complete in one volume and also apparently killed by his health problems. (Nine weeks off before wrapping things up in two issues. His previous series, The Gun Spirit, took six months off before doing the same thing.)
Haven't read it yet, but it involves a high school girl who runs a fishing shop and is involved with one of her teachers and a yakuza. No monsters, which I think is a first for him.

[ayumu]

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seichan go boom said:
So how many volumes will there be total then?


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23, I think. I don't think there's enough material for 24.

(I could be wrong, I can't remember exactly where vol. 22 leaves off.)

[littleharlock]

Hiromoto Sin-ichi´s HELLS ANGELS also ended, with the 3rd and concluding Tankôbon released as of today in Japan (and an adaption by Studio Madhouse planned).

so far
yours
littleharlock

[Andrew Cunningham]

New Afternoon had the aforementioned GunSmith Cats return (kinda boring)
and a new manga be 3x3 Eyes' Yuuzo Takada.
Little Jumper is about a time travelling 15 year old who goes back in time to find a cure for her mothers illness and finds her father fighting with time cops. Her father, who is still in high school, falls in love with her instantly.

Meanwhile, today in Sunday the author of Togari returns with Kurozakuro (pic here) (http://websunday.net/konsyu/) which has a really cool design there. Pity the other main character is that very boring stereotype, the glasses wearing wimp. I don't buy Sunday, so can't comment on the story further.

[littleharlock]

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Andrew Cunningham said:
New Afternoon had the aforementioned GunSmith Cats return (kinda boring)
and a new manga be 3x3 Eyes' Yuuzo Takada.
Little Jumper is about a time travelling 15 year old who goes back in time to find a cure for her mothers illness and finds her father fighting with time cops. Her father, who is still in high school, falls in love with her instantly.

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So is Little Jumper more of a comedy?

Speaking of Afternoon, the October issue (release: 2004/08/25) will contain the first chapter of Toyoda Tetsuya´s under current.

Some more upcoming new series:

The manga version of Bones Kenran Butô Matsuri - The Mars Daybreak will start with the October 2004 issue of Magazine Z (on sale on 2004/08/26).
Also a manga for Gainax´s upcoming Neppû Kairiku Bushilord by Takuya Fujima will start in Monthly Comic Rush, October issue (2004/10/26 on sale).

Btw. I read that there´s still no new chapter of Tsutomu´s BIOMEGA in this weeks issue of Young Magazine (it´s said that Tsutomu took a break, but that´s not officially confirmed AFAIK).

so far
yours
littleharlock

[Andrew Cunningham]

Forgot to mention; flipped through Ultra Jump (mostly to check out Suzuki (Rising Impact) Nakada's new book) and noticed Sin-ichi started up a new manga in there.

[Andrew Cunningham]

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littleharlock said:

So is Little Jumper more of a comedy?



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It's more comidic than the lifeless doll book he was doing. It also has superpowers based on CDROMs revolving in the palm of your hand.

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Speaking of Afternoon, the October issue (release: 2004/08/25) will contain the first chapter of Toyoda Tetsuya´s under current.


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Who?
A new short story by Ueshiba Riichi is far more exciting. I'm surprised he's still working for Afternoon after they shitcanned Yumetsukai so quick, but it's nice to seem him working again, even if it's only a short story.

[littleharlock]

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Andrew Cunningham said:
Forgot to mention; flipped through Ultra Jump (mostly to check out Suzuki (Rising Impact) Nakada's new book) and noticed Sin-ichi started up a new manga in there.

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Yeah he started Gogo Heaven recently (though I´m not 100% sure I think 2 or 3 chapters are out in Ultra Jump).
Did you by any chance read Sin-ichi´s STONe (serialized in Afternoon)?

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yours
littleharlock

[Andrew Cunningham]

Yeah, I did. Pretty much fit my impression of his work in general: monster and mechanical design some of the coolest stuff in manga, but he can't draw people worth a damn. Does everyone need to be so ugly? They might have survived it if the story had been better, but the more dialogue I read the more bored I got. After a few issues I just looked at the purty pirate ships and sea monsters and ignored the actual story.

[Ribby]

The September 2004 Nakayoshi (on sale today) begins "Kitchen no Ohime-sama" by Natsumi Andou (original concept by Miyuki Kobayashi.) Also, there's a special manga "Attack! Japan's golden vollyball girls on the road to Athens" profiling one of the members of the Japanese women's volleyball team. Next month there will be a Musume.Monogatari installment covering the "graduation" of one of the members, and Moyoco Anno's Sugar Sugar Rune isn't running (don't know if it's ended or not.)

Nakayoshi is preparing for its 50th anniversary in 2005.

[Aiia]

Link (http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/hanayume/hanayume_plus/hyp0408.html)

Hana to Yume Plus will feature cover art as well as the first chapter of a manga called Zero no Soukoushi by Kaori Yuki ( Angel Sanctuary, Count Cain ). The main character seems to have an especially fine sense of defining and differenting between all kinds of fragrances.

Looks like she's back to writing male lead characters. Can't say I'm disappointed though. Goodness, I certainly hope I can still get my hands on this magazine when I get to Japan...

Also, in the upcoming issue of Hana to Yume (http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/cgi-bin/mag/magazine.cgi?mode=magazine&amp;magmode=mag01&amp;day=next) the final chapter of Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (Hana-Kimi) will be published. It seems it'll grace the cover as well.

[TougaNoMiko]

YAY NEW KAORI YUKI!!


BOO TO NO MORE HANA KIMI!!!


*mutters about having to hunt down H2Y now*

[Andrew Cunningham]

This is somewhat belated, but I sampled a bunch of number ones recently and none of these series has more than three volumes, so it sort of counts.
Kurosagi is apparently the most popular manga Young Sunday has ever had. It's about a conartist who swindles strictly other conartists, getting people's money back for them and pocketing the rest.
Rideback is in Ikki; set in 2014, about the effect robots have on college protests.
And Revolution Number 3 is written by the author of Go, and is about five students from a really bad high school who decide the only way they are going to contribute anything of significance to the world is through genetic terrorism: having sex with smart girls.

[fruitykogyaru]

Is Peach Girl still running? Because when I was at the Betsufure website and looking at the next issue's page, there's a big picture of Sae up there for the previews.

See here (http://www.kodansha.co.jp/betsufure/nbf/nbf.html)

Is it the same series still or is it different?

[TougaNoMiko]

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fruitykogyaru said:
Is Peach Girl still running? Because when I was at the Betsufure website and looking at the next issue's page, there's a big picture of Sae up there for the previews.

See here (http://www.kodansha.co.jp/betsufure/nbf/nbf.html)

Is it the same series still or is it different?

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Looks like the same artist but a different series. Peach Girl is over afaik.

[carpboy]

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fruitykogyaru said:
See here (http://www.kodansha.co.jp/betsufure/nbf/nbf.html)

Is it the same series still or is it different?

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Looks like the same artist but a different series. Peach Girl is over afaik.

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Yeah, it is... but this looks like a Peach Girl side story from Miwa Ueda. Ura (Reverse?) Peach Girl. I guess it's told from Sae's point-of-view?

Hmm.

Maybe I'll be getting the October Betsufure...

EDIT: Apparently there were chapters of this in the April (http://www.jbook.co.jp/product.asp?product=1718919) and July (http://www.jbook.co.jp/product.asp?product=2445995) issues as well??

[pianocello]

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fruitykogyaru said:
See here (http://www.kodansha.co.jp/betsufure/nbf/nbf.html)

Is it the same series still or is it different?

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Looks like the same artist but a different series. Peach Girl is over afaik.

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Yeah, it is... but this looks like a Peach Girl side story from Miwa Ueda. Ura (Reverse?) Peach Girl. I guess it's told from Sae's point-of-view?

Hmm.

Maybe I'll be getting the October Betsufure...

EDIT: Apparently there were chapters of this in the April (http://www.jbook.co.jp/product.asp?product=1718919) and July (http://www.jbook.co.jp/product.asp?product=2445995) issues as well??

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A spin-off series on Sae? Interesting.

[Ribby]

It's a bangaihen (side story) so it doesn't look like this'd be a regular series.

I HATED Sae.

[Andrew Cunningham]

Found this awesome page called the Cancelled Manga Database. (http://osaka.cool.ne.jp/osyapan/utikiri/index.html)

Among other info, it says:
Jump gets about 5000-8000 responses to polls, with a circulation of about 3 million. Of these, most are simply "One Piece" and other really popular manga, so the fate of new titles is decided by less than 2000 votes. (This is why I started sending them in; since a book I liked was shitcanned.)
They are under a contract stating they can't move the title to a different magazine. It would cost about a million yen to break this.
Most end after about ten weeks, since that's when they bring in new titles.
Three times the charm; get cancelled three times and you don't get "Look forward to their next work" and you never work for them again.

Live like a Rocket is an infamous example; Kiyu is apparently something of a legend for just being batshit crazy with totally weird author comments ("I hate children that feel no pain")and being killed after only 10 issues. However, I read the first issue of his follow up, Number 10, and found it really boring, which seems to be the general opinion. Trying to hard to be mainstream. I did like the short story he did in between, which I had no idea was him but remembered when I saw the description here.

Also mentions the abrupt cancellation of Takeshi when the author was arrested for sex with a child prostitute, and the abrupt end of Hikaru no Go with no warning AT ALL that apparently led to all sort of rumors. They eventually seem to boil down to the writer not feeling like it, though.

Rising Impact is also mentioned, since it is the single example of a cancelled manga coming back to life. It is confimed that it was then randomly cancelled later in the run with little to no warning, thus earning jump a lot of criticism.

Jump is apparently known as the mangaka killer for these reasons.

[Aiia]

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Andrew Cunningham said:
Found this awesome page called the Cancelled Manga Database. (http://osaka.cool.ne.jp/osyapan/utikiri/index.html)

...

Jump is apparently known as the mangaka killer for these reasons.

[/ QUOTE ]

Thanks for the link! I've been interested in knowing more about this. I wonder what policies other magazines have. I'd hazard that most biweekly/monthly magazines have to be quite firm when it comes to selecting stories that might fit and go well with the readers but other magazines with lower sales but a more specific, faithful readership can experiment more. And that well-known manga-ka naturally are allowed a bit more artistic freedom since they have people interested in them already since the older works.

[Kiril]

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Andrew Cunningham said:

Most end after about ten weeks, since that's when they bring in new titles.

[/ QUOTE ]

It also occurs to me that 10 chapters is just enough to make a volume that could be sold later. Do even failed series get collected?

[Aiia]

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Kiril said:
It also occurs to me that 10 chapters is just enough to make a volume that could be sold later. Do even failed series get collected?

[/ QUOTE ]

I think 10 chapters could make 2 volumes since the first tends to be pretty long to get the readers into the story quickly. There was cover art at the linked page so it'd seem that at least some of the cancelled series are collected.

Poor Yumi Hotta. I found a link to a page with information and there was a few personal messages from her transcribed from the magazine. At least I'm glad she didn't continue it if it felt so bad. But I hope she might consider writing a seinen Go title later, I'd like that. I don't feel very hopeful though.

[ZenAmako]

For those of you who read Afternoon, does it seem like Mugen no Juunin will be wrapping up soon? Or has it already? I haven't kept up with it in a while, and I would like to see it go out with a strong finale.

[philnicau]

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ayumu-chan said:
[ QUOTE ]
seichan go boom said:
So how many volumes will there be total then?


[/ QUOTE ]
23, I think. I don't think there's enough material for 24.

(I could be wrong, I can't remember exactly where vol. 22 leaves off.)

[/ QUOTE ]

Volume 22 ends with Chapter 135, the final chapter is 144 (in HtY 18 just released) and there's usually 9-10 chapters per volume, so it looks like only 1 more (23)

TSUKUBA Sakura (Mekakushi no Kuni) new manga has just started in Lala #10. It's titled Penguin Kakumei and it's a "gender bending" type of manga. Main girl is able to see people's talent in the form of wings and discovers one of her fellow female students is actually a boy, being forced to do that by some contrived reasoning made up by his talent agency's owner. Girl ends up finding a job as the guy's manager--but must pass off as a boy (again, but some strange reasoning that eludes the mind... /images/graemlins/sweat200.gif). The "penguin" in the title aludes to the fact that the guy is the lowest ranking member (talent) of the agency, the top being a "peacock." There is also of course the great looking no.1 guy (passing off as an ugly ducking).
Looks like fun. It's actually pretty different to W Juliet except for the guy-passing-as-girl part. /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif

TANAKA Meka's new manga also started: Sailor-fuku ni Onegai.

NAKAJI Yuki will start her new manga serial in Lala #11 (Zig Zag)

Arvida

[Andrew Cunningham]

Next week's Jump has a new manga by Fujisaki Ryuu, author of Hoshin Engi. It's called Waq waq.

[Libertus]

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Kiril said:
It also occurs to me that 10 chapters is just enough to make a volume that could be sold later. Do even failed series get collected?

[/ QUOTE ]

One would hope so, since I believe mangaka make their money from GN &amp; licensing sales (as opposed to writing for a monthly).

At the same time I doubt it, since if the manga wasn't successful in the magazine then why expect it to be successful as a GN. Remember that the same publisher that cancelled the monthly run would be the one putting out the GN - it's not like the mangaka can take his ten chapters elsewhere and have them published in book form.

I expect they try and try again. And then if they hit it big they can dig the older, cancelled series out of mothballs and print them up to cash in on their newer series success.

robert

[Andrew Cunningham]

As I said earlier, all Jump manga are collected.
Smaller magazines may not be so kind, however.

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Andrew Cunningham said:
Next week's Jump has a new manga by Fujisaki Ryuu, author of Hoshin Engi. It's called Waq waq.

[/ QUOTE ]

I was wondering when he'd come out with a new title... ^_^

[Noodle]

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Andrew Cunningham said:
Next week's Jump has a new manga by Fujisaki Ryuu, author of Hoshin Engi. It's called Waq waq.

[/ QUOTE ]

Pretty much reason alone to interest me right there. Hope it's good, 'cuz now I'll be looking forward to it! /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif (I hadn't heard about it, but I'm kinda out of the loop right now..)

[Andrew Cunningham]

What's the appeal of his work? I've never really given him much chance, but what I haven't seen hasn't quite grabbed me...

[littleharlock]

Starting with Big Comic Superior No. 40 (on sale on 2004/09/10) a new series by Ryôichi Ikegami (art) &amp; Buronson (alias Shô Fumimura) (story) will start, titled LORD. Ryôichi Ikegami and Buronson are known for their "team-ups" for series such as Strain (also serialized in Big Comic Superior) or HEAT and of course Buronson is known for Hokuto no Ken (illustrated by Tetsuo Hara)

Furthermore Mouse by Hiroshi Itaba (art) &amp; Satoru Akahori (story) will end in Hakusensha´s Young Animal. With YA No. 18 (on sale on 2004/09/10) the last chapter of Mouse will be released as can be seen here (http://www.younganimal.com/yokoku/ya04v18.html).
Btw. Kentarô Miura return for Berserk with YA No. 18 as well /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif

Speaking of endings, Yuichi Kumakura´s King of Bandit Jing will see it´s last chapter with the November issue of Kodansha´s Magazine Z mangabon as well.
Btw. as previously mentioned, the October issue of Magazine Z (http://www.kodansha.co.jp/zhp/fram.htm) (released today) features the first chapter for the manga of Kenran Butô Matsuri - The Mars Daybreak.

so far
yours
littleharlock

[Andrew Cunningham]

http://www10.ocn.ne.jp/~comic/
Is probably the best and most complete news site I've found. I don't really care enough to translate all the information on magazines I've never heard of, but I thought it might be useful.
In addition to what you mentioned, for example, there are new series in Rush, Gangan Wing, and Cookie, and Take2 has its final issue in Young Magajin. Never heard of Take2, but it apparently has over sixty volumes.

[Noodle]

[ QUOTE ]
Andrew Cunningham said:
What's the appeal of his work? I've never really given him much chance, but what I haven't seen hasn't quite grabbed me...

[/ QUOTE ]

Eh.. well, I just really liked HE. In general when a creator (novel, comic, movie, whatever) puts out a story I enjoy, I always look forward to more of the same.. of course, that doesn't mean I end up liking all their stuff.. /images/graemlins/sweat000.gif

[Andrew Cunningham]

You neatly avoided answering my question, though. What's so good about Houshin Engi?

I liked the art, characters and story.

Though it was depressing that all of my favorite characters in Houshin Engi died, that's more of a fault of the original novel than the mangaka.

[Andrew Cunningham]

I don't care for his art at first glance, the story didn't grab me fast enough and I'm pretty sure he was making that up about there being a novel.
I could be wrong about all of these, since I've barely given it a glance.

Oh, I'm sure that there's a novel.

It's one of the big three Chinese stories that get referenced a lot in other things, Houshin Engi, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Saiyuuki.

It's been translated into English under the title "Birth of the Gods," but I haven't read it as I've heard that it's really bad. &gt;_&gt;

[ssgorik]

I recently heard Shaman King ended at 284 chapters. Anyone know which issue of WSJ that was??

[Andrew Cunningham]

That would be today's issue. Which I hadn't picked up yet since it came out an hour ago. I was a bit shocked, since it seemed he had about six more months of story left at least. The ending is abrupt and inconclusive but makes a good case for that; it's by far the most comprehensible and in control he's been in years. It does sort of reek of editors telling him to put a lid on, though. But the color pages this week and last were some nice support for a long running series.

Waq waq is interesting, though. I find the art a little hard to follow sometimes, and was sadly able to predict a couple of first issue plot twists from like, page four, but it's told with a certain amount of style, pizzaz and crazed design sense so I'll be reading a bit longer.

[ssgorik]

So would that be Issue 39 or 40? Jump's website has 39 as it's newest, but it says the date for that is 8/23 so perhaps they haven't updated it yet, what's on the cover?

I just realized it's Sunday and if I remember correctly they update on Monday. /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif So I'll go ahead and assume it's 40.

[Andrew Cunningham]

40. Waq waq is on the cover, of course. New series.

[Noodle]

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Andrew Cunningham said:
You neatly avoided answering my question, though. What's so good about Houshin Engi?

[/ QUOTE ]

Well in general I liked the cast and art. The art isn't my favorite but I like the character designs and that no one really looked the same. Likewise, the characters mostly had their own personalities.. something a lot of shonen series (I feel) compromise on. As to the story, I admit I don't know much about the novel, but I liked the 'intrigue' and the length/depth. (Due to it's an adaptation of a complicated novel, I guess..?) It's not my favorite series, no.. but I enjoyed it and I'd really like to see an English release.

Eh, sorry if this seems a bit generic but I'm super busy at work and my last reply to this post was neatly deleted as I was closing up, by a misstroke on my keyboard.. /images/graemlins/relief1.gif

Ribon page has been updated (and no doubt those who get early Ribon copies already knew), YOSHIZUMI Wataru's new manga will start in Ribon #11 (on sale 02.oct). It's titled "Datte Suki Nandamon."

Arvida

[Andrew Cunningham]

Oh yeah, Chijou Sasoku Seishun Takkyuu Shonen Puuyan was cancelled and had its final issue this week. This was a really fun short story a year or so ago, but the ongoing version dramatically restructured it in a way that really didn't work at all, and the result was a boring manga that also had really variable art. Some serious mistakes with anatomy going on here, which is a death sentence for a book about cute girls. Also, the actual ping pong was consistently boring.
I though D Grey Men was about to go the same way, but instead it gets color pages. Why?

[Andrew Cunningham]

Also worth mentioning that Berserk is back today. Two month hiatus, but still...filled with exposition. The last few volumes have felt like they were going nowhere...

[FigNewton]

[ QUOTE ]
Andrew Cunningham said:
Also worth mentioning that Berserk is back today. Two month hiatus, but still...filled with exposition. The last few volumes have felt like they were going nowhere...

[/ QUOTE ]

While it's good to hear it's back off hiatus... felt like they were goining nowhere?!? Man I really liked the last few volumes. /images/graemlins/happy.gif

[Texhnolyze]

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FigNewton said:
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Andrew Cunningham said:
Also worth mentioning that Berserk is back today. Two month hiatus, but still...filled with exposition. The last few volumes have felt like they were going nowhere...

[/ QUOTE ]

While it's good to hear it's back off hiatus... felt like they were goining nowhere?!? Man I really liked the last few volumes. /images/graemlins/happy.gif

[/ QUOTE ]

Same here. And they are going somewhere, they're going to <span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'>Elfheim so they can try to get Caska cured.</span>

I also <span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'>really like the angel with Guts struggling with the demon in the armor.</span>

[Andrew Cunningham]

Well, going somewhere very slowly, then.
Possibly it's because I'm reading it in Young Animal rather than in big chunks every six months. The last two arcs were virtually identical. <span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'> Guts puts on crazy armor. Goes crazy! Can't feel pain. Injuries threaten life! Saved by witchcraft. Okay, so there was a major and important difference the second time, but still. Less monster of the week, more momentum. </span>

[Andrew Cunningham]

Looks like Saitoh Shinji's had just one too many cancelled manga after Iron Wok Jan. His new book for Dragon Age magazine (which I've never heard of; quite a bitch slap after being in Shonen Magajin earlier this year) is called Devil 17 is an adaption of a novel series.

[Yukino Miyazawa]

Natsume Maya's page (http://natsumemaya.terminus.net.au/news.htm) reports that Koge Donbo has a new manga coming out:

[ QUOTE ]
The November 2004 issue of monthly Dengeki Comic Gao! magazine (on sale 27 September 2004) will see the start of Koge Donbo's new manga Koihime Soushi (tentative title). Source: ultimatum.


[/ QUOTE ]
Ah, more cuteness. /images/graemlins/happy.gif

[Ribby]

I wonder if that means Kamichama Karin is going to end...we'll see.

[ QUOTE ]
Andrew Cunningham said:
Looks like Saitoh Shinji's had just one too many cancelled manga after Iron Wok Jan. His new book for Dragon Age magazine (which I've never heard of; quite a bitch slap after being in Shonen Magajin earlier this year) is called Devil 17 is an adaption of a novel series.

[/ QUOTE ]

Why is being in Dragon Age mag bad?

And on a side note, anyone know what the new series in HanaYume in english or romanji is called? It's basically one of those one girl, lots of guys type thing from what I seen, and it's based on a playstation 2 game. I'm just curious, and it started around...June or July I think. /images/graemlins/sweat200.gif I can't figure out the first letter because it looks funny so yeah help me out here.

[Andrew Cunningham]

[ QUOTE ]
PsychoIdiot said:
[ QUOTE ]
Andrew Cunningham said:
Looks like Saitoh Shinji's had just one too many cancelled manga after Iron Wok Jan. His new book for Dragon Age magazine (which I've never heard of; quite a bitch slap after being in Shonen Magajin earlier this year) is called Devil 17 is an adaption of a novel series.

[/ QUOTE ]

Why is being in Dragon Age mag bad?


[/ QUOTE ]

Very low circulation, sells only to gaming otaku.
Shonen Magajin sells 2.8 million copies a week and is the second largest manga magazine in the country. Getting cancelled after two volumes there despite being pretty good, and getting slapped down to doing an adaption in a really obscure magazine (as I said, this is the first time I've ever heard the name) is pretty bad.

[ QUOTE ]
Andrew Cunningham said:
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PsychoIdiot said:
[ QUOTE ]
Andrew Cunningham said:
Looks like Saitoh Shinji's had just one too many cancelled manga after Iron Wok Jan. His new book for Dragon Age magazine (which I've never heard of; quite a bitch slap after being in Shonen Magajin earlier this year) is called Devil 17 is an adaption of a novel series.

[/ QUOTE ]

Why is being in Dragon Age mag bad?


[/ QUOTE ]

Very low circulation, sells only to gaming otaku.
Shonen Magajin sells 2.8 million copies a week and is the second largest manga magazine in the country. Getting cancelled after two volumes there despite being pretty good, and getting slapped down to doing an adaption in a really obscure magazine (as I said, this is the first time I've ever heard the name) is pretty bad.

[/ QUOTE ]

Eh? I thought if it was good, it didn't get cancelled? Not the right target audience or something? Poor Iron Wok Jan author, I thought he was pretty good.

[Pelianth]

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PsychoIdiot said:
And on a side note, anyone know what the new series in HanaYume in english or romanji is called? It's basically one of those one girl, lots of guys type thing from what I seen, and it's based on a playstation 2 game. I'm just curious, and it started around...June or July I think. /images/graemlins/sweat200.gif I can't figure out the first letter because it looks funny so yeah help me out here.

[/ QUOTE ]

Are you talkling about Meine Liebe? The one that's based on the Kaori Yuki designs and also has an anime coming out in Nov.?

[ QUOTE ]
Pelianth said:
[ QUOTE ]
PsychoIdiot said:
And on a side note, anyone know what the new series in HanaYume in english or romanji is called? It's basically one of those one girl, lots of guys type thing from what I seen, and it's based on a playstation 2 game. I'm just curious, and it started around...June or July I think. /images/graemlins/sweat200.gif I can't figure out the first letter because it looks funny so yeah help me out here.

[/ QUOTE ]

Are you talkling about Meine Liebe? The one that's based on the Kaori Yuki designs and also has an anime coming out in Nov.?

[/ QUOTE ]

It doesn't look like Kaori Yuki..that's Angel Sanctuary right? It has something that is either kana or 7, and then ruhausukisu? And it's by Shiori Yuwa.

But that Yuki Kaori thing sounds interesting...My love? I know Liebe means love in German...yeah this thing i'm interested in isn't exactly new, it's issue 13 of Hana.

[musouka]

[ QUOTE ]
It doesn't look like Kaori Yuki..that's Angel Sanctuary right?

[/ QUOTE ]

The designs are Kaori Yuki's for the game, but the manga is done by a different artist using her designs as a template.

Anyway, though it's a little late, Tateno Makoto's new series "Cute x Guy" started a few months ago in Betsu HanaYume. It's a fairly amusing gender bending comedy. Not amazing or anything, but it's one of the first I turn to every other month.

[Andrew Cunningham]

Manga are cancelled purely on the basis of voting. Every week they have a mail in card, and you can choose three titles you like. Of course, if a title survives long enough to release a tankoban, then sales will help it stay alive, but few books do that. (Sunday does seem to let most titles live long enough, but Jump often cans after ten issues.)
Most of the cards are kids voting for titles that are already really popular. Something like 8000 people out of the 3 million readers vote, and only 2000 of those bother voting for a new title. I'm always voting for stuff I like that isn't doing well, but not everyone realizes how important that is or takes it seriously.
Menking Futatsuki had the double disadvantage of launching in the middle of an unprecedented seven weeks of new ongoing titles. At least two of these, Tokyuu!! and Ahiru no Sora are big hits now. There weren't enough votes to go around. His very overdrawn art style is probably also not particularly mainstream.
The book itself was a lot like Jan, but with less interesting characters. But they still made ramen with no wheat flour, and ramen that makes women more beautiful as they eat, and other fun/crazy stuff. I was sad to see it go so soon.

[Felix]

[ QUOTE ]
littleharlock said:

Speaking of endings, Yuichi Kumakura´s King of Bandit Jing will see it´s last chapter with the November issue of Kodansha´s Magazine Z mangabon as well.
so far
yours
littleharlock

[/ QUOTE ] Do you know how many chapters/volumes that ended at? All I know about are the five GNs left that Tokyopop have scheduled to translate (and the 8 that the already have).

[Peter Ahlstrom]

[ QUOTE ]
littleharlock said:
Speaking of endings, Yuichi Kumakura´s King of Bandit Jing will see it´s last chapter with the November issue of Kodansha´s Magazine Z mangabon as well.

[/ QUOTE ]

Actually, Jing is coming back from hiatus (starting again), not ending.

[Aiia]

This doesn't seem to be the first chapter published but I just found out that Kazuya Minekura has a new manga running in Ward, published by Issaisha. Link (http://www.issaisha.co.jp/ward/). It's the one featured on the cover. The title is Hachinosu, Beehive.

I have seen some previews of the art on the Issaisha website but I never managed to figure out what it was for so I'm glad I was finally able to find out. I hope I'll be able to pick it up when I get to Tokyo.

edit: fixed the translation *shouldn't write busy while at work* /images/graemlins/shy00000.gif

[ayumu]

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PsychoIdiot said:
And on a side note, anyone know what the new series in HanaYume in english or romanji is called? It's basically one of those one girl, lots of guys type thing from what I seen, and it's based on a playstation 2 game. I'm just curious, and it started around...June or July I think. /images/graemlins/sweat200.gif I can't figure out the first letter because it looks funny so yeah help me out here.

[/ QUOTE ]
Full House Kiss (http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00027XHCY/qid%3D1095037050/250-8967022-6979402)? I'm not sure which was created first, but that was running in the magazine before the game came out.

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ayumu-chan said:
[ QUOTE ]
PsychoIdiot said:
And on a side note, anyone know what the new series in HanaYume in english or romanji is called? It's basically one of those one girl, lots of guys type thing from what I seen, and it's based on a playstation 2 game. I'm just curious, and it started around...June or July I think. /images/graemlins/sweat200.gif I can't figure out the first letter because it looks funny so yeah help me out here.

[/ QUOTE ]
Full House Kiss (http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00027XHCY/qid%3D1095037050/250-8967022-6979402)? I'm not sure which was created first, but that was running in the magazine before the game came out.

[/ QUOTE ]

Yeah that looks like! Ohhhhh.....I thought it was based on the game just from the pictures of all the adverstisements for the game before the start of the manga so I was like .... yeah anyway /images/graemlins/sweat200.gif Thanks. Is it any good, have you read it?

[ayumu]

[ QUOTE ]
PsychoIdiot said:
Yeah that looks like! Ohhhhh.....I thought it was based on the game just from the pictures of all the adverstisements for the game before the start of the manga so I was like .... yeah anyway /images/graemlins/sweat200.gif Thanks.

[/ QUOTE ]
Hmm, maybe I'm wrong then, I don't really know anything about it.

[ QUOTE ]

Is it any good, have you read it?

[/ QUOTE ]
Emmm...haven't read it really. I kinda flipped through it and it didn't really look exciting. That doesn't necessarily mean anything, though. /images/graemlins/sweat000.gif Also, I haven't seen it lately, so I'm not sure if it's on hiatus or got cancelled or what.

[Aiia]

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Aiia said:
Also, in the upcoming issue of Hana to Yume (http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/cgi-bin/mag/magazine.cgi?mode=magazine&amp;magmode=mag01&amp;day=next) the final chapter of Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (Hana-Kimi) will be published. It seems it'll grace the cover as well.

[/ QUOTE ]

According to the website of Hisaya Nakajo-sensei who writes Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, there will be a side story published in #24 of Hana to Yume. No word yet on what it'll be about.

[ayumu]

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Aiia said:
According to the website of Hisaya Nakajo-sensei who writes Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, there will be a side story published in #24 of Hana to Yume. No word yet on what it'll be about.

[/ QUOTE ]
I'd like to think she's going to tie up the storyline of Umeda and his little love triangle, but somehow I doubt it. /images/graemlins/relief1.gif

[Aiia]

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ayumu-chan said:
[ QUOTE ]
Aiia said:
According to the website of Hisaya Nakajo-sensei who writes Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, there will be a side story published in #24 of Hana to Yume. No word yet on what it'll be about.

[/ QUOTE ]
I'd like to think she's going to tie up the storyline of Umeda and his little love triangle, but somehow I doubt it. /images/graemlins/relief1.gif

[/ QUOTE ]

So she didn't? I haven't read the last few chapters yet since my subscription of HtY was cancelled a while ago but I was hoping she wouldn't forget about this storyline. Damn.

It'd be nice if he'd end up with Ryouichi but the author seems to favour that other guy whose name I forget all the time.

[Andrew Cunningham]

Looks like Ogino Makoto's back.
http://bj.shueisha.co.jp/info/next/
Onryouji, an action horror title.
I read the short story version earlier this year, and thought it was one of his lesser works, but he's one of those people I always pick up. That said, his last two series were cancelled do to his health falling to pieces, so hopefully he can actually finish this one.

[ayumu]

[ QUOTE ]
Aiia said:
So she didn't? I haven't read the last few chapters yet since my subscription of HtY was cancelled a while ago but I was hoping she wouldn't forget about this storyline. Damn.

[/ QUOTE ]
No real spoilers here, but I don't think this comment is really in keeping with the spirit of this thread, so I'll use spoiler tags:
<span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'>To be honest, I found the last chapter well...bleh. It left me with a real, "that was it??" feeling. (Can PM details if you want.) Fortunately, Fruits Basket was good enough to distract me. ^_^; </span>

[ QUOTE ]

It'd be nice if he'd end up with Ryouichi

[/ QUOTE ]
That's what I'd like to see, too.

[ QUOTE ]

but the author seems to favour that other guy whose name I forget all the time.

[/ QUOTE ]
Well, he is hot....

but yeah. /images/graemlins/relief1.gif

I'd actually really like to see her focus on these characters for her next series, but I know that's never going to happen. /images/graemlins/sad.gif

[Aiia]

[ QUOTE ]
ayumu-chan said:
Fortunately, Fruits Basket was good enough to distract me. ^_^;


[/ QUOTE ]

Since I hadn't catched up with Fruitsbasket while I was getting Hana to Yume I didn't read those chapters before I sold the old issues off (and Furuba really looks so much better when it's printed in the books anyways, just like God Child did) but I'm looking forward to seeing what spawned that huge thread about "latest Furuba chapter" a week ago or so. I'm currently on volume 9 now and loving every single page of it to death.

Btw, I don't want any spoilers for Furuba or the latest chapter, since I'll probably catch up soon anyway. I do have my suspicions though.

[ QUOTE ]
ayumu-chan said:
I'd actually really like to see her focus on these characters for her next series, but I know that's never going to happen. /images/graemlins/sad.gif

[/ QUOTE ]

Not really spoilers, just going a bit off topic... <span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'> I'd like that too, and I'd also like to see her try to make Wild Kiss (the one shot published a year or so ago) into a series. To be honest, I've been extremely bored with Hana Kimi for a while now. The last 10 chapters or so felt more like reading duty than anything else. My favourite part of the series is from volume 7-20 or so I think. So far, the Umeda-sensei side story in volume 14 is by far the best part of Hana Kimi. Nakajo-sensei should seriously consider writing more shounen-ai'ish shoujo instead... </span>

Still, I'm looking forward to her next project, whatever it is.

[ayumu]

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Aiia said:
I'm looking forward to seeing what spawned that huge thread about "latest Furuba chapter" a week ago or so. I'm currently on volume 9 now and loving every single page of it to death.

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You have a while, I think, since (if I'm calculating right) the big chapter in question won't show up until volume 17. But don't worry, it's not exactly boring up until then. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

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Btw, I don't want any spoilers for Furuba or the latest chapter, since I'll probably catch up soon anyway. I do have my suspicions though.

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I'm amazed that anyone can keep in the dark about it, given the spoilers I've seen flying around. Bravo if you can manage to avoid it. /images/graemlins/happy.gif

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Nakajo-sensei should seriously consider writing more shounen-ai'ish shoujo instead...

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Forget the "-ish shoujo" part and I'm right there with you. /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif She's half there already, anyway.

[Aiia]

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ayumu-chan said:
I'm amazed that anyone can keep in the dark about it, given the spoilers I've seen flying around. Bravo if you can manage to avoid it. /images/graemlins/happy.gif


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Gahh, I really hope so too. I hate the way people seem to think spoilers aren't a big deal just because they are ok with it. For me, it can ruin a good series completely (Viz managed to ruin a big part of Cardcaptor Sakura for me with their "in depth articles" in Animerica). And with manga and anime being so big on the internet as it is, the spoilers spread more quickly.

With my luck there'll probably be posted in the topic of some of the forum I frequent. /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif

[Kira Cyana]

A guy in one of the chatrooms I frequent mentioned that the Shaman King manga had finally ended. Is this true? If so, how many volumes will it end up being? (I know they're up to 30, but I don't know if that includes the most recent chapters.)


Kira C.

[Andrew Cunningham]

We covered this a few pages earlier. Odds are it'll end up as 32 volumes, since they are usually a couple behind.

So this post isn't a total waste of time: the new title in Jump a few weeks ago is on issue three now, and is fast burning up what interest I had in it. The art is just deeply hard to follow, and I have to work really hard to make any sense of the action.

[Kira Cyana]

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Andrew Cunningham said:
We covered this a few pages earlier. Odds are it'll end up as 32 volumes, since they are usually a couple behind.

So this post isn't a total waste of time: the new title in Jump a few weeks ago is on issue three now, and is fast burning up what interest I had in it. The art is just deeply hard to follow, and I have to work really hard to make any sense of the action.

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Ooops, you're right. It was in the middle and I didn't see it. /images/graemlins/sweat000.gif

Well, thanks for "wasting your time" to help me out. ;p


Kira C.

[Aiia]

Hana to Yume #21 Link (http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/hanayume/hy04v21.html) will feature a couple of interesting new series.

Emura ( W Juliet, Roadside Angel/Michibata no Tenshi ) is starting up a new series called Gokuraku Doumei (Paradise alliance?). It's about a girl who decides to take over a business by running an inn with a hot spring where people can "fall in love".

Kaori Yuki will publish the first part (of two) of a new story called Psycho Knocker in the same issue of HtY. A girl finds a dark shadow projected in the back of a print club photo and tries to find out what it is. 71 pages. Maybe these two chapters will be printed in a tankobon together with the one shot Zero no Soukoushi (which is 41 pages) as a side/filler story.

It seems to me that Kaori Yuki has been doing mostly oneshots for a while now. I wonder if she's planning to start a new long story any time soon?

Also, Choushinri genshou nouryokusha Nanaki (no idea if I've romanised it right at all) ends in this issue. I've never found the work of this particular artist very interesting though, and the art is kind of mehh...

[Pelianth]

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Aiia said:
It seems to me that Kaori Yuki has been doing mostly oneshots for a while now. I wonder if she's planning to start a new long story any time soon?

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It doesn't suprise me really, she seems to do alot of one-offs or series that only span 2 volues or so.

[Aiia]

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Pelianth said:
It doesn't suprise me really, she seems to do alot of one-offs or series that only span 2 volues or so.

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To be more precise:
Angel Santuary 20 volumes
Hakushaku Cain-series 13 volumes
Neiji (oneshot)
Kain (oneshot)
Zankoku na Douwatachi (oneshot)
Shounen Zanzou (oneshot)
Sareki Oukoku (oneshot)
Yoru Kata Aijin Senmonten ~Bloodhound~ (oneshot)
Ludwig Kakumei (oneshot)

I'd love to see Viz release these oneshots in a special "Kaori Yuki"-lineup or something (like Tokyopop did with Erika Sakurazawa and Confidential Confessions ). I've had a lot of customers asking me for oneshots in my bookstore because sometimes you just don't want to start a whole new series but you want to try something new.

[Pelianth]

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Aiia said:I've had a lot of customers asking me for oneshots in my bookstore because sometimes you just don't want to start a whole new series but you want to try something new.

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You know, I think US manga companies are a little shy of licensing oneshots because they might not end up being as visible (hence as profitable) as longer series. The obvious exceptions are things by big name authors like Clamp and Rumiko Takahashi. The only other one I can think of off the top of my head (aside from various yaoi manga coming out) is A A' and that's still part of Viz's back catalog. (Is it even still being printed?)

[Aiia]

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Pelianth said:
You know, I think US manga companies are a little shy of licensing oneshots because they might not end up being as visible (hence as profitable) as longer series. The obvious exceptions are things by big name authors like Clamp and Rumiko Takahashi. The only other one I can think of off the top of my head (aside from various yaoi manga coming out) is A A' and that's still part of Viz's back catalog. (Is it even still being printed?)

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That's why I think it might be a good idea to make the oneshots part of a special lineup. Hmm, besides the titles you mention I also think CPM has some oneshots like Just a Girl and Princess Prince by the same author, Tomoko something. And Tokyopop, ADV and Comics One have some short series that only span 2 books like X-day, Darkside Blues and Sister Red.

Hmm I'm going off topic in my own thread. Sorry. /images/graemlins/stunned0.gif

Just to make the post on-topic, Hakusensha has updated with information that the last tankobon of Hana-Kimi, #23, will be released on November 19th.

[littleharlock]

Starting with the January issue of Melody (on sale on 28th November 2004) the first chapter of Shin Takahashi´s new series Tom Sawyer will be published. It´s based on the novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain and the story has been "transported" to Japan.

so far
yours
littleharlock

[BluWacky]

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littleharlock said:
Starting with the January issue of Melody (on sale on 28th November 2004) the first chapter of Shin Takahashi´s new series Tom Sawyer will be published. It´s based on the novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain and the story has been "transported" to Japan.

so far
yours
littleharlock

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Has Kimi no Kakera finished already, then? Shame, I was quite enjoying it (haven't read volume 3 yet)

[littleharlock]

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littleharlock said:
Starting with the January issue of Melody (on sale on 28th November 2004) the first chapter of Shin Takahashi´s new series Tom Sawyer will be published. It´s based on the novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain and the story has been "transported" to Japan.

so far
yours
littleharlock

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Has Kimi no Kakera finished already, then? Shame, I was quite enjoying it (haven't read volume 3 yet)

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AFAIK Kimi no Kakera is finished, with Tankôbon 3 released a few months ago (and if I´m not wrong I read that Takahashi re-draw several scenes for the Tankôbon release).
Speaking of this series, anyone know the reason why Amazon.jp doesn´t list Tankôbon 2? They have the first one and the third one but they never listed the second.

so far
yours
littleharlock

[littleharlock]

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ZenAmako said:
For those of you who read Afternoon, does it seem like Mugen no Juunin will be wrapping up soon? Or has it already? I haven't kept up with it in a while, and I would like to see it go out with a strong finale.

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While I don´t read Afternoon I somehow doubt Mugen no Jûnin will be completed by Samura that soon. Tankôbon 17 for the series will be released in November (2004/11/22 to be precise) and AFAIK a new chapter gets released every month with Afternoon.
Though I doubt that the anime theatrical feature for Mugen no Jûnin will be released in 2004 as Moonphase lists it (if it will be made at all).

Speaking of Afternoon, I read (on a jp. Kei Tôme fanboard) that Tôme completed Acony recently. Anyone who can confirm this? Andrew?

Furthermore with No. 22 of Kodansha´s Evening (on sale on 2004/10/26 ) mangabon Motoi Yoshida´s Koikaze will see it´s conclusion.

And Ryoichi Ikegami returned for Bestia in Morning. AFAIK the series previously ran in Uppers and new chapters were released every once in a while and now it changed to Morning (and led to confusion among Ikegami fans as it got advertised as new series). The first two Tankôbon for the series will be released in October and November.
On a somehow related sidenote I can´t wait to get my copy of Big Comic Superior to finally read Ikegami &amp; Buronson´s new series LORD (shame on me that I still haven´t read HEAT - Shakunetsu by Ikegami/Buronson).

so far
yours
littleharlock

[Andrew Cunningham]

Acony: Who knows? I read all the issues and it might have ended or it might not have ended. It did finally explain a few mysteries, but I don't remember it clearly stating that it was over. It appears very irregularly. And he has a different title next month in Afternoon, so he may be putting the series aside for a while.

[Aiia]

Judal's Vampire Game will end in the upcoming issue of Wings (#11). So I guess that means it'll end up as 15 volumes. Link (http://www.shinshokan.co.jp/comic/mag/w_top.html)

edit: changed the name of the magazine to Wings *tired*

[Noodle]

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Aiia said:
Judal's Vampire Game will end in the upcoming issue of Vampire Game (#11). So I guess that means it'll end up as 15 volumes. Link (http://www.shinshokan.co.jp/comic/mag/w_top.html)

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woo! Thanks for the heads up. I'm only reading this in English, but as of the last 2 volumes, this series has really been growing on me. But I was also hoping it wouldn't go on too long, maybe something between 12 and 15 volumes... lo and behold. Yay!

[Aiia]

A few more new series in Zero Sum:

Xenosaga - Der Wille zur Macht. Original Story: Namco (game company I guess). Drawn by 馬å*´æ•¦å?².
Link (http://www.issaisha.co.jp/next_issue/)

And in the current issue on sale Yuri Narushima (Planet Ladder) has a new series starting. I'm not going to try and translate the title because I usually get them wrong anyway. Link (http://www.issaisha.co.jp/)

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Noodle said:
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Aiia said:
Judal's Vampire Game will end in the upcoming issue of Vampire Game (#11). So I guess that means it'll end up as 15 volumes. Link (http://www.shinshokan.co.jp/comic/mag/w_top.html)

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woo! Thanks for the heads up. I'm only reading this in English, but as of the last 2 volumes, this series has really been growing on me. But I was also hoping it wouldn't go on too long, maybe something between 12 and 15 volumes... lo and behold. Yay!

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cool...we're halfway there..... =) I wonder if it's resolved well...

[witega]

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Noodle said:
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Aiia said:
Judal's Vampire Game will end in the upcoming issue of Vampire Game (#11). So I guess that means it'll end up as 15 volumes. Link (http://www.shinshokan.co.jp/comic/mag/w_top.html)

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woo! Thanks for the heads up. I'm only reading this in English, but as of the last 2 volumes, this series has really been growing on me. But I was also hoping it wouldn't go on too long, maybe something between 12 and 15 volumes... lo and behold. Yay!

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I'm actually kind of disappointed. This is a title I could see (and enjoy) running for plenty of more volumes. The national arcs were a good way to break it up into manageable chunks, each with their own resolution while the overal storyline kept moving forward. Oh well, now I think its time somebody licensed Carbuncle.

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witega said:
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Noodle said:
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Aiia said:
Judal's Vampire Game will end in the upcoming issue of Vampire Game (#11). So I guess that means it'll end up as 15 volumes. Link (http://www.shinshokan.co.jp/comic/mag/w_top.html)

[/ QUOTE ]

woo! Thanks for the heads up. I'm only reading this in English, but as of the last 2 volumes, this series has really been growing on me. But I was also hoping it wouldn't go on too long, maybe something between 12 and 15 volumes... lo and behold. Yay!

[/ QUOTE ]

I'm actually kind of disappointed. This is a title I could see (and enjoy) running for plenty of more volumes. The national arcs were a good way to break it up into manageable chunks, each with their own resolution while the overal storyline kept moving forward. Oh well, now I think its time somebody licensed Carbuncle.

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Carbuncle..? Oh right! Her other manga..right?

[Aiia]

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witega said:
I'm actually kind of disappointed. This is a title I could see (and enjoy) running for plenty of more volumes. The national arcs were a good way to break it up into manageable chunks, each with their own resolution while the overal storyline kept moving forward. Oh well, now I think its time somebody licensed Carbuncle.

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If you click on the cover of the Wings magazine, you can see a small text and a picture from the last chapter. It says that Vampire Game has been running for 8 years now so maybe she got tried of it? I know a lot of people are hoping for TP (or someone else even better) to pick upp Carbuncle . Searching at amazon.co.jp gave me 31 hits and Judal seems to have two or three manga published by Bonita and Asuka. I hope someone releases those as well.

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Aiia said:
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witega said:
I'm actually kind of disappointed. This is a title I could see (and enjoy) running for plenty of more volumes. The national arcs were a good way to break it up into manageable chunks, each with their own resolution while the overal storyline kept moving forward. Oh well, now I think its time somebody licensed Carbuncle.

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If you click on the cover of the Wings magazine, you can see a small text and a picture from the last chapter. It says that Vampire Game has been running for 8 years now so maybe she got tried of it? I know a lot of people are hoping for TP (or someone else even better) to pick upp Carbuncle . Searching at amazon.co.jp gave me 31 hits and Judal seems to have two or three manga published by Bonita and Asuka. I hope someone releases those as well.

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8 years? /images/graemlins/stunned1.gif I can't believe..and I thought it was bad that Yuki Kaori spent 10 years on 20 volumes of Angel Sanctuary...but it's really not all that much worse...

[witega]

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Aiia said:
If you click on the cover of the Wings magazine, you can see a small text and a picture from the last chapter. It says that Vampire Game has been running for 8 years now so maybe she got tried of it?

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Oh, I'm not blaming her for ending it. Maybe she's tired of it, maybe she doesn't have ideas for any more countries or maybe she just reached the end she wanted to reach. I was just expressing the same regret I alway feel when something I'm enjoying ends :-)

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I know a lot of people are hoping for TP (or someone else even better) to pick upp Carbuncle . Searching at amazon.co.jp gave me 31 hits and Judal seems to have two or three manga published by Bonita and Asuka. I hope someone releases those as well.

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Yep. Carbuncle is at the top of my list but I'd love to see any of her other titles.

[Noodle]

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Aiia said:
If you click on the cover of the Wings magazine, you can see a small text and a picture from the last chapter. It says that Vampire Game has been running for 8 years now so maybe she got tried of it? I know a lot of people are hoping for TP (or someone else even better) to pick upp Carbuncle . Searching at amazon.co.jp gave me 31 hits and Judal seems to have two or three manga published by Bonita and Asuka. I hope someone releases those as well.

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OT, but what is the title shown above Vampire Game (after clicking the Wings cover)? The one with the red background and the white dragon thingie?

[musouka]

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Noodle said:
OT, but what is the title shown above Vampire Game (after clicking the Wings cover)? The one with the red background and the white dragon thingie?

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Something called Dragon Fist. (When I first glanced at it, I thought it said "Dragon Fister" /images/graemlins/sweat000.gif )

[wanfu2k1]

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PsychoIdiot said:
8 years? /images/graemlins/stunned1.gif I can't believe..and I thought it was bad that Yuki Kaori spent 10 years on 20 volumes of Angel Sanctuary...but it's really not all that much worse...

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Well considering that these are montly publications, it takes quite a bit longer to reach 10+vols than a weekly. I just hope she gave it a decent ending as I'm collecting the english GNs and would hate to have a crappy ending to this series /images/graemlins/happy.gif

[animeman]

I have have enjoying the first 8 volumes so far. Hopefully, she will give Vampire Game a decent ending.

[Noodle]

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musouka said:

Something called Dragon Fist. (When I first glanced at it, I thought it said "Dragon Fister" /images/graemlins/sweat000.gif )

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Great thanks! Now that you say it, the name rings a bell with me, but I can't figure out why. Anyone know anything about this series at all? (I guess I'll go search a bit.. /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif )

[Ribby]

In the December 2004 Nakayoshi, Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch will end, and a manga version of Sweet Valerian (character designs by CLAMP, not drawn by CLAMP apparently) will begin.

[littleharlock]

This month the TV anime for Osamu Tezuka´s Black Jack will start on NTV and advertised as countdown for it there will be some special Black Jack stories by various manga-ka in various Akita Shoten mangabon. It started with the November issue of Susperia Mystery (on sale since 9/24) which features the first story, titled Black Jack M by Toba Shôko (an interview with Shôko about this project can be read here (http://ja-f.tezuka.co.jp/news/special/200409/topics01.html) ). The next chapter will be drawn by Akino Mari (manga-ka of Petshop of Horrors). With No. 21 of Young Champion mangabon the story Black Jack ALIVE will be released (on 2004/10/12) drawn by Aoike Yasuko (of Eroika fame), the second chapter for this story will be done by Masayuki Taguchi (manga-ka of Battle Royale) and with No. 45 of Weekly Shônen Champion mangabon the third series Black Jack ~ Kuroi Ishi (Black Jack - Black Doctor) will start, drawn by Kenji Yamamoto

Additional with Big Comic Superior No. 20 (released on 9/24) the final chapter of Seiki Tsuchida´s GIRAGIRA got released. The 7th and last Tankôbon for the series will be released on 30th November.

so far
yours
littleharlock

[Aiia]

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littleharlock said:
(an interview with Shôko about this project can be read here (http://ja-f.tezuka.co.jp/news/special/200409/topics01.html) ).

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Wohoo, bishie-Black Jack. I'll definitely check this project out.

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littleharlock said:The next chapter will be drawn by Akino Mari (manga-ka of Petshop of Horrors). With No. 21 of Young Champion mangabon the story Black Jack ALIVE will be released (on 2004/10/12) drawn by Aoike Yasuko (of Eroika fame)

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This sounds even better. Especially the Matsuri Akino part (btw is Mari or Matsuri her real name? I've seen both readings used.)

[Ribby]

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The next chapter will be drawn by Akino Mari (manga-ka of Petshop of Horrors).

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Her name's Akino Matsuri (I think it literally means "Autumn Festival" but I'm not sure.)

[Andrew Cunningham]

Ueki no Housoku will end next week in Shonen Sunday. Will probably be about sixteen volumes. Not very long for a weekly shonen title, but about as long as the series realistically could have been.
I don't think this title ever got the momentum or audience it deserved, though. Looking forward to the author's next series.

[Andrew Cunningham]

Been awhile since this thread got tapped.

Kodansha's Young Magajin Uppers is ending this month. We've known about it for a while, and there was much speculation as to the future of the titles in it.

Surviving are:
Garoden (future destination unknown)
RED (Young Magajin)
Gyoukou (future destination unknown)
Bokushiya (Young Magajin) and
Sugar (Young Magajin, new arc starts in 2005)

Everything else, including Piano no Mori, the Perfect World of Kai, which has been on hiatus for like, years, is cancelled.

Sugar is the only title I read in here; by Arai Hideki, author of Kiichi, The World is Mine, and other brilliant but unpopular books. He's a bit too real to be successful, I think; I compare his books to the films of Mike Leigh and John Cassavetes. Sugar is a boxing manga that is about the nature of charisma (Arai says.) Most people assumed it didn't have the sales to survive the crash, so it may have done it on merit alone. We're all quite relieved.

[Aiia]

Ok here's a whole bunch of news for you guys. Unfortunately I'm typing from memory only right now but it'll have to do for now.

Hakusensha:
In LaLa #2 2005 Reiko Shimizu's super long shoujo manga Kaguya Hime will end at last. This means I can't buy LaLa again until after that because I don't want to spoil the ending of this great series!

There will be a new manga by the manga-ka of Toraware no Mi no Ue in the next number of LaLa. It's a vampire story (how original...).

In the next issue of Hana to Yume there will be a new manga starting by the manga-ka of Koucha Ouji.

Kodansha:
(this is not really manga news but rather manga related):
There will be an anime of Peach Girl starting broadcasting in January next year according to the free talk of the manga-ka. I'm not sure if this was known before, it's the first time I heard of it. More details in the next issue. Oh, and by the way, the side stor of Sae is so far 100000000 times better than the original Peach Girl. I love Sae! And we finally get to find out why shes turned out as selfish as she is...

There will be a TV drama of "Deep Love", a shoujo manga running in Bessatsu Friend (same magazine as Peach Girl and Life).

There will be a movie made of a 3 volume long manga series that was recently completed. I can't remember the name of the manga-ka but her new story started with the first chapter in this number of Bessatsu Friend so I'll get back with the details.

I'll have to get back to this one tomorrow because I think there was more I was going to write but I forgot my notes at home.

[Aiia]

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Aiia said:

Hakusensha:

There will be a new manga by the manga-ka of Toraware no Mi no Ue in the next number of LaLa. It's a vampire story (how original...).

In the next issue of Hana to Yume there will be a new manga starting by the manga-ka of Koucha Ouji.

Kodansha:

There will be a movie made of a 3 volume long manga series that was recently completed. I can't remember the name of the manga-ka but her new story started with the first chapter in this number of Bessatsu Friend so I'll get back with the details.


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Ok here's the rest of the news plus some extra stuff:

The new serial by Matsuri Hino (Toraware Mi no Ue) is named "Vampire Knight". It will run in LaLa.

Kare Kano is reportedly closing in on the ending chapter.

Same with Global Garden by Saki Hiwatari. Ending is close.

The new serial by Nanpei Yamada (Koucha Ouji) is named "Manabiya Sannin Kichisa". No idea what that means.

The movie based on "Koibumibiyori" has a homepage, http://www.koibumi.jp and the manga is written by Asakura Jouji and serialised in Bessatsu Friend. Her new manga is called "Oboreru Knife" and started in number 11.

No more news about the Peach Girl anime. Has this been reported before?

[michaelwb]

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Aiia said:

Kare Kano is reportedly closing in on the ending chapter.



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OMG! I'm so looking forward to see how this series ends. Definitely one of my current faves in the manga world.

[akoftroy]

Kare Kano is now beginning the "final arc" but who knows how long that could last? Probably will still run for a year or two.

[Aiia]

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akoftroy said:
Kare Kano is now beginning the "final arc" but who knows how long that could last? Probably will still run for a year or two.

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When Hakusensha announces that the ending is close the manga usually finishes within 5-6 chapters and usually earlier than so. And I think (considering what's been happening in the recent chapters) that there will be a final "stay together or not"-plot and then it will end.

I could be wrong though but...

[akoftroy]

Well, I have no idea how much longer it will last. But Hakensensha never announced that the "ending is close", it merely said that the "final saga" is starting. A good indication would probably be to see how long KareKano sagas last or how much more of the story needs to be told. Since I don't read that series I'd have no idea. Most manga sagas can go on for 5 books. Plus 6 chapters would still be 6~8 months from now.

[animeman]

If that's the case, I can predict the manga will be at least 20 volumes. What do you think?

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blee said:
If that's the case, I can predict the manga will be at least 20 volumes. What do you think?

[/ QUOTE ]

I mean Hanakimi went on for that long..... but then again so did Angel Sanctuary... I don't know what I'm talking about /images/graemlins/sweat200.gif

[Ribby]

Happy Ice Cream! by Mika Kawamura has ended.
Pichi Pichi Pitch appears to be ending fairly soon (not this month as I had predicted.)

January 2004 will see a re-appearance of Toki*Meka by Naoko Takeuchi, and a new Morning Musume series, Musume.Miracle.

2005 is Nakayoshi's 50th anniversary, and I think this is the first time I've seen the January Nakayoshi not come with a calendar as furoku.

The Kodansha Comics Deluxe page advertises a manga version of The Nightmare Before Christmas by 明日賀�ゅん.

[ayumu]

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blee said:
If that's the case, I can predict the manga will be at least 20 volumes. What do you think?

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...Volume 19 just came out, so that's pretty much a given. /images/graemlins/sweat000.gif

[Andrew Cunningham]

Osada Yuuko (http://www.cc.rim.or.jp/~osaraufo/) has a new series starting in December in Magajin. I'm a big fan of his stuff, but he's yet to keep a series going for more than two volumes. Shame. He's taken a lengthy vacation, doing lots of animation and a few music videos, and come back to manga.
The title is Toto! not to be confused with his earlier manga, exclamation point free Toto. He says it is not a continuation but a new episode.
I might start picking up Magajin to support the series...

[littleharlock]

Additional to Seiki Tsuchida´s Giragira, a few other series recently ended in Shôgakukan´s Big Comic Superior mangabon. Among those is the manga adaption of Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu by Takuji Ichikawa (story) and Yasuhiko Takada (art) (based on the novel of the same name by Ichikawa which also got adapted into a live action theatrical movie that was released recently in Japan) which ended in Big Comic Superior No. 22. A new series by Ichikawa is scheduled to start with BCS No. 23 (on sale on 2004/11/12).
Also in BCS No. 22, the final chapter of Hoshisato Mochiru´s Luna Heights got released, the 4th and final Tankôbon for the series will be out by December.
With the November special issue of Big Comic Original Hana mo kimi wo miteru, a new series by Kujirai Ikuko started and speaking of Big Comic Original, with No. 23 (on sale on 2004/11/20) a new series by Kei Ishizaka (I´m Home) titled Himitsu no Hako will start.
And though it´s no new series, Leiji Matsumoto created new chapters for both the Eternal arc of Ginga Tetsudô 999 (after years of no new contribution for the series at all) and Ginga Tetsudô Monogatari (the first chapters for this series got released a year ago). First it was scheduled to be released with a Big Comic Superior Special (http://www.bigcomics.shogakukan.co.jp/bc_shop9810/999otayori/news/spe_zoukan/index.html) to be released on 1st of November, but the Special got delayed without a new release date announced yet. However the December release schedule by Shôgakukan lists that the first Tankôbon of Ginga Tetsudô Monogatari will be released on 24th December 2004 and it´s a pretty safe assumption that this will contain some of the new chapters.

Probably due to the recent Black Jack boom, Akihito Yoshitomi (manga-ka of Eat-Man) will start an own version of Osamu Tezuka´s Black Jack with the January 2005 issue (on sale on 2004/11/19) of Champion RED mangabon. A first image of Yoshitomi´s version of the doctor and Pinocco can be seen at Yoshitomi´s official site here (http://homepage3.nifty.com/garigarikun/) .

so far
yours
littleharlock

[Andrew Cunningham]

Yoshitomi's Black Jack is a one shot short story.

Speaking of the Big Comics line, though, I recently impulse bought Wa ga na wa kaishi (Master of the Sea) which is written by the same guy who did Umizaru and is writing Tokyuu! -- but each series has a different artist. And the artist isn't very good this time. The idea of a manga about sea salvage companies is pretty interesting but I found all the characters thoroughly unlikeable, the melodrama cliched and desperate, and was unable to find a reason to buy a second volume.

[Andrew Cunningham]

Also worth mentioning; Nihei Tsutomu's Biomega volume 1 came out. Much better than Blame! because it actually has a plot.

[littleharlock]

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Also worth mentioning; Nihei Tsutomu's Biomega volume 1 came out. Much better than Blame! because it actually has a plot.

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Yep it was released on 5th November, both as regular Tankôbon and limited edition (priced 3,333 Yen excl. tax) that comes with a black T-shirt (L-size).

so far
yours
littleharlock

[Aiia]

Hi, some more updates on Hana to Yume.

Next issue of Hana to Yume magazine, #24, will feature the extra story of the recently completed Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (Hana-Kimi) by Hisaya Nakajo. This issue will also feature the last chapter of Takao Shigeru's popular Deru Deru Shounen.

Even better news about the upcoming Bessatsu Hana to Yume . It will contain a new chapter of Kaori Yuki's Yorugata Aijin Senmonten ~Bloodhound~ which I personally thought was completed already. It's a fun story and worth checking out. And even better news for the fangirls is that a new chapter of Hisaya Nakajo-sensei's side project Wild Kiss (chapter 2) will be published. There's as far as I know still no news on whether this will be a continuous seris or just a one shot or two from time to time. There will also be a (the first?) chapter of the manga adaption of Meine Liebe, based on the character designs of Kaori Yuki but drawn by Rei Izawa. I'll check it out but I'm not terribly interested in it.

[AdamStephanides]

I recently bought vol. 19 of Kare Kano, which announces that the final "shoo" (which my Kenkyusha's defines as "chapter") will begin in the Jan. 2005 issue of LaLa. My Japanese comprehension isn't what it could be, but it seems to say that Act 100 will appear in the April 2005 issue, the "pre-final" in the May 2005 issue, and the "final" in the June 2005 issue. Since vol. 19 contains Acts 89-93, this suggests that the entire series will run 21 volumes. Can any more fluent reader with a copy of vol. 19 confirm (or disconfirm) this?

[littleharlock]

With the January issue (http://websunday.net/gx/number/ji_index.html) of Shôgakukan´s Monthly Sunday GX mangabon, a new series by CLAMP titled Kobato (tentative) will start. The December issue of GX also had a short manga by CLAMP titled CLAMP Shinbun • Shucchô-ban ~ Jingi naki Tataki-hen.

In Big Comic Superior Nariko Enomoto´s (of Sentiment no Kisetsu fame) Kokoro (http://www.bigcomics.shogakukan.co.jp/superior/manga/kokoro/kokoro.html) (based on the famous novel of the same name by popular jp. writer Natsume Sôseki) will see its final two chapters (if I´m counting correctly these chapters will be released with Big Comic Superior No. 24 and No. 25). Too bad, I really enjoyed Kokoro as I like Enomoto´s art and storytelling.
With Big Comic Superior No. 23 a new series also started, titled Existence by Ryô Kurashina (his DAWN currently gets serialized in Big Comic Spirit).
And also worth mentioning, next month the first Tankôbon of Insectival Crime Investigator Fabre (also serialized in BCS) will be released. This is another one of my favorite titles in BCS to read. Nice art and...unique idea in general.

so far
yours
littleharlock

[Aiia]

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With the January issue (http://websunday.net/gx/number/ji_index.html) of Shôgakukan´s Monthly Sunday GX mangabon, a new series by CLAMP titled Kobato (tentative) will start. The December issue of GX also had a short manga by CLAMP titled CLAMP Shinbun • Shucchô-ban ~ Jingi naki Tataki-hen.


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I'll pick it up to see what it is. But I kind of wish they'd continue [insert name of frozen project here] instead of starting yet another project...

[Andrew Cunningham]

Not new, but Inoue Takehiko's first manga (cancelled in ten issues) was reprinted today in a larger format.
Also out this week from Shonen Sunday is the first volume of Kurozakuro, by the author of Togari. Takes the generic people turning into demons and special heroes gotta fight them premise and flips it by making the main character a boy who is terrified by his gradual transformation into a flesh eating demon. Who sits in class thinking "Meat...meat...meat...meat...meat..."
Fun book, but dunno how long it can last without some major shake ups.

[Andrew Cunningham]

Shonen Jump finally gets a new series next week; Muhyo to Roujii no Mahouritsu Soudan Jimusho. The short story version was my personal favorite of the five short stories than ran in the summer contest, and while it didn't win that contest, it hit the magazine first.
http://www.s-manga.net/boys/wj.html and hit the bottom tag on the left.
Unusual art style; very effective for the horror moments. Unusual character sense and humor as well. The original short story was about a law firm specializing in ghostbusting. Muhyo dispatches ghosts for breaking the rules of the undead, but isn't much for dealing with customers (he tells them to go home) and has Roujii around to handle that angle. (There must be a better way to romanize that name...)
I thought Gedoh was on its last legs but it has 23 pages next week. Thing has puzzling staying power.

[akoftroy]

GEDOH is probably 23 pages because it`s the final chapter. And I agree that that Muhyo one-shot was pretty good. Looks like WAQWAQ will be the next to die and soon. That mangaka sure became horrible fast... Though I never liked Houshin Engi either.

[Aiia]

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I recently bought vol. 19 of Kare Kano, which announces that the final "shoo" (which my Kenkyusha's defines as "chapter") will begin in the Jan. 2005 issue of LaLa. My Japanese comprehension isn't what it could be, but it seems to say that Act 100 will appear in the April 2005 issue, the "pre-final" in the May 2005 issue, and the "final" in the June 2005 issue. Since vol. 19 contains Acts 89-93, this suggests that the entire series will run 21 volumes. Can any more fluent reader with a copy of vol. 19 confirm (or disconfirm) this?

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The latest issue of LaLa (#1 2005) started the countdown for the end of Kare Kano. 6 chapters until the end which means that it will end in 5 issues (the first countdown was this chapter of course).

I have to say I'm terribly disappointed with the direction Kare Kano is taking now. One book left and it looks like she'll completely ruin it all. Spoiler for latest chapter: <span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'> Yukino is going to quit school and give up going to university because she is pregnant! I thought the whole point of Kare Kano was the strong lead character that wouldn't give up her own future or loose to Arima just because she's a girl. But now the author is going down into the land of clichés where far too many manga-ka has gone before her. *sigh* </span> Of course I know that Hakusensha shoujo manga usually have very weak endings but this!!

Better news is that the first chapter of Matsuri Hino's latest work, Vampire Knight seems very promising. I loved the art and the feel of the story. It's a mix of school romance with some humoristic elements and a vampire story with a dark mood. And it hints strongly of darker elements showing up later as well.

[Andrew Cunningham]

I presume Houshin Engi was at least comprehensible, though.
Gedoh looks like it'll end next week, but then again, it doesn't actually say so, which it usually does...
The first few chapters of Gedoh were a lot of fun, but it got very boring suddenly. Sad.

[akoftroy]

Jump never tells you when a series is ending, you just have to guess. You can usually tell though by just assuming the series at the way back is gone when a new series is starting. Another sign is when a long running but recently unpopular series suddenly has a "23 pages with center color" like SK and Rookies did.

[jupiterstar]

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Since vol. 19 contains Acts 89-93, this suggests that the entire series will run 21 volumes. Can any more fluent reader with a copy of vol. 19 confirm (or disconfirm) this?

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Check her sidebar notes on page 17 (moon in the window). It says "This is vol. 19 of 23 of 'His and Her Circumstances'" Go figure...

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Something called Dragon Fist. (When I first glanced at it, I thought it said "Dragon Fister" /images/graemlins/sweat000.gif )

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Great thanks! Now that you say it, the name rings a bell with me, but I can't figure out why. Anyone know anything about this series at all? (I guess I'll go search a bit.. /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif )

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Man I hope you don't mean the one that Iron Cat has listed HERE. (http://www.animeondvd.com/specials/manga/compcharts.php?pub=63) They've had it for a long time, just as long as A.I. Revolution, so if it is I sympathize with you.

[AdamStephanides]

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Check her sidebar notes on page 17 (moon in the window). It says "This is vol. 19 of 23 of 'His and Her Circumstances'" Go figure...

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I think that what Tsuda means here is that this is vol. 19 of KKnJ, and her 23rd tankoubon in total (including non-KKnJ volumes). The first sidebar of every volume has a similar statement, always with a difference of three or four between the two numbers.

[littleharlock]

A few new series will start (recently started) in Weekly Big Comic Spirit mangabon. The first new series is titled GO! GO! HEAVEN by Yuko Umino (of 4TEEN fame) and Shinji Ohara (story) and the first chapter has been released with Big Comic Spirit No. 53 (on sale as of today). With next weeks issue, Big Comic Spirit No. 1 (on sale on 2004/12/06) SEKIDO by Yasuto Yamamoto will start. Speaking of BCS, the issue on sale on 2004/12/13 will come with Saikare Tsûshin Vol. 2, a booklet which is supposed to contain first details on the Saishû Heiki Kanojo OVA scheduled for summer 2005.

With the February issue of Monthly IKKI (on sale on 2004/12/25) Tsukidate no Satsujin by Tomoko Sasaki and Kôjin Ayatsuji (story) will start. A preview image can be seen at the Official site for IKKI here. (http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/ikkipara/yokoku/images/yokoku_02.jpg)
Speaking of IKKI Tankôbon 1 of Seiki Tsuchida´s (of Giragira fame) manga Yomawari Sensei will be released on 28th December (it´s a manga adaption based on the original by Osamu Mizutani).

The postponed Big Comic Superior special for Leiji Matsumoto´s Ginga Tetsudô 999 now also has a new release date. According to Shôgakukan´s site (http://www.bigcomics.shogakukan.co.jp/bc_shop9810/999otayori/news/spe_zoukan/index.html) for it, the special will be released on 14th January 2005.

Ah and it´s also worth mentioning that a new work by Nihei Tsutomu (BLAME, BIOMEGA) will be printed in the January issue of Ultra Jump mangabon. It´s not yet known wether it´ll be a one-shot or a new series.

so far
yours
littleharlock