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Who is writing Boruto?
(3 posts, 418 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
Masashi Kishimoto is credited as the "creator/supervisor" from chapters 1 to 80. Ukyo Kodachi is credited with "script" from chapters 1 to 51 and publically stepped away there. The anime stopped crediting him as "story supervisor" with ep 217 as 216 was the last to adapt ...
(3 posts, 418 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
Masashi Kishimoto is credited as the "creator/supervisor" from chapters 1 to 80. Ukyo Kodachi is credited with "script" from chapters 1 to 51 and publically stepped away there. The anime stopped crediting him as "story supervisor" with ep 217 as 216 was the last to adapt ...
New Poll - Number of Series
(13 posts, 1237 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in News
101-500 is quite the reach. About 250 (I also count Asian comics here) BUT all of these are ongoing trans/scanlations. 0 have finished translations and maybe 1/3 had no releases in at least 2 years. I need to read about half an hour a day on average to keep up with releas...
(13 posts, 1237 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in News
101-500 is quite the reach. About 250 (I also count Asian comics here) BUT all of these are ongoing trans/scanlations. 0 have finished translations and maybe 1/3 had no releases in at least 2 years. I need to read about half an hour a day on average to keep up with releas...
Sengoku Youko gets 3-cours anime adaptation in January 2024
(1 posts, 241 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in Sengoku Youko
Sengoku Youko
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(1 posts, 241 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in Sengoku Youko
Sengoku Youko
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A website opened on Thursday to announce the television anime adaptation of Satoshi Mizukami's Sengoku Youko (Warring States Yōko) manga. The website revealed the anime's visual, promotional video, main cast, staff, and January 2024 premiere.
https://ww...
Who do you guys think will be the next crew member?
(29 posts, 8098 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in One Piece
2023 writing here, just as Egghead seems to build up to an ending.
Let me put in writing that I am 100% convinced that no one who wasn´t teased or shown in the first half can join as there is no time to flash anyone out. Especially with how the manga is written after the...
(29 posts, 8098 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in One Piece
2023 writing here, just as Egghead seems to build up to an ending.
Let me put in writing that I am 100% convinced that no one who wasn´t teased or shown in the first half can join as there is no time to flash anyone out. Especially with how the manga is written after the...
Eiichiro Oda's Monsters 1-Shot Manga gets Anime
(0 posts, 221 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in Wanted!
Wanted!
(0 posts, 221 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in Wanted!
Wanted!
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The One Piece Day 2023 event on Saturday revealed that Eiichiro Oda's "Monsters: Ippaku Sanjō Hiryū Jigoku" one-shot manga will get an anime adaptation.
The one-shot was featured in Oda's Wanted!, which is a collection of manga one-shots. Shueisha published W...
The one-shot was featured in Oda's Wanted!, which is a collection of manga one-shots. Shueisha published W...
New Poll - Plants
(16 posts, 1472 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in News
Even I have indoor houseplants and I am as far removed from nature as one gets despite a regular-ish upbringing. Half the participants are crazy!
(16 posts, 1472 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in News
Even I have indoor houseplants and I am as far removed from nature as one gets despite a regular-ish upbringing. Half the participants are crazy!
One Piece Pole Shift theory
(0 posts, 380 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in One Piece
The last thing I want to engage in are OP theories, especially about what the treasure itself is, but I am willing to bet that this is real. The Japanese YTber【Drop the Pizza】released an explanation on March 26 2023 about what a pole shift is and why she is convinced ...
(0 posts, 380 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in One Piece
The last thing I want to engage in are OP theories, especially about what the treasure itself is, but I am willing to bet that this is real. The Japanese YTber【Drop the Pizza】released an explanation on March 26 2023 about what a pole shift is and why she is convinced ...
Challenge: find a BL that passes the Bechdel test!
(4 posts, 440 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in Yaoi/Yuri
I am 99% sure that A Cruel God Reigns passed the test but it is a Josei manga with gay themes. I remember the secondary character Nadia talking to named women about her life.
New York New York 100% passed on the basis of let´s say the last chapter where the grandmother ta...
(4 posts, 440 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in Yaoi/Yuri
I am 99% sure that A Cruel God Reigns passed the test but it is a Josei manga with gay themes. I remember the secondary character Nadia talking to named women about her life.
New York New York 100% passed on the basis of let´s say the last chapter where the grandmother ta...
New Poll - Physical vs. Digital (Novels)
(11 posts, 1165 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in News
While I am here. English audiobook adaptations of light novels are a thing now. A clearly growing field. Japan is of course plastered with them. Anime´s questionable 2 decade long obsession with LNs ain't stopping any time soon so expect these to be part of forum convers...
(11 posts, 1165 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in News
While I am here. English audiobook adaptations of light novels are a thing now. A clearly growing field. Japan is of course plastered with them. Anime´s questionable 2 decade long obsession with LNs ain't stopping any time soon so expect these to be part of forum convers...
New Poll - Physical vs. Digital (Novels)
(11 posts, 1165 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in News
Still digital but actually audiobook. If there is an audiobook then there is a 99,9% chance that this will be my option.
Forgot: "Full cast" audiobooks are da bomb. All 6 Dune novels got those for example.
https://www.amazon.com/Dune-Frank-Herbert-audiobook/dp/B000R34YKC...
(11 posts, 1165 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in News
Still digital but actually audiobook. If there is an audiobook then there is a 99,9% chance that this will be my option.
Forgot: "Full cast" audiobooks are da bomb. All 6 Dune novels got those for example.
https://www.amazon.com/Dune-Frank-Herbert-audiobook/dp/B000R34YKC...
Mobile Suit Gundam MSV-R: Johnny Ridden no Kikan ends after 13 years
(0 posts, 129 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in Kidou Senshi Gundam MSV-R: Johnny Ridden no Kikan
Kidou Senshi Gundam MSV-R: Johnny Ridden no Kikan
(0 posts, 129 views) Posted: 8 months ago by residentgrigo in Kidou Senshi Gundam MSV-R: Johnny Ridden no Kikan
Kidou Senshi Gundam MSV-R: Johnny Ridden no Kikan
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The September issue of Kadokawa's Gundam Ace magazine published the final chapter of Ark Performance's Mobile Suit Gundam MSV-R: Johnny Ridden no Kikan (The Return of Johnny Ridden) manga on Wednesday. The manga's 26th...
LGBT manga are being banned from US schools and libraries
(20 posts, 2746 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Manga General
Having books with LGBT+ characters and topics as part of the German school curriculum is older than me. The whole class had to read Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (1906) in I think grade 11. The 16-year-old protagonist is pushed to participate in the sexual ensla...
(20 posts, 2746 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Manga General
Having books with LGBT+ characters and topics as part of the German school curriculum is older than me. The whole class had to read Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (1906) in I think grade 11. The 16-year-old protagonist is pushed to participate in the sexual ensla...
We're 19!
(23 posts, 2382 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in News
MU never found an alternative even into the 2020s so this early Web 2.0 relic continues to not only retain its significance as a database but is also growing due to other sites having collapsed. It is tolerable at best to use on a phone but 2-decade old websites be like t...
(23 posts, 2382 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in News
MU never found an alternative even into the 2020s so this early Web 2.0 relic continues to not only retain its significance as a database but is also growing due to other sites having collapsed. It is tolerable at best to use on a phone but 2-decade old websites be like t...
My Home Hero takes 1-month break before entering climax
(0 posts, 153 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in My Home Hero
My Home Hero
(0 posts, 153 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in My Home Hero
My Home Hero
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This year's 33rd issue of Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine announced on Friday that Naoki Yamakawa and Masashi Asaki's My Home Hero manga will take a 1-month break "to recharge," before starting the manga's climax. The manga is scheduled to return in the ...
Insomniacs After School ends in 2 chapters
(0 posts, 230 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia
Insomniacs After School
(0 posts, 230 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia
Insomniacs After School
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This year's 33rd issue of Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine announced on Tuesday that Makoto Ojiro's Insomniacs After School (Kimi wa Hōkago Insomnia) manga will end in two chapters. The manga's next chapter will publish in the magazine'...
Hajime no Ippo exceeds 100 million copies and is "halfway through" the story
(1 posts, 304 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Hajime no Ippo
Hajime no Ippo
(1 posts, 304 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Hajime no Ippo
Hajime no Ippo
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The official Twitter account of George Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo boxing manga announced on Friday that the manga has reached over 100 million copies in circulation, with the release of the manga's 138th compiled book volume, also on Friday.
The cover il...
The cover il...
New Poll - Physical vs. Digital
(17 posts, 1516 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in News
Digital due to the accessibility but these releases also need to be saved somewhere. Manga and comic pirates do a fine job of squirrelly everything away and these copies, even if they are rips of official releases, might one day be the only way to access these works. Manh...
(17 posts, 1516 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in News
Digital due to the accessibility but these releases also need to be saved somewhere. Manga and comic pirates do a fine job of squirrelly everything away and these copies, even if they are rips of official releases, might one day be the only way to access these works. Manh...
Do you avoid non-Japanese manga?
(27 posts, 2617 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Manga General
No. I don´t care where my comics come from. That said, most webcomics tend to have poorer production values and less professional writing than those pushed through the traditional editorial system. The panel-by-panel scroll-down style that is clearly made for smartphone ...
(27 posts, 2617 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Manga General
No. I don´t care where my comics come from. That said, most webcomics tend to have poorer production values and less professional writing than those pushed through the traditional editorial system. The panel-by-panel scroll-down style that is clearly made for smartphone ...
James Cameron announces Battle Angel Alita film sequels
(0 posts, 143 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Gunnm
Gunnm
“And on the new Alita: Battle Angel films, I’ll be working in Austin, so it just didn’t make sense for us anymore.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-global-properties/2023/07/08/james-cameron-lists-his-california-coastal-ranch-for-33-million/?sh=2ae7789e206...
(0 posts, 143 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Gunnm
Gunnm
“And on the new Alita: Battle Angel films, I’ll be working in Austin, so it just didn’t make sense for us anymore.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-global-properties/2023/07/08/james-cameron-lists-his-california-coastal-ranch-for-33-million/?sh=2ae7789e206...
Katsuhisa Minami's The Fable Teases Final Arc
(0 posts, 239 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in The Fable
The Fable
(0 posts, 239 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in The Fable
The Fable
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This year's 32nd issue of Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine teases that Katsuhisa Minami's The Fable manga will return for its final arc, but the magazine did not announce a date yet. Minami said he will just recharge for a while before returning.
The magazin...
The magazin...
Katsuhisa Minami's The Fable gets TV Anime
(0 posts, 169 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in The Fable
The Fable
(0 posts, 169 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in The Fable
The Fable
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This year's 32nd issue of Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine revealed on Monday that Katsuhisa Minami's The Fable manga is inspiring a television anime adaptation.
Ryousuke Takahashi (Armored Trooper Votoms, Phoenix, Ozma) is directing the anime at Tezuka Produ...
Ryousuke Takahashi (Armored Trooper Votoms, Phoenix, Ozma) is directing the anime at Tezuka Produ...
A Condition Called Love gets TV Anime
(0 posts, 258 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai
A Condition Called Love
(0 posts, 258 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai
A Condition Called Love
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A website opened on Wednesday to announce the television anime adaptation of Megumi Morino's A Condition Called Love (Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai) manga, which is slated for premiere in 2024. The website also revealed the anime's teaser visual...
A Sign of Affection gets TV Anime in January 2024
(0 posts, 452 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Yubisaki to Renren
A Sign of Affection
(0 posts, 452 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Yubisaki to Renren
A Sign of Affection
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A website opened on Wednesday to announce the television anime adaptation of Suu Morishita's A Sign of Affection (Yubisaki to Renren) manga. The website also revealed the anime's teaser visual and promotional video, main cast and staff, and January...
Ōoku´s new demographic
(2 posts, 440 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Oooku
I randomly spotted the manga´s new and additional Seinen tag when I set the anime endpoint and then started to dig down and indeed saw that it is being listed as Part of the Young Animal Line (Berserk, March Comes in Like a Lion) on Japanese webshops. This is how I under...
(2 posts, 440 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Oooku
I randomly spotted the manga´s new and additional Seinen tag when I set the anime endpoint and then started to dig down and indeed saw that it is being listed as Part of the Young Animal Line (Berserk, March Comes in Like a Lion) on Japanese webshops. This is how I under...
Spice & Wolf Fantasy Novels Get New Anime
(3 posts, 547 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Ookami to Koushinryou (Novel)
(3 posts, 547 views) Posted: 9 months ago by residentgrigo in Ookami to Koushinryou (Novel)
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Author Isuna Hasekura's official website revealed on Thursday that the new anime based on his Spice & Wolf light novel series will premiere in 2024 as a television anime. The show will be titled Ōkami to Kōshinryō: merchant meets the wise wolf (Spice & Wolf: merch...
