Manga YouTuber. Comics & Manga on TikTok. Pompadour lover. Reading One Piece since 2003.
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Kaiba hater. Collected every Shonen Jump AND Shonen Sunday manga.
Since its recent anime debut I've seen a lot of assumptions that Skip and Loafer is a shojo series because it is a romance.
Here's a thread of some other seinen romance manga and the magazines they are/were serialized in.
Skip and Loafer - Monthly Afternoon
A thread of Akira Toriyama manga not officially available in Englishโฆ
While we have a good amount of the late masterโs bibliography in English from VIZ Media there are still several short works that have never been officially published. Hereโs a thread of those works!
Shoujo Fans are FINALLY eating good with two of my favorite romance manga from Dessert magazine getting anime adaptations in 2024๐ฅณ๐ฅณ
After a long drought this is crazy to see
Check out the manga of both "Hananoi-kun" & "Yubisaki" for some delicately & skillfully told romance.
โAI Sucks.โ
Penthouse Comics was recently revived and editorial found one of the covers they were given was created via AI. They refused to use the cover and wrote this article about AI art in the first issue of the new magazine.
In celebration of the launch of K-Manga's app and browser versions Kodansha will be hosting a party on 6/22 at 9PM EST.
Here's a thread of samples of exclusive art made for the event by 16 mangaka!
Makoto Yukimura - Vinland Saga
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From a conversation I had with Carl from Dark Horse;
Innocent will inevitably be followed by Innocent Rouge.
They are very interested in The Climber (Kokou no Hito) also by Shinโichi Sakamoto, but the license will depend on Innocentโs success.
There are some people in the comments praising him for working 30 hours. Stop.
I donโt need to regurgitate all the issues with this. He even has this series on an irregular schedule so he doesnโt need to meet deadlines, so at this point heโs doing it to himself.
In a recent interview "Tokyo Ghoul" creator Sui Ishida revealed that he's working on "Choujin X" completely alone without any assistants. He's drawing on average 10 hours per day, in special situations up to 30 hours in one go, sometimes 5 hours.
Also he doesn't really consider
1. I think this is the fastest a SJ series went to print in English
2. That it wasnโt included with the announcements last month makes me think they went ahead and fast-tracked this in response to the mass amount of comments they received after the February licenses.
Announcement: Enough time has passedโฆ
The Shonen Jump series that took the world by storm comes to print! A doting father is slain in cold blood in front of his young son, igniting a burning thirst for vengeance. Kagurabachi, by Takeru Hokazono, releases Fall 2024.
I had to face myself with this a while ago and realize that I wasnโt being fair at all to anything from the shojo or josei demos because I was subconsciously always ignoring them. My library was <5% shojosei, which wasnโt okay even if unintentional.
With the announcement that Trigun will be the next
@DarkHorseComics
manga getting the Deluxe HC treatment, which series would you like to see next?
Leave a comment with the three Dark Horse manga youโd most like to see printed in this format!
From JBE Books, 21,450 pages with slipcase, the โlargest book in the worldโ limited to 50 copies at 1900โฌ
I do not know that this was made in cooperation with Oda or Shueisha.
Not to discredit Fujimoto as I also love his work, but
Tezuka
Takahashi
Urasawa
Tamura
Watase
Inoue
Asano
Nihei
Taiyo Matsumoto
Leiji Matsumoto
Koike
Otomo
Nagai
CLAMP
Hagio
Obata
Mashima
Ito
Umezz
Arakawa
Kurumada
Masamune
Katsura
Ishinomori
Adachi
Tanemura
Yazawa
Anno
Oku
Strange how these coincidences seem to happen.
I havenโt seen this shirt in years, let alone worn it, but I found it in a box of old stuff recently. It was at the top of the laundry this morning so I thought Iโd see if it still fitโฆ
Thanks for everything, Toriyama ๐๐งก
I canโt believe how terrible
@ShopCrunchyroll
โs website is.
Searching for anything is a crapshoot, the filters arenโt 100% effective, listing by date doesnโt actually put things in order, and this is just the beginning of their woes.
These are the people offloading their whole collections now, btw.
Like, I probably get around this much in 18 months but I also read this much in that time and buy with intent rather than only due to consumer mentality.
The assumption that romance immediately means a series is shojo is inherently harmful to the perception of all demos. As well, no single demo does any genre objectively better than the others as they all present these stories in different ways to appeal to their target audience.
Komi Canโt Communicate? The manga published in Weekly Shonen Sunday?
Shonen is a demographic. Slice of Life is a genre. That genre (like any other) can be published for any demographic. Shonen, Seinen, Shojo, Josei, Kodomo, and so on.
From my conversation with Carl from Dark Horse;
They do plan to continue the Deluxe Hardcover line beyond the current four titles, and there are a few theyโre working on currently. One theyโre looking at would be a single volume release.
I am trying to let this sink in, and itโs just constantly overwhelming me with how huge of a loss this is. Even for those who never enjoyed his works youโve been impacted in some way by Toriyama. His influence was so incredible and widespread and should not be understated.
Thank you
@KODANSHA_EN
for the early copy of the first A Sign of Affection Omnibus, Iโm going to do a little comparison video to the singles over on TikTok soon.
And there it is. Trigun HC will compile the whole original series into one HC in December and then next April we get the first Maximum HC with vol 1-3
(In the US we got the two volume edition of Trigun, but it was originally published as three in Japan)
The announcement of new editions of Trigun is imminent, so I thought this would be a good time to take a moment to mention that manga licensing is not always a quick and simple process. Getting new licenses or even renewing existing ones can take several months, if not years.
Dropping Vinland Saga at this point shit has become so boring and moralising about war let's just let these characters fight die and get stronger like in classic anime (when it was good) so disappointing if I wanted to watch a slave story I'd watch 12 years a slave not an anime
About a year ago I first saw Colleen on TikTok via one of the Shonen Jump to Shojo videos and Iโฆ honestly initially was annoyed. I didnโt want to be told that I was wrong to enjoy my shonens and not read shojo manga. But something made me stay and listen anywayโฆ๐งต
This is such a huge announcement and I'm so excited for it, and it for sure must be stated how much the community helped to make this happen.
Both from fans being outspoken about wanting a reprint and then showing their interest by reading it when it was added to the VIZ app!
Announcement: Yuriโs perfect life is about to change. One night, hands appear out of a street puddle and transport her to the ancient Middle East for an unexpected adventure! The classic romance series, Red River (3-in-1 Edition), by Chie Shinohara, releases Fall 2024.
Coming next year from
@DarkHorseComics
"From Kohta Hirano, creator of Hellsing, comes Drifters Omnibus Volume 1, a supersized, value-priced collection of the first three Drifters volumes of the action-fantasy epic."
Trim should be oversized like Oh My Goddess
Iโm already not a fan of bagging manga in sleeves and now this? Are we going to grade and slab Omnis next?
Iโll just say despite the fact that โcollectorโ is in my name thereโs a reason I always refer to my books as my โlibraryโ and not my โcollection.โ
Beckett Collectibles announced a new service to "professionally" grade Manga
โข The service includes evaluation of condition, verification of signatures, and encapsulation.ย
โข Grading will begin at $30 per book, while JUST putting it in a slab will cost $20.
โข You can only
When I was in high school, this was around 2005, I was at a bookstore and a kid was with his mom in the manga section. He was looking at the volume of Naruto where Neji reveals the manji on his forehead and the mom got notably uncomfortable and pointed it out. I overheard- (1/3)
Oda (2006): Whitebeard's pirate flag was warned that it could not be broadcast in anime. Now I have just been told that it cannot be published in manga as well.๐ญ
I understand that manga fans just want to see their favorite titles licensed and printed in their native language, but the harassment of publishers needs to yield, especially when the vast majority of people are completely unaware of the โbehind the scenesโ happenings 1/?
Vinland Saga lives on!! Follow the story of Thorfin as the events of Books 5 & 6 in the manga play out. Available now streaming on
@netflix
FREE Chapter 1 Preview:
So Iโll personally be waiting to see how things change if at all, but if the discounts arenโt the same Iโll be going back to buying all my manga at InStockTrades. Their prices are better than Rightstuf anyway, I just moved because they donโt stock ALL new manga releases.
I'm a huge Trigun fan and have been almost since the anime aired in the US, and I picked up the manga as it was being published, so I say this with sincerity...
I think a lot of first time readers are going to find themselves disliking the manga. Not because it's different...
And there it is. Trigun HC will compile the whole original series into one HC in December and then next April we get the first Maximum HC with vol 1-3
(In the US we got the two volume edition of Trigun, but it was originally published as three in Japan)
Junji Itoโs collaboration with Magic the Gathering is currently up for preorder on the Secret Lair site right now.
Ito designed art for four cards that are available in English or Japanese and foil etched or not.
They release 11/28
Additional info about manga at IST...
Dark Horse standard discount is 36%
Seven Seas is 35%
Viz discount is 30%
Kodansha and Yen Press are 25%
Didn't check others
If you've placed an order within the past 8 days you add another 2% discount.
Free shipping in the US after $50
So Iโll personally be waiting to see how things change if at all, but if the discounts arenโt the same Iโll be going back to buying all my manga at InStockTrades. Their prices are better than Rightstuf anyway, I just moved because they donโt stock ALL new manga releases.
Thread of Junji Ito works not yet available in English
Stitches is currently scheduled for release in March while Story Collection: The Alley is due to be released in July.
There should be at least one more Ito release for 2024, and here's everything we don't yet have...
โShonen romance is better than shojosei romanceโ
Look if all you want is beige MCโs and fanservice thatโs cool but the adults are speaking so letโs keep that at the kids table.
Donโt be this asshole.
If Iโm not putting out a video on time or at all itโs because of a personal issue. In this case itโs because my work has been extremely busy due to beginning of year things. I havenโt had the time to sit down and record because of this. I donโt owe that-
Hey.
Do you know Yu-Gi-Oh?
You probably know this, but the original manga ran for over a year before it became focused on the Duel Monsters card game. In fact thereโs a whole season of the anime weโve never gotten in the US. They call it โSeason 0โ and in it Yugi played โShadow-
Obviously it can โget much widerโ given the series isnโt yet complete, but the joke was right there.
That said, Iโll be waiting on that expanded, true all in one edition to come out :)
Iโm going to become the really annoying โphysical media is superiorโ guy really soon if this shit keeps happening.
On that noteโฆ the blu ray set hasnโt been removed from my collection ;)
The question โdo you have any recommendations for mangaโ is wild to me because I have no idea what your preferences are or what youโre into. Itโs an entire medium with all kinds of demographics, genres, and sub-genres. I need a little bit of context first to give effective recs.
VIZ's license announcements are coming in a few weeks and
@colleensmanga
and I put together our bingo board of what we think they might include.
Note: This isn't our WISHLIST, just what we think might happen, with a lot of purposefully broad picks because we REALLY want that W
Case Closed (Detective Conan) is among the Weekly Shonen Sunday titles available on the Viz Media app. Chapters 917-1099 are missing, but itโs noted they will be backfilled.
This is huge for fans of this series as the physical English release is still eight years behind.
I emailed Kodansha with a couple of popular questions about the upcoming Vinland Saga Deluxe HC;
What will be the release schedule and will the hardcovers each be a different color like the current 2-in-1 releases.
This is an excerpt from the response I received.
The announcement of new editions of Trigun is imminent, so I thought this would be a good time to take a moment to mention that manga licensing is not always a quick and simple process. Getting new licenses or even renewing existing ones can take several months, if not years.