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An official website opened for a television anime adaptation of Koucha Agasawa's Koori no Jouheki (The Ramparts of Ice) manga on Friday. It also revealed an illustration (pictured above) drawn by Agasawa to celebrate the announcement.

Agasawa (Seihantai na Kimi to Boku) began drawing the romantic comedy manga as a self-published webtoon before beginning its serialization in the LINE Manga website from January 2020 to April 2022. Shueisha shipped the 13th volume on September 4 and will release the 14th and final volume on February 4.

Koori no Jouheki placed 15th in the Male Readers category of the Kono Manga ga Sugoi 2024 rankings.

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Inept at dealing with people, Koyuki Higawa maintains a wall between herself and others. She spends her time in high school away from others, all alone. At least until she encounters Minato Amamiya who keeps closing the distance between them for some reason. The aloof Koyuki, the popular Miki, the boundary-less Minato, and the easygoing and kind basketball team member Youta. This is the story of these somewhat complicated four and their tantalizing, bumbling youth. (Source: LINE Digital Frontier, translated)

Official site: https://korinojoheki-pr.com/
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Jan 31, 10:32 AM
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It looks like a regular Shoujo Reverse Harem. Why was it published as a webmanga instead of a regular magazine?
Jan 31, 11:43 AM
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You’ve got to be one hell of a mangaka if you can get two of your works greenlit almost-simultaneously without any prior adaptations.
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RobertBobert said:
Shoujo Reverse Harem

Reverse harem?? That's two girls and two guys in the picture...

Also, it placed in the Male Readers category of Kono Manga ga Sugoi. I don't think Shoujo (or shoujo-like) manga do that...

KM_31 said:
get two of your works greenlit almost-simultaneously without any prior adaptations.

Yeah, I also noticed that. Web manga, too. I wonder what's up with that...

Anyways, the art looks very cute, simple and pleasant.
Jan 31, 11:58 AM
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Shoujo Reverse Harem

Reverse harem?? That's two girls and two guys in the picture...

Also, it placed in the Male Readers category of Kono Manga ga Sugoi. I don't think Shoujo (or shoujo-like) manga do that...

KM_31 said:
get two of your works greenlit almost-simultaneously without any prior adaptations.

Yeah, I also noticed that. Web manga, too. I wonder what's up with that...

Anyways, the art looks very cute, simple and pleasant.
@perseii Perhaps you are right and this is not a harem, but why do all the manga resources tagged it either as Shoujo or as Josei? Moreover, we have already encountered last year with the victory of another Shoujo manga in the male category. As far as I know, Line Manga does not have a certain demography and basically simply publishes a variety of manga and webtoons. For example, they published Otokonoko Sempai, which Shoujo sh Seineen.

As for the adaptation of several works at once, perhaps the reason is that both mangs are relatively short and finished. Last time, this mainly happened with the sequels or spin-offs published at the same time with original works.
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I thought anime means to promote the medium? This series even ended 3 years ago
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OOoo, another finished series being adapted. I'll be curious if this adapts the whole thing.


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I thought anime means to promote the medium? This series even ended 3 years ago


While not the norm, this also isn't uncommon. Things like Tomo-chan, Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant, Grandpa and Grandma Turned Young Again are all recent examples of this occurring.

I don't know why it occurs but I wish it was more the norm. Imagine...getting full adaptations of longer running shows. That would be great!
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@perseii Perhaps you are right and this is not a harem, but why do all the manga resources tagged it either as Shoujo or as Josei? Moreover, we have already encountered last year with the victory of another Shoujo manga in the male category. As far as I know, Line Manga does not have a certain demography and basically simply publishes a variety of manga and webtoons. For example, they published Otokonoko Sempai, which Shoujo sh Seineen.

As for the adaptation of several works at once, perhaps the reason is that both mangs are relatively short and finished. Last time, this mainly happened with the sequels or spin-offs published at the same time with original works.
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Perhaps you are right and this is not a harem, but why do all the manga resources tagged it either as Shoujo or as Josei?

My procrastination skills kicked in and got me to check out the first 20 or so chapters...

From what I've seen, this is a light-hearted school drama with the 2 girls and 2 guys in the picture. It's heavily focused on the characters, all of whom feel pretty grounded and relatable, with some mild quirks. There's very little romance, but there's some rumblings.

This feels like something along the lines of Skip & Loafer, and what little I've read of Ruri Dragon, maybe. It's hard for me to call it shoujo, because Kimi ni Todoke is what I think of when I hear "shoujo." If you put a gun to my head, I'll have to say seinen..?

Whatever it is, it looks like a good'un.
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@perseii Perhaps you are right and this is not a harem, but why do all the manga resources tagged it either as Shoujo or as Josei? Moreover, we have already encountered last year with the victory of another Shoujo manga in the male category. As far as I know, Line Manga does not have a certain demography and basically simply publishes a variety of manga and webtoons. For example, they published Otokonoko Sempai, which Shoujo sh Seineen.

As for the adaptation of several works at once, perhaps the reason is that both mangs are relatively short and finished. Last time, this mainly happened with the sequels or spin-offs published at the same time with original works.
@RobertBobert While Line Manga doesn't have any particular demographic, the physical volumes were published by Jump Comics, who are focused on shonen and seinen. As for why it was tagged that way in some places, I've seen some demographic listings that are just straight-up incorrect, much less questionable choices in ambiguous situations. It might have been as simple as "High school romance with a female lead? Must be shojo!" That said, I haven't actually read this personally, so I can't be certain.
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OOoo, another finished series being adapted. I'll be curious if this adapts the whole thing.


themasterseaso said:
I thought anime means to promote the medium? This series even ended 3 years ago


While not the norm, this also isn't uncommon. Things like Tomo-chan, Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant, Grandpa and Grandma Turned Young Again are all recent examples of this occurring.

I don't know why it occurs but I wish it was more the norm. Imagine...getting full adaptations of longer running shows. That would be great!
@iwubanime 14 volumes means it would probably need 2 if not 3 cours to have any chance of a full adaptation, unless they wanted to pull a Horimiya speedrun-type deal. Which certainly could happen. It would be kind of weird to wait until a series had been complete for a while and then only adapt it partially. Just something to keep in mind.
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@iwubanime 14 volumes means it would probably need 2 if not 3 cours to have any chance of a full adaptation, unless they wanted to pull a Horimiya speedrun-type deal. Which certainly could happen. It would be kind of weird to wait until a series had been complete for a while and then only adapt it partially. Just something to keep in mind.
Yeah, sorry, I didn't explain it very well. I was curious if they would adapt all the content but didn't expect them to do it in one cour.

I thought I had examples of finished content that was then only adapted partially. But the two that came to mind were not valid (Mononogatari's source finished after the first cour and was probably a split cour anyway and Raeliana is a Manhwa). Maybe Raven of the Inner Palace but that had a relatively small window between novel finish and anime start, so sadly it was likely only planned for one cour to boost sales (Japan!!!).
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@RobertBobert While Line Manga doesn't have any particular demographic, the physical volumes were published by Jump Comics, who are focused on shonen and seinen. As for why it was tagged that way in some places, I've seen some demographic listings that are just straight-up incorrect, much less questionable choices in ambiguous situations. It might have been as simple as "High school romance with a female lead? Must be shojo!" That said, I haven't actually read this personally, so I can't be certain.
@kta_99 @kta_99 @perseii I think such things need to be checked by Japanese sources. Who generally say that this is a school shonen, lmao.

@iwubanime It all depends on why they remembered this. Is this the release of a new reprint, the advance of the author or sequels/spin-offs of his work? Or did they just feel the missed commercial potential in this? The raven was simply an advertisement for the work that ended in the same year, if I remember correctly.
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Yeah, sorry, I didn't explain it very well. I was curious if they would adapt all the content but didn't expect them to do it in one cour.

I thought I had examples of finished content that was then only adapted partially. But the two that came to mind were not valid (Mononogatari's source finished after the first cour and was probably a split cour anyway and Raeliana is a Manhwa). Maybe Raven of the Inner Palace but that had a relatively small window between novel finish and anime start, so sadly it was likely only planned for one cour to boost sales (Japan!!!).
@iwubanime Not that much of an example of this, since there was a small enough gap that the anime was definitely planned before the manga ended, but one weird one is Ao-chan Can't Study. They gave it half-length episodes and then adapted almost exactly half of the manga.
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RobertBobert said:
It all depends on why they remembered this. Is this the release of a new reprint, the advance of the author or sequels/spin-offs of his work? Or did they just feel the missed commercial potential in this? The raven was simply an advertisement for the work that ended in the same year, if I remember correctly.


Yeah. I'm just commenting on kta_99's comment. Just because an anime is finished well in advance, doesn't mean it will definitely be a complete adaptation.

Another recent example is Wrong Way to use Healing Magic. Yes, a sequel was announced 4 months later. But if it was a sure thing, why didn't they announce it at the end of the first season? We will never know, maybe it was planned all along.
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I think some people here in the comments still don't understand that mal only represent a tiny minority of the anime/manga costumer base. If a mangaka has successful series, the studios will make offers. It's that simple.
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I thought anime means to promote the medium? This series even ended 3 years ago
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anime means to promote the medium
A book doesn't stop being sold when it ends. And of course the promotion doesn't stop with books. They can also promote blu rays, t shirts, figurines.For future reference since it seems you are stuck in 2011.
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I think some people here in the comments still don't understand that mal only represent a tiny minority of the anime/manga costumer base. If a mangaka has successful series, the studios will make offers. It's that simple.
@Yubisoft We discuss why the proposal was made so late, and not why it was done at all. Obviously, all these works had some popularity in the first place.

@iwubanime Again, depends on intentions. For example, Kenshin and Holo received new anime not least to promote the adaptation of their current sequels.
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Not that much of an example of this, since there was a small enough gap that the anime was definitely planned before the manga ended, but one weird one is Ao-chan Can't Study. They gave it half-length episodes and then adapted almost exactly half of the manga.


Ahh, yeah, good find. Sorry, I wasn't trying to pick on your comment there, I think it's interesting to analyze these sorts of trends. I would be happy to be wrong and see every completed show that gets adapted after the show ended would mean we'll get a full adaptation. I just typically have associated shows that get full adaptations to be something that is short enough to fit in one cour (like Tomo-chan), money makers (MHA), or very rare (like Duke of Death). When we get a full adaptation, I get really excited :)
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It all depends on why they remembered this. Is this the release of a new reprint, the advance of the author or sequels/spin-offs of his work? Or did they just feel the missed commercial potential in this? The raven was simply an advertisement for the work that ended in the same year, if I remember correctly.


Yeah. I'm just commenting on kta_99's comment. Just because an anime is finished well in advance, doesn't mean it will definitely be a complete adaptation.

Another recent example is Wrong Way to use Healing Magic. Yes, a sequel was announced 4 months later. But if it was a sure thing, why didn't they announce it at the end of the first season? We will never know, maybe it was planned all along.
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maybe it was planned all along.

People have to understand that no matter the plans a company makes for future season if s1 was a failure we would never had a s2. Also the fact that it was announced 4 months later proves that they wanted to see revenue of the 1st season before greenlighting a new production
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People have to understand that no matter the plans a company makes for future season if s1 was a failure we would never had a s2. Also the fact that it was announced 4 months later proves that they wanted to see revenue of the 1st season before greenlighting a new production


Sure. These are companies. They are not working on charity here. This is how they make money. It'd be stupid to say otherwise.

We're looking at trends on shows that have been adapted to anime after the fact. And how likely we might be to see a full adaptation.

You quoted my little tiny statement but you missed my main point:

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Just because an anime is finished well in advance, doesn't mean it will definitely be a complete adaptation


You are outlining why I said what I said. You get a single cour, if the show can be adapted in that timeframe then you'll get a full adaptation. Otherwise, it depends on whether the show met or exceeded whatever projected figures the company set for it.
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@Yubisoft We discuss why the proposal was made so late, and not why it was done at all. Obviously, all these works had some popularity in the first place.

@iwubanime Again, depends on intentions. For example, Kenshin and Holo received new anime not least to promote the adaptation of their current sequels.
@RobertBobert Then the answer is simple. Studios have schedules. And that's what they follow. The only exceptions to that rule are usually anime productions with enormous popularity. But even in these cases we still get delays for various reasons . Even the the monster One Piece got delayed for a half a year.
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@RobertBobert Then the answer is simple. Studios have schedules. And that's what they follow. The only exceptions to that rule are usually anime productions with enormous popularity. But even in these cases we still get delays for various reasons . Even the the monster One Piece got delayed for a half a year.
@Yubisoft Six months and 5-6 years are several different things. Plus, this happens quite rarely, while most anime either promote new titles, or follow the old ones.
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@Yubisoft Six months and 5-6 years are several different things. Plus, this happens quite rarely, while most anime either promote new titles, or follow the old ones.

Strawman argument . I just gave you an example. Doesn't mean that One Piece has been delayed for the same reasons. My point is if One Piece, currently the number 1 anime in popularity, revenue had to be delayed then you can imagine what light years weaker anime productions have to delay things due to unexpected reasons. Also 5-6 years is such problem to you? Have you seen the gap between Re zero s1 and season 2 which had an extreme success?
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@Yubisoft Six months and 5-6 years are several different things. Plus, this happens quite rarely, while most anime either promote new titles, or follow the old ones.

Strawman argument . I just gave you an example. Doesn't mean that One Piece has been delayed for the same reasons. My point is if One Piece, currently the number 1 anime in popularity, revenue had to be delayed then you can imagine what light years weaker anime productions have to delay things due to unexpected reasons. Also 5-6 years is such problem to you? Have you seen the gap between Re zero s1 and season 2 which had an extreme success?
@Yubisoft This is not a Strawman argument, because there is a big difference and absence of stability to talk about the rarity of this. Plus, the difference between seasons is usually due to certain reasons. We are talking about works that either receive anime for the first time, or receive a new anime after a very long time. If deal were only in the schedule, then we would stably receive adaptations after a lot of time, but this does not happen.
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I thought anime means to promote the medium? This series even ended 3 years ago
@themasterseaso Tomo-chan is a Girl had been finished for years before it got a full adaptation. Anime as an ad for the source material isn't really a thing anymore with old series being revived or getting long awaited continuations. Now anime is made just for the sake of it due to how popular it's become worldwide. It's highly profitable nowadays.
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anime means to promote the medium
A book doesn't stop being sold when it ends. And of course the promotion doesn't stop with books. They can also promote blu rays, t shirts, figurines.For future reference since it seems you are stuck in 2011.
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For future reference since it seems you are stuck in 2011

No need to be a smartass buddy
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For future reference since it seems you are stuck in 2011

No need to be a smartass buddy
@themasterseaso The fact that you perceived my comment that way is your problem I am afraid. If I wanted to be a smartass I would have said plenty other things without wasting my time explaining you.
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I was planning on reading this, after Polar Opposites ended. Good to know this and the latter are getting anime adaptations.

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