Summer-winter 2013. Preparing for the baseball manga season:
- Touch - Mitsuru's earlier work. Romantic subplot. Tragedy. Completely scanlated. Received 28th Shogakukan Manga Award.
- Cross Game - Mitsuru's work. Completely scanlated . Received Shogakukan Manga Award in 2009 so around the 14th vol.
Both have Shogakukan Awards! Did he sell his soul out?!
... Alomost got swayed here to gulp up H2 as well. But I'm gonna stick to the course. Just add it later...
- Ookiku Furikabutte - Ongoing. 21 volumes so far, 20 vol. scanlated. Update irregular. Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2006 - around 12th vol (holy shit). And this is a female magaka.
- well... I generally see, why it got the Tezuka Award. Chronologically this manga was the first to introduce such a deep insight into the baseball-based manga... but in my view it lacks impact.
- Last inning - Ongoing. Manipulative bastard + strategic minds. 38 volumes so far, 17 of them scanlated, weekly update. Apparently he was an assistant of Adachi Mitsuru's, so I'm expecting quite a lot from this title.
- Daiya no A - Ongoing. 36 volumes so far, scanlated up to the 15th. Weekly update. Hardworking protagonist. Shogakukan Manga award (2008).
- One Outs - Ongoing. Manipulative bastard + strategic minds. Completed. 15 volumes scanlated so far. New chapter comes out around every two weeks, meaning in (5 vol * 7 chapters each * 2 weeks) 70 weeks it should be fully scanlated (2 years?)
- Rookies - Completed. Scanlated up to the 23rd vol. of 24. Irregular update. Coming of age, personality change. I guess something similar to Kamen Teacher and GTO?
- H2 - I have no choice, Mitsuru's works are just too good. Though the settings and the topic are from the same pool, I still like how he manages to develop each of his series into a different story.
Am I the only one to get the feeling that baseball topic gets significantly good feedback both from publishers and the audience?..
Boxing series coming next...
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From which manga of Matsumoto Jiro should i start?
I heard he's pretty weird
Hmm, maybe I remember it wrong then..
Do you know about Ahiru no Sora? I see it in your PTR list, do you still remember about it? Lol.
Speaking of Tower of God, I want to get back into it, reread the whole thing, and catch up to the latest, but has season 2 ended yet? There was news of season 2 ending, wasn't it? Like uhm, ending season 2 before SIU-sensei (LOL I forgot how to write teacher in korean due to my lack of involvement in manhwa for the past 6 months) wrist operation?
What are you up to recently? You haven't log in for more than 2 weeks already now.
I see. I wouldn't like to stop reading halfway to check the timeline though, because I just couldn't, even though I knew what's coming next, it's just that addicting. :)
P.S. I see. I noticed the cutoff, I tried to scroll the page for the rest but couldn't lol.
By the way, have you read any webtoon?
>>HnG. What I mean was the filler with Sai and Hikaru/Akira's backstory before he met Hikaru, not the Isumi one. Are those from the manga too?
Eh, I remember that Koinobori thingy, the anime flashed that thing few times on screen. ~.~ I didn't know it is the symbol for Children's day, now I know. :) That's cool trying to reconstruct the series' timeline, but how do you know the date or month in which the event took place? Was it mentioned in the series? o.O
>> But frankly speaking I'm not sure I have the qualifications to switch purely to seinen and josei.... I know that feel, it would be boring to read only seinen and josei. They all have their own cons and pros, be it seinen, shounen, josei, or shoujo, all of them offer something different, just that shounen and shoujo tend to be a little more annoying because it's aimed at younger audiences. I haven't tried those titles you mentioned yet, even though I have been wanting to, for the same reason as yours.
>>SC. I somewhat had the feel, no problem there. ^^ I have to agree with what's good about SC, except for the last sentence, to each our own. :) What do you think of SC shipping? I used to love romance in anime and always do characters shipping, and I kind of shipped Fuu and Mugen, iirc it was hinted that she had some feelings for Mugen, right? :3
I don't remember if I bawled @ the disappearance the last time I watched it, but this time, I only teared up, my eyes got wet, but the tears won't fall down until episode 70, Hikaru finally realizes that Sai who was gone, who couldn't be found no matter how hard he searched, is in his Go, then Sai's fan touched down as Hikaru places the stone on the Go board, that's when I started crying really hard, that was a really powerful but beautiful scene. The whole arc was depressing as hell, no joke. Too bad, there were some side stories in between, kinda.. spoiled the mood, bad timing from the studio/director.
I want a sequel so much after I done watching Hokuto Cup 1h special sequel!! URHGGGH!!
>>SnA. I liked the same things as you about the series, lovely jazz, especially the one during the school festival. Regarding Jun and Yurika, ugh, I still hate them. You should read the side stories, the one MAL entry with 5 chapters, they give a closure to the couples, much like an epilogue, but one or two of them feature Sentaro and his days before he entered priesthood.
>>SC. Actually I don't remember much from the series lol, I just remember how cool Mugen was. :p But anyway, Mugen and Jin balance each other out.
>>DGM. WHAT? Really? Wow, what crossed their mind when they (the animators) added the fillers. ~.~ Oh well I'll give it a try. Thanks :)
I am rewaching Hikaru no Go now, still liking most of the parts, but there was a period where I thought things were moving too slow. I am also trying to avoid the inevitable
I forgot when it happened, but.. I think my heart can take no more. ): He is lovely.
Lol well, realistically speaking, academic type of smart is different from.. uhm.. social type of smart? I don't know how to put it. I do think they have their own merit, and it's pretty enjoyable for me to watch. There is even a saying "love is blind", so no matter how smart one is, he/she would still make mistake when it concerns certain something... or something like that. Not sure if you get what I am trying to say though.
As for Sakamichi no Apollon, eh, I lose interest as I went on, not completely, but slowly. Loved the jazz in the first episode, it was sexy, but damn, the drama, especially the Jun x Yurika ship, they both annoyed me, and they sure made Yurika looking like someone who want Jun's D. "Why didn't you do anything more than just kissing me?" Eh.... Honestly I could careless about Jun's affair, it was like "eh who cares, move on please.". I would have probably come to slightly like them if their romance didn't end well (if Jun didn't grab her onto the train and bring her with him). Yurika is planning to run away with a guy she knew only for months, abandoning her parents who took care of her for 16 years, eh, example of ungrateful here. The latter half didn't have the charm of the first few episodes that captured me. Still lovin' the jazz tho. The anime didn't give much closure to KaoruxRitsuko too, I had to go and read the last few chapters of SnA, and I can't say that I liked it. Ritsuko's "moment of weakness" kinda piss me off, reminds me of Yurika's "moment of weakness". Kaoru, Ritsuko, and Sentaro are still pretty cool characters, for most of the time I did like them. I see you're a fan of the series, since you rated it a 10, and have it in your list of favorites.
By the way, totally unrelated, but Mugen > Jin, just sayin' XD
Btw2, do you think D Gray Man is worth watching if I got bored of it after 6 episodes? I last watched DGM around 5 years ago, it bored me at that time, but I did hear that the series got better around 20th episode or so.. so.. do you think it's worth picking it up again? I don't want to give up on any shounen series. ):
Actually I myself also haven't got around watching Hajime no Ippo, I got that impression from what people said. Are you referring to Chihaya when you said "dumb think-headed/insensitive"? Lol.
Well, I share the same feeling as you for Durarara, which is why to this date I still have it on hold.
Ohh, you mean Hikaru no Go? What foreshadowing? o.O
I know that feel, but I do not take it as seriously as you. An adaption, after all, cannot be truly faithful to the intent of the original manga and author. The studio is adapting the manga in the way they themselves see the series, but not necessarily the way the author imagined it.
Yes, that's the reason why I haven't started with Vagabond yet, I don't want to wait every month for a new chapter.
I don't think they share that many similar traits. Koon is more cunning and calculative kind of person, but Akira isn't that kind of person..
I understand that, but I never expected that. Separation is always sad.
I am not sure about Obata Takeshi-sensei, but Inoue Takehiko-sensei's work will probably never work well in anime form. I never read Vagabond but I saw a few pages, and man, the artwork, the anime will only be a letdown. I liked the art in Bakuman and DeathNote, they worked well in anime form in my opinion, but I guess, manga will always be better.. Oh and I also like Hikaru no Go in anime form XD Wow you have such high expectation lol.
Took you long enough. Favorite character is still Koon. :)