Kadokawa Shoten's
Young Ace magazine (where the Evangelion manga is serialized) confirmed that
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto will resume Neon Genesis Evangelion in the April 4th issue
after his one month break from drawing the series. Sadamoto stated in a side
bar of his series that he is "working hard until the very end of the
manga... this year." Could this mean the Evangelion manga will be ending
December 2013? The only real way to know is to wait til the end of the year.
Volume 13 of the Neon Genesis Evengelion manga shipped simultaneously to Japan, the United States and other countries on November 2, 2012.
This news is a little old. On Friday Sega Japan began streaming some Vita trailers for Phantasy Star Online 2. These trailers show that the Vita version can support up to 12 players at one time for co-op play. This is pretty cool considering most PSP co-op games couldn't support more than 4:
"Sega released the game on the PS Vita in
Japan on Thursday. The software download is free, and the game is free
to play, although some in-game items have fees. There is also a Phantasy Star Online 2 Special Package sold with exclusive item codes released on the same day for 5,229 yen (about US$58).
Sega launched Phantasy Star Online 2 for Windows last summer. Sega will also release the game for iOS/Android smartphone devices, but the release has been delayed until this year to raise product quality. The game is free-to-play across all platforms."
Sad news for Fairy Tale fans, the anime adaptation has an end date of March 30th, 2013 which means at most there will be only 3 more episodes. This means the anime will "end" at 175 episodes... which is really early considering this series is pretty much Rave Master crossed with One Piece; also take into considering the manga which started in 2006 is still ongoing.
I have to wonder what this says about the state of anime these days... There has been speculation that Bleach will be ending prematuraley as well... but at this point that is still just a rumor but with Fairy Tale which is a much more meaty series ending so early who's to say other, bigger series aren't going to meet an early end as well?
Mashima posted a statement to fans on his official Twitter feed on Saturday:
"Until the time comes, I cannot say something I've always
wanted to say, even on Twitter. Please be patient and wait until the
time comes for me to announce some good news."
There's nothing super special about Inu x Boku Secret Service. It has that whole butler element mixed with almost boss falls for worker feel... but I can't really describe the series all that well as I'm currently on episode 5. Usually I give a series 5 episodes before dropping it but this one is hard to decide if I want to keep watching it or not (and I also picked back up Mirai Nikki since it is finished) so I decided might as well feature is as AOW and have it be the first one for my new image labeling lol
Type: Manga Adaptation
Genre(s): Comedy, Shounen, Supernatural
# of Episodes: 12
Synopsis:
The
Shirakiin house's daughter, Shirakiin Ririchiyo, who has a complex
about being unable to live independently and unprotected, feels the need
to move out and live on her own under the condition of residing in the
mansion named "Ayakashi Kan." In this mansion, only those who have
cleared a very strict examination could reside in it, and for each
resident, they are accompanied with one agent of the Secret Service
(S.S.). Although Riricho has rejected the company of the S.S., while
residing in the mansion she finds out that the agent dedicated to
protecting her is actually the Fox Spirit.
Hey there nettaversers! I'm going to do my utmost best to do this every month from now on. Doing manga and novel release series take a lot of work and research but I believe I have found a way to make this easier by working on this entries the month before after this March entry. The next one will actually be posted next week sometime and when I see new releases for the upcoming month I can just update the entry. Hopefully this will work much better than what I was doing before by posting during the last week of the month sometimes ending up being too late as some volumes do release earlier then the street dates. Also, I'm not going to post about every publisher as there are smaller ones... I'll do my best to get all the major ones (I will also not be posting ones that only publish one type of series. For example June who publishes yaoi comics and DokiDoki that publishes the same).
I remember getting into manga during my 7th grade year of middle school. That was roughly 10 years ago (wow! I've been a full blown otaku for a decade now) when most manga released officially in English could be put into either the "shojo" or "shonen" category. Any sub-genres were rare or hard to find in bookstores (there were a few such as SaiKano). Now a days, stuff like Flowers of Evil, Oreimo and now Sankarea are very common and almost shadow the innocent manga that filled American shelves a few years ago. This is mainly thanks to the company Vertical who has been releasing a lot of the more mature, border-lining guro series- but now it seems Kodansha (who's best known for releasing Tsubasa and XXXholic) has jumped onto the guro train with the zombie love story Sankarea!
The English release of volume one is still a few months away (June 2013) but the cover has been released to some shock. This version is much more guro than the original Japanese cover. I haven't read any of this manga yet, so I can't make a judgement call on if the American cover is more accurate to the manga than the Japanese one... but based on what the series is about maybe the new cover will help is sell since America seems to LOVE ZOMBIES?
Anyways, the first volume will be avialable in June for $10.99.
I have no real reason to feature this anime for AOW other than I've watched a few episodes and it screams "Idol M@ster x K-on!" to me which seems to be a mix that a lot of otaku like.
Type: Manga adaptation/ Original
Genre(s): Comedy, Music
# of Episodes: 13
Synopsis:
Their goal is simple: Become an overnight sensation and use their
nationwide media exposure to promote their school and bring in a wave of
new students to the ailing area. A simple but solid plan, they figure.
Naturally, they're nervous and wonder if this plan can really succeed,
but for better or worse their new journey has begun...
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