Sunday is the magazine heard 'round the world!
On the cover this week is one Kanna Hashimoto who's starring in the LA adaption of "Kyou Kara Ore wa!!" by Hiroyuki Nishimori --yes, the same guy who recently finished a series --Hiiragi-sama jibun wo sagashiteru". Though I feel like more people would know Hashimoto as another Shounen heroine --Kagura from Gintama! Though I'm sure Shougakukan isn't going to make any mention of that for obvious reasons.
Okachi for analysis and here for talkback! What's the question for our favorite artists this week? No worries, I'm no tease --the question comes from Tokyo "October 10th is Canned food day! What are your favorite canned foods?"
I'll try a little something different and list the series title and author name so it's less confusing.
Uruwashii no Sekai Arisugawa (Nobuyuki Anzai): It's been a while since I was published in "Weekly Shounen Sunday", and it fills me with emotion. Thank you for having me.
Souboutei Kowasubeshi (Kazuhiro Fujita): Hotei's Grilled Chicken, and salted oil sardines are delicious!! (Note: Hotei is a canned food brand.)
switch (Atsushi Namikiri): Canned tuna in oil.
Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time (Takahairo Arai): The thing that comes to mind for me is canned peaches and canned mackerel.
Gofun go no Sekai (Hiroshi Fukuda): Definetly "Canned Pike Mackerel"! Canned Peaches are great too!
Kimi wa 008: (Syun Matsuena): Canned Tangerines are a delicacy.
Maiko-san chi no Makanai-san (Aiko Koyama): Tangerines.
Tantei Xeno to Nanatsu no Satsujin Misshitsu (Teppei Sugiyama): Tuna and whole Tomatoes.
Be Blues! (Motoyuki Tanaka): Fruits.
Maoujo de Oyasumi by Kagiji Kumanomata: Pineapples........!!!!!
Amano Megumi wa Suki Darake! (Nekoguchi): Just now I ate "Salted Curry" and it tasted crazy good.
Hatsukoi Zombie (Ryou Minenami) Canned Peaches.
Hoankan Evans no Uso ~Dead or Love~ (Mizuki Kuriyama): When I was asked this question I hadn't eaten anything. I'll have to decide on something after this, huh?
Komi-san wa Komyusho-desu (Tomohito Oda): Hagoromo's Large canned Tuna with flakes!
(TN- Hagoromo is another canned food brand.)
Tonikaku Cawaii (Kenjiro Hata): For some reason whenever I see canned Condensed milk I get really excited.
Major 2nd (Takuya Mitsuda): The only choice is Canned Tuna. I don't know anything about this fascination with canned mackerel.
Memesis (Takuya Yagyuu): Mackerel with soy sauce and a bit of hawk's claw in it is the best! I'm drooling just thinking about it! (TN- Hawk's claw is a really spicy chill pepper or green tea...not sure which one he's talking about here.)
Saike Matashitemo (Tsubasa Fukuchi): I'm one who prefers canned fruits and veggies --I love stuff like Peaches and Tangerines.
Zettai Karen Children (Takashi Shiina): Canned Green Curry.
Daiiku No Hato (Michiteru Kusaba) Pike Mackerel broiled in soy sauce.
Marry Grave (Hidenori Yamaji): Canned Kyoro-chans (TN- This is a type of candy in a can that is based on a popular anime bird named Kyoro-chan.)
Sokyuu no Ariadne (Norihiro Yagi): As long as I have canned Tuna then I've got all the meals I need!
Aozakura Bouei Daigakkou Monogatari (Hikaru Nikaido): Hotei's canned foods are my favorites. Though my preference on which one depends on my environment.
Youkai Giga (Satsuki Satou): I'd like to request a revival of Awohata's Tokaichi Corn, please.
(TN- You guessed it, another brand --but their canned corn is now defunct.)
Tokaichi Hitoribocchi Nouen (Yuuji Yokoyama): Mackerel in soy sauce is the best!!
Not surprisingly a lot of folks love their seafood. I'm not the biggest fan myself, but I did like some of the seafood I had while in Japan a few years back. Ahh how I'd like to go back.
So as I mentioned earlier, Kanna Hashimoto is featured as the Sunday gal of the week because she's starring in the adaption of a Sunday manga that ran a while back. She was born February 3rd 1999 in Fukuouka, and is about 4'9. (Wow, she's tiny --a joke that was made in Gintama a few times.) If you're interested in watching "Kyou kara Ore wa!!" then it'll start October 14th! For more on that, just read on below!
It's an interesting line up for the Sunday on TV section of the magazine --We've got one rerun, Conan, Karakuri Circus and the live action Kyou Kara Ore wa. To give a brief rundown of the latter --two guys Takashi Mitsuhashi and Shinji Ito meet each other and realize they're transferring to new schools and decide from that day on that they'll be the biggest delinquents in Japan. That actually sounds like it could be a lot of fun, really. Might have to see if I can read the manga for "research". Also pictured above, is the reveal of Karakuri Circus's ending song "Marionette" by Lozareena. The singer says she based the song around the character Shirogane, so it's gonna be approps if anything. Karakuri will air on the 11th so look forward to it!
On that note Fujita fans rejoice! There will be an art exhibit featuring all of his works opening in Japan from November 12th to the 20th! It kills me since this is around my birthday and I can't go! Not only that I've just now realized the greatness of Fujita but I can't even see his artwork live, it's enough to make a blogger cry. If you happen to be in Japan and don't mind snapping a picture or three I'd be deeply grateful! Look at that lineup of classic Fujita character designs!
As if the Fujita artwork wasn't dense enough this week, we get a color page for Souboutei celebrating the beginning of the Karakuri Circus anime and the Fujita exhibit. Not only that but the series heating up as current events march on. Of course, if you want to hear more about that you'll have to wait until the editorial is out! Though you have a color page to ogle for a bit at least --you're welcome.
I haven't forgotten what I said about Zero, but this spread was too pretty to pass up --not to mention it's almost plot relevant considering what we learned in the last issue that Conan ran in. We have Zero and Scotch hanging out together as kids --though obviously with Aoyama taking an active role in the creation of this manga, it's probably not surprising that elements from canon are finding their way into this spinoff. That being said, there's still a whole lot of not much happening in the series and it's still tough to talk about here. At least we're getting two chapters next week? Though is that going to be twice the not much happening or....
Maybe it's the fact that I'm writing when hungry A cardinal sin or it's just because I've missed the Geisha of Maiko-san that I decided to cover it today. This week's delicacy is as simple and straightforward as it gets --Fries! Sometimes one just gets a hankering for these snacks in the middle of the night, and that's really what this chapter is about. It's a simple idea and conveyed so well --to be able to eat what you want when you want to is a freedom we take for granted don'tcha think? It's great that the geisha have a cook like Kiyo to hit that sweet spot though.
Nobuyuki Anzai returning to the weekly mag is a big deal if you're one of those real Sunday fans unlike me who have followed the magazine in the 90's and earlier. He's behind two of the bigger hits in Sunday history namely Flame of Recca and MAR. He sorta fell off the face of the Shougakukan based earth after the second series with some rather odd circumstances --just a message saying he's a failure and that's it. MAR also abruptly ended in Weekly Shounen Sunday with only 15 volumes at the height of it's popularity. For a while Anzai went to another publisher and worked on essay manga, but I guess someone at Shougakukan managed to convince him to come back in Sunday Super for this series --Uruwa no Sekai Arisugawa which translates to "Arisugawa's beautiful world" or "The Beautiful world of Arisugawa". Mostly it's a love letter to Anzai's glory days artwise as if you look back at MAR or Recca it's almost as if not a thing has changed --it's kind of charming really.
But you're here to find out what this series is about, right? Yes, let's get on with that. Arisugawa is a young maiden with a particular problem --she hates men. Loathes them. Goes as far as hunting them down (though she wouldn't call it that.) because her family is filled with (admittedly vulgar and uncouth) men. She's explaining her foibles to her friends when a guy uses her head as a footstool and runs off without an apology --so of course she chases him down and after cornering him falls into a pit and apparently dies?? While this is going on, the man is trying to make a wish for something of his own. Still after only living sixteen years Arisugawa's life seems over far too soon.
Except she doesn't die --but she's sure not in Kans--er, Kanagawa? (That's not actually where she lives but let me have my bad joke, okay?) anymore. Not only that but Arisugawa has a new body-part that she didn't have when she left home as seen above. Yup, she's now a he, and isn't too happy about this sudden change. Even Anzai's narratives are kind of dated in a sense --though I don't mean this as an insult, not at all. They say style circles around so what was popular once will be once again, and I kind of miss this kind of quirky storytelling that was popular in the nineties? It really does suit Anzai's old school artwork too --of being cartoony most times but detailed when the time comes for it as seen above when Arisugawa begs God to tell her that this is all a dream.
After meeting and defeating one of the denizens of this world, Arisugawa is taken to a place where Ninja are raised. I can already see the misunderstandings beginning with the dude above as he finds Arisugawa's crying to be cute, but has to remind himself that she's a guy, even though she isn't a guy, and...yeah. Still when arriving at the ninja manor, the guy seems to be quite acquainted with the person they find there --and so are we! This fellow --Kuro is the one who used her as a footstool and kicked off (see what I did there) these series of unfortunate events int he first place! Though, what is he doing here and what was he doing there?
Luckily we don't have to wait too long for the follow up to events as chapter two is included with the first. To sum things up though, Kuro explains that he was born with a rather unmanly physique and had wanted to make a wish to be a burlier, tougher, bigger sorta guy but for whatever reason that wish came true --but on Arisugawa's body for reasons even he doesn't fully understand, and there's no way at least for now to get Arisugawa back home. Kuro offers to allow her to stay at the manor but there's a catch --women aren't allowed here! Though with Arisugawa's current body there's not much of a problem there, really. As much as it seems like Kuro's sorry for what he did, the truth of the matter is he really just wants to use Arisugawa as a toy of sorts (if that last page didn't make his intentions very clear.) And so begins their very complicated life in ninjadom. The last few series that Anzai did had some kind of action element in them so I don't think this one would be different, but I suppose it's not out of the realm of possiblity that Anzai would want to challenge himself with a new genre. If you want to see more you'll have to either pick up a copy of Sunday Super or the first volume which should be out in stores this month! Personally speaking I'm curious enough to want to see how this'll go, but not quite enough to put it as a "high priority buy". Rather I'd be more likely to pick up Flame of Recca to read it properly. Still this does show some promise and I've always enjoyed Anzai's artwork so I might swing back around at some point. It is a shame that we're not getting this in weekly Sunday so we'd have Aoyama, Anzai, and Takahashi together (You know Takahashi is coming back sooner or later), but the current lineup is pretty good so I can't complain much.
Been a while since I've dipped my toes in Daiku, but with this being the finale of the current arc (worthy of 22 pages even!) I felt like I should at least talk about the series that keeps on ticking even though it's taking a lickin' in sales. Even with this "finale" of sorts, it feels like the series is still got quite a bit of life in it. The chapter itself is the results of a cooking contest between the classes for a festival, and Minato's group was the one who took the lead, and while everyone is celebrating, there's one classmate that can't acknowledge these results. To paraphrase the reason why they did so well with the results, essentially the kamaboko that they served up had just the right ingredients used and research put in by the team that it caught the proctor's attention. The series seems to be embracing the preparation of fish as food moreso than before where it was about the study of fish, which is...intriguing to say the least. I don't really have a meaningful comment on this change other than it at least came naturally and isn't one that suddenly happened out of the blue since it has been hinted at for a while, but unlike other series where it was clearly an effort to catch an audience, I can only figure with this that Kusaba's interest lies here along with the Shougakukan editorial department since they keep the series going against all odds. My thought is that once we get new serials this will change, however....
That's it for issue #47's features! Next week features quite a bit --Ariadne gets a color page, Zero takes the cover, we're getting two manga from Mayuko Kanbo (author of Hanzawa-san) to celebrate the works reaching the third place of the Manga NEXT list, as well as the beginning of Masaya Jiki's five chapter short serial "Edelweiss and Dialog". Jiki did two one-shots in the past (of which I talked about here if you want a rehash. Of course I'll be talking about all of this so be sure to be there!
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