Other Manga/Anime News – #3 (2012)

Another round of anime/manga news:

1. Gintama’s anime is ending at episode 252 (next episode on monday).

2. Fairy Tail’s anime film will be called Hôô no Miko (roughly translated as Miko the Phoenix) and is set to premier on August 18th.

3. Naruto has announced another movie (not Blood Prison, we’re just waiting for it to be subbed) called Road to Ninja.  Masashi Kishimoto will be in charge of the story and the character design. Out July 28th 2012.

4. A new manga by the name of Senyu, will start it’s serialisation in Jump SQ on May 4th.

5. Nisekoi’s 1st manga volume (tankobon) is to be released on May 2nd.

6. Bloody Monday – Last Season is set to finish on March 28th; having been compiled into 3 volumes already, the latest chapters will presumably be collected into a f4th volume and thus bringing the entire Bloody Monday manga series (Bloody Monday, Season 2 and Last Season) to a close with a total of 23 volumes.

 

All credit goes to the twitter page Manga-news Japon (https://twitter.com/#!/manganewsjapon) for providing me with updates and pictures as soon as they are available and making me practice my French reading skills – yes the twitter updates are all in French.

Weekly Shonen Jump – Update # 2 2012

Ok, so this past few weeks Jump has seen a range of changes, from introducing new series to putting more emphasis on new ones and to cancelling (maybe more than one) series.  Also since there is some relevant news regarding anime based on manga running in jump, I’ll add some information on that as well.

So here’s the break-down of Jump from my point of view on the 13th of March 2012:

And Now For Some Romance – WSJ's Nisekoi

I happened to stumble upon this when I had just finished reading a chapter of Bakuman a week or so ago.  So this is a new piece that started in WSJ this month and had originally ran as a one-shot.  The author is Naoshi Komi of “Double Arts” fame, so for all of you obscure manga fans familiar with his work this next piece should be right up your alley.

So a romance manga eh? Well….. it’s a bit more than that!