Cross Game © Adachi Mitsuru/Shogakukan [First serialized in Shonen Sunday]
Published in Indonesia by Elex Media Komputindo
Teh Suspense peaks—no, I'm not referring to top DO WANT! Spiral 8, though it builds to bite nail, tear hair there, too; I actually allude to Adachi Mitsuru's much-acclaimed baseball manga Cross Game, the poignant finale of which streets this Wednesday.
It's Kou's last summer in high school and with it, his final shot at making the late Wakaba's Koshien dream a reality. Kou succeeds in bringing Seishu to a showdown against Ryuou, but nine innings versus the strongest team fail to produce the northern Tokyo champion. At the top of the 10th, Azuma hits a triple, prompting Ryuou to walk Akaishi and Kou and load the bases with no outs; Seishu's last three batters come up to the plate but unable to hit, strand the runners on base.
Can Kou fulfill Wakaba's last wish? Qualification hinges on a single point. Will Koshien ultimately favor the experienced squad or will it choose the team driven by a tragedy-tinged vision?
[With additions from Wikipedia and Editions Tonkam's Cross Game 17 summaries]
The final Cross Game compiles chapters 151 to 160: He Was Crying,
I Agree,
This Isn't Fair,
Don't Forget,
Thanks,
And You?
Let's Settle This Like Men,
Let's Make It Exciting,
I Know
and More Than Anyone in the World.
(*NOT Elex's titles.)
Spiral: The Bonds of Reason 8 of 15 by Shirodaira Kyo & Mizuno Eita
Kanon captures Ayumu, taking away the Blade Children's only hope for salvation. In a face-off with Kosuke in a school corridor, Kanon shoots Ryoko point blank. This forces Kosuke—and Rio—to retreat. Still, a sliver of hope remains: Hiyono has zeroed in on Ayumu's location and despite the failure of the flanking maneuver, Rio was able to pump a tranquilizer bullet into Kanon.
Lying low to recuperate, however, doesn't preclude the assassin styling himself the Blade Children's savior from contacting a “Watcher” and demanding that all the Blade Children be herded to the third gymnasium. More ominously, Kanon demands to speak with Eyes, en route to the school with Ayumu's sister Madoka.
[With additions from Carlsen Comics' Spiral - Gefährliche Wahrheit Band 8 and Yen Press' Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning, Vol. 8 blurbs]
Spiral 8 contains chapters 37 through 40: The Game of Rat and Dragon,
The Scanner of Darkness,
Brothers
and The Choice of Life.
✿ Before moving to the Elex series premieres, lemme just commend Sanzoku Ou: King of Bandits, Sawada Hirofumi's Toppling the Kamakura shogunate saga, for its Escalating Emotional Investment achievement. As Sanzoku Ou's tankou numbering rises, so does the GET! pledge aggregate. My evidence? Volume 6 grabbed the First Runner-upship of the 11.10 sked. My suggestion if you can't wait till for moar Nagato exploits? Check out back issues of the Indonesian Shonen Magz (the series wrapped in Issue 77).
NEW ELEX MANGA: Kisah Edo di Abad 21: Chotto Edo Made by Tsuda Masami
Chotto Edo Made
© Tsuda Masami
Hakusensha [LaLa]
Published as
Kisah Edo di Abad 21
by Elex Media
From a tentative (and uninformative) title of A Little More to Edo,
Tsuda Masami's Chotto Edo Made finally makes its Indonesian debut as Kisah Edo di Abad 21 (21st Century Edo Story), the Indonesian retitling preferable to the initial English candidate for being bit more enlightening.
This is the “Edo Period,” over four hundred years after Edo traded in seclusion for openness. In this era lives Kiou, a high-ranking hatamoto or vassal of the shogunate.
Before Kiou's philandering father passes away, he tells Kiou that he has a half-sibling born from a dalliance with a tea server named Hana. Kiou dispatches his trusted confidant Masanari to look into the matter and settle things, but Masanari instead returns with Sobi, who resembles a young Kiou.
That's Soubi-kun on the cover of volume 1.
Despite the period setting and costumes, the school life romance comedy takes place in 2008 CE (unlike Watase Yuu's Appare Jipangu which is really set in Edo-jidai), the year the manga began its LaLa run. Our middle-schooler protagonists are the son of the ruling Tokugawa clan's Mito family and a daughter of an elite Tokugawa shogun,
or so sez Baka-Updates Manga in its Chotto Edo Made description.
Best known for Kare Kano: His & Her Circumstances, Tsuda Masami-sensei also created Eensy Weensy Monster. (Chotto Edo Made resembles the art-evolved latter in terms of chara design.) Both Kare Kano and EWM as well as the Castle of Dreams and The Ugly Princess: The Collections of Masami Tsuda anthologies were released in Indonesia by m&c!. So unless I'm mistaken, Chotto Edo Made represents Elex's first Tsuda Masami manga.
MANGAZINES: Nakayoshi 86 and Shonen Star 76
Nakayoshi Gress! 86/2010 and Shonen Star 76/2010 also street this Wednesday. Babble after the manga list.
Elex Media manga (2010.11.10)
Release links are hide/unhide. Click for more details and cover scans.
- BECK 24 of 34 by Harold Sakuishi
- Cross Game 17 of 17 by Adachi Mitsuru [Finale]
- Inuyasha 49 of 56 by Takahashi Rumiko
- Kariage kun 35 of 48+ by Ueda Masashi
- [Series Premiere] Kisah Edo di Abad 21: Chotto Edo Made (Chotto Edo Made) 1 of 4+ by Tsuda Masami
- Magic Peddler Roma (Mahou Gyoushounin Roma) 2 of 3+ by Kurazono Norihiko
- Sanzoku Ou: King of Bandits 6 of 13 by Sawada Hirofumi
- Spiral: The Bonds of Reason (Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna) 8 of 15 by Shirodaira Kyo & Mizuno Eita
 | Cross Game 「クロスゲーム」 by Adachi Mitsuru |
Awards
Best Shounen Manga, 54th Shogakukan Manga Awards
Other languages
English Cross Game (VIZ Media; volume 1 released 2010.10.12), French (Editions Tonkam; 17 volumes per 2010.09), Italian (Flashbook Editore; 13 volumes), Korean (Daiwon C.I. 크로스 게임 17 per 2010.08), traditional Chinese (Chingwin Taiwan) and Thai ลิขสิทธิ์ใหม่ เดือนกรกฎาคม (Vibulkij Publishing)
Adaptations
A 50-epsiode anime adaptation by Synergy SP starring seiyuu Irino Miyu (Kitamura Kou) and Tomatsu Haruka (Tsukishima Aoba) aired in Japan from April 2009 through March 2010.
 | Inuyasha 「犬夜叉」 by Takahashi Rumiko |
Serializations
Indonesian Shonen Star (ongoing)
Other languages
English Inuyasha (VIZ Media; Volume 54: United Front per 2010.11.09 • Volume 55: Power of the Jewel street date: 2010.12.14), French (Kana tome 42 ships 2010.12.03), Dutch (Kana), Spanish (Glénat Spain, Grupo Editorial Vid Mexico, LARP Editores Argentina), Italian (Star Comics), German (EMA, 56 volumes), Portuguese (Editora JBC Brazil), Swedish (Egmont Kärnan), Polish (Egmont Polska), traditional Chinese (Chingwin), Vietnamese (NXB Trẻ), Korean (Haksan)
Adaptations
Adapted into anime by Sunrise: the first season, based on volumes 1 through 36 and spanning 167 episodes, aired on Yomiuri TV from October 2000 until September 2004. The sequel, Inuyasha Kanketsu-hen, which picks up from volume 36 until series end, premiered October 2009 with seiyuu Yamaguchi Kappei, Yukino Satsuki, and Morikawa Toshiyuki reprising their roles as Inuyasha, Kagome, and Naraku. The sequel ended 2010.03.29
At least four originally-conceived anime features have also been released: Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time (2001.12), The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (2002.12), Swords of an Honorable Ruler (2003.12) and Fire on the Mystic Island (2004.12). A prequel special Inuyasha Meguri Au Mae no Unmei Koiuta aired 2004.04.19 in Japan.
 | Kariage-kun 「かりあげクン」 by Ueda Masashi |
Awards
Recipient, 28th Bungeishunjū Manga Award (1982), along with Ueda Masashi's other series Furiten-kun and Masashi-kun and Suzuki Yamato's Ai MY Tenrankai
Related series
Kariage-kun: Chinan dake no Kuchikara Otoko! Hen, Kariage-kun: Itazura Meichin Bamenhen and Kariage-kun: Makenai Onnatachihen (sequels)
 | Chotto Edo Made 「ちょっと江戸まで」 |
 | Mahou Gyoushounin Roma 「魔法行商人ロマ」 |
 | Sanzoku Ou 「山賊王」 by Sawada Hirofumi |
Serializations
Indonesian Shonen Magz (concluded)
 | Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna 「スパイラル 推理の絆」 |
Other languages
English Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning (Yen Press; volume 13 released 2010.10.26 • volume 14 street date: 2011.01.25) and German (Carlsen Comics; Spiral - Gefährliche Wahrheit Band 8 per 2010.11.26)
Related
Spiral Alive (prequel; five volumes); a series of light novels; Mizuno Eita artbooks: ＳＰＩＲＡＬ 水野英多画集; (2003.03) and ＳＰＩＲＡＬ ＡＬＬ ＡＬＯＮＧ (2006.02; released with volume 15); and the Life is Spiral 「スパイラル完全解説本 ライフ・イズ・スパ」 guide, which includes the first draft of the Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna 「それさえも貴き日々で」 drama (2003.03)
Adaptations
A series of audio dramas and a 25-episode anime adaptation by J.C. Staff, based on the first six volumes of the manga, with an alternate ending (aired on TV Tokyo from October 2002 to March 2003, starring seiyuu Suzumura Kenichi as Narumi Ayumu, Asano Masumi as Yuizaki Hiyono and Ishida Akira as Eyes Rutherford).
¹ Sources: Elex STO 10 November 2010 (release schedule) and Komikologi and/or Gramedia Shop (synopses, unless indicated otherwise)
² Manga are priced at IDR 16,500 each except Kariage kun 35 (SRP: IDR 15,000). Nakayoshi Gress! 86 and Shonen Star 76 retail for IDR 30,000/issue.
³ Links like this are commercial Amazon search and/or product links (other language versions).
Previews continued
Inuyasha 49 of 56 by Takahashi Rumiko
Inuyasha's pitched battle with Kanna ends when Inuyasha shatters the duplicated Tetsusaiga and regains his stolen power. Before she herself shatters, Kanna reveals to Kagome the ultimate weapon against Naraku. Later, a bone-chasing youkai targets Sango's boomerang, Hiraikotsu.
[With additions from Wikipedia and VIZ Media's Inuyasha Volume 49: Down to the Bone summaries]
Inuyasha 49 contains chapters:
479 Void
480 Last Words
481 Bones
482 Targeted Hiraikotsu
483 Cage of Bones
484 Youdoku
485 Yakurou Dokusen
486 Inside the Jar
487 Way to Live
488 The Answer
*NOT Shonen Star/Elex's titles
Magic Peddler Roma 2 of 3+ by Kurazono Norihiko
What is your heart's desire? To become someone else? To become invincible? To forget everything? Whatever you yearn for, a certain peddler has the magical artifact to grant your wish.
You only have to pay with your overwhelming greed. How can you lose?
Mangazines
Nakayoshi 86/2010
As I write this, still no Nakayoshi Gress! 86/2010 cover forthcoming (other than the blink and you'll miss it thumbnail from the November Komikologi), so here's a listing of the current Nakayoshi pals instead:
- Arisa by Ando Natsumi
- Counting Sheep by Moro Orie
- CHOCOLATE by Fukushima Haruka
- Little Marchen by Sakyo
- Little Shugo Chara! by PEACH-PIT
- Million Girl by Momoyuki Kotori
- Navi Runa by Kikuta Michiyo & Ikeda Miyoko
- Sweet Tamatan by Koge-Donbo
- XX Me! by Toyama Ema
Still assuming that Dua Pangeran Bintang by Hanamori Pink and New Hell Girl by Etoo Miyuki are still around, unless someone tells me otherwise.
Shonen Star 76/2010 ☆ Magical Iroha by Inoue Kazurou
Mahou no Iroha!
© Inoue Kazurou
Shogakukan
As you can see, it's the Loser Main Lead dad and the time-skipping Magic Girl daughter what's got teh Shonen Star 76/2010 cover. Inoue Kazurou's Magical Iroha keeps company with these other ShoStars:
- Defense Devil by Youn InWan & Yang KyungIl
- Detektif Conan by Aoyama Gosho
- D-LIVE!! by Minagawa Ryouji
- Dr. Koto by Yamada Takatoshi
- Inuyasha by Takahashi Rumiko (volume 49 streets the same day)
- Katsu! by Adachi Mitsuru
- Kekkaishi by Tanabe Yellow
- My First Mr. Akuno by Fujiki Syun
- Takkoku!!! by Fukuchi Tsubasa
- Wild Life by Fujisaki Masato (volume 10 scheduled for 18 November 2010)
- Yakitate!! Japan by Hashiguchi Takashi
UP NEXT: Level Comics and m&c! 10 November 2010 manga
Level Comics: Until Death Do Us Part 2 · Air Gear 16 · The Strange Florist by Yohna · Genius Family Company 4 · Team Medical Dragon 13 · Bambino! 7 · The Hunting of The Snark 2 · Show Me the Money 2 of 2 · Blade of Immortal 12 · Tomo'o 11 · Zenith 5 · 3x3 Eyes 33 · Yakari dan Si Bulu Putih
m&c!: Female Wolf's Boy 8 · Hai, Miiko! 22 · Shanimuni GO 32 of 32 · Togetherness by Wagata Konomi · Goal Den Age 1 by Takaoka Eisei & Tsunamoto Masaya · Bakugan Battle Brawlers 12 · How to make a Princess 2 of 2 · Go! Hiromi Go! 5 · Monika 136
Iamque opus exegi,
~niki DBA 30uɐlnɯɐnɥ (花木蘭03)
Mistress of Adoxography
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BECK 「ＢＥＣＫ」 by Harold Sakuishi
Kodansha Monthly Shonen Magazine, shounen
Volume 24 first published in Japan 2005.10
Awards
Best Shounen Manga, 2002 Kodansha Manga Awards (tied with Nonaka Eiji's Cromartie High School)
Serializations
Indonesian Shonen Magz (ongoing)
Other languages
English BECK:Mongolian Chop Squad (TOKYOPOP; till volume 12), French (Akata/Delcourt; tome 34 shipped 2010.03), Italian (Dynit), German (Tokyopop Germany; lapsed) and traditional Chinese (Tong Li Taiwan)
Adaptations
Anime adaptation (till manga volume 11) by Madhouse featuring seiyuu Namikawa Daisuke (Tanaka Yukio/Koyuki), Ueno Yuuma (Minami Ryuusuke) and Saiki Miho (Minami Maho). Twenty-six episodes aired from October 2004 to March 2005 on TV Tokyo.
A BECK live-action film directed by Tsutsumi Yukihiko, starring Mizushima Hiro (Ryuusuke) and Satoh Takeru (Koyuki), premiered 4 September 2010 in Japan.