A love that began with the most “Evil” encounter, To the Best Ending...!
S8 Final Chapter "Forever a Family"
October 2023~January 2024
Continuous delivery!
Thank you very much for your continued support of "Kissed by the Baddest Bidder'' The love affair with the bad guys that started in 2013 will finally come to an end.
[Final edition distribution schedule]
October: Ota Kisaki
November: Mamoru Kishi
December: Soryu Oh
January (2024): Eisuke Ichinomiya
The reason why this title has continued to be loved for 10 years is because of everyone's warm support. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the management.
To express our gratitude to everyone who has supported us so far, we are planning an event in which all characters will participate, so we will let you know as soon as the details are decided.
It started with the most “Bad” encounter.
I hope you will watch this fateful love story with a bad man until the end.
The series that has been occupying my mind lately is Sing! Great Dragon Palace (うたう!大龍宮城) .
This is a late stage iteration of the Toei Mysterious Comedy Series (東映不思議コメディーシリーズ), a programming block that is best remembered by Magical Girl fans for for La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine (美少女仮面ポワトリン).
It ran for most of 1992, which puts it slightly over the line into the early Heisei (平成) period of Japanese period, just slightly off the core topic of this blog.
But there are two things that make it interesting to me. The first is that it's a live-action musical, which is genuinely pretty unique.
The second is the way it connects back to Japanese literary history. It's heavily patterened after the Urashima Taro (浦島太郎) story, which goes all the way back to the Nihon Shoki (日本書紀), the second oldest book of Japanese history.
I have generally considered three Japanese folktales to be the most important predecessors for Magical Girls -- the story of Amaterasu (天照大御神), The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (竹取物語), and Urashima Taro (浦島 太郎).