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[Sukamoka Vol. 4] Chapter 2 Part 5: The Pair in the Darkness

Incidentally, there was a certain man at that place. His name was Margomedari Brompton, and he claimed to be the scum of the earth. Regul Aire was inhabited by people of different races. Despite there being conflict among them, most did not confine themselves to homogeneous communities. Instead, they blended into  cultural melting pot to form cities and villages. Nevertheless, there were some…

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Sukamoka 2 & 3 Reviews

Author: Akira Kareno

Illustrator: Ue

Label: Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko

Release Dates: 2: 1 July 2016 & 3: 1 December 2016

I really didn’t have much to say about these two volumes so I’m merging them into one post.

When I started this series, I praised the first volume for having an interesting setting and concepts and executing them in an unusual way but, since then, I’ve had trouble describing my dissatisfaction with this series and I think it comes down to this: Sukasuka is simply interested in telling a story that I’m simply not interested in reading. The interesting setting and concepts are still there but they’re just not explored in a way that I want them to which makes it incredibly frustrating. Probably the easiest example of this is with Ctholly and her desire for adulthood. I find that to be a very interesting part of her character but it’s barely explore and instead her character ends up only existing to support Willem’s story. Unfortunately, none of this has really changed in Sukamoka. The story still focuses on the protagonist almost exclusively and the other characters are merely there to support his story. Every once a while something really interesting will happen that doesn’t involve Theodore but it ends up focusing on his reaction to the events. Furthermore, a lot of the ideas in Sukamoka are ones that were in Sukasuka. And I’m not even going to get into how a lot of female characters are fridged for the sake of male protagonists or how the series constantly emphasizes romantic relationships over platonic ones.

When it comes down to it, I prefer character-focused series to story-focused ones and the characters in Sukasuka are not particularly complex, interesting or explored very well so I’ll be dropping it for now. I was kind of interested in Margo but I don’t she’s enough to justify buying more of a series that I’m clearly not enjoying. I may give Akira Kareno another go if they start a new series but I’m done with this one. I can see why people enjoy it but it’s just not for me.

Next up will be Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut 5

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Great Stag Shooter Man the real MVP of 'Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desu ka?'

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Review of the light novel WorldEnd What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us? Volume 2 by Akira Kareno Review is of the official English release of the light novel by Yen On.

📔LIGHT NOVEL INFORMATION TITLE: WorldEnd What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us? AKA: Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasuka? Isogashii desuka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desuka?, Sukasuka, 終末なにしてますか? 忙しいですか? 救ってもらっていいですか? AUTHOR: Akira Kareno ILLUSTRATOR: ue PUBLISHER (English): Yen On RELEASE DATE (English): November 13, 2018 PURCHASE (Amazon.com): https://amzn.to/2TMZztE PURCHASE (Book Depository): http://bit.ly/2Pxr1Ng

PUBLISHER (Japan): Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko RELEASE DATE (Japan): January 1, 2015 VOLUMES RELEASED (Japan to Date): 5 Volumes + 1 Side Story Volume (Complete. Sequel series is Sukamoka) ANIME SERIES: 12 episodes. Adapted volumes 1-3

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Comparing the 4 kids from Sukasuka -> Sukamoka

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WorldEnd was a really good series, god dammit

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Anime NYC, Day Two

Day 2! Though first, I missed an announcement from Day 1: Mangagamer has finished Golden Fantasia Cross, and it will be out in December. This is an Umineko fighting game with what I believe is a significant amount of plot thrown in, and it even has a slightly different ending from the visual novel. The bad news is it’s a fighting game, which means you need a certain level of skill. We’ll see how far I advance.

Day 2 began for me with the Kodansha Comics panel, featuring the audible and personable Ben Applegate and the inaudible and thus anonymous narrator, who really needs to learn to project to the back of the house. In terms of new new titles, there was one print and a pile of digital.

The print title is Golosseum, apparently spelled with the G. It’s from the author of the long and never licensed Karate Fighter Minoru manga, and runs in Kodansha’s Nemesis magazine. It’s apparently a political martial arts title, and reminded me a lot of The Legend of Koizumi – real life political figures caricatured for fun. So we have Rasputin (Russia’s greatest love machine), Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton, etc. It looks like a lot of fun.

Digital debuts, arriving as soon as next week. Lovesick Ellie is a Dessert title about a girl who likes to tweet about a made-up boyfriend. That won’t end well. My Brother Is a Shut-In is from Morning Two, something I always approve of. It seems to be about a girl whose brother, as you may have guessed, is a shut-in, but that may change soon.

Pitch-Black Ten is from Shonen Magazine R, and looks like an action fantasy; the author also did Buster Keel!. Drifting Dragons is from good! Afternoon, and seems to be the Dragon equivalent of Delicious in Dungeon – we hope you enjoy eating dragons.

Living-Room Matsunaga-san is also a Dessert title, and seems to involve a younger girl moving into a boarding house her uncle runs and meeting the college-aged residents. Lastly, we have The Prince’s Black Poison, a Betsufure title about a girl who’s taken care of her “helpless” childhood friend, but when she tries to do things away from him, he reveals himself to be far more manipulative than she guessed.

They also discussed the upcoming print release of Tokyo Tarareba Girls, as well as Sailor Moon Eternal, a re-release which looks fantastic. Lots of things coming from Kodansha, who are still putting out more digital than you can possibly keep up with.

The next panel was Yen Press, and they too had a pile of stuff to announce. They also had someone translating in sign language, which was very cool. They showed off the Pandora Box, which is one of the most impressive box sets I have ever seen. It’s simply breathtaking. And then new announcements, including one I’ve been waiting on for about a year…

Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online will have the light novels out next year. These are by the Kino’s Journey author, and do not have Kirito or the main cast in them. I reviewed the first manga recently… dammit, that means my URL will have a (2) again. I hate that.

Other light novels announcements are Defeating the Demon Lord Is a Cinch (If You Have a Ringer), which I think may be a Fantasia Bunko series and is very much in the ‘fantasy world, kill monsters’ sort of genre. The best thing about it is that the artist is named ‘bob’. We also have the much-anticipated SukaMoka series, aka (deep breath) World End: What Will You Do At the End of the World? Will You Save Us?. This is apparently an emotional tearjerker of a series, and it already has a sequel in Japan.

A big surprise (to the panelists as well – apparently the license was finalized this morning) was Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile, the first in a series of Final Fantasy novels. It’s actually a short story book that has various stories taking place around the time of VII and Advent Children.

On the manga front, we see The Strange Creature at Kuroyuri Apartments, a Young Gangan title about a demon summoner’s young daughter who is ordered to entertain the landlord of an apartment complex. Tsuno no Gakuen is about boys with horns on their heads who can do magic, and our hero is self-conscious his horns are too small. Which is not a metaphor for anything, I’m sure. It runs in Young Ace Up!.

Catterpillar Girl and Bad Texter Boy is a done-in-one title from Gene Pixiv. A fantastic girl is rejected by the boy she loves, and hen vanishes… only to return as a caterpillar! It looks really cute. Teasing Master Tagaki-san was a series I’d heard of before, and I highly approve of its license. A boy is determined to tease the girl he’s friends with… but this is easier said than done, as he’s easily teased and she loves to tease him. It runs in Shogakukan’s Gessan.

Shibuya Goldfish is a horror title from Gangan Joker, and is soooooooo not my thing, but horror fans should like it. Fruits Basket Another is also licensed, and will be three volumes total. I… have mixed feelings about this, but we’ll talk about that when it comes out. There’s also a Little Witch Academia manga coming out in their new JY line for younger readers. It looks really cute and fun.

After this, I ate lunch and wandered around a bit. My final panel of the day was a panel on Japanese feminism, run by Anne Lee, who runs the shojopower.com website. Her goal was to show us that yes, Japanese feminism does, and did, actually exist, and I think she did a good job. She focused on four different women who made their presence known.

Raichi Hiratsuka was described as sort of the Japanese Susan B. Anthony. She started a highly influential (and controversial) literary magazine in 1911 called Saito (Bluestocking), which featured essays, poetry and short stories about “the new women”. The authors were known to (gasp!) smoke and drink, so it was not well liked by men of the time. She then tried to help get women the vote, which came close to happening in 1921, but one comment by an influential guy killed it, and she went into seclusion due to this.

Then along came Beate Sirota Gordon, an Austrian woman who grew up in Japan, went to an American college right around the time of WWII, and then got a job with the US government so she could return to Japan and find her parents. She ended up helping to rewrite the Japanese constitution… which was controversial enough, as the Americans were “helping” them write it the way that they wanted.

She researched the hell out of this, though, impressing the Americans, and added a lot of things that gave women more rights. A lot of them were cut, but some weren’t, and the Constitution passed despite the vehement objections of Japanese men. As for Raichi, she was shocked and conflicted – having this granted to her by Americans rather than fought for and won in a political victory seemed a bit hollow.

We also discussed Machiko Hasegawa, creator of Sazae-san, possibly the most famous Japanese manga ever – at least in Japan. The manga ran from 1946-1974. The anime began in 1969 and is still running, meaning it crushes the Simpsons record. Sazae-san was pretty slice of life comic strip gags, but as the series went on Sazae-san herself got involved in feminism, and the strips sometimes delved into that.

Lastly we discussed Rokudenashiko and her vagina kayak, which I was already very familiar with, as I’d seen the author’s panel at TCAF and reviewed her book here. It got into a discussion about how Japan is OK with penis festivals but gets upset with vaginas, whether this was politically motivated (she has a friend who was criticizing the government), and how the vagueness of the obscenity laws may not have helped. It was a well-researched and enjoyable panel.

And that was all I had on tap for today. I wanted to see the Fate/GO panel, but that looked to be difficult to get into. Tomorrow I only have one panel, which is Vertical. I therefore plan to take a look at Artist’s Alley in the morning, hit up the panel, and then head home. This was a great second day of the con.

By: Sean Gaffney

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>Cover for SukaMoka Vol. 5. >The LN will be released on October 1. *Full title: "Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasuka? Mou Ichido Dake, Aemasuka?" *This is Spin-off, or you can call it Gaiden / After Story from 'SukaSuka' light novel series. -Gin                

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First 'SukaSuka' Anime Key Visual Finally Debuts

First 'SukaSuka' Anime Key Visual Finally Debuts

The anime adaptation of the light novel series Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desu ka?, aka SukaSuka, was given the green light for an anime adaptation back in June but it’s been a slow reveal with the details. The show has been scheduled for an April 11th, 2017 debut and the first anime key visual has now surfaced below to give us a feel for how the illustrations are going to be translated into anime form.

Junichi Wada will be directing the project based on the series composition by Akira Kareno. Toru Imanshi is handling the character designs and serving as the chief animation director with it being produced at C2C and Satelight.

The Japanese cast includes Azusa Tadokoro as Kutori Nota Seniolis, Ryohei Arai as Willem Kumesh, Akane Kohinata as Armita, Akari Uehara as Neflen Luku Insania, Hina Kino as Coron, Honoka Inoue as Firacolribia Drio, Inori Minase as Nofuto Kay Desperatio, Juurouta Kosugi as Limeskin, Kazusa Aranami as Larntolk Itsuri Historia, Kikuko Inoue as Niglart, Machico as Icea Mize Valgalis, Manaka Ishimi as Lakish, Mugihito as Swon Kandel, Rina Satou as Lila Aspray, Satomi Satou as Armania Dufna, Shigeru Chiba as Glick Gleicluck, Tomomi Mizuma as Tiat and Yurika Kubo as Panibal.

The work comes from writer Akira Kareno with the prequel series having delivered five volumes between 2014 and 2016. The new series released its first volume this past April and there’s also a manga adaptation out there by Kaname Seu.

Though we’ll all probably just call it SukaSuka, the title for the original series translates as Do you have what THE END? Are you busy? Shall you save xxx?.

Plot concept: Five hundred years have passed since humanity went extinct at the hands of the fearsome “beasts.” Even up in the sky, where the surviving races dwell on floating islands, these monstrosities constantly threaten to bring death and destruction. Only a small group of young girls, the Leprechauns, can wield the ancient weapons needed to defeat these creatures. Into the girls’ unstable and fleeting lives, where a call to certain death could come at any moment, enters an unlikely character: a young man who lost everything five hundred years ago, the last living human awakened from a long, icy slumber.

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[Sukamoka Vol. 4] Chapter 3 Part 3: The Woman Named Odette Gundakar

They were led to the back entrance of a large mansion along the river. The door was a bit small for Margomedari, but he could still manage after bending down and hunching his shoulders slightly. “Excuse me…” Following the girl who led them there, they passed through what seemed to be the kitchen, into the living room. Continue reading Untitled

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[Sukamoka Vol. 4] Chapter 3 Part 2: A Running Boy, A Chasing Girl

“You sure you don’t want me to erase them? Don’t worry, I won’t leave any evidence behind.” “Don’t.” We’ve repeated this conversation many times over. Chased for so long, running for our lives. We were even shot at (though none of them hit). Then, just as we were about to get cornered at a dead end, we were saved by an Orc merchant who heard about us from Giggir. Continue reading Untitled

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[Sukamoka Vol. 4] Chapter 3 Part 1: Fugitives

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[Sukamoka Vol. 4] Chapter 2 Part 6: The Winged Guard’s 1st Division

Margomedari Brompton. A Kikuroppe doctor and researcher. Versed in numerous subjects from medicine, linguistics, astronomy, physics, engineering, history, economics, business administration, to mystic studies… He had enrolled in and graduated from college repeatedly over the past decades, and was an accomplished individual overall. The Kikuroppes were a relatively long-lived race, and it wasn’t…

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[Sukamoka Vol. 4] Chapter 2 Part 4: The Young Man in a Black Suit

Collinadiluche. The ancient capital was the jewel of the 11th Floating Island, and boasted one of the richest histories in the entirety of Regul Aire. Many a poet had dedicated odes to its beauty, splendor, and glory, and as many playwrights had also chosen its streets as a stage to portray tales of romance, comedy and tragedy. Continue reading Untitled

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[Sukamoka Vol. 3] Chapter 5: Lost Kitten

[Sukamoka Vol. 3] Chapter 5: Lost Kitten

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[Sukamoka Vol. 3] Chapter 2 Part 4: Glimmering Eyes

[Sukamoka Vol. 3] Chapter 2 Part 4: Glimmering Eyes

What was Feodor Jessman’s plan?

While it was fundamentally very different, in truth it had a great deal in common with the plan attempted by the Elpis National Defense Force – the organization Feodor’s older brother-in-law once led – five years ago.

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