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NEWS: Masami Kurumada's Otoko-Zaka Manga Ends in 5 Chapters




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XCalliope



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 4:58 pm Reply with quote
Perfect time for anime announcement.
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Lord Geo



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 5:37 pm Reply with quote
XCalliope wrote:
Perfect time for anime announcement.


I would love to see Otoko Zaka get animated, as out of time as it would feel in today's market, I just don't see it happening. While Masami Kurumada will be celebrating his 50th Anniversary next year, I fully expect Toei to announce some sort of new Saint Seiya anime production to celebrate, maybe even the long-awaited Next Dimension anime (since Kurumada will be finishing that up following Otoko Zaka's finale), so unless Kurumada himself pushes for something else to (also) get animated I think it'll all be Seiya for 2024. Maybe Otoko Zaka can at least a pachislot machine with original animation...

Anyway, Otoko Zaka is truly an interesting scenario in manga, as so few mangaka ever get (or take) the chance to return to a failed series & finish it up, and even though it took ~30 years to happen, I think it's really cool to see Kurumada finally finish the manga that he had always wanted to make. While it's not quite on the level of his best works (Ring ni Kakero, Saint Seiya, B't X), I really enjoyed what I have read of Otoko Zaka so far (Volumes 1-6, i.e. the original Shonen Jump run & the Weekly PlayNews run), and I think the long gap between Volumes 3 & 4 actually worked in the manga's favor, as the Weekly PlayNews run was able to kind of directly address the style Kurumada gave the original Jump run, while still staying accurate to what he had set up back in the mid-80s, and it definitely has a unique feel to it, compared to his other series.
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Shay Guy



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 8:49 pm Reply with quote
Lord Geo wrote:
Anyway, Otoko Zaka is truly an interesting scenario in manga, as so few mangaka ever get (or take) the chance to return to a failed series & finish it up, and even though it took ~30 years to happen, I think it's really cool to see Kurumada finally finish the manga that he had always wanted to make. While it's not quite on the level of his best works (Ring ni Kakero, Saint Seiya, B't X), I really enjoyed what I have read of Otoko Zaka so far (Volumes 1-6, i.e. the original Shonen Jump run & the Weekly PlayNews run), and I think the long gap between Volumes 3 & 4 actually worked in the manga's favor, as the Weekly PlayNews run was able to kind of directly address the style Kurumada gave the original Jump run, while still staying accurate to what he had set up back in the mid-80s, and it definitely has a unique feel to it, compared to his other series.


I finally finished reading Seiya recently, and I've been reading Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho (Otoko-Zaka's chief inspiration, for any of the rest of you who don't know) as scanlations come out. I'm not too interested in reading B't X or Fuuma no Kojirou, but it'd be pretty neat to read through Kurumada's true love -- if shonen manga's taught anything, it's that someone who doesn't give up on their dreams for 40 years or more deserves to be rewarded for it. (I've also thought about reading Ring ni Kakero to see the beginnings of battle manga as we know it, but those first chapters are kinda rough.)
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