(L) Tsukiyomi/Tsukuyomi ~Moon Phase~ Manga?

[Tsubomi Koneko]

I saw some people discussing a manga version of this in the thread about the anime. Does anyone know if there's scanlations or anything of it on the net? I can't even find mention of it on Google besides on the actual website of the magazine it's published in.

And sorry if I'm like not allowed to do this. I saw other people with similiar threads that weren't being yelled at so... *shrugs*

[RecklessFire]

http://www.akatsukimanga.com

they've got "moon phase" chapter 1 for download. whether or not it's the same thing, I don't know.

[sarcasteak]

Try searching for:

Arima Keitaro - Moon Phase
有馬啟太郎 - 月詠

I've downloaded Chinese scans up to volume 7 a while ago so I don't know what chapter it's up to now...

[Shii]

Originally Posted by RecklessFire

http://www.akatsukimanga.com

they've got "moon phase" chapter 1 for download. whether or not it's the same thing, I don't know.

Yeah, it is, the guy who translates that posts in ADTRW and he's said he was going to do Tsukuyomi

[tanuki]

Originally Posted by RecklessFire

http://www.akatsukimanga.com

they've got "moon phase" chapter 1 for download. whether or not it's the same thing, I don't know.

It's the same thing. First chapter doesn't quite go as far into the story as the first anime episode. Check out page 20-21, Vigo is shown beside 'The Master' of the castle opposite Luna (and Vigo looks -really- short by comparison).

[TronDD]

I think the anime started off better. It looks more interesting than the manga. Have to give the manga a few chapters to really be fair, though.

[Ialdaboth]

Originally Posted by www.akatsukimanga.com

It's here! Read it now or Hazuki will cry.

lol.

Soooo... what are we waiting for to read it ?
I don't wish to make poor little Hazuki/Haduki cry...

[Takeru]

I have the US version, it's owned by TokyoPop. It's also pretty good if I do say so myself...

[Guido]

How many volumes have been released so far?

and when will the next one be released?

[Shii]

Originally Posted by Guido

How many volumes have been released so far?

and when will the next one be released?

Educate thyself.

[Guido]

I should had specified how many volumes have been released in Japan?

and when will the next one is going to be released in Japan?

[Ialdaboth]

Volume 10 was released last july according to Amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4847035097

Volumes are released each 6 months or so.

[Vexx]

Just to clarify: Tokyopop has released an English version of Tsukuyomi Moon Phase ... volume 1 came out in December. Check out the Tokyopop site or Barnes&Noble

The Japanese version comes out every 3-6 months or so... kind of hard to keep track of... I have 1-10 in JP ... and no. 1 in english. I usually keep an eye on Wani Books and amazon.co.jp ... sometimes nippon-exports.com.

Which reminds me I need to send out a probe for Moon Phase and Mahoraba this weekend..... its been about 4 months since the latter's last release.

[AtmaWeapon]

I loved the anime, and just recently decided to collect the manga. Where i am(Canada) the 1st volume is available, the 2nd very soon. I thought there were only 3 books in this series? I'm confused. Sorry, i read through this thread, but it wasn't absolutely clear to me what the situation is. It's just that i was totally convinced that there was only 3 books.

I leafed through the manga, and decided that it was pretty parallel to the anime. Kouhei does not look the same in the manga as he dos in the anime. There also appears to be some fanservice in the manga that was absent in the anime^^

[Vexx]

yeah.. people should realize the anime has a different emphasis than the manga. The anime focused on the goofiness of it all weaved into the tragedy and romance.

The manga focuses more on Kouhei's mixed feelings about being so attached to a young teen like Hazuki. He thinks he should wait til she's older to become romantic but these visions of "being with her" keep torturing him. In addition, the manga gets really, freaking dark --- especially with Kouhei's "fiancee". The japanese manga is still in progress (volume 10) and has diverged substantially from the anime at this point (but not in spirit).
The character design is a bit different but not substantially. I'm interested in seeing how Tokyopop handles the translations.

[Guido]

Originally Posted by Vexx

yeah.. people should realize the anime has a different emphasis than the manga. The anime focused on the goofiness of it all weaved into the tragedy and romance.

The manga focuses more on Kouhei's mixed feelings about being so attached to a young teen like Hazuki. He thinks he should wait til she's older to become romantic but these visions of "being with her" keep torturing him. In addition, the manga gets really, freaking dark --- especially with Kouhei's "fiancee". The japanese manga is still in progress (volume 10) and has diverged substantially from the anime at this point (but not in spirit).
The character design is a bit different but not substantially. I'm interested in seeing how Tokyopop handles the translations.

I do compare the anime and the manga, however, I do so on different shades of grey.

Most people, however, will always compare anime adaptations to their manga counterparts on black and white colors.

There are some stuff in the manga that I disliked how it was treated in the anime, and the same goes viceversa.

I was able to get hold of all the rest of the volumes up to ten. I have no much interpretation of Japanese kanji, so my synopsis for the manga is based on pure guesswork on what I saw in the illustrations.

More specifically, the manga diverges from the anime at the very end of the eighth volume. The anime adapted the manga storyline up to chapter 50 (episode 23 of the anime).
The fight with the vampires ended on a different outcome.

Spoiler:

Chapters 51-52 of the manga (End of Volume Eight)
1. The Schwarz Quelle Castle did not materialized.
2. Kouhei overcame his fear of Hazuki after the 'jougan' (his hidden power) within him was released and made in time before the exchange took place; the vampires releasing Hikaru in exchange for Hazuki.
3. Hazuki and Alto did duke it out in the fight against each other. They even went far as to make their magic go über.
4. (Speculation) Hazuki drank Kouhei's blood to enhance her magical powers. She was able to strain Alto and overpower her, wounding her.
5. The vampires and Alto had no choice but to flee and spared our heroes for another time.
6. (Speculation) I don't know whether Kouhei willingly had to seal up his jougan again after the fight or not for the sake of protecting Hazuki.
7. Alto does not turns good or becomes redeemed.
8. Hazuki, Kouhei, the twins, Seiji, and Yayoi-sama returned to Tokyo, staying in an expensive hotel.

Now the differences between the anime and manga where the storyline is covered.

Spoiler:

1. Anime: The vampire king, Hazuki's father, is mentioned fairly throughout the anime but never seen.
Manga: The vampire king makes small cameos, and likely he ordered both Kinkel and Mario face-to-face to bring Hazuki back.

2. Anime: The twins Hikaru and Kaoru were introduced early into the storyline, but I think it was an excuse for the staff to bring up more moe girls besides Hazuki.
Manga: Hikaru and Kaoru are officially introduced at the very start of the seventh volume, eight months after the vampire's attack at the Morioka residence. Kouhei and Hazuki fled to the temple within the mountain region where the twins live there.

3. Anime: Haiji, the shikigami cat, transforms into its fairy form early in the story.
Manga: It is not until the end of volume five that Hazuki became Haiji's new master and was able to change into its fairy form.

4. A cosmetic change. At the start of volume seven in the manga, Kouhei has grown now a short pony-tail.

5. The final fight against Kinkel in the manga, I believe for myself, ended quite quick and felt anti-climatic compared to the anime.
a) Although Gramps was already captured and served as bait, he did not become involved in the fight.
b) After Kinkel disabled viciously Kouhei, Elfriede, and Seiji, he threatens Hazuki with killing Kouhei if she doesn't surrender.
Since Hazuki did not know at that time that she was a perfect 'daywalker', nonetheless, she dives into the sunlight armed with a wooden stake and rams it through Kinkel's chest.
Kinkel's ability to refract sunlight does not works if he's injured and flames up. Then, Elfriede finishes him off with her bats.

6. I agree with Vexx that the manga is freakier, darker, bloodier, and gloomier than the anime. In fact, the latter volumes show more blood and bizarre things and monsters going on.

7. Elfriede's past in the manga totally owns the anime, there's no doubt.
a) Anime: Elfriede narrates her background story to Gramps. There's this shadow play to help us understand how the events happened as Elfriede is narrating. Creepy but quite not enough.
b) Manga: Elfriede's past is seen from inside her memories. Manga readers have the chance to witness for themselves how Elfriede became a vampire.
Definitely bloody, bizarre, and frightening.

8. Mario, Vargas, and Jedah appear in the manga without masks. I seriously quite don't understand the staff reasons to mask them in the anime. Their masks don't look that creepy, except for Jedah.
Manga
I'm not sure if those three vampires in the manga are really the Mario, Vargas, and Jedah we know in the anime.

Manga Vargas is hefty, bulky, and muscular. His chin is squarely shaped and has his hair arranged with a short pony-tail. He wears a suit of same design and fashion just like Walter from Hellsing.
Just like his anime counterpart, he has the same magic that allows him to grow arms on his back, and also lost his left eye to Hazuki.

Manga Jedah is the most bizarre and frightening of the trio. He wears similar robes as his anime counterpart, but he's an old man. The most bizarre aspect of him are his eyes. He has no eyes, instead there are two small, lit candles inside each of the eye cavities where the eyes should be. Like a jack-o-lantern Halloween pumpkin.
There's a pentagram tattoo on his forehead.
But I'm not sure if this vampire is named Jedah like his anime counterpart. I need someone to clarify me this.

Manga Mario wears similar clothes as his anime counterpart. His face is plump and long, has a hook noise, his hair is black and sleek arranged in similar fashion to that of a Benedict or Franciscan monk.
He did not die during the attack at the Morioka residence. There's a scene in the manga that quite implies that he killed Gramps with little effort. He also did not take part on Alto, Vargas, and Jedah's mission to retrieve Hazuki back and neither was involved in the fight.

9. In addition to these three vampires, there's also another female vampire that was not included in the anime.
My guess is that the anime was catching quickly with the manga storyline, and the staff decided to give the plot some sudden twist to end it. Mario getting killed at the end of episode 17 and not including that character to make Alto, Vargas, and Jedah the only villains for the remainder of the episodes.

She's also member of the group to retrieve Hazuki back, however, she did not take part on the story unfolded in volume eight and neither in the fight.

Currently, she's the new antagonist in volume ten.

I do not know her name, but she looks like a femme fatale to me.

10. Gramps and Elfriede did die at the end of volume six, and I don't think that Keitaro Arima, the author of Tsukuyomi manga, will want to pull out the Mai-HiME reset ending to bring them back.

[Vexx]

Exceptionally complete compare'and'contrast of the anime series and the manga-in-progress. I bow before your complete and thorough powers of documentation

comments:

Spoiler:

I'm not *completely* sure Gramps and Elfriede are dead... but it certainly looks more certain in the manga. I think their sacrifice was diminished by their return (Spock after Wrath of Khan?) and I'm curious to see how the manga runs as a result (Kouhei and Hazuki re-open the antique shop on their own to carry on the memory of Gramps and Elfriede?).

The seduction of Kaoru(spelling?) by the vampires and her attempted seduction of Kouhei caught me completely by surprise. This is much darker and the romance of Kouhei and Hazuki become much deeper amongst all the tragedy.

Also.. I suspect Alto's abandonment and redemption may come much later in the series (as well as some of the other events compressed into the end of the anime).

This looks like its going to turn into one of those series where the anime and manga are quite different but I like them both.

I'd really like to have been a fly on the wall during the anime design discussions and the decisions made.

I'm working through the novels doing my own translation, but I suspect Tokyopop will get the english versions out faster than I'm translating

[AtmaWeapon]

Wow, you guys made my day, Tsukuyomi manga is not just 3 volumes! I thought it was and as a result i was dissapointed(how on earth do you do fit 24 episodes into 3 books?? ).
Still in progress.....that means we will be waiting a while for TokyoPop to have it done then...fair enough^^

I liked the dark tone of the anime, so i'm glad they are taking that farther in the manga. Although, i personally enjoyed the use of colour schemes in the dramatic/dark moments of the anime, that will be missing in the manga. The variation of the story line is also a really great thing, i'm glad they did that.


Guido, how is the fanservice compared to the anime? I think more overt, correct?

Looks like i'll be picking up the 1st voume today

[Guido]

Originally Posted by Vexx

Exceptionally complete compare'and'contrast of the anime series and the manga-in-progress. I bow before your complete and thorough powers of documentation

comments:

Spoiler:

I'm not *completely* sure Gramps and Elfriede are dead... but it certainly looks more certain in the manga. I think their sacrifice was diminished by their return (Spock after Wrath of Khan?) and I'm curious to see how the manga runs as a result (Kouhei and Hazuki re-open the antique shop on their own to carry on the memory of Gramps and Elfriede?).

The seduction of Kaoru(spelling?) by the vampires and her attempted seduction of Kouhei caught me completely by surprise. This is much darker and the romance of Kouhei and Hazuki become much deeper amongst all the tragedy.

Also.. I suspect Alto's abandonment and redemption may come much later in the series (as well as some of the other events compressed into the end of the anime).

This looks like its going to turn into one of those series where the anime and manga are quite different but I like them both.

I'd really like to have been a fly on the wall during the anime design discussions and the decisions made.

I'm working through the novels doing my own translation, but I suspect Tokyopop will get the english versions out faster than I'm translating

Your comments and compliments are quite welcomed.

I have arrangeD a list of how many chapters are categorized for each volume of the manga, as well which volume was adapted into the anime.

Spoiler:

Manga Volume I. (Chapters 1-5)
Anime. Episodes 1 - 2 & part of 3.

Manga Volume II. (Chapters 6-11)
Anime. Episodes, second half of 3 plus 4 - 5 & 7.

Manga Volume III. (Chapters 12-18)
Anime. Episodes 8 to 10.

Manga Volume IV. (Chapters 19-25)
Anime. Episodes 12 - 13.

Manga Volume V. (Chapters 26-31)
Anime. Episodes 14 - 15.

Volume VI. (Chapters 32-38)
Anime. Episodes 16 - 17.

Volume VII. (Chapters 39-45)
Anime. Episodes 18 to 21.

Volume VIII. (Chapters 46-52)
Anime episodes 22 and 23 borrowed from the plot of manga chapters 46 to 50.
--->Beginning from manga chapter 51, the story deviates from the anime.

Volume IX. (Chapters 53-59)
Jedah betrays and backstabs Vargas then proceeds to drink the latter's blood to gain his body parts regeneration ability, which allows Jedah to grow eyes for himself and finally dusts Vargas.
Alto witnessed the murder, but she did not care as her jealousy makes her still obsessive about killing Hazuki.
Covered only in the first chapter of volume nine.

Meanwhile Hazuki, Kouhei, and company are staying at an expensive hotel in Tokyo while the storm has cleared for now.

The past experiences and tragedies that both Hazuki and Kouhei had endured together are making them bond closer toward each other. It finally comes to Kouhei's understanding that her affection for Hazuki has bloomed into love toward her, although Kouhei initially denies it.
However, Kouhei's romantic obsession for Hazuki has grown up to unprecedented proportions that he begins to have some ecchi thoughts about them together.
The funny factor is more accentuated when you see Kouhei slapping his head for coming up with such naughty thoughts.

What Kouhei thinks and feels for Hazuki at this point in the manga convinces the readers that he now sees Hazuki as a woman rather from the spunked brat at the beginning to the defenseless little sister from the previous arc.

Hazuki has also matured her vast array of crushes, romantic affections, and love for Kouhei too.

It all culminates with Hazuki and Kouhei together and alone in one of hotel rooms. They are sitting beside each other trying to clear their feelings which are giving them much trouble.
They try to bring forth what are they feeling for the other, but it gives them both too much shame to disclose. Particularly Kouhei due that he starts to imagine those ecchi thoughts, and the sexual tension rises more so because the two are alone.

At the end, they never did anything. Quite the contrary, the conclusion is laughable.
The rest of volume nine explores Hazuki and Kouhei's mutual feelings.

Volume X. (Chapters 60-66)
(Speculation)
The group arrived on an island where the local town folkspeople are preparing for an annual festivity that involves a giant tree rested down the mountainside.

The Midou family were requested to supervise and perform the ritual which consists of cleansing the tree from evil spirits.

What they don't imagine is that female vampire, of the Mario-Vargas-Jedah group, has already expected them and does a fair job at keeping her supernatural presence hidden from Seiji and Yayoi-sama keen sixth sense.

She manifests to Kaoru in a dream and seduces her.

For the next couple of days, Hikaru has noticed that her twin is behaving somewhat strange. Kaoru is acting more assertive, straightforward, and dependable on herself, as also she's more socially opened and talkative unlike the old-fashioned Kaoru that was shy, silent, and secretive of her feelings.

However, what makes this brand-new Kaoru odd is the dead but seductive look on her eyes to whomever she glances at.

In a bold and unexpected move Kaoru tries to seduce Kouhei in the hot spring bathroom, however, Kouhei realizes that Kaoru's behavior is odd and does not falls for the ruse; Kouhei continues to see Kaoru as the innocent, shy, little girl with glasses that she is.
Instead of fanservice we are treated loli-fanservice in this scene.

Nobody makes further inquiries about Kaoru's sudden change on her personality, but the truth was that the female nosferatu gave Kaoru the vampire kiss the next night she came to visit her in the dream and has made her now a servant.

The day of the ceremony at the tree comes, and our heroes are prepared. The ritual involves three priestesses chanting a spiritual requiem-- Hazuki, Hikaru, and Kaoru are the appointed priestesses for the task.

On orders of her vampire master Kaoru frees dangerous youkai creatures from her sealed box and proceeds to infuse them into the three, betraying her family and revealing her intentions.

The tree springs to life turning into a monstrous creature with multiple spiky tentacles. To everybody's shock, particularly Kouhei's, Kaoru's body got partially infused into the tree.

(I assume) The female vampire speaks through Kaoru's voice to Kouhei if they attempt to kill the tree creature, then Kaoru also dies.

His decision lies whether or not he hands over Hazuki or let a number of casualties or just kill the youkai but also Kaoru dies.

Volume ten ends with an angsty but fascinating cliffhanger with a burdened Kouhei, and the servant Kaoru glancing him with those malevolent, dead eyes.
(End of Speculation)

For Vexx and everybody else you won't have to wait that long for the English translations coming forth.

At least for this year, TOKYOPOP will be releasing each volume every three months.
Volume two arrives in March.

I checked the info at Anime News Network and TokyoPOP's page.

And answering to AtmaWeapon's question, the fanservice's overt quality increases in the latter volumes. Just you wait when you get the ninth and tenth volumes and check it out for yourself.

Right now I'm waiting the arrival of the eleventh manga volume, because volume ten ended with an angsty cliffhanger.

[Nayuki]

Second volume of TokyoPop Tsukuyomi graphic novel in english comes out in March. English dubbed anime from Funimation comes out in summer.