2012-04-19, 15:33 | Link #8061 |
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Chapter 83, after Emukae reformed. Zen said he wanted to eat her miso soup every morning, which everyone around (including Medaka) took to mean they'd get married and start a family together. It was an accident because he clearly didn't realize the implications, and no one took it seriously, but it's not exactly the kind of statement that would make Emukae lose hope.
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2012-04-19, 23:01 | Link #8063 |
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Zenkichi's Council vs Medaka's suitors... Kuwagama: ... Seriously... [ALL OF THEM. NAKED APRON. NOW!] Zenkichi: ...you sure they won't kill you first...? Kuwagama: I've already seen them in their underwear, this is the next logical step. Zenkichi: What's logical about it?! Kuwagama: I pronouce the beginning of the Naked Apron Alliance versus the Lingerie Team!!! Zenkichi: ... why...why does the name alone ... excite me...? Medaka: Oh? Hadaka Aprons vs Lingerie? I do wonder which is more appealing for the men of today...
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2012-04-20, 10:00 | Link #8065 | |
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Going down the livejournal WSJ rankings page... 2nd Last 3rd Last Color Page for Anime Color Page/Cover for Anime 8th Last 2nd Last Color Page 7th last Color Page 4th last 4th last 4th last Color Page 5th last The barrage of color page promotion to help promote the anime is just a mirage, it has been ranking horribly, especially compared to the arc prior to it. The manga is safe though, especially with the anime airing and Bakuman finishing up.. but Nisio would want to reverse this trend.. especially if the manga tanks don't lift... they have been static in growth for a long time now... though considering that the anime is looking like a non-factor... |
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2012-04-20, 10:57 | Link #8067 | |
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Not Equals Minus Ajimu Flask Intro Seems to be the right order for how the arcs were received in WSJ. |
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2012-04-20, 11:00 | Link #8068 | |
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2012-04-20, 11:06 | Link #8069 | |
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It's too bad that the anime really is currently looking so shitty that it won't even lead to a rise in volume sales...the sales of other Jump series which have gotten adaptations seem to practically double in general, by comparison. I do think it is basically down to Nishio improving the manga itself now for further growth of the series...honestly I think it could really use less shitty romance between Medaka and Zen. |
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2012-04-20, 11:12 | Link #8070 | |
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2012-04-20, 11:15 | Link #8071 |
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In comparison to romance with kumagawa that makes no sense? Rather the issue was spent most of the time was spent changing randomly in genre's and missed the fact that a reasonable decent fighting with the genre awareness was what made this good. Not random trolling upon trolling.
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2012-04-20, 11:18 | Link #8073 |
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Problem with that Sol is that a lot of those announcements are shipped figures instead of actually sold.. like when J.C Staff put out a release saying Hidan no Aria light novels sold like 4 million copies or some shit... yet you look @ the Oricon numbers for the week and vol 1 was @ 150k... didn't compute. Japanese video game companies nearly always talk in shipped numbers... don't see why the rest wouldn't be the same.
Also by static growth here's the example... 104k - Vol10 92k - Vol11 105k - Vol12 71k - Vol13 69k - Vol14 103k - Vol15 6 Volumes and the opening week sales are mostly the same... Vol 13+14 had a day less to sell than the rest for this comparison... but looking @ how weak the anime is... would be a miracle if it could push Vol 16 to 120k let alone anything over 150k... Medaka Box really should be around the same as Kuroko.. but that kept growing.... and yeah agreed on your last point Sol.. |
2012-04-20, 11:19 | Link #8074 | |
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Anyway, TBF Medaka Box is one of the more random, Shounen Jump stories and really at this point is lacking much of a plot, going by Nisio's current routes he's taking with the story, there was a chance this was never going to become particularily popular. |
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2012-04-20, 11:23 | Link #8075 | |
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2012-04-20, 11:26 | Link #8076 |
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Nishio is trying to do something new an innovative with the whole genre switching and 4 wall breaking and all that jazz. In theory it is an awesome idea, however when put into practice and against all those other great series, it kind of ends up lacking.
I find the style of the manga entertaining (and I'd love more Medaka and Zen) but it is clear that people generally like to stick to the good old standard style of manga (nothing wrong with it, Medaka Box's style was a long shot the moment it started switching from a school life comedy to a full on battle and beyond). You know a manga's style and story is weak when only a truly epic character or two are capable of bringing it up in rank. |
2012-04-20, 11:27 | Link #8077 |
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The anime isn't really bad, aside from the animation being fairly simple and a lot of the voice acting feeling somewhat awkward. It's moreso the fact that they're doing a straight up, panel by panel, 2-chapter per episode adaptation in combination with a limited run of only 12 episodes. I would've been extremely happy with a steady 2-chapters/episode pacing if they were actually adapting a good part of the series...the longer the episode run the better, to wash away the taste of the crappy opening arc. But since they're only animating the most terrible part of the series, this mediocre, uninspired "faithful" adaptation is practically the worst possible strategy.
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2012-04-20, 11:30 | Link #8078 | |
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2012-04-20, 11:31 | Link #8079 | |
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I've actually seen loads do that and tbf at the point of that poll Zen was being treated little more than a side character, he had barely had any importance in the current plot. It's not surprising he wasn't particularily popular then. The anime really should have done at least the flask plan arc at all costs. It being the more standard shounen fair and was reasonably popular even if not by all that much. Doing the first arc was pretty much sending it to die. |
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2012-04-20, 11:37 | Link #8080 | |
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The second however was done, like Tenchi said, around the time the middle schoolers showed up I believe, where he had a very minor roll in. That and the fact that Kumagawa sucked in most of the votes from everyone else, makes 8th place not really that bad for him. |
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