2017-05-11, 10:30
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Yamada and Kase-san. (Or what's in a name, change?)
Their appellations remain as intriguing as their characters. Maybe this is a better section of the forum to mention the manga aspects of the developments surrounding the ongoing series? With thanks to Erica Friedman, from whose website Okazu and reviews of the series, most of this information was distilled. She was also kind enough to post some of my ramblings -on the LINEmanga re-release- as a guest review, but we're getting a little bit ahead of ourselves. "Asagao to Kase-san" was printed in the second issue of "Pure Yuri Anthology Hirari", released in August 2010. After publication of the yuri magazine was discontinued in 2014, the "Kase-san" stories stopped appearing in print for a while too. Hiromi Takashima didn't stop creating new stories with the character(s), however. While Takashima has continued self-publishing additional "Kase-san" related material as an individual, publishing company Shinshokan has released some of those stories online too. Beginning with "Asagao to Kase-san".
Some, but not all, of the early stories were bundled and released in print book format. The first tankōbon was released under the name of the first story, in 2011. The book included four other “... to Kase-san“ stories. Besides the eponymous character, Yamada already featured prominently from the very start of the first story as well. A review can be found here. In total three tankōbon volumes with "... Kase-san" stories have been released to date. In addition to “Asagao to Kase-san”, these are “Obentō to Kase-san" and “Shortcake to Kase-san”, with links for reviews inline. Takashima revised some of the stories and their artwork prior to publication in these collected volumes. These have in turn been picked up for publication outside Japan. They've appeared in German, as "Ipomoea" from Egmont, and in English, as "Kase-san and ...", from Seven Seas Entertainment, whose Book 1 is titled "Kase-san and Morning Glories". Publication of additional volumes is scheduled. Book 2 will be released on May 23, 2017. Book 3 on September 12, 2017. As "Yamada and Kase-san", new stories, about both characters, now appear in a Japanese print magazine again: Shinshokan's "Wings". A magazine with a slightly different target audience than "Hirari". This publishing company also releases new chapters online, in its "WEBwings" webcomic. These eTexts are also made available, "FLASHwings", through Niconico and Yahoo Japan's online Bookstore. Older stories, the tankōbon versions of the "... to Kase-san" stories, are currently also re-run, free for a limited time, as a weekly LINEmanga series. Except for the first three stories, each release in that format has expired after one month. The first three stories remain free while the others are available for a fee in the bundled volumes, online and in print. Geo-restrictions are in place for Shinshokan's online readers as well as for access to books and series on LINEmanga. These books are all also appearing - with Takashima's participation- at "Yuri" events and in Yuri aimed bookstore promotions. In which the PV clips also appeared... as well as more recently the entire music video, which -with enough interest (?)- may translate into more animated "Kase-san..." with promotion of the existing music clip and feedback requests appearing in Japanese and English. Acknowledging reception, Takashima tweeted a link for the "Kase-san and ..." books on the Seven Seas Entertainment website, as well as an image of the recently revealed jacket for their English edition of Book 2: "Kase-san and Bento". The image shows the "blurb" on the back cover: They're a bit ahead in Japanese. Spoiler for Yamada to Kase-san:
One of the interesting aspects of the series as serialised in “Wings”, to me, is that Takashima picked another flower for the title of the first story in “Yamada to Kase-san” too. Returning with “Nadeshiko to Kase-san”. The main title may have changed but the titles of this first story follows the previous pattern. It is perhaps useful to note up-front that the very latest stories aren't uploaded to LINEmanga yet. The upload schedule is weekly, Tuesdays, so it will be interesting to see what happens when the two catch up. On the last page of part one, of "Sunahama to Kase-san", splitting that story in half, before having it appear as the ninth instalment of the LINEmanga re-run, an announcement echoing Takashima's blog entry and giving a tentative release date towards the second half of July 2017, for a tankōbon to be titled "Apron to Kase-san". ... and that, as I understand it, is where we stand at the moment. In a bright spotlight as radiant as their smiles. The future really looks promising. Last edited by Verso Sciolto; 2017-05-22 at 04:09. Reason: Expanding, rephrasing and updating |
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2017-05-15, 23:19
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 That's the promotional image attached to the last page of "Sunahama to Kase-san", as uploaded today in the LINEmanga re-run. The weekly web re-serialisation, based on the version of the stories as published in the collection volumes, which differ slightly from the "Hirari" magazine versions. This advertisement was retroactively appended to all previous stories on "Line" last week. For the moment these pages give a tentative completion date, towards the second half of July 2017, for a tankōbon to be titled "Apron to Kase-san". As Takashima noted in the blog entry linked in the previous comment, revisions are being made to the stories to appear in this volume as well. This version of "Sunahama to Kase-san" was printed in “Obentō to Kase-san" and will most likely be included in Seven Seas' English translation of that tankōbon, so we should probably get into the contents next week, after the release of their "Book 2". The ad on "Line" also includes reminders: "Yamada to Kase-san" has started in the bi-monthly magazine "Wings", as a new series. Appearing from the June issue onward; the animated music clip has been released. All text over the cover picture of the first published book in the series, "Asagao to Kase-san", featuring the happy couple at the beginning of their journey. Certainly makes for a colourful read. As is this almost "comic book like image" as printed on a "memo" circulated upon completion of the (first ?) video clip - via director Takuya Satō's Twitter feed: Hopefully their voices will be added at some point in the future. With a May 20 Tweet via the asagao anime feed, directing people to its listing on Amazon Japan the next tankōbon - エプロンと加瀬さん。- was confirmed. Release date given there as July 25, 2017. (ひらり、コミックス) May 30, 2017. Waiting for the sun... Turns out there is no instalment beyond "Ajisai to Kase-san" in the re-serialisation on LINEmanga. To be continued... Last edited by Verso Sciolto; 2017-05-29 at 10:46. |
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2017-08-28, 06:18
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カラーつき!! 女の子同士のキラキラ・ラブストーリー!! 山田と加瀬さん。 高嶋ひろみ http://www.shinshokan.co.jp/mag/w201710/ That is to say, "Himawari to Kase-san", the second instalment in the continuation manga "Yamada and Kase-san", was printed in the October issue of "Wings" magazine (released on August 28). An online notice was posted today to inform "Wings'" readers that serialisation will continue. Reassuring that he third story is scheduled to appear in the next magazine, the December issue to be released October 28, 2017. Strike that. Not this time. No chapter in the December "Wings". Series to be continued in the next issue: 発売中のWings12月号、「加瀬さん。シリーズ」は休載させていただきます。次号「粉雪と加瀬さん。」 掲載予定です。 (... and what's in a name...) Last edited by Verso Sciolto; 2017-10-30 at 11:04. |
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2017-08-31, 03:25
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Going by the pictures, there has been interesting activity on Takashima’s Twitter feed as well. Just today there were illustrated comments for “Wings 10" and “Yamada to Kase-san 2” and a little earlier, previews were posted for Seven Seas’ upcoming English translation of “Kase-san and Shortcake” -also known as Book 3- to appear in print September 12. Here presented back to front cover with a few panels offering a whiff of “Kase-san and the Afterword”. Asked:
“What is pure Yuri?” |
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2018-01-20, 12:22
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Mentioned a German edition consisting of the first book and an English translation -which will soon include "Apron"- but only just became aware of a Taiwanese edition because of this "Short-cake" decorated Twitter message. Turns out Tong Li has been publishing this series as well. Apparently starting with 牽牛花與加瀬同學 back in 2013.
Side note: As of January 13, advance tickets are on sale for the limited theatrical release of the OVA in June 2018. |
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2018-01-27, 11:33
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https://twitter.com/asagao_anime/sta...05234152951808
http://www.shinshokan.com/webwings/title43.html http://www.shinshokan.com/webwings/c...itle43/#page=1 also here |
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2018-04-26, 22:03
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Wings (ウィングス) 2018年 06月号 (In print 4/28)
http://www.shinshokan.co.jp/mag/w201806/ http://yuriten.com/2018/creators/creators-15/ "That" happened ... and "this" is about to happen: "Sakura" has been released, online bookstores such as Bookwalker have sample pages from the eBook version. Last edited by Verso Sciolto; 2018-05-19 at 13:41. |
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