Medaka Box [Manga]

[omimon]

Originally Posted by Suzuku

I doubt it. Medaka is right up Imaishi's ally, so it will probably resemble Gurren Lagann and PSG imo.


It's already confirmed. Twitter is where all official announcements take place first these days.

Unless Jump posts it in BIG BOLD LETTERS I'm not going to believe it. I mean come on GAINAX!?

[Suzuku]

They fit Medaka pretty well. Or at least Imaishi and his team does.

[Asuras]

I dunno. Medaka Box is fairly tame compared to a lot of Gainax's work.

Also a lot less srs, IMO.

[Kurosu]

Originally Posted by omimon

Unless Jump posts it in BIG BOLD LETTERS I'm not going to believe it. I mean come on GAINAX!?

They're not gonna post it until the next magazine, such an announcement for chapter 100 seems like it fits and if anything we'll know for sure in a couple of days.

[AQVXZ11]

Can anyone PLEASE give a short synopsis of the latest un-translated chapters? This is like the fourth time I've asked...

[Doc Astaroth]

Originally Posted by AQVXZ11

Can anyone PLEASE give a short synopsis of the latest un-translated chapters? This is like the fourth time I've asked...

It´s not like I started to translate them (well beside Yabumi´s introduction... for obvious reasons), but well, you already got the gist:

Spoiler:

It´s a scavenger hunt, organized by Medaka, and the winner can wish for something (Misogi for example will wish, that the girls have to wait nacked in an Apron for him! XD). However, it seems that this time Akune will play a bigger role. Ajimu is interested in him and even confronts Medaka the first time in disguise of Nabeshima (another one of her abilities I guess). However Medaka sees through this disguise effortlessly.

In any case, Ajimu´s girls solved the first riddle and now are encountering said Hot Librarian Yabumi.

[Shiroth]

Originally Posted by omimon

Unless Jump posts it in BIG BOLD LETTERS I'm not going to believe it. I mean come on GAINAX!?

Never heard of the Gainax bounce?

[winhlp32]

Very excited for this show...though it does take a while to get started past the tame school-life antics, but with GAINAX anything can happen.

[Westlo]

Originally Posted by Doc Astaroth

Still, if they follow the Manga Storyline, we will have to wait for the 2nd Season to see Misogi in action. That makes me sad...

It would be hilarious if Gainax said "fuck it" and just pretty much skipped to Misogi ASAP.

Originally Posted by Master Chibi

It doesn't matter who is filling in what, it was CONSISTENTLY in the bottom five for a reason. The need to change its genre is proof that it was in danger of being cancelled at one point, and it never entirely shook that association off.

Medaka Box ranked 5th, 7th, 6th & 8th for Issues 49-52 of 2010... just saying... Medaka's pic is always shown on the cover of those JUMP specials, it probably holds the record for fastest jump manga to get a VOMIC, it actually got its second anniversay color on time (which for a minor series is extremely rare), it's already having its second character poll, took a lot of other series a long time to do that... and its sales were on par with Beezlebub, Sket Dance and Kuroko (which should be next).

10, *69,734 *,*69,734 Beelzebub vol.5
11, *69,211 *,*69,211 Kuroko no Basket vol.6
12, *68,014 *,*68,014 Sket Dance vol.13
13, *63,570 *,*63,570 Medaka Box vol.4

Medaka Box was even outselling Beezlebub in the first week before that got an anime..... and we all know how much Jump pushed Beezlebub in comparison to Medaka Box...

Also if Shingami can survive for 8 volumes and is only capable of doing 31,000 for an opening week for the 8th volume... well it's very lackluster sales compared to Medaka Vol 2's opening week of 54,194 which not counting the low balled Vol 1 is the weakest sales in the series by far... PSYREN lasted 16 or so volumes doing 50,000 a week... just putting that out....

I don't know why people are so fixated on the TOC, if a manga is selling good it means jack shit. Did D.Gray Man do good on the TOC? Nope, but it has outsold every jump manga from the last decade aside from the big 3. 5th best if you want to count Hunter X Hunter. I don't think you people realize that Shuiesha makes its money from selling manga volumes. If they had to cut one manga between Shingami and Medaka Box who have been ranking similarly than the manga doing 30k 1st weeks will get cut while the one doing 100k first weeks will survive.

People talk up how great Enigma was doing on the TOC.. I think 3 volumes have been out and it hasn't even ranked once. Can't even sell 30k for the first week.. and already there is rumors of it being cut.. you want a name of another manga that ranked well on the TOC at first? Try Double Arts, what happened to that? Oh yeah *snip* And while I hope it doesn't happen the same fate could befall Magico as well...

While this isn't entirely true think of WSJ as the free to air airing, the TOC for anything outside of the big guns as tv ratings for late night anime shows... and the dvd/bd sales = manga volume sales. The most props I've ever got on Mangahelpers was when I ridiculed why people thought Mago was in danger of being canceled after being in the bottom 5 for 3 weeks (oh no!) Like Shuiesha are going to cancel a top 10 selling manga property from 2010 so they can insert another dud that can't break 30k. Mago like Medaka appeals to people outside the typical Jump audience anyway so they won't dominate rankings, Mago just had the really purple patch for a while...

[summers]

Originally Posted by Westlo

It would be hilarious if Gainax said "fuck it" and just pretty much skipped to Misogi ASAP.



Medaka Box ranked 5th, 7th, 6th & 8th for Issues 49-52 of 2010... just saying... Medaka's pic is always shown on the cover of those JUMP specials, it probably holds the record for fastest jump manga to get a VOMIC, it actually got its second anniversay color on time (which for a minor series is extremely rare), it's already having its second character poll, took a lot of other series a long time to do that... and its sales were on par with Beezlebub, Sket Dance and Kuroko (which should be next).

10, *69,734 *,*69,734 Beelzebub vol.5
11, *69,211 *,*69,211 Kuroko no Basket vol.6
12, *68,014 *,*68,014 Sket Dance vol.13
13, *63,570 *,*63,570 Medaka Box vol.4

Medaka Box was even outselling Beezlebub in the first week before that got an anime..... and we all know how much Jump pushed Beezlebub in comparison to Medaka Box...

Also if Shingami can survive for 8 volumes and is only capable of doing 31,000 for an opening week for the 8th volume... well it's very lackluster sales compared to Medaka Vol 2's opening week of 54,194 which not counting the low balled Vol 1 is the weakest sales in the series by far... PSYREN lasted 16 or so volumes doing 50,000 a week... just putting that out....

I don't know why people are so fixated on the TOC, if a manga is selling good it means jack shit. Did D.Gray Man do good on the TOC? Nope, but it has outsold every jump manga from the last decade aside from the big 3. 5th best if you want to count Hunter X Hunter. I don't think you people realize that Shuiesha makes its money from selling manga volumes. If they had to cut one manga between Shingami and Medaka Box who have been ranking similarly than the manga doing 30k 1st weeks will get cut while the one doing 100k first weeks will survive.

People talk up how great Enigma was doing on the TOC.. I think 3 volumes have been out and it hasn't even ranked once. Can't even sell 30k for the first week.. and already there is rumors of it being cut.. you want a name of another manga that ranked well on the TOC at first? Try Double Arts, what happened to that? Oh yeah *snip* And while I hope it doesn't happen the same fate could befall Magico as well...

While this isn't entirely true think of WSJ as the free to air airing, the TOC for anything outside of the big guns as tv ratings for late night anime shows... and the dvd/bd sales = manga volume sales. The most props I've ever got on Mangahelpers was when I ridiculed why people thought Mago was in danger of being canceled after being in the bottom 5 for 3 weeks (oh no!) Like Shuiesha are going to cancel a top 10 selling manga property from 2010 so they can insert another dud that can't break 30k. Mago like Medaka appeals to people outside the typical Jump audience anyway so they won't dominate rankings, Mago just had the really purple patch for a while...

Thanks for that. Medaka will survive until the end. I hope Enigma does succeed though, it looks like it will be getting into a battle manga phase soon, or something like a battle-mystery hybrid. It will make a good anime.

[zeando]

aqv, use spoilers please, the released scans are only up to 95
now, probably most here read raws so that's not much of a damage >.>
but if possible let's try to continue following the rules :/

[Master Chibi]

Well I guess I never shook the stuck in a rut association off because I always saw it as being a pretty mediocre series to begin with.

All the better for its continued success then.

:F

[summers]

New Chapter is out. and I have to say. Kumagawa is a fucking boss.
This gives credence to zens statement about how,he was weaker than everyone else making him stronger than everyone else.

[ShiroiRyu]

I said doomed to cancellation, it's always been hovering the bottom five slots hasn't it? That's been proven more then enough times as this point.

That will be doomed to cancellation until the manga finish !
Mark my words !
And i remember the post who said that like 80 chapters ago ...
That take a awful lot of time to cancel Medaka Box ?

Anyways, good chapter 96 : badass Aizen pervert.

[Nvis]

Are all those 5 successors Not-Equals?

This is confusing....unless Ajimu lied about only 1 of them being Not-Equal.
Yet Kumagawa wiped the floor with them.

[Kurosu]

Originally Posted by Nvis

Are all those 5 successors Not-Equals?

This is confusing....unless Ajimu lied about only 1 of them being Not-Equal.
Yet Kumagawa wiped the floor with them.

Well... yeah she lied. Or maybe she didn't, they all see themselves as one after all, so technically it's not incorrect.

[Soji]

Good news about the anime.
Now I just want to see what will think of this news the Heater of Medaka box that said that it would be cancel.
I have to admit I loved this ch and Kumagawa has proven to be the same but to the right side. I must say that I prefer this one to the old Kumagawa.
In any case, even if it dont appeared during this ch,now I'm even more curious why Najimi is also interested in Zen or better yet what has Zen that attracted Najimi interest in the first place.
I meant that thanks to this ch we found that it is something quite exceptional to attract her interest.
Just look at the comments of these five girl, and I must say I can understand about Kumagawa and Medaka but why also Zen? Seriously I hope that the author give us the answer about this during this arc.
Also I wonder why Hitomi sensei dont want that think Zen about Najimi when Kumagawa talk abouth her during the struggle with Mukea.

[Doc Astaroth]

Originally Posted by Nvis

Are all those 5 successors Not-Equals?

This is confusing....unless Ajimu lied about only 1 of them being Not-Equal.
Yet Kumagawa wiped the floor with them.

Originally Posted by Kurosu

Well... yeah she lied. Or maybe she didn't, they all see themselves as one after all, so technically it's not incorrect.

Well... about that:

Spoiler for Chapter 97:

Looks like everyone of the girls is in fact a Normal (Yes, even the robot! No, I don´t know, how this makes sense...)

But they aren´t Abnormals, Minus or have any kind of skill!

In fact, according to Ajimu, they would better fit into an Yonkoma-manga like K-ON than into a Shounen Jump Manga. (What the... Does she plan to weaponize MOE against Medaka? DAMN YOU, AJIMU! YOU MAGNIFICENT BITCH!)

Well, the Not-Equal part seems to be connected with the Hive Mind thing. How does Ajimu put it?

"That five girls. Together they are more than the parts of myself."

Basically, the idea is, that Ajimu doesn´t want to give the student council a chance to distinguish between foes and friends, which would allow Medaka to "defeat" her.

So, basically she tries to use "Gray And Gray Moral" against the "Black and White moral" of our heroes. Very grown up... I so want to punch her into her face!

[LeaD36]

this manga actually turned out to be the 4th wall breaking type. And i have to say i like the train of though right there.
IN YOUR FACE BAKUMAN, IT DIDN'T TURN INTO A MAINSTREAM SHOUNEN BATTLE MANGA!!! :PPP

[Soji]

Ch 100 raw it's out .

Spoiler for ch 100:

Ok interesting that ch, the one with the new girl and the 5 girls + kumagawa. But what amazed me was Najimi and Medaka, this ch was like that two longtime friends were discussing something or at least that's the impression they gave me . And I must say I lol to see that while the two of them talked ,Aten was still standing behind withou showing his face and Zen kept trying to solve the puzzle (not give in Zen you can do it), and I have to admit that see Najimi, Zen and Medaka together gave me a strange feeling like as a group of friends and yeah even Aten
They dont give the feeling of enemies or people who are at different side , but more a group of four friends with two who make their own Business while while the two girls are discussing their own business.
Maybe I'm the only one who thought that during this ch, but that's the impression that this ch gave to me.