2012-03-07, 15:49 | Link #8161 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
|
Needless 0 is a volume that contains a bunch of side stories and prequels to the serialized manga. One of those stories (actually the first one) is Needless 1.5 which takes place before Needless 2 starts. Like Thor said, it takes place 2 years after the current Needless timeline.
__________________
|
2012-03-07, 16:58 | Link #8165 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
|
Quote:
What Soji quoted. |
|
2012-03-07, 17:04 | Link #8166 |
Member
Join Date: Feb 2012
|
thks, but it's really confused.
No blade in 1.5 (mom is the only needless 1 character), and in needless 2, there are no needless 1.5 characters and blade/setsuna/kurumi are only characters of needless 1. Cruz does not appear in needless 1.5 and needless 2 Spoiler for spoiler:
|
2012-03-07, 17:09 | Link #8167 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
|
^
So what? That means nothing. For example, we know from Imai's official website that Eve is alive in Needless 2. The absence of Blade and many of the characters from the main cast is irrelevant. If they aren't shown is simply because the author doesn't want us to find what happened to them. Not to mention it would ruin the tension from the current and final arc of Needless part 1. But I repeat, they not appearing in the later timeline means absolutely nothing. Spoiler for spoiler:
|
2012-03-07, 18:25 | Link #8175 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
|
Sorry but no. Sacred Sword of the Reaper is from Needless 1 and is the prologue prior to the beggining of Needless. In there, Blade & Seth are travelling through the Black Spot and doing assigments they are given. This is the chapter where they meet Solva and Kana for the first time.
You should check back chapter 24 for more info, and chapters 72, 73 and 74 from the same. |
2012-03-08, 13:56 | Link #8179 |
Presumably Pentadactyl
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Somewhere between this world and the next
|
Perhaps a little more clarification is in order, regarding that timeline.
The original Needless story was a 2000 page doujin written way back when Imai was still at school, and other than a few images on the artist's website, no one apart from his friends and family has ever seen it. It falls into two parts, with two different protagonists: Needless 1: Adam Blade (male) Needless 2: Adam Neuschwanstein (female) (because it's a pain typing all that, we shortened it to ANn...) The current Needless story is based on this doujin, but how closely (or not) is anyone's guess. According to the author, Cruz, Arca, Saten and Uten are all new characters, which I suspect has made quite a difference to the plot... BTW, the diagram posted by Adan was published about the same time as chapter 40, and the story is now (probably) approaching the end of part 1. Later came another doujin called BLACK SPOT which features characters called Cain and Abel. You can read the first 2 chapters on the website, and apparently the book is (or was) available to buy... but AFAICT it isn't canon as far as the current story is concerned. The professional publication of Needless in Ultra Jump started with a number of one-shots which were later collected into a volume titled Needless Zero. Its contents are:
After Needless proper began serialisation, several more side stories were published, and these were collected into another Zero volume, Needless Zero II. (You can see how all these numbers might cause confusion...) Its contents:
I think that covers everything. Hope it helps.
__________________
|
2012-03-08, 14:23 | Link #8180 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
|
Second Sight, Egoic Lotus, as well as the Black Spot spinoff protagonized by Cain are all featured in Needless 2, which has yet to begin.
Though they still haven't made a official appearance in the story, the main characters from Second Sight and Egoic Lotus are featured along with other needlesses in the very first page from the very first chapter, and in the index page from one of the published volumes. |
Tags |
action, comedy, seinen |
|
|