Hello everyone, Sakaki here with an update of sorts. So we've done it, we've finally started a Patreon.
It wasn't an easy decision, but in order to take Weekly Shogakukan Edition to the next level, we'll need a bit of help. This way we're able to keep up
This year is truly not taking prisoners.
Voice actress TARAKO has passed away at age 63. Sheโs known for many roles ranging from Chibi Maruko-chan to Monokuma (Danganronpa V3) to to Kirara in Inuyasha and both Urusei Yatsura adaptations her unique voice will be missed.
Her
Voice actress Miyuki Ichijou has passed away of multiple organ failure. She was 76.
Through her long career sheโs voiced many characters such as Misa Takatsuki in ARMS to dubbing Marge Simpson for a time! Though most fans probably know her as Jodie Starling in Detective Conan.
Naoki Urasawa (Monster, Asadora) comments on Toriyamaโs passing:
I read Jump back when Dr. Slump was a new serial, and thought to myself โThis man will take manga to a different levelโ but I never imagined how extraordinary he truly would become. Itโs a pity we never met to have
Crunchyroll has announced they have the rights to a all new 18 episode TV version of the DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION movie.
It will be 18 episodes long and start streaming weekly May 23rd at 8pm PT. This version will have footage not seen in the Movies.
The theme
A 14 year old newbie artist sent in a manuscript with a note attached apologizing for using a cooking sheet in place of tracing paper. Unable to afford the real thing. The WSS account replied: โDonโt hesitate to send in entries desipite not having the tools or moneyโ.
A Message from "AoAshi" author Yuugo Kobayashi about their experience with Toriyama in the wake of his passing:
"Going to school was fun because DragonBall was there. You (Toriyama-sensei) are my hero, my Goku. Toriyama-sensei, truly, I thank you for everything."
The Apothecary Diaries anime is upon us! To commemorate this letโs look at when Gosho Aoyama had protagonist MaoMao as the featured detective in volume
#99
of Detective Conan!
Also one of two manga adaptions of the LNs runs in Sunday GX under the name โKusuriya no Hitorigoto -
Rumiko Takahashi has said she did not choose the episodes selected for Urusei Yatsura 2022.
She said she'd be embarrassed if it were known which stories were her favorites.
The anime will be a "best of" rather than a full adaption.
It begins airing October 13th.
Frieren Anime staff has been revealed
Director: Keiichiro Saito
Lead Writer: Tomohiro Suzuki
Music: Evan Call
Animation Studio: MADHOUSE
Frieren will be voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki (Dai, Anya, Lady Nagant)
The anime will Air this fall.
ยฉAbe Tsukasa/Kanehito Yamada/SHOUGAKUKAN
Baku Kinoshita and Kazuya Konomoto who wrote and directed Oddtaxi are back again with a new anime movie entitled "Housenka"
Studio Clap (Tunnel to Summer The Exit of Goodbyes) will produce the film, which will be featured at Annecy's 2024 Work-in-progress lineup.
Kinoshita
Some highlights:
-Aoyama has indeed drawn the final chapter of Conan. Not thought about it or written it down. It is drawn.
-Oda implies the Void century is next up on the list of One Piece mysteries to unravel.
-A case about Tsutomu and his connection to Rum is coming soon.
When you glance back youโll be surprised at how far youโve gone.
Expect a thread later today but hereโs the covers of Sunday for the first and last chapters of KOTOYAMAโs โCall of the Night.โ Issue 39 2019 to issue 9 2024.
๐ Giveaway Collab w/
@MangaAlerts
๐
Weโre teaming up to giveaway Frieren volume 1-3 (In English) along with WSS Issues
#41
and
#42
! (In Japanese) โจ
โข To enter: Follow, Like, RT! โ
โข Open to international entries!
โข Ends October 6th 2023๐
On this day in 1957, one of the superstars of the manga universe came into the world. Today is Rumiko Takahashi's birthday! Let's celebrate both her and all the wonderful stories she's given manga fans all around the world!
On this day in 1994, Shinichi Kudo began living his childhood for the second time! Detective Conan began serialization January 5, 1994, and is the longest running series in WSS. It is a cultural landmark in Japan and worldwide.
Image ยฉ Gosho Aoyama/Shougakukan
Starting December 28th Naoki Urasawaโs works will be available digitally. Up until now they have not been due to Urasawaโs dislike of the format. (His current series โAsadoraโ was included in digital issues of Big Comic but not as volume releases.)
Act Age illustrator Shiro Uzasaki has said she contributed an illustration to the upcoming Call of the Night fan book which will be out September 30th.
Rumiko Takahashi (staff)'s has opened a twitter! This is an illustration from her saying while she's not good at internet-ing her staff will be updating the twitter with all kinds of info.
BOICHI and Youn In-Wan's series "Super String Isekai Kenbunroku" starts in WSS April 19th, as well as on LINE manga in June.
Soon after WEBTOON worldwide will offer the series in 7 languages including English, Chinese and French.
Source:
Itโs been confirmed that YOASOBIโs song โYuusha (or the Brave)โ will no longer be the opening for the Frieren anime into itโs second cour starting January.
Episode 16 will be the last time for this opening, while the ED by milet will continue through cour two.
Tsubasa Fukuchi (The law of Ueki/Saike/Golden Spiral) has written a longer statement on his feelings regarding Akira Toriyama's passing. (Translated below)
As an extra hereโs the results if only a single vote per character is counted.
This one got more than 1.44 million votes.
1st place Frieren
2nd place Himmel
3rd place Fern
4th place Mimic
5th place Stark
6th place Yubel
7th place Aura of the Guillotine
8th place Denken
9th
Kaito Mitsuhashi (RYOKO) has returned to twitter with an illustration of Goku to mark Akira Toriyamaโs passing.
Note that the back of Gokuโs gi reads โToriโ for โToriyamaโ
RYOKO ran in WSS from October 2016 to June 2019.
ยฉ๏ธAkira Toriyama/Kaito Mitsuhashi/Bird Studio/Shuiesha.
The Frieren anime will begin the โFirst Class Magician Exam arcโ in January! Hereโs a poster artwork with the 20 characters featured in the arc.
If youโre anxious to get ahead, head on over to VIZMedia and start with volume 4! The arc goes from volume 4-7.
It's so nice to finally get clean art of the King and Queen of Shลnen Sunday from the two issue spread last year. ๐
(Just in time for the Conan movie opening in Japan tomorrow, too!)
ยฉGosho Aoyama/Tsukasa Abe/Kanehito Yamada/ SHOGAKUKAN
We purchased the Frieren: Beyond Journey's End art book, and it's no surprise that the art is breathtaking. We'll post some of our favorite pieces!
ยฉAbe Tsukasa/Kanehito Yamada/SHOGAKUKAN
Akira Toriyama inspired countless mangaka --even Gosho Aoyama. His second serialized series "Yaiba" drew very heavily from Toriyama-sensei's series Dragon Ball.
Manga storytelling would legitimately have taken a different trajectory without him at the helm.
Rest in Peace,
"Chainsaw Man" author Tatsuki Fujimoto recommends Kokoro Onodera's Sunday Webry Series "School Back".
Fushimi is a tall janitor at a high school who listens to the problems of the students who are no longer children but not quite adults.
Read here:
Illustration of Rohan Kishibe from Detective Conan Volume
#101
.
Aoyama mentions that if he had the power of "Heavens door" He'd like to peek into the mind of Rohan. His favorite "Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe" story is "Millionaire Village."
Image โธ Gosho Aoyama /SHOGAKUKAN
Congrats to Rumiko Takahashi for receiving the French Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" or (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) Which is the recognition of significant contributions to the arts, or literature.
[RUMOR] An anime adaption of "Frieren Beyond Journey's End" could be announced soon. With website domains being registered, and AnimeJapan coming up next month the timing seems to be about right but we will update with more info as we get it.
(Cover from WSS issue
#6
/2021)
Frieren will have a collaboration with Unmei no Makimodoshi and Beyblade X in the upcoming issue of Corocoro comics releasing October 14th! Below is the key visual for the collab along with a peek at the manga itself!
It's official! To celebrate its serialization ending 30 years ago, Yaiba is getting a complete reboot!
Aoyama-sensei requests people who know and do not know Yaiba to watch it when it premieres, and that he'll be supervising the new anime.
Recording has already started, but no
Artwork of Nazuna by Kento Matsuura (Phantom Seer) to commemorate the end of "Call of the Night." Matsuura must be a big fan of the series, as they also drew an illustration for the Call of The Night fanbook (on right).
ยฉKOTOYAMA/Kento Matsuura/SHOGAKUKAN
Tribute drawing of Goku by Atsushi Nakayama in honor of Akira Toriyamaโs passing.
Although Nakayama-sensei is primarily known for his works published with Shuiesha, he did have a series in WSS entitled โTraumeisterโ that was serialized from 2008-2009.
ยฉ๏ธAkira Toriyama/Atsushi
Dreams don't have to be dreams! Eiichiro Oda and Gosho Aoyama will have a special interview that will be published between Shonen Jump issue
#34
and WSS
#35
!
Below is the cleverly titled PV "Shinjitsu wa itsumo Hitotsunagi no Daihihล"
Thanks
@WSJ_manga
for the news tip!
Kappei Yamaguchi has revealed that his son and daughter played unnamed roles in the newest Detective Conan movie: Million Dollar Pentagram! Kappei Yamaguchi plays both Shinichi Kudo and Kaito Kid.
His daughter Akane also starred with him in the VOMIC of Akane Banashi.
In the
Detective Conan will go on hiatus indefinitely after issue 9 of WSS. Instead, Magic Kaito will return to WSS for the first time in 7 years in issue
#20
out April 10th.
This is just in time for the Kaito Kid and Heiji Hattori centered movie โThe Million Dollar guidepostโ. (In
Inio Asanoโs illustration of Kadode and Ouran, and a picture of Ano & Lilas Ikuta, their voice actresses in the upcoming anime adaptation of Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction.
Movie one will screen March 22nd
Movie two will screen April 19th.
Animated by production +h
Inio Asano, Ano, and Lilas Ikuta were present today during a screening of the first half of the two movie Dedede anime adaption. Asano mentioned that at first he wasn't sure how much he should be involved with the movie, but ended up involved in the entirety of the production,
Oricon has confirmed that this will indeed be a TV anime!
The director is Teruo Satou
Anime character designer is : Yoshihito Hishinuma
Series Composition is by Katsuyuki Sumisawa
The anime will feature Towa the 14 year old daughter of Sesshomaru living in the Reiwa era.
Gash Bell isnโt Shogakukan anymore, but Makoto Raikuโs company has opened up a window for licensors to pick it up. Raiku says there have been many inquiries for both Gash Bell and Gash Bell 2.
KOTOYAMAโs โCall of the Nightโ has entered its final arc.
Volume 18 will be out November 17th.
Source:
VIZMedia simulpubs the series in English
(Cover from issue
#39
of 2021.)
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Detective Conan, a new and secret project will be launched.
Itโs likely more information will be revealed January 7th, so stay tuned!
We report with great sadness that Eiko Masuyama passed away at the age of 89 due to a case of acute pneumonia. While she is widely known for being the original voice actress of Fujiko Mine of the Lupin the third franchise sheโs also been a part of Sunday anime too as Fusae
Tsubasa Fukuchiโs fanart of Urusei Yatsura and ChainsawMan. (Heโs watching both religiously each week.)
Image ยฉTsubasa Fukuchi/Rumiko Takahashi/Tatsuki Fujimoto/SHUEISHA/SHOUGAKUKAN
Congratulations to Frieren: Beyond Journeyโs End for winning the 48th annual Kodansha manga award!
As a rare non Kodansha published manga , Frieren won the Shonen category!
ยฉ๏ธTsukasa Abe/Kanehito Yamada/SHOGAKUKAN
My Hero Academia author Kohei Horikoshi recommends Kei Usubaโs โSuperstar o utatte.โ โThis story about clinging to hope no matter what brought me to tearsโ he quips.
The Gekkan! Spirits series follows Yukito who is forced into a life of hustling drugs after his mom and sister
Some pics of Rumiko Takahashi and the Inuyasha cast at the time of the animeโs first airing! Takahashi-sensei even attended the recording of the first episode (third pic) hard to believe this was more than 20 years ago ๐ฑ
Tsubasa Fukuchi (The Law of Ueki, Saike Matashitemo, Golden Spiral) has commented on Toriyama's passing as well:
"My God has passed away. I put my all into my work, making it my goal to someday meet and thank you for all you've done. It saddens me greatly to hear you've passed.
KOTOYAMA (Call of the Night) did an end card illustration for the โMysterious Disappearancesโ anime adaption!
It streams on Crunchyroll.
Nujima did a Call of the Night illustration for the fan book as well.
ยฉ๏ธNujima/KOTOYAMA/SHOGAKUKAN
Some more pics from the guide. (We won't post anymore to avoid getting in trouble, lol.) There are some cast interviews and such, but in all honesty I don't know if we'll have time to translate them. ^^;;
The Million Dollar Pentagram has broken the Conan series movie record with a 3.3 billion yen at the box office in 3 days.
Other movies box office in 2โ4 days
Haikyu 2.23 billion yen
Boy and the Heron: 2.14 billion yen in 4 days
Spy X Family 1.2 billion yen
Suzume 1.8 billion
Combined cover for issue
#41
& 42 of WSS featuring Detective Conan and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Issue
#42
will be out September 13th.
ยฉGosho Aoyama/Tsukasa Abe/Kanehito Yamada/SHOUGAKUKAN