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Dragon Zakura Two Manga to End on March 18, 2021
Dragon Zakura Two Manga to End on March 18, 2021
This year’s 15th issue of Kodansha’s Morning magazine has announced that Norifusa Mita’s Dragon Zakura Two manga will end in the magazine’s next issue on March 18, 2021. The story of the manga is described as: Prior to the 2020 Education Reform, “our man” is coming back. He’s the legendary attorney Sakuragi Kenji, who will waltz back to the fallen Ryuzan High School where the students’ academic…
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otakunews01 · 7 years
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Dragon Zakura Two Manga Launches in January
This year's 52nd issue of Kodansha's Morning magazine announced on Wednesday that Norifusa Mita (Investor Z) will launch a manga titled Dragon Zakura Two in next year's eighth issue on January 25.
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What were your fav jdramas from 2021? Your recs are always good and I am looking for something new to watch so I thought I would ask. Thanks!
- Konto ga Hajimaru (my jdrama of the year) - Kodoku no Gurume 9 (should I even include this lol, it’s just my all-time fave) - Dragon Zakura 2 (you don’t really need to watch the first season, I watched it not long after it aired over a decade ago and have never had a rewatch since so I even forget what happened lol) - Pension Metsa - Ikiru Toka, Shinu Toka, Chichioya Toka - Hankei 5 Metoru - Kakenai - Ore no Ie no Hanashi - Saiai - Nao-chan wa Shogakusannensei - Zenkamono - Nijiiro Karute - Ojisama to Neko - Boku no Neechan - Solo Katsu Joshi no Susume The last two aren’t fully subbed yet but I can already tell they’re going on the list.
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luna-rainbow · 2 years
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J-drama 2021 overview
It felt like a very long year (like I was surprised some of the titles were from this year and not last year). There was still a lot of uncertainty about TV shows this year, but pretty much every season has put out solid stuff. Production is still frequently interrupted by actors getting diagnosed with Covid and ratings have also been impacted by Olympics, although looking at the numbers, you wouldn't think that was the case, which might indicate the quality of the shows during the Olympics season (July) were better than usual.
Top rated dramas (*asterisk for personal recommendation)
Doctor X (season 7) - 16.47
Nihon Chinbotsu - 15.77
Tengoku to Jigoku (*) - 15.47
Dragon Zakura (season 2) - 14.95
Tokyo MER - 13.6
Ichikei no Karasu (*) - 12.59
Kinkyu Torishirabeshitsu (season 4) (*) - 12.18
Kansatsui Asagao (season 2) - 11.96
Oh My Boss! Koi wa bessatsu de - 11.63
Hakozume (*) - 11.39
The top 5 dramas are all big productions with fantastic cast, who acted the heck out of some real dubious plotlines.
This is a year where medical dramas dominated more than crime dramas (the two tentpoles of Japanese TV), although interestingly none of them (AFAIK) focused on the Covid situation. Apart from the three in the top ten (Doctor X, Tokyo MER, Kansatsui Asagao), three medical dramas just missed out - Night Doctor (11.19), Niji-iro Karute (11.03), and Radiation House (10.71).
Interestingly, romances did poorly this year: only Oh My Boss (plot was bleh but gosh the cinematography was pretty) scraped into the top 10. Despite trotting out big names, romances - whether dramatic or comedy - all rated under 10%, even though the premise and production came across as decent. For those interested in checking them out: Kon'intodoke ni han wo oshita dake desu ga (Seino Nana), Koi wa Deep ni (Ishihara Satomi), RikoKatsu (Kitagawa Keiko), Koi desu (Sugisaki Hana), Sai'ai (Yoshitaka Yuriko), and UchiKare (Hamabe Minami).
Personal favourites (in no particular order)
Tengoku to Jigoku (thriller) - well acted, unusual premise and plot even if not always logical, great chemistry between the two leads
Kinkyu Torishirabeshitsu (police procedural) - a very well put together season compared to some other seasonal procedurals
Hakozume (slice of life) - cute and heartfelt, but what stood out was the great relationship between two lead women
Ore no ie no hanashi (slice of life) - a well-written sensitive but humorous portrayal of family, illness and death
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Boomlords weird adventure
Chapter 47 war! what is it good for!
1 Boom walked out of the throne room and paced the Halls for what felt like hours upon hours. Every minute started to feel like an eternity. In all his life time never seem to slow as much as this even after 500 years this was the only time he can truly remember the seconds feeling this slow. Then he heard the horn from outside of the castle. Boom knew what this meant what he dread was happening now he had to face them. He just hopes can put on a good show enough for them to back way.
2 boom made his way to what he could only assume to be celestia's room however notable changes were made. The changes being the big ass hole Deadpool made. Still it was more than cinematic enough for what had to be done. He walked up to the platform crudely put together with dry wood and other random bits leading out like a stage. Deadpool was also there notably standing on the actual floor where he hadn't built anything. "All yours boss the possible future cause to a tetanus shot is ready."Deadpool then passed him a microphone connected to dozens of speakers hidden around the castle and outer areas."for the record I think we should have spent more time preparing the actual speech then blowing up a hole in the castle."Deadpool only responded with."noted now get out there and ruin your life I'm rooting for you!"despite the cruelness of the joke in a way it did make Bloom feel better. Reminder of a simpler time.
3 But simpler times would have to wait. Outside of the castle stood Twilight and her friends and every pony that they could muster behind them were the various friends from the Omniverse each ready to take up the fight. With the exception of courage who likely stayed back in ponyville. Most surprising of all however would be the large group of dragons along with ember and Spike all dressed in armor. They all waited as twilight took a step forward an the air went silent."boom Lord by the laws of Equestria an it's people! By the the words of the elements of harmony I beg of you please stand down and return the princess. Do this and we can all just head back to ponyville an forget this please." Twilight's voice was firm there was no trace of fear to be found yet boom could still feel the desperateness of it. It wasn't the voice of an angry mare it was the pleading voice of someone who loves him. But boom nearly swallowed his sorrow he could not allow emotion to blind him. If he had to be the bad guy he would do it no matter how much it hurt.
3 "Twilight your laws mean nothing in the grand scheme of it. I told you once that I was evil you should have listened to me."Twilight gritted her teeth."boom you know you're not-"but Bloom interrupted her."did you think I was lying I told you I was evil without even trying."he then lifted his hands as the ground started to rumble."I've already faced death I'm not scared of dying an you come with your armies thinking that I'll fall an whittle. I'm a bad little boy yes bad but not little."as he finish speaking spikes began to rise from the ground around castle. Twilight couldn't help but notice that the words he spoke all rhymed it was sort of like zakura but in a more rap way."leave or face my wrath I will not warm a second time."
4 Twilight didn't have the chance to speak because Rainbow Dash decided to speak for her with her actions. With lightning speed far past anything boom could have predicted she struck him in the chest with her two daggers. The force was enough to send them both into the air high above the platform. Once they were about 40 to 50 ft in the air the world seemed to freeze for rainbow as blood started to ooze down her hooves. But was worse was the light chuckle."I gotta say rainbow I wasn't expecting that. I'm so glad to see you remembered the first rule don't lead with your head."his voice almost seemed amused as he gasped for breath."but you don't know the second rule."rainbow felt her heart filled with fear but she kept a strong face twisting the daggers in his chest. But he showed little emotion to it."you chose the wrong person to stab."with that said he grabbed rainbow by her mane and forced his forehead into hers with enough Force to send her flying back into the ground along with him. But you went tumbling down and crashed into the ground and once again there was silence. And as they waited to figure started to stand. It was boom standing over the unconscious body of rainbow Dash and pulling the daggers out from his chest."ok so who's feeling lucky!"
(lastly points to anyone who got the reference that rap was to I did change up the lyrics but I do hope people recognize it)
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Takahashi Minami (高橋みな�� )
"My appearance is slightly yankii, but my heart is a glass. Called Takamina, Takahashi Minami!" " (見かけはちょっぴりヤンキー心はガラスのハートたかみなこと高橋みなみです!)"
Nickname: Takamina (たかみな), Minami (みなみ), Souchan (総ちゃん), Miichan (みいちゃん)
Former Stage Name: Harukaze Konami (春風山波) (no3b Rakugo Challenge)
Birthdate: April 8, 1991 
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Bloodtype: AB
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Height: 148cm
Years Active: 2005-2014
Agency: OgiPro
Group: AKB48
Team: Team A
Generation: 1st Generation 
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2005-2014
Trivia
Her hobbies are drawing and reading manga.
Considers her special talent to be copying pictures.
Her favorite colors are black, white, and pink.
Has two cats and had a dog named Ryu. Although she owns (Ten and Hi two, she has an allergy to cats.
Likes all animals, but cats are her favorite.
Her favorite book is Uncle Tom.
She likes the mangas NANA and One Piece.
Her favorite anime movie is Crayon Shin-chan: Calling the Storm; Battle of the Warring States.
Would like to be a voice actress in the future.
Likes music by Flumpool, Aqua Timez, w-inds, and Nakamori Akina.
She wants to visit Egypt.
Likes indoors better than outdoors.
Sensitive to both warmth and cold.
Her favorite seasons are spring and autumn.
Claims to be quite stubborn, and bad at giving up.
Feels happy at times when she can just relax, which she does by closing her eyes.
Her ideal female image is a person that looks perfect, but isn't.
She has three conditions that she looks for in a guy. Someone who is taller than her, funny and someone who manages money well. Also, she likes guys who wear suits, and thinks it is dreamy when they're fixing their collars.
Eats an apple every day to stay healthy.
Dislikes eating sushi, broccoli, and tomatoes (which ironically was her costume as a Veggie Ranger).
Loves katsudon, and eats it when she wants to get pumped up. Also, she would eat mother's katsudon for her last meal. She even has a katsudon year pass for Hotto Motto.
According to fellow AKB48 member Minegishi Minami, she constantly slouches.
Shares the same name in romaji as voice actress Takahashi Minami (高橋未奈美).
When she was 3 years old, she said she wanted to become a vegetable, specifically a cabbage, which was her Yasai Sister costume.
Keeps a Purikura album.
As seen on AKB 1ji 59fun (one of their TV shows), she can't skip properly.
As revealed in AKBINGO! (one of their TV shows), she is very sensitive and would be one of the first to start to cry on an emotional scene such as Bad Boys' Kyoto Oomizu's (MC of AKBINGO!) "wedding announcement" and "reunion with his mother".
In episode 26 of AKBINGO!, it was revealed that she also dislikes plum.
She is a constant target for Dokkiris (hidden camera pranks that are popular on Japanese variety shows).
Along with Mayuyu and Tomochin, her favorite Dragon Ball character is Son Goku.
When she was given the challenge for to perform Rakugo in a no3b's Kimi Shika Promotional Event, she was given the name "Harukaze Konami" as her Rakugo stage name.
As revealed to her in AKBINGO! (July 7, 2010), the only reason Takamina passed the initial written auditions was because of her height (148.5cm) and her birthdate (4/8/1991) both having the numbers 4 and 8.
During a segment in AKBINGO!, it was revealed that since their last check-up, she has been troubled by the result that she lost 5mm (in height, from 148.5cm to 148cm). In addition, during the EX-Episode for Majisuka Gakuen 2, she learned that Ichikawa Miori became taller than her 
She appeared in The Rock City Boy PV of American-born Pop Singer JAMIL.
Her Nogizaka46 counterpart in Aitakatta is Hoshino Minami.
Member of Light Music Club.
Gave Ota Aika her "General Captain Special Version" oshimen badge in HaKaTa Hyakkaten, the badge is so big (bigger than the one used by Oshima Yuko) that it also has it's own built-in stand.
Her audition song was Will by Hamasaki Ayumi.
Always ended up getting outed on every Muchaburi Dodgeball she participated except episode 69 (first Muchaburi Dodgeball episode).
Selected as JT 2016's ambassador of RockCorps
As of May 1st, 2019, she is married to an older man. This was revealed on her Instagram (@taka37_chan) as she posted a wedding pic with him.
She introduced her new husband on the first day of the new Reiwa era.
AKB48 Senbatsu Elections
1st Senbatsu Election - #5 (Senbatsu)
2nd Senbatsu Election - #6 (Senbatsu)
3rd Senbatsu Election, - #7 (Senbatsu)
4th Senbatsu Election - #6 (Senbatsu)
5th Senbatsu Election - #8 (Senbatsu)
6th Senbatsu Election - #9 (Senbatsu)
7th Senbatsu Election - #4 (Senbatsu)
Janken Tournaments
1st Janken Taikai - Round 1
2nd Janken Taikai - Round 2
3rd Janken Taikai - Round 3
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Singles Participation
AKB48 A-Sides
Sakura no Hanabiratachi
Skirt, Hirari
Aitakatta
Seifuku ga Jama wo Suru
Keibetsu Shiteita Aijou
BINGO!
Boku no Taiyou
Yuuhi wo Miteiru ka
Romance, Irane
Sakura no Hanabiratachi 2008
Baby! Baby! Baby!
Oogoe Diamond
10nen Zakura
Namida Surprise!
Iiwake Maybe
RIVER
Ponytail to Shushu
Heavy Rotation
Beginner
Sakura no Ki ni Narou
Everyday, Katyusha
Flying Get
Kaze wa Fuiteiru
GIVE ME FIVE!
Manatsu no Sounds Good!
Gingham Check
UZA
So long!
Sayonara Crawl
Koi Suru Fortune Cookie
Heart Ereki
Mae Shika Mukanee
Labrador Retriever
Kokoro no Placard
Kibouteki Refrain
Green Flash
Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai
Halloween Night
Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby
Kimi wa Melody
AKB48 B-Sides
Dear my teacher (Sakura no Hanabiratachi)
Aozora no Soba ni Ite (Skirt, Hirari)
Dakedo... (Aitakatta)
Virgin love (Seifuku ga Jama wo Suru)
Namida Uri no Shoujo (Keibetsu Shiteita Aijou)
Only Today (BINGO!)
Mirai no Kajitsu (Boku no Taiyou)
Viva! Hurricane (Yuuhi wo Miteiru ka?)
Ai no Moufu (Romance, Irane)
Saigo no Seifuku (Sakura no Hanabiratachi 2008)
Yume wo Shinaseru Wake ni Ikanai (Baby! Baby! Baby!)
109 (Marukyuu) (Oogoe Diamond)
Sakurairo no Sora no Shita de (10nen Zakura)
Majisuka Rock'n'Roll (Sakura no Shiori)
Majijo Teppen Blues (Ponytail to Shushu)
Yasai Sisters (Heavy Rotation)
Lucky Seven (Heavy Rotation)
Yoyaku Shita Christmas (Chance no Junban)
Kurumi to Dialogue (Chance no Junban)
Korekara Wonderland (Everyday, Katyusha)
Yankee Soul (Everyday, Katyusha)
Seishun to Kizukanai Mama (Flying Get)
Ice no Kuchizuke (Flying Get)
Yasai Uranai (Flying Get)
Noel no Yoru (Ue Kara Mariko)
Rinjin wa Kizutsukanai (Ue Kara Mariko) (WCenter Maeda Atsuko)
Sweet & Bitter (GIVE ME FIVE!)
Choudai, Darling! (Manatsu no Sounds Good!)
Yume no Kawa (Gingham Check)
Kodoku na Hoshizora (UZA)
Totteoki Christmas (Eien Pressure)
Ruby (So long!) (WCenter Watanabe Mayu
Ikiru koto (Sayonara Crawl) (WCenter Watanabe Mayu)
Hasute to Wasute (Sayonara Crawl)
Namida no Sei Janai (Koi Suru Fortune Cookie)
Saigo no Door (Koi Suru Fortune Cookie)
Kiss made Countdown (Heart Electric)
Mosh & Dive (Suzukake Nanchara
Party is over (Suzukake Nanchara)
Kyou Made no Melody (Labrador Retriever)
Kimi wa Kimagure (Labrador Retriever)
Juujun na Slave (Kibouteki Refrain) (WCenter Kojima Haruna)
Majisuka Fight (Green Flash)
Haru no Hikari Chikadzuita Natsu (Green Flash)
Hakimono to Kasa no Monogatari (Green Flash) (WCenter Kojima Haruna)
Barebare Bushi (Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai)
Kimi no Dai-ni shou (Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai)
Deai no Hi, Wakare no Hi (Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai) (Duet Yokoyama Yui)
Ippome Ondo (Halloween Night)
Yankee Machine Gun (Halloween Night)
Gunzou (Halloween Night)
Senaka Kotoba (Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby) (Center)
365nichi no Kami Hikouki (Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby)
Yasashii place (Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby)
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neinthedeer-blog · 5 years
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A ten-year-later story
Some weird idea about the future of the Rappapa with a light twist. I just wrote it for fun while celebrating the 10th anniversary of 10nen zakura. Please forgive my messy and lengthy writing style.
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    In a certain sunny day in February, at the usual busy airport, a girl with long black hair, which only had the left half tied up neatly, wearing black boots, black slim-fit military trousers and a camo sleeveless t-shirt, along with a deep green sukajan with white dragon embroidery on top, pushed her cart with at least a dozen of boxes on it around. She also carried on her back a military backpack. It seemed like she was waiting or looking for someone.
    “Hey Gekikara! Over here!” A girl, also with long black hair and white shirt, black jeans and a black sukajan with white dragon embroidery but in a different design, who was standing beside a gray pickup truck, waved her hand. Gekikara walked right over with a newfound excitement; it had been 2-3 months since the last time they met.
“Thanks for picking me up, Black”, Gekikara giggled and started unloading the boxes on her cart into the rear trunk of the old truck after hugging the other girl, “By the way, you still haven’t bought a new truck yet?” Black helped with the unloading while answering, “I just don’t want to. And don't mention it, your goods need to be brought to the supermarket anyway. Are you gonna stay in a hotel this time? Wanna stay at my place?” Gekikara replied, “Well, I won’t refuse your kindness if you want to”.
After unloading everything, Gekikara put her backpack on top of the boxes and closed the trunk with a bang. “Take it easy, Gekikara, you will break my precious truck” Black said after seating herself on the driver’s seat. “Hey, it’s not my fault your precious truck is so old”, Gekikara replied while opening the door and comforting herself on the front seat of the so-called old truck. Black stoop on the accelerator and they were out of the airport’s noisy parking area in no time.
“How was your last mission in Syria?”, Black asked. “Decent. I saved a lot. There were so many abandoned children, you can't even imagine.” Gekikara answered in a soft voice. She was a soldier of a Voluntary Force, which main job was to come to terrored or devastated places to rescue the locals. Although the force was voluntary, they still got pay a lot due to the danger of the missions and also because the force was organized by private. Although the job paid good, it was not the reason for Gekikara's participation. It all started when she met a girl named Furukawa Airi a year after her graduation, after she sold her mother’s house and started roaming the world. The small girl was there when Gekikara passed by a terrored town and saved a child out of the fire. Airi asked Gekikara to join the force right away. “There are even more children that need help, will you join us?”, with a warm voice, Airi managed to convince Gekikara to join in the team. Gekikara was the one that understanding the feeling of an abandoned child the most hence she didn’t want to see any children suffering in her sight. Despite of being a private organized force, Gekikara was trained full-fledged military style and it helped her control her brute strength better, while also taught her the importance of defense and accuracy in fighting. She still laughed when fighting though, Gekikara-style as always. She was in the hand-to-hand combat team which was to handle hostage-involved cases, where they couldn’tshoot recklessly, and rescue people from collapsed buildings. Airi was in the tactical team and they were a great duo. However, Airi was shot 3 years after Gekikara joined the force and Gekikara went full monster to revenge for her dear friend. Nowaday, apart from her dog tag, she also wore Airi’s in commemoration of her friend and donated most of her salary to various orphanages. Money never delighted Gekikara so she only kept enough for herself and for her share in paying Yuko’s hospital bill. Yes, you heard it correct, Yuko was alive. The doctor said it was a miracle, but she needed to stay full time in the hospital. The Rappapa decided to split the bill among themselves since Yuko had no family or relative. Rappapa was her only family and they decided to do what family supposed to do. Even though Yuko protested a few times at first, she understood that she had no way to pay the bill with how she had to stay in the hospital all the time now. It was hard on the girls at first considering the only ones with real job is Sado, who was a nurse-in-training, Black, who was a clerk and Torigoya, who was a masseur. Maeda was finishing her study in medical university, Shibuya and Gekikara was jobless, or rather had not found the job they wanted.
Then things started getting better.
Firstly, Sado got promoted into the head nurse. Then Gekikara met Airi and joined the Voluntary Force. After that, Shibuya had been irritated by her underlings being beaten by boy yankees for a while now and started teaching them her boxing skill, then some other yankees came and asked to join her lesson. Ultimately, Shibuya turned her hideout into a boxing class for girl yankees and had made quiet a name for herself. The class, of course, had fees and even though it was not too high, the amount of trainees were enough to make up for that. Dance, still as loyal and faithful as ever, also joined the class, sometimes as experiment object for Shibuya, but also for serious lesson sometimes. Dance also helped with the equipment and gate-guarding for the class. When Maeda graduated from university and became a real doctor, the hospital fee for Yuko turned into a really small matter and to top that off, Torigoya saved enough to open her own massage parlor while Black inherited the supermarket from its previous owner. He was a lonely old man with no heir or any relative, so he decided to give it to Black, his loyal and hardworking employee after hearing Yuko’s story and how the Rappapa girls had decided to split the bill. The supermarket was in between Majijo and Yabakune’s territory, where no one dared to open up any form of business which boosted Black’s supermarket sell greatly. The students from both school also agreed to be on neutral term when encounter each other in her supermarket (or Black, and sometimes the other girls, would beat them into pulps). But what made Black’s supermarket become a hit was Gekikara’s goods. Gekikara usually got 4 breaks a year and due to another agreement between the girls, which was to come and take Yuko outside once a month for fun (didn’t mean she had not tried to sneak out but with Sado as the nurse and Maeda as the doctor, she stood no chance), she came back periodically with souvenirs for them everytime and one time, Gekikara brought spare military supplies back, and Black felt that the yankees would love these for sure, so Gekikara brought back more for Black on her next break, which sold out almost immediately. All type of fighting supplies like gauntlets, knee caps, camo suits, cargo pants,... were sold out in a flash. So Gekikara became Black's supermarket's fixed supplier and she sometimes brought back some of her job’s destination’s food or goods. Although they were not as good sell as the military stuffs, they were good seasonal products nontheless.
Black’s truck pulled up beside a small, neat-looking supermarket and the two started unloading the boxes again, now from the trunk into the store’s storage. After all was done, they sat together on the staff’s room and chatted for a bit. “Thanks for the goods, Geki. Just list the stuffs and prices out for me like last time. I will pay you later”, Black said while fidgeting with the water bottle’s cap after taking a huge gulp of water. “Don’t mention it, this supermarket was technically ⅓ mine anyway”, Gekikara said while smirking then went on and took another gulp of water from her military water bottle. Black facepalmed at what her friend just said, “I have told you that’s a bad idea so many times”. “Well, we did it anyway”, Gekikara laughed. It was years ago, after the Gekikara’s goods had been going on for a while, Gekikara suddenly suggested Black to sell her ⅓ of the supermarket’s stocks since she was technically a shareholder now with how much effort she was invested in the supermarket’s well-being. Black hesitated at first but finally did it and from then on, Gekikara had used it to reject her payment for the goods whenever she could. Black always had to force her to take it and Gekikara seemed like she enjoyed making Black angry.
“Where should we go next?” Gekikara asked while tugging her water bottle back into her already over packed bag. “Shibuya asked me to pick her and Torigoya up from the ring and then we can go to the hospital together” Black answered. “Oh yes, I almost forget, Yuko-san…”, the atmosphere suddenly turned quiet and heavy, Black, not willing to look at Gekikara’s sad face and also to hide her sad face, stood up first and walked out to the truck, “Let’s go, the others are waiting”.
Gekikara had a month break every year and to fulfill the girls’ agreement to come and bring Yuko out for fun as frequently as they can (usually once a month), she came back every 3 months and spent a week with her family - the Rappapa, and mostly Yuko. Therefore, she usually scheduled to come back at the end of March, which was to bring Yuko out to see cherry blossom, end of June, end of September and end of December, which was to celebrate new year together with her family. But this time, Gekikara had to take her break in mid-February because of a dreadful news from Yuko: she had fallen into a coma and her time was coming to an end, in which the doctors agree on letting her to go home for there was nothing they could do anymore.  
The ride was filled with small conversation for Black and Gekikara to update each other with the 2 months gap. When the car stopped in front the boxing class, Dance immediately came and opened the door for them, “Black-san, Gekikara-san, Shibuya and Torigoya-san are waiting for you two”. “Thanks a bunch, Dance. Has the class ended?” Gekikara asked with a smile toward Dance. Even though not recognized as a Rappapa’s member, the girls all adored Dance’s devotion and loyalty toward her Shibuya-san and also to their small group. They all saw her as part of their little family. Whenever Shibuya couldn’t come to take Yuko out, Dance would go in her place and although being teased by Yuko a lot, the girl did her job perfectly. “They are coming to an end soon. Please come inside.” Dance said while holding the door open for them. “Okay, see you later, Dance”, Black said while the duo stepped inside the place. Shibuya was observing the sparring between her trainees and making criticism on their fighting stand while Torigoya was just dazing off, as always.
It was truly an amusing thing how much a person can change, for better. Teaching other yankees helped Shibuya to be better at controlling her emotion and temper. She was still a hot-headed though and nothing gonna change that, but she got really better at listening and instructing others. Back then, she could only boss her underlings around but now she was a great teacher herself.
Also, similar to Black’s supermarket, Shibuya’s ring was a neutral ground and all the yankees from different school agreed to stay neutral here (or, again, Shibuya and the others gonna beat them into pulps).
The class finally drew to an end and while trainees were pouring out of the class, some recognized Gekikara and Black and bowed to them slightly. Dance ran in and started cleaning up the place, also putting equipments away for tomorrow lesson. Shibuya and Torigoya approached the duo right after and while Torigoya gave Gekikara a tight hug, Shibuya only shook hands with her. Then, they exchanged some words of merriment while Shibuya cooled off and drank some water off her high-fashioned water bottle. Shibuya was wearing a black legging with a pink tank top and a pair of training shoes and Torigoya was wearing casual t-shirt and jeans with her red sukajan on top. She left to take a shower and then put on her pink sukajan to join them for the ride to the hospital. The four queens were coming for their boss.
When they arrieved at the hospital, heir vice boss and vice vice boss were already waiting beside Yuko, in their fur coat and jean jacket, silently.
The ride was silent, a peaceful silence shared among them since forever. The traumatized child, the introverted, the hot-headed, the air-headed, the sadist and the serious (plus the scaredy catl), they all came together around Yuko and Yuko had made sure that even when she was no longer around, they could still stand beside each other, silently, as always. They were no longer comrades, they were family. Family was different from friends or comrades. They didn’t have to always stuck beside each other, they didn’t have to have the same goal, the same dream, the same life values, but they would still come back to each other side at the end of the day. The girls were a family. And their home was the good old wind instrument club. They would occasionally take Yuko back to the room on their take-Yuko-out-of-the-hospital days for some nostalgia and with Black and Shibuya’s connection with new generations of Majijo’s students, the room was left untouched, silently waiting for its rightful owners to comeback.
Yuko was coming home.
It was weekend, so no one was at school right now. The school stood quietly embracing the early-spring breeze while the old cherry blossom tree shaking its dried branches as if welcoming Yuko and the Rappapa’s appearance. Cherry blossom season was nearby but Yuko wouldn't be there to see it.
Rumours said that Center was the president right now and she also helped maintaining the wind instrument room as it was for them.
Sado princess carried Yuko into their good old clubroom, which Yuko would loudly protest if she was conscious but today, she stayed quiet. They put her onto her golden chair, the chair for the top of Majijo, their top. Yuko was quiet, so unlike her, with her head slightly leaned to a side. If not for her pale skin, the Rappapa sweared they could see the old days playing in their head, where their precious Yuko-san, after causing lots of mischieves, soundly taking a nap on the same chair, her small figure embraced by the golden silk. At those time, the girls would usually sitting silently around her and let Yuko have her peaceful snap. So they did the same. Black sat down on the long chair and started reading her bible, Gekikara stood beside her while biting her nails silently, Shibuya sat down and stared at her newly done nails, Torigoya fidgeted with a feather, Sado rolled the kendama’s ball on her hand and Maeda read her book, Dance stood silently with bowed head beside Shibuya.
It almost resembled the scene from their good old days, except for all of them were praying this time. To gods, to demons, to heaven, to hell.
“Please don’t take Yuko-san away.”
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Well, how will this end, you may ask? That's up to you.
This piece was written as a prologue for a fanfic of mine, but the fanfic itself will need more time to be polished, so I just post this as a one shot for memory. Maybe I will finish that fanfic one day.
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Live-Action Dragon Zakura Sequel Show Reveals 3 More Cast Members - News
Live-Action Dragon Zakura Sequel Show Reveals 3 More Cast Members – News
Sara Shida, Oji Suzuka, Seishiro Kato cast in April series The official website for the live-action series of Norifusa Mita‘s Dragon Zakura Two sequel manga revealed from Saturday-Monday three new cast members. The cast includes: Sara Shida as Mari Kosugi, who has excellent grades but wants to get a job after graduation Oji Suzuka as Ryо̄ Fujii, who has high grades and has a habit of looking…
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Akagami no Shirayukihime Dragon Companion AU compilation
Okay, guys. This is getting really long and I don’t regret a thing. 
This is a collection of a bunch of ideas and images from a thread on the Obiyuki discord that we’ve tossed around about an ANS AU where dragons exist. I’ve had some thoughts since then and have added my ideas to the list, but there are still a lot of blank spaces and room for expansion. 
I’m listing any ANS writers/artists who have said they want to create content for any of these. PLEASE feel free to send me pictures, ideas, suggestions, alterations, questions, etc. Literally anything you can think of, anonymously or otherwise. I’ll post the asks and let it go a few rounds in the ANS fandom to see what ideas most of us seem to like best and add them to this master post. 
I hope this monstrous thing serves as inspiration for some of you and is good, wholesome fun for the rest of us. 
Dragons are immortal creatures that have existed since the dawn of time and come in many shapes and sizes. Most are hundreds to thousands of years old and females and babies are rare. They choose To live among humans as lifelong companions and friends, finding a new companion after the previous has died. 
(Note: Dragon’s age the equivalent of about 1 year to every 7 that passes through infancy to adulthood. Once they reach maturity - around 200 years of age - they cease maturing and can live indefinitely, so far as we are aware. Some species never stop growing, some do.) 
Shirayuki’s 
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Size: Pocket (5-10 inches long)
Age: 250
Personality: Angry. Snaps and hisses at people, particularly Raj and his dragon or anyone who tries to touch her hair. Hides out in Shirayuki’s pockets and hoods - and under her hair, when it was long. 
History: Gets into fights frequently despite his small size, so his face is rather smashed and mangled. Shirayuki still thinks he’s lovely. 
Hoard: Insults and colorful stones 
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Zen’s 
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Color: White 
Size: 3 feet tall 
Age: 800 years 
Personality: Dopey and friendly. Drools a lot. Excitable. Runs around the castle knocking things over and making a nuisance of himself. Taught Zen how to climb the castle walls. Probably snores. And chases his tail, among other things. 
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Hoard: Feathers and leaves 
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Obi’s 
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Color: Yellow 
Size: Pocket (12-15 inches long). No wings. 
Age: 537
Personality: Flirtatious and clever but also kind of grumpy. Holds grudges over little things and likes to tease. Once hid inside Obi’s pants while Obi was sleeping because she was cold but Obi’s reaction in the morning was so hilarious she does it just to mess with him now. 
History: A huge influence on the development of Obi’s personality - he used to be sullen and quiet but she was so annoying he had to learn to retaliate. 
Hoard: Scarves (they’re warm.) 
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Color: Green, furred. 
Size: Still growing. 
Age: 84 (developmentally the same age as Ryuu) 
Personality: Venomous. 
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Mitsuhide’s 
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Color: Dark blue 
Size: 6 feet tall 
Age: 871
Personality: Lazy. Very lazy. Sleeps everywhere on anything all the time. Is very strong and helpful but you have to get him up first. Rests his head on Mitsuhide’s shoulder when he’s awake and gives headbutts as a sign of his affection. 
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Hoard: Sunny, cozy alcoves and rocks 
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Kiki’s
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Color: Iridescent purple and blue 
Size: 10 feet tall 
Age: 2,332
Personality: Regal, pompous, vain. A beautiful dragon and he knows it but secretly angry about his “smaller” size. Thinks dragons like Izana’s are “excessively large,” and is quite vocal about it. Likes Kiki because she is strong and beautiful and doesn’t take crap from anyone but that’s where their similarities end. 
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Hoard: Reflective surfaces (constantly hounding Kiki to pull out her sword so he can make sure there’s nothing stuck in his teeth).
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Color: White 
Size: 30 feet tall 
Age: Unknown 
Personality: Ancient and wise, but secretive. Arrogant, disdainful, cold. Has little tolerance for younger dragons. Doesn’t care for weak and stupid people, either, but he finds them amusing all the same. Izana ends up becoming a rare exception; the young King is clever enough to appeal to this dragon’s interests and he ends up begrudgingly fond and protective of Izana after a few years. 
History: 
Hoard: Clarines kingdom (is the companion of the king or the king’s heir exclusively). 
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Zakura’s 
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Color: Black 
Size: 12 feet tall 
Age: 942 
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Haruka’s 
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Color: Gold 
Size: 8 feet tall 
Age: 2,800 
Personality: Prideful and inquisitive. Spends a lot of his time reading or traveling. 
History:  Is a companion to Haruka’s family more than Lord Haruka himself, and is the biggest reasons for their wealth and standing in Clarines. 
Hoard: Books and maps. 
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Garrack’s 
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Yuzuri’s 
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Color: Red and orange 
Size: 20 feet tall 
Age: 400 
Personality: Suspicious, protective. Hot tempered and can be violent and malicious if her companion or friends are in danger. 
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Color: Yellow 
Size: 2 feet long 
Age: 250 
Personality: Relaxed and lazy but very curious. Likes to lay on Suzu’s head or shoulder and read along with him while Suzu researches and asks a lot of questions until falling asleep again. Drives Yuzuri’s dragon crazy by napping on her neck just high enough that she can’t reach to nip his tail. 
History: 
Hoard: Pencils and pin cushions (the latter makes excellent pillows) 
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Shidan’s 
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Color: Brown 
Size: 8 inches 
Age: 1,863 
Personality: Dead without the canonverse’s version of coffee. Cranky and prickly and critical but secretly fond of almost everyone. 
History: 
Hoard: Coffee. All the coffee. 
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Lata’s 
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Color: Black. 
Size: 3 inches 
Age: 5 
Personality: Cheerful and curious and playful. Still just a baby. 
History: Lata had never had a dragon companion before. He happened to be out in a cave hunting for stones when he stumbled across a hatching dragon. She took a liking to him despite his panicked protests that he has no idea how to take care of a baby. He does a great job not matter how much he complains and she absolutely adores him. 
Hoard: Fruits and berries. She hasn’t figured out yet why they keep disappearing (Lata eats them before they go bad). 
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Haki’s 
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Color: White 
Size: 10 feet tall 
Age: 1,958
Personality: Wise and clever. Offers quiet council and advice but only when the person would not be better served by figuring it out themselves. 
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Makiri’s 
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Color: Grey 
Size:15 feet tall 
Age: Unkown. 
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Raj’s 
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Color: Reddish pink 
Size: 6 inches 
Age: 702 
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Hoard: Coins 
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Rona’s 
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Mukaze’s
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Color: Brown and Green 
Size: Unknown 
Age:Unknown 
Personality: Slow and steady as a mountain. Old and wise and infinitely kind. Adopts pretty much everyone on the mountain as his children. Fearsome when angered. 
History:
Hoard: People 
Writers/Arists: superhappybubbles 
Itoya’s
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Color: Grey 
Size: 12 feet tall
Age: 1,442
Personality: Quiet and serious. Contemplative. Likes to sit outside and watch nature, watch the sun and moon and stars cross the sky, the water flow in the river, the birds and creatures go about their days. Patient and stubborn as stone. 
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Kazuki’s 1st 
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History: Umihebi killed Kazuki’s first dragon, something considered impossible before. Kazuki rarely talks about it. Umihebi became more power hungry, greedy, and arrogant than ever before. 
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Writers/Arists: superhappybubbles 
Kazuki’s 2nd 
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Color: Brownish green. 
Size: 24 inches long 
Age: 23 
Personality: Cheerful. Kinda dopey. Very clumsy. Basically a fearless but accident-prone little kid who wind Kazuki over by being ridiculously chirpy and lighthearted and giving Kazuki’s concerned and protective spirit one too many heart attacks by walking obliviously into danger. 
History:
Hoard: Flowers and acorns 
Writers/Arists: superhappybubbles 
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Kihal’s
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Color: Blue and green, exotic in appearance. 
Size: 2 feet long
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Hoard: Snail shells 
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Hisame’s 
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Color: Dark grey 
Size: 15 feet tall 
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Tsuruba and Tariga’s 
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Color: Dark grey 
Size: 10 feet tall 
Age: 470 
Personality: 
History: Touka chained him down as a punishment to the twins once after they had made a mistake. The first thing they do after Touka dies is run back to release him. 
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Shuuka’s 
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Color: Black 
Size: 15 inches 
Age: 72 
Personality: Rambunctious and curious. Explores in the walls and crevices of the fort and eats the mice and rats. Hangs upside-down from the rafters to sleep. Likes to roll around and bat at people’s feet while they’re trying to walk. Basically a cat, but cuter. 
History:
Hoard: Arrowheads. Two (2) mice or one (1) rat can be traded for one intact arrowhead, should the need arise. 
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Color: Orange 
Size: 4 inches 
Age: 608
Personality: A total moron. Look at that face, c’mon. He likes to climb trees and eat fruit. He screeches extremely loud with a raspy, grating tone to get Shiira’s attention, which he absolutely loathes, and gnaws on literally everything. And then just when Shiira is ready to wring his neck, he falls asleep on Shiira’s lap curled up in a tiny ball and snuffling/nuzzling at Shiira’s belly. 
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Hoard: He seems to think every chair and bed in existence belongs to him. You got up to go get a drink? Too bad, he stole it. You want to go to sleep? Well, looks like he’s camped out right in the center and how could you possibly stand to wake something that adorable? 
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Kai’s 
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Size: Unknown 
Age: N/A 
Personality: Unknown 
History: Someone gave him the egg as a gift. My shipping heart wants to say Shiira, but I don’t think a lowly gate guard could afford a dragon egg. 
Hoard: Unknown 
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Haruto’s 
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Color: Purplish blue 
Size: 5 feet tall 
Age: 924
Personality: Happy and sweet. Likes to lick Haruto’s hand and nuzzle her side. Curls around whatever chair she sits in. 
History:
Hoard: Pearls 
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Crunchyroll to Publish Dragon Zakura Two Manga Digitally
Crunchyroll has announced that it has added Norifusa Mita’s Dragon Zakura Two manga as a digital manga. The company will add a new chapter of the manga every Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. EST, and the release is available worldwide. The original Dragon Zakura manga follows an ex-biker gang member and lawyer who restarts his life as a teacher at a rough high school. Mita launched Dragon Zakura Two in…
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Other ANN news for today:
Manga/anime/light novels-
Altered Carbon: Resleeved Anime Unveils Trailer, Japanese Cast, March 19 Debut
Video games-
Naruto x Boruto Ninja Tribes Game Launches for PC in U.S., Canada, Japan
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Live-Action Bishoku Tantei Akechi Gorō Show Casts Mirai Shida
Dragon Zakura Two Manga Gets Live-Action Series
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Series starring Hiroshi Abe previously slated for summer premiere
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Dragon Zakura 2.
Alternative: ドラゴン桜 2 ; Dragon Zakura Two
Description : Prior to the 2020 Education Reform, “our man” is coming back! He’s the legendary attorney Sakuragi Kenji, who will waltz back to the fallen Ryuzan High School where the students’ academic aptitude is plummeting. In opposition to apathetic students and “The Empress” (Representative of the Chief Director) who wields overwhelming authority, he will start a revolution along with Mizuno, his former pupil. Part 2 of Dragon Zakura, the legendary “manga that will help you pass the University of Tokyo entrance exams” — which helped change the landscape of Japan’s university entrance exams — is here at last! Rest assured, entering the University of Tokyo is going to be a cinch #MangaReddit.com, #ReadFreeMangaOnline Read Free Manga Online at MangaReddit.com: https://mangareddit.com/p/dragon-zakura-2_1584418384.html
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Manga Creator Receives Backed Overtime Pay From Years as Assistant
New Post has been published on https://animeindo.org/blog/2018/02/04/manga-creator-receives-backed-overtime-pay-from-years-as-assistant/
Manga Creator Receives Backed Overtime Pay From Years as Assistant
Yawara no Michelangelo manga (seen right) creator Shunsuke Kakuishi revealed on January 17 that he received overtime pay from Norifusa Mita (Investor Z, seen below left; Dragon Zakura) after posting a request on his own blog.
Kakuishi said that he consulted with the Labour Standards Inspection Office and ultimately requested overtime pay for the portion of a period of two years and four months in which he worked more than eight hours per day. Kakuishi reported that he received the full amount on the designated day and added that he heard other staff members also received similar compensation.
After working as an assistant for many years, Kakuishi debuted as a creator with his Yawara no Michelangelo judo manga in October. Kakuishi posted his request for overtime pay on his blog last month, partly as a response to an online interview in which Mita described measures he takes to treat staff fairly. In his initial blog post, Kakuishi claimed that he and fellow assistants often worked long overtime hours on the last day of their work week under Mita. Kakuishi worked as Mita’s assistant for about 11 years and seven months until April 2017.
Kakuishi said that he received a letter from Mita on the day after he received the backed overtime pay. In the letter, Mita did not criticize him and actually thanked him.
Kakuishi stated that he was successful in his request for unreceived overtime pay because he has copies of timecards from the period he worked for Mita. He believes that many workplaces with manga creators may not use timecards. However, he hopes that his situation will encourage more assistants use timecards and keep accurate records of the hours they work.
Additionally, Kakuishi hopes that manga creators will strive more to properly regulate the hours that their staff work. He emphasized that creators need to pay assistants for overtime hours or make sure that they do not work overtime. Furthermore, Kakuishi said that publishers need to make sure that the manuscript payments they give creators are sufficient to cover the costs for creators to have several assistants. He believes publishers need to allow for the cost of paying assistants if the production schedule requires creators to have staff in order to complete work on time.
Kakuishi said that, as part of the reaction to his situation, he has heard that some workplaces do offer overtime pay. However, he wonders if assistants are receiving proper overtime as mandated by law. He maintained that creators must ensure that they are abiding by Japan’s Labor Standards Act.
While Kakuishi appears satisfied with the overtime compensation he ultimately received, he has reiterated in all his related blog posts that financial gain was not his only motive. Kakuishi aims to spread awareness about the working conditions of assistants and raise their relatively low status in the manga industry. He hopes his effort will contribute to improvements in their working environments and encourage manga creators and publisher to reevaluate their systems.
After Kakuishi announced he received overtime payment he requested, the Bengo4.com News website interviewed him about his case and posted the interview on January 22. Kakuishi said in the interview, “For my part, I feel relieved that I got payment for this [unpaid overtime] I claimed.” He added that he did not expect his situation to receive as much attention as it has.
He restated in the interview that the root of the problem may lie with publishers, and they need to properly pay their creators. Other than the situation related to overtime, Kakuishi said that Mita was reasonable to work with compared to the situations of other assistants.
Kakuishi specified that because he had complete copies of his timecards, he was able to receive about 1 million yen (about US$9,000) in unreceived overtime pay from Mita. The Labour Standards Inspection Office told him that people can only request backed overtime pay for a period of two years. From his 11 years and seven months of records, Mita was able to break down the exact amount of overtime pay he was due for the last two years and fours months he worked for Mita.
Kakuishi told the website that he is not sure if he has yet had a tangible impact on the working conditions in the manga industry, but he remains optimistic that his efforts may contribute to bringing about change.
Shortly after Kakuishi posted his initial overtime pay request on his blog, he received online criticism from fellow manga creators such as Kyosuke Usuta (Pyu to Fuku! Jaguar, Sexy Commando Gaiden: Sugoi yo!! Masaru-san) and Shuho Sato (Say Hello to Black Jack, seen above right; Umizaru). Kakuishi described his methods for working with his assistant, and Sato described how his policies with his own assistants have changed over the years. Both Kakuishi and Sato further discussed their standpoints on Twitter and their blogs. Sato said that he is skeptical of Kakuishi’s efforts because of the complexities new creators face in complying with Japan’s labor laws. Despite his concerns, Sato also apologized to Kakuishi for seeming insensitive towards the circumstances of assistants.
Source: Bengo4.com News (Yūji Shimoyama)
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Live-Action Dragon Zakura Sequel Show Casts Kanata Hosoda - News
Live-Action Dragon Zakura Sequel Show Casts Kanata Hosoda – News
Hosoda plays Tokyo University student Kenta Hara in April series The official website for the live-action series of Norifusa Mita‘s Dragon Zakura Two sequel manga revealed on Friday that Kanata Hosoda (below) will play Kenta Hara, a student at Tokyo University who has a fascination of insects. He is suffering from a personal problem that isolates him from his friends. Actor Hiroshi Abe (Still…
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