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OHAIYO MY APOLOGIES FOR THE LATE REPLY!! But I am here now to finally get to your lovely message once and for all! Firstly, as for what I got interviewed for. In my free time I like to help people recover from their EDs, and my old recovery facility liked the work that I've been doing so they let me speak on their panel for greater insurance coverage and treatment for people with EDs! I go more in depth about that and more in this video if you're still curious, no pressure to watch it ofc tho! 😎👌



YATTA!!! Stoked to read you had a terrific bday!! ;] THE TUNNEL EFFECT OMG!!! YES AGREED, I feel like the stakes are hardly worth taking seriously after that. Don't get me wrong, still some of the best fight choreography Jump has to offer no doubt, but man they really doubled down on that especially with the chapter with Obachan giving Lu a pressure point pinch in order to get her more easily inebriated. I want sakamoto days going back to being clever, and outrageous with its action instead of relying on asspulls. Which sounds harsher than I meant lol, because I still love it endlessly, but I do wish it had more fun with itself.

KGB keeps me on edge with how often it does the whole: everything's peaceful in this scene, then immediately you turn the page and see everyone decapitated. Which why it makes it so hard to get attached to any character outside of Chihiro of Hakuri, but perhaps that's Hokazono making the series feel more authentic and meta. You can't get attached to anyone in this field of work, because you don't know who's gonna get hit next! (or maybe he's just overflowing with new ideas/characters and doesn't know what to do with the old ones aside from killing them off lol). Either way, it's still crushing it in the art, atmosphere, and world building department.

I think there's alot of great series currently coming out in both Jump/WSJ specifically that don't rely on the hitman or exorcist stuff. There's crazy, over the top stuff like Ping Pong Peril that has the same type of absurdism Sakadays used to have (also I think CSM is the bigger propagator for both hitman/exorcist stories taking over in animanga than sakadays, but I digress), magic adventures found in Ichi the witch, and high octane action with lots of soul found in Shinobi. (I also love Harukaze Mound, and Someone Hertz so far). Really just hope these aforementioned series fill the positive gap in WSJ, since both WSJ and other shounen magazines have been doubling down on the dark, brooding, and edgy series. (EVEN SAKADAYS MORPHED INTO THAT OVERTIME 😭) but now I'm rambly so gomen.



Yeah the new villains in this current Shinobi arc weren't as fleshed out as the people they were competing against before, but in return we're getting more lore on Mimizuku, Yodaka, Aoi, and their organization. So tit for tat, I'll take it. I'd also say it's still not nearly as rushed as Otr imo. Kaedegami for sure was treading that generic exorcist line at first, but the art, integration of chinese mythology, and the character dynamics are making me fall for it <3 which I find fascinating because so far the characters on their own aren't the most compelling, but when they're put in a situation together I find myself invested in how they gel with one another. Also amusing to see them incorporate at least TWO mascot characters into the story ^^ I'd buy a plush of this for sure!

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If that's the case, then that's reassuring! I actually managed to score a volume at an animanga con I went to recently! 🥳 I've never paid attention to the numbers the series got, since I only got into it in the last couple years it was being published (plus I just really don't bother with the popularity numbers as a whole generally with manga). But I'm certain the mangaka duo will continue to go on to make more incredible works and continue finding success! ^o^

Broken Glass Slipper is the copy and paste answer? Well regardless, they're an excellent duo and I think do a phenomenal job serving as the surrogate example for experiencing the Japanese comedy industry through women. All the groups stories were touching, but I felt especially supportive and in full support of them winning the competition!

Brutus(er selentius?) is a fascinating choice too! I'm so glad they ended up not being the actual 'bad guys' but were lost when using comedy to deal with grief. Which is an intense subject, that I'm STILL in complete awe of how the story handled that subject matter so respectfully and maturally!

Absolutely, I think those are fair critiques of early Kagurabachi. But I was still enthralled by the raw art with a rough edge, it's definitely gotten more refined but still retains that rawness that I initially fell in love with (just with a bit more finesse and smoothness).

Like you I REALLY DO love the characters in the story and hope all the ones you mentioned are here to stay. But unlike you, aside from Hakuri, I doubt any of them are here to stay. ;c I'd have more hope for Iori staying if characters like Hiyuki, Char, and Shiba appeared more than once outside of the arc they were introduced in. I prefer having a solid main cast we follow and grow attached to than an endless rotating door of characters who either job, die, or survive but we just never get to see what they're up to. I REALLY hope that changes, because if it gave other characters the same development
We're getting for chihiro and Hakuri, then I think KGB would be my personal fav currently publishing manga in WSJ (and possibly be able to have an even larger following than it already does, but I digress^^)

Sakamoto Days does serve as a sister series to KGB imo, for the longest time I much preferred it over KGB, but now it's almost gone to the other side. I think both series would've benefitted greatly from having a stronger central cast (and if Sakamoto Days stayed more comedy action instead of shifting to 'absurdist but more serious action') but that's another can of worms.

One Piece either only kills good guys (ace) and resurrects them (sabo)Sabo, or good guys I don't care that much about (Pedro... ). But it still excels I'm having a fantastic main cast with a fun dynamic, while bringing in characters from the past without making it feel forced. Though I'd still say something like Gintama is the better example of a shonen series with characters I love in any situation done right.

BUT YES BACK TO THE SUBJECT AT HAND I THINK KGB EXCELS IN THE ART, CHOREO, AND STYLE!! Not a fan of how many series are doing the whole hitman thing (even series like kaedegami and ping Pong peril are doing it, surprisingly the ACTUAL hitman ninja series Shinobi Undercover leans more into power level territory and I think it's sick AF)