It's so weird. Cause the HeroAca community in general has some sort of awareness that the movies take talent away from the TV show, which is why there's a general air of disappointment whenever there's rumors of new movies, despite the fact that they obviously make a whole lot of money. (Hell, Heroes Rising is like a Top 10 highest-grossing anime film in the US, I believe). It's something I've found really fascinating, especially since it seems wholly unique to the fandom, IIRC.
I don't think it was a totally hopeless series (it did have a great first two placement after all), rather it just chose the completely wrong stuff to focus on. It introduced this cool girl with a distinct look to her for two chapters then proceeded to spend the rest of its run with her as some half-drawn blob in the background while a bunch of boring regular old exorcist stuff happened.
The tweet further states/alleges that the production of S4 coincided with that of Carole and Tuesday's, the studio's big 20th anniversary project featuring Watanabe. So that sapped as much talent from the production as the movies. Tbh, I didn't really see much of a noticeable drop in quality between S3 and S4. They still have their really high highs. Then again, I need to rewatch the series. I'm sure it can pull things around, though - I hope we don't have another Lemillion situation again. That was unfortunate.
Just because people view it doesn't necessary mean they like or enjoy it. Otter is a thing.
I'm not gonna deny that Bones' production of MHA is still a cut above most other studios out there. Especially the ones adapting SJ works. But S4 definitely wasn't up to par with Bones' usual standard, with some off-looking scenes and overall direction. Good point about C&T, I forgot about that.
Now that I think about it, it is kind of fascinating how what’s appropriate for children in Japan is much different how it is in the US. With stuff like to love ru and CSM running in jump and DNK and AOT running in shonen magazine with little controversy while the censored versions of shaman king and naruto have gotten a lot of complaints from parents when it first aired (and that’s with the fact that the anime versions of those shows are more tame than the manga). Even nowadays series like black clover and MHA run on late night television on adult swim along with shows like rick and morty and Eric Andre. It makes me wonder how the US got to the point of it being taboo to show even a drop of blood in a kids show while Japan can get away with showing sex scenes.
I mean...it's not like the stuff Jump publishes goes unscathed by the prudish watchdogs. They were violently opposed to Harenchi Gakuen back when it ran in the late 60's early 70's. And in 1989 there was a crackdown on manga content, perhaps due to the moral panic and outrage over the Otaku Killer. One of the directly affected Jump series was Video Girl Ai, which later printings of a certian volume (forgot which one) had to change some of the more lewd things in it. This crackdown might have lead Jump to self regulate and start to censor nipples (and gore in those random HxH chapters). It might only seem like they get away with alot more because we don't live in Japan, thus we don't have a complete grasp on what might be considered too violent or sexual.
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Isn't Oda break shedule getting worse and worse? I hope he's okay.
These are all known. Some of the previous 手 reprints have changed to 一一 reprints. Nothing else.
I was about to say, it would be very weird ordering reprints of one kind one day and ordering new ones the following day. Better stuff for Yozakura, anyway. Still has to get that 全 reprint for a new volume, though, wonders if it'll happen in the foreseeable future.
Basically there are three types of reprints. 全, which are reprints that are completely distributed to bookstores, 一一, which are partially sent to bookstores and partially sent to warehouses and 手, which are all sent to warehouses and can be ordered by bookstores when necessary. They each represent different levels of demand, with more popular series/volumes usually getting 全 and less popular stuff usually getting either 一一 or 手. "One one" is 一一 because these are two kanjis for "one".
2 in a row? nice! Hope the Price and the two color pages as well as the extended chapter next issue help UU to rise its sales with its next volume.
Ah, okay. I understood the kanji, but I wasn't sure how that translated into which reprints were going where, but that makes sense. Thank you very much.