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NEWS: Not Lives' Wataru Karasuma Launches New Manga in Dengeki Daioh




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Treeborn



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 10:03 pm Reply with quote
That premise actually has me pretty interested, as someone who plays board games on a weekly basis and speed runs video games lol I'll have to check it out
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 1:11 am Reply with quote
I love board games! Count me in. And that yuri sounds interesting!
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 7:36 am Reply with quote
I've been picking up Dengeki Daioh for a few years whenever I'm near a Kinokuniya that carries it (SF Japantown usually does, Chicago usually doesn't), and it's been interesting (though a little dispiriting) to see the editorial shift in focus over the last few years.

Go three years back and there were more mecha titles (two different Muv-Luv Alternative series, although there's now a Gundam manga to replace them), visual novel adaptations (ef ~a fairy tale of the two~), etc. It also looks like the manga adaptation of A Lull in the Sea got dropped at some point. Check the contents now, and we're seeing a lot more yuri (following the breakout success of Bloom Into You), more isekai and gamer culture series (which makes Not Lives perfect because it's both of those things), slightly ecchi stuff like Eromanga Sensei, supernatural slice-of-life comedy (The Devil Is A Part-Timer! and Gabriel Drop-Out), etc. And Daioh is also doubling down on popular franchises: both the Irregular and Honor at Magic High School most months, and multiple adaptations/spinoffs of the Index/Railgun franchise.

The rapid turnover of titles in the magazine this year has been interesting news-wise, and the new entries are entirely in-line with the trends of the last few years, although personally, it's becoming less and less my thing, but that's always what old fans say… get off my lawn and all that.
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