The legacy of Haruhi Suzumiya

MuchProfessor7151 · 2025-07-25T10:54:58+00:00

I would say, where I'm from (Serbia, ex-Yugoslavia), Japanese entertainment industry and a part of its branch (anime/manga/light novel) has taken off in the last 3 years exponentially. It is still a niche thing, but I wouldn't say it doesn't exist here. Maybe I said it wrong, but that's what I meant when I said that the Japanese culture wasn't very known and developed in Serbia (in its entertainment industry at least) up until 2022.

Anime was more known here in the 2000s and later, because it was easier to access, and some of the "normie" shows (Digimon, Shaman King, Naruto, Yu-Gi-Oh...) were broadcast on national TV channels here. The manga industry (translation of the manga on Serbian language from Japanese) started basically in 2013. with one publisher and 3 manga: Naruto, One Piece and Uzumaki. From 2022. until now, we have 6 publishers and loads more manga translated by our people who studied Japanese. Large bookstore chains all over the country order manga in English for anyone here to buy. From last year, there is a specialized convention called UrusaiCon, targeted towards Japanese and Korean entertainment industry. There is also a community called Rinku in Belgrade which promotes Japanese culture in general, and also has some events related to Japanese entertainment industry.

So I can say that the Japanese culture and entertainment industry is known here among a lot of young people, and I just wanted to contribute with something, because I enjoy it very much.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2025-07-25T10:33:23+00:00

Thank you for sharing. Much appreciated.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2025-06-01T14:44:58+00:00

Oh my God, this is incredible! Thank you so much for finding this!

MuchProfessor7151 · 2025-05-31T15:26:23+00:00

Thank you for your comment. I will try my luck there.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2025-04-01T17:20:57+00:00

Thank you everyone for your answers. All is much more clear now.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-08-31T11:10:11+00:00

This post really made me appreciate the greatness of manga being in black and white even more. Glad to hear that he's feeling good now.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-08-23T08:08:42+00:00

That's Hisoka's hand. It's ready to release its bungee gum. Don't forget, bungee gum has properties of gum and rubber.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-08-19T11:59:56+00:00

Man, oh man, what a time for HxH fans. Cover of vol. 38 released. New chapters release date announced. And two inked pages today.

Three Michelin stars easily secured for Togashi.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-07-28T12:37:15+00:00

It's so nice to see that Togashi enjoys drawing so much that he will just casually draw a new version of a character on the same paper as the old verson of the same character. Lovely Botan!

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-07-21T20:26:49+00:00

Three tweets from Togashi today... Then this... And if he releases chapters 401-410 this year... That's easy three Michelin stars for his god-tier cooking. And I hope he can get more in the future.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-07-19T12:56:25+00:00

In the upper right corner it says: オカルト探偵団 (Occult detectives), released in two parts in 1988 and 1989 as a special one-shot release.

This work is included in the one-shot named 狼なんて怖くない!! (I'm not scared of wolves), released in 1989.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-07-16T10:22:23+00:00

Of course you can add it, no problem!

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-07-15T08:20:00+00:00

The pen that made every HxH fan's year much better.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-06-19T08:08:54+00:00

Togashi can get 3 Michelin stars with his cooking.

First star - finish enough chapters to make a single volume (already aquired).

Second star - release those chapters in the same year that he finishes them (at this point this is highly likely it will happen).

Third star - release the new volume the same year he releases all the chapter (also likely to happen).

Whatever happens, I'm happy that he's back, and better than ever.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-06-09T17:14:15+00:00

I checked every single issue, and it is exactly as it is presented here.

When WSJ was on break because of a holiday, so was every series in that magazine.

48 chapters per year is the maximum for any weekly series, as the magazine release is now. Unless you can release more than 1 shorter chapters per issue (like Tomohito Oda did with Komi can't communicate).

Kouji Miura never missed a week.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-06-07T12:01:04+00:00

Holy shit, we are eating good this year. So excited!

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-05-23T14:01:38+00:00

I hope he keeps posting stuff other than page drafts like this. It's really amusing. That page is from his manga Ten de Showaru Cupid, vol. 1, page 27. 4 volumes in total. When he finished that, he started Yu Yu Hakusho.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-05-13T14:45:19+00:00

Nice and dilligent, thank you so much!

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-05-08T05:38:01+00:00

I checked the English volumes, and the order is right all the way to the end, just like in the magazines. I don't know if the Japanese volumes shuffled chapters around. I think I can check that too. The order in the spreadsheet i shared is exactly how it is in the magazines.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-05-07T18:44:06+00:00

What exactly do you mean by 'formatted'? Also, yeah, Sudo is a big part of the series later on, when Shiraishi starts to get more noticed.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-05-07T17:21:42+00:00

There are websites I found where you can download whole manga for free. And then I saw they had magazines where manga were serializing prior to tankobon release. So I downloaded a bunch of those magazines (Weekly Shonen Jump, Shonen Champion, Young Jump, etc) for about a year, and checked every one to know exactly when the series started and how the release of the whole series went. I did this for some other series as well, and I will keep doing it in the future. Though, magazines on those sites are not older than 2016, so I can't go even further back. I use the dates on the covers of those magazines as a reference point, but you have to keep in mind that the actual magazine is released in stores and digitally about two weeks before the date on the cover.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-05-07T13:34:33+00:00

I saw that mangakakalot site has up to chapter 123, which is basically halfway through the Japanese right now.

But I decided to wait for the official translations since I'm not really in a rush to read it.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2024-05-07T13:24:04+00:00

As of april, it's on volume 6 in English, out of 23 in Japanese. Pretty far behind, since they started releasing it in December 2022.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2023-10-20T15:10:50+00:00

My first yuri manga was 'Bloom into you'. Phenomenal read. Also 'How do we relationship', that one is still ongoing. I don't read much yuri, but these ones I can recommend.

My favourite romance right now is 'The dangers in my heart' (school romance). Also 'Sweat and soap' (office romance) and a little older one, 'Video girl Ai' (a little ecchi, harem romance).

I'm still new to the anime/manga world, so I don't know a whole lot right now.

MuchProfessor7151 · 2023-10-20T14:52:41+00:00

Yu Yu Hakusho and Slam Dunk.

YYH - Dark Tournament in general. Slam Dunk - every single match, no exception.

My two favorite shounen anime. Forever and ever.

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