New Urasawa manga this summer!

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 4:06 pm

Naoki Urasawa is scheduled to publish a new manga in Big Comic Original later this year! For those of you unfamiliar with his authoring history, Happy and 20th Century Boys are/were published in Big Comic Spirits, a weekly magazine, Happy through most of the 90s and 20th CB starting in 99 after Happy ended. Big Comic Original is a biweekly magazine that published Monster during the same time period, from 94 to 02 or so. So it doesn't mean that 20th Century Boys is going to be done by then.

Thanks to Grave_New_World for the info.

I haven't seen this yet for myself, but apparently it's going to be a gag/comedy manga(?!), which is a bit surprising to me. Anybody who happens to have BCO issue 4 on hand with a scanner, feel free to scan page 30 for me =P

We'll keep you updated with all the info we can find on this.

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 5:12 pm

Well we might as well start planning to do this project LOL

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 7:26 pm

yeah. maybe i should get a subscription to BCO from sasuga in a few months. then i could scan and translate them directly from the magazine until they are released in books... from what i've seen (at least with Spirits) is that the Big Comic magazine paper is pretty good stuff. and not colored paper like the kiddy mags >_<

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 10:41 pm

Really? I might want to check that out. Didn't Kaiji Kawaguchi also have a series in Big Comic Original? Or was that Big Comic? These "Big Comic" magazines can be so confusing...

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 11:02 pm

Oops, sorry. I went to their sites, and the Kaiji Kawaguchi manga, "Taiyou No Mokujiroku" ran in Big Comic, not Big Comic Original. I also found out that Nobuyuki Fukumoto has a new series in Original, something that I wasn't aware of. Hooray! Couldn't find anything about Urasawa's new series though, although that could be because my Google search skills aren't competent enough.

http://www.bigoriginal.shogakukan.co.jp/top/index.html

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 11:24 pm

all that i've seen personally is the small "naoki urasawa sakuhin" notice at the bottom of this table of contents: http://www.s-book.com/plsql/sbc_mag2k_code?sho=030304&sha=1&type=c

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 12:00 am

My daftness is such that I didn't realize until now that since I am typing this from a manga cafe, all I had to do was to go grab a copy of Original and take a look at the advertisement myself. Which I just did. And it doesn't tell you much, apart from the fact that 1) it has been a year and a half since the completion of Monster, 2) the series will be authored by Naoki Urasawa, 3) it will begin this summer, 3) it will run in Big Comic Original, 4) the 18 volumes of Monster are availabe in bookstores now, and 5) an "Another Story" type of book is available as well. I guess we'll have to wait until further notice to find out what the series will be like. I don't think I'll be a regular reader of Original, even with the new Fukumoto, since I can't be bothered to buy weeklies and bi-weeklies, but I'll be eager for the series all the same.

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 10:50 am

I am so envious of both of your abilities to read Japanese... especially you Summer, cause you have access to all those manga...
*goes back to studying*