Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup: My Prediction For the Final Bosses of the Prisma Causeway Event

This Saturday post is the weekly Type-Moon news in addition to the regular APB post on Sunday. If you have any suggestions for what to highlight on the Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup drop me a line via email or Twitter.

Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA 3rei!! #09: Puella Magi Illya Magica

hisui_icon_4040_round Welcome to the mountain top. We have reached a climax. Remember the climax is not the end. There is still the closure and conclusion so there is still going to be a lot of fighting, philosophizing, and reveals before the end. Also, this might just be a climax and not THE climax. Tanaka is a wild card that could show an extra level to the story. But it is one of the most important points in the series. Illya has conquered a major obstacle. Darius, Angelica, and Beatrice are still dangerous threats. None of them will be pushovers. But after this episode, they CAN be defeated. They have become vulnerable. If Illya did not make the choice she did in this episode she could never win. Now the battle will still be horrifically hard. Every one of her allies will have to bring everything they have to even have a chance. But despite all that, the road to victory has been opened.

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Manga of the Month: Sweetness and Lightning

Sweetness and Lightning (甘々と稲妻) by Gido Amagakure

hisui_icon_4040_round If you have ever talked to anyone who licensed manga you know the holy grail of titles is a series that is getting an anime. Not every manga that gets an anime becomes profitable but any series that has an animated version will be more profitable than it would have been if it has to stand on its own. While manga has a distinct presence and fandom in the English-speaking world it could be argued that manga often acts as an add-on to anime which is the opposite of how it usually works in Japan. If nothing else, that is how I found Sweetness and Lightning.

While I regularly read several series on Crunchyroll manga I have found that I am slow to start new series. I check in every Tuesday to read Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches and The Seven Deadly Sins. When I remember I catch up with GTO: Paradise LostSpace BrothersPrincess Jellyfish, and The Heroic Legend of Arslan. With all of that, it makes it a bit daunting to start a new series. Sweetness and Lightning was a series that I was thinking of starting but I just never mustered the momentum to try it. After watching the anime I went back and have started reading through the archives. I mostly realized I should have started when I first had the chance.

This gives me a new way of reading a series. I often either read the manga before watching the anime or watch the anime and then use the manga to continue the story. This is the first time I am reading the manga alongside the anime. Every time I watch an episode of the anime I then go back and read up to that point in the anime. I am curious to see how this method changes the way I look at both versions.

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