It's been a fairly quiet month, but at the last minute here's some Cestvs to tide things over alongside what'll probably be the longest post I ever make for the series, given a fair few things have been announced in the five or so months since I last released any chapters.
First, and perhaps most importantly, Cestvs has moved homes (again) going from Manga Park (a website) to Young Animal Zero (a new(ish) magazine which is published every other month). This move in and of itself isn't particularly surprising (it had been announced that Cestvs would move to a new magazine prior to it ending up on Manga Park), the fact that it's happening now however is (Young Animal Zero's been going for around a year at this point). While a move to a bi-monthly magazine like Zero would normally be cause for alarm, it will actually be an improvement given how few chapters we got last year (assuming I guess that no issues are skipped). It also means I'll now know exactly when a new chapter is out, rather than having to check a website every week, which is nice for me.
Next, we have the slightly more dubious news that Cestvs is, after 20 or so years of serialisation, finally getting an anime. The initial PV shows that the series will, at least for the fights, be fairly CG reliant. CG anime doesn't exactly have the best of reputations but I always figured it was a given for a series like Cestvs and there's a (probably quite low) chance it ends up actually looking good. What's more disconcerting however is the fact that the adaptation seems to be taking from both parts of the series, with the PV showing what looks like one of the earlier fights from part two (at the very least Cestvs seems older, and I can't recall the circular, wooden arena appearing anywhere else). Given it's only going to be 12 episodes adapting the tournament from part two would in and of itself be a challenge, let alone 20+ volumes worth of content. In short, I'm expecting a rushed mess.
If nothing else the anime announcement has been beneficial in that earlier volumes of the series will seemingly be getting reprints. Or at least, the digital versions of part one have all been updated to match part two's cover scheme (arguably for the worse), while Amazon has a listing for some sort of triple pack containing the first three volumes. In a perfect world I'd use this as a chance to rescan volumes one and two (which I used public raws for back in the day), but I doubt it'll happen. I have however been tidying up some of the earlier translations whenever the mood takes me.
Last, but by no means least, volume 10 of the series has been dated for a March release. Even assuming it includes chapter 101 (which would be published the same month), it'd still come out at only nine chapters total making it the shortest volume of part two. Though given it's been a year and a half since volume nine I can see why they'd be keen to get it out regardless.
At any rate chapter 100 is already out, and I should probably get to TLing it before 101 is out in a month's time.
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