A triple release today featuring the start of something, the end of something, and something which'll likely never end.
First up we've chapter one of a brand new series: Breakdown by Takao Saito. Essentially a more grown up version of his earlier hit Survival it was serialised back in the 90s in the now defunct Leed Comic.
It's a fair bit shorter than Survival with only 20 or so chapters but most of them are quite long and I'm having the series scanned by the chapter so I wouldn't expect regular releases. Still, it hopefully won't take too long to finish.
First up we've chapter one of a brand new series: Breakdown by Takao Saito. Essentially a more grown up version of his earlier hit Survival it was serialised back in the 90s in the now defunct Leed Comic.
It's a fair bit shorter than Survival with only 20 or so chapters but most of them are quite long and I'm having the series scanned by the chapter so I wouldn't expect regular releases. Still, it hopefully won't take too long to finish.
Following that we've the very regrettable end of Kaiten. This was by no means a surprise to me (the series never exactly seemed to light up the charts sale wise, nor did it even seem to generate much buzz at all) but it's disappointing nonetheless. Youkai had obviously been cut short too but it at least had a fair bit of meat to it, Kaiten on the other hand ends without ever really having managed to establish much. And, while I did like the introduction of Shin and what not I wasn't a massive fan of Sako becoming this obsessive third wheel, nor Koko's complete disappearance as a character (though presumably Shibata would've done more with them had he the time).
Yet such is the way of things I guess. If nothing else Shibata still has Blue Striker, which I'll hopefully get more regular with, and his Kamen Rider series, which I'll hopefully be able to start soon. So if you like his style then there's certainly more stuff on the horizon. At some point in time I might even get to some of his older stuff, but we'll have to see.
As ever if you liked the series you can pick it up digitally from sites like eBookJapan, and physically from places like Amazon. Lastly thanks go to my editor, for helping out as always.
Yet such is the way of things I guess. If nothing else Shibata still has Blue Striker, which I'll hopefully get more regular with, and his Kamen Rider series, which I'll hopefully be able to start soon. So if you like his style then there's certainly more stuff on the horizon. At some point in time I might even get to some of his older stuff, but we'll have to see.
As ever if you liked the series you can pick it up digitally from sites like eBookJapan, and physically from places like Amazon. Lastly thanks go to my editor, for helping out as always.
And to end things we've another chapter of Cestvs.
