• Title : Dantalian no Shoka
• Rate : ADULT
• Genre : Mystery, Drama
• Mangaka : Abeno Chako & Mikumo Gakuto & G Yuusuke
• Publisher : Kadokawa Shoten
• Scanlation : My Personal Scan

Seperti yang kalian tau cerita di Dantalian no Shoka ini tentang seorang mantan pilot bernama Viscount Disward, yang mendapat warisan dari kakeknya yang seorang bibliomanic berupa sebuah rumah yang bagaikan perpustakaan karena penuh dengan buku. Tapi begitu sampai Disward justru terkejut karena buku buku koleksi kakeknya hilang semua, dan setelah menyelidiki beberapa lama dia menemukan sebuah ruang rahasia dan ternyata semua buku koleksi kakeknya ada disana dan didalamnya terdapat seorang gothic loli yang ternyata merupakan kunci dari Bibliotheca Mystica de Dantalian serta Buku Terlarang Maboroshi no Hon. Setelah itu mereka berdua berkeliling inggris mengumpulkan Mystery Books yang tersebar.

The January issue of Kadokawa Shoten‘s Ciel magazine is announcing on Tuesday that the television anime adaptation of Shungiku Nakamura‘s Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi boys-love manga will premiere next April. The magazine had already announced this past January that an anime was in the works, and an anime DVD will ship with the fifth volume of the manga next March.

The story follows the tension between a newly recruited manga editor named Ritsu Onodera (Takashi Kondo) and his tyrannical editor-in-chief named Masamune Takano (Katsuyuki Konishi) — who happen to share a common past.

Chiaki Kon (When They Cry – Higurashi) is directing the anime series at Studio DEEN, andRika Nakase (Rocket Girls) is supervising the scripts. Yoko Kikuchi (Noir, Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations) is designing the characters. All of them had previously worked together on the anime adaptation of Nakamura’s Junjō Romantica boys-love manga, and they are also working on the manga-bundled anime DVD. A website will open with more information about the television series.

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OMFG. This is the bestest news for the week!!!! I’m hyperventilating because of this.. XD Katsuyuki Konishi as Takano-san *dies*. Plus, Studio DEEN’s involved in this one. Gawd I so can’t wait for this! <3 <3 <3

According to Anime!Anime!, Shueisha announced at Electronic Book and Comic Summit that 37 Japanese major publishers will launch a manga portal website for North America. The website "J Manga Portal Site (tentative name)" will be opened next March following a test launch of the beta version by the end of this year. Shueisha, Shogakukan, Kodansha, Kadokawa Shoten, and Akita Shoten will provide their manga electronically through the portal site.

Participants (partial):
Shueisha (Shonen Jump, Margaret), Shogakukan (Shonen Sunday, Chao), Kodansha (Shonen Magazine, Ribbon), Kadokawa Shoten (Shonen Ace), Akita Shoten (Shonen Champion), Ascii Media Works (Dengeki Daioh), Hakusensha (Hana to Yume, Young Animal), Shonen Gahosha (Young King Ours), Media Factory (Comic Alive), Enterbrain (Comic Beam), Futabasha (Manga Town), Fujimi Shobo (Dragon Magazine), Tokuma Shoten (Chara), Houbunsha (Manga Time Kirara), Ichijinsha (Comic REX), Akane Shinsha (Comic LO), Takeshobo (Kindai Mahjong)
Source: Anime!Anime!

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~~~~~~Gaaaaah.. I wonder if this will only be available for those who are in the North America???

But I’m happy that they’re taking manga into a whole new level.

On the contrary, Line’s potential is such that I can’t help but feel the 1-volume series was quite good, based more on that potential than the content.  It had the right idea going, a good sense of suspense building, and managed to do it all in a few short chapters.

Chiko’s a pretty typical party girl.  A little shallow, sure, but she knows subtle ways to deter bullying and is good at self-deprecating humor.  When she finds a lost cell phone and decides to turn it in, her life changes.  The phone rings and on the other end is someone who starts telling her locations where people are about to die and that she’s the only one who can stop them.  With the assistance of a classmate, Bando, she starts racing around Tokyo trying to prevent people from killing themselves.

I think what I liked most was that she didn’t always succeed.  Sometimes she simply didn’t get there in time, no matter how hard she tried.  For awhile she simply gave up in frustration.  She questioned why any of this mattered to her, they were strangers.  And yet she realized that it would make her just like the people who saw someone about to jump and yet did nothing to try to stop them.  She didn’t want to be someone who could just look away and pretend not to see things.

The other thing I liked was that she never learned who Task was, and didn’t know that he presumably killed himself at the end (based on an undescribed image.)  Perhaps he thought she could find him and rescue him as well, perhaps not.  But at least she didn’t have that hanging over her as well.

I really think this could have been stretched into a longer series with character development.  Slowing the pacing of the suicides, giving Chiko and Bando a chance to form a relationship and for Chiko to come to terms with her position would have been wonderful.  Still, even in its condensed form I found this to be a worthwhile read.  For all the darkness, it was still bittersweetly uplifting in the end.