Good day, gentle viewers in today's news.
A currently airing anime series sees its manga and anime Expo
gets a special showing System's doing well at the box office
and a Canadian company partners with a Japanese one to make anime.
So without any further ado.
Interesting glance and welcome to Glass reflection.
Let's jam.
First, a bit of melancholy news.
The final chapter for the Manga Galaxy next Door
is set to be released this Saturday with an Epilog chapter
scheduled to be released later on June 7th.
Now, you might know this series since it is currently airing its anime
adaptation, which is right now quite good if I'm being honest.
If you are a fan of slower paced shows with a bit of the supernatural
filling things out, you'll like it a lot.
The manga for the series has been in print since it's launched back in 2020,
and while it hasn't been an extremely long running series, by most metrics,
that seems to be the norm for this particular Mangaka, who I think
currently has 15 different manga to his name,
including a particular favorite of mine, Sweetness and Lightning,
which also got an anime adaptation back in 2016.
As some people might remember.
If you don't remember it, then perhaps you've seen one
particular popular clip of it floating around the internet.
I said that this news was a bit melancholic because, well, it's always
is always sad to see a series end, especially if it happened to one
that you happen to be enjoying at that particular moment.
Though on the other hand, I suppose that I do prefer shows
that actually end rather than ones that just go on forever.
This could be a good thing
for the anime as well, the one that's currently airing
because now we don't have to worry as much about them
trying to find a half decent place to end the adaptation.
Instead, the producers just need to decide,
you know, if they're going to at this point
give another season a shot because like the manga at present
will have five volumes unless something else happens.
So it's certainly possible to go beyond a single core of 12 episodes like
I think we are currently planned to get, but that'll be up to the production staff.
Either way, I hope that the Mangaka feels satisfied with the ending
that they have come up with and I am looking forward to seeing
whatever it is that they end up coming up with next.
Moving on, let's talk about fate.
The TV anime special for Fate Strange Fake is set to receive
a North American premiere ahead of its a Japanese TV airing.
According to Anime Expo, the special is set to receive a showing
at their event on July 1st, just a single day
before its originally planned Japanese release.
Now, I'm not going to attempt in this short video to explain the massive
intricacies of fate, adaptations and the universe they're in.
However, we should still give a brief explanation about strange fake.
Strange Fake is a very popular spin off series within the fake universe
that is not directly related to any other fate property.
You know, like a lot of spin offs similar to Satan Apocrypha.
If you've ever watched or read that one, it is not a sequel
to any previous failed work, but it does follow a lot of the same
universal guidelines about there being like interesting battle Royale style
fights between famous historical figures or other such powerful beings.
Strange Fake has been an interesting series
throughout its run, to say the least.
Not only because of the servants that it has chosen to cover,
but also from a meta perspective because it has been ongoing since 2015.
But it doesn't have a solid release schedule.
So new chapters kind of just come out whenever, but there's also been this
weird semi black list on any crossover media between it and other fake things.
What I mean by that is
that we've never seen an anime adaptation despite how long it's been around.
We haven't seen a film
or we haven't even seen a crossover event in the hugely popular mobile game.
Fate Grand Order, Strange Fake has kind of been in its own little world,
unlike some other fate spinoffs that have branched out
a bit like the Lord Hell Moloi series or even Fate Requiem.
This special, I believe, is just that, though a special It's not supposed to,
I think, be a first episode in any kind of ongoing series covering the material.
It's not supposed to be a film which has made me a little curious
as to what this specials purpose actually is.
Either way, we will find out when it comes out.
So even if it is just a large scale bit of promotional material for the manga,
I'm sure that it'll be a fascinating watch regardless because Strange Fake has
a bit of a
history of being one of the more well-regarded faith spinoffs,
at least for those who have read it.
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Makoto Shinkai latest film, CISM,
has officially grossed over $10 million at the U.S.
box office.
It reached this number in less than three weeks and also
with a less than wide release compared
to a lot of the Western competition it has at the box office.
I mean, like it's already out of all of the major theaters near me here in Canada.
I only got to see it recently because a local small time theater
that has a single screen decided to showcase it.
But even still, it is done surprisingly well given these restrictions in Japan.
Susan may sold more tickets and made more money
in its first three days than any other Shinkai film.
During the same period,
it's holding its position as the highest selling Japanese anime in China.
Of all time.
More tickets for it has been sold in South Korea than any other Japanese film.
But I will say that its North American
performance and
advertising has been less than stellar, I feel, compared to other films.
I'm not sure if that's just because the current film division of Crunchyroll,
formerly Funimation Film Division, are still trying to find their feet,
or if priorities have changed since May has been one of the harder
anime films, at least for me to attend here in Canada.
Because like if I wanted to go and watch a showing today
from one of the major theaters,
I would need to travel several hours by car when I'm only
about 20 minutes away from where I ended up watching your name in Premiere.
When those came out.
Which is a shame because this to me is a good film.
It has like some of the best music from any Shin Chi film thus far as well.
And I'm not just saying that because, you know,
they sniped at the inserts song from Kiki's delivery service
as well as the song from his in her circumstances.
No, it legitimately has good music on top of all of that.
Time will tell how history views the film overall, though, compared to the rest of
Shang-chi's library.
But at least from the normal metrics that Westerners use to judge films
the box office, it is doing quite well.
Some local Canadian news that I wanted to put a quick spotlight on.
Canadian production company Nelvana has partnered with Japanese studio
Polygon Pictures for some upcoming unannounced projects.
They have specifically partnered in order to develop anime series
specifically for children as an audience.
According to their press release, the wording, though, of this
is a little confusing to me personally, but it seems to indicate
that the two companies are planning to make anime together from scratch.
And that's the confusing bit because I don't doubt that
Polygon can do this on their own because, you know, they have multiple times.
Last season even we saw the series Kind of The Great
Snow Sea, which was one of the shows that they produced.
You know, even if not everybody happens to like the 3D animated style that they
tend to prefer.
But Nelvana as a company has been,
well, mostly just a licensor of content rather than, you know, a full on producer.
Or maybe that's not correct either because they are like listed as producers
on virtually every Bay Blade series as well as like the card captain soccer
movie and such.
But I don't know how much I trust those particular credits because I can't tell if
that's explicitly them being producers for the original Japanese A.I.
or if they just got a producer credit for being, you know,
the producers of the English versions for those pieces of media.
Also, it's been a super long time since any of those shows came out.
Like, to my knowledge, this company hasn't been involved with
any anime adaptation since like 2010.
So I am questioning why they would choose to partner with Polygon
or rather why Why Polygon thought that Nelvana was so special.
Sure, I have some Canadian pride
considering the company is also from my country of origin and a bit of nostalgia
for them since, you know, I watched like a lot of things
that they worked on over the years.
Megabytes being a particular highlight.
But still this arrangement
seems kind of out of left field and I'm not sure where it's going.
Also, Polygon hasn't really made anime for a younger audience before, like ever.
If you check out like Iron Ore or Nice Macedonia
or even the most recent work, it's not necessarily been all that
family friendly or at least did friendly or kid focused.
So all of this has just been super, super confusing,
but we'll have to see what comes of it.
Probably won't see anything around this surfacing again for at least another year,
depending on how long it takes to produce what they plan to, possibly even longer.
If Polygon has other shows in the works that need to come out first.
I am not optimistic as to what this partnership holds, but, you know,
we'll see.
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