Adventure Boys (silent humor) and Mitsuru Adachi’s Other Mangas

March 1st, 2010 admin Posted in comedy |

By Dani Brown

Mitsuru Adachi, a widely known sports (mostly baseball) manga author was born February 9, 1951 in Isezaki, Japan. Debuting in 1970, he became famous after mangas like Touch and Nine. They brought him popularity and recognition throughout Asia. His most works feature senior pupils or college students as lead characters. Since 1970 he has published over 20 mangas including short story collections and multi-volume series.

Manga Nine (released in 1978) is a high school baseball and romance story. It made Adachi a renowned Japanese mangaka and proceeded to 3 TV series. Katsuya and Susumu start playing baseball to impress Yuri, Katsuya’s girlfriend later appearing the coach’s daughter. But Katsuya is also adored by Yukimi… The intrigue is about love relations and the team’s success.

1980 released Adachi’s early big manga Miyuki (12 volumes). Wakamatsu Masato and his step-sister Miyuki are high schoolers in Toukyou living on their own without their father working overseas. Charming Miyuki is a star among guys around Masato while he dates Kajima Miyuki, a dream high school girl. Only after eventful years do the “flatmates” realize their personal preferences. The well-styled manga boasts an interesting plot, nice scene and youth emotions.

The next year saw Adachi’s superhit manga Touch (26 volumes) finished in print in 2005. This shounen story tells about 2 twin brothers, their pretty neighbor and baseball activity.

The manga (1981-1986) belongs to a top author, Mitsuru Adachi. This wonderful writer usually relates his stories to baseball and Koshien, the stadium of the All High School Baseball Tournament.

The Rough manga was released in 1987 now counting up 12 volumes. It’s a romance/sports story seemingly inspired by Romeo and Juliet. 2 young gifted sportsmen, Yamato Keisuke and Ninomiya Ami, come from rival confectionery families. Ninomiya’s grandfather had marketed an owl-shaped cake, but Yamato’s grandfather copied the product adding ears which killed the competitive business. After such a shock Ninomiya died cursing the Yamatos and starting their war.

Manga Nijiiro Togarashi (Rainbow-Colored Chili Powder, 1990) is Adachi’s rare sci-fi manga (11 volumes). Here Shichimi is going to Edo (Tokyo’s pre-capital name). His deceased mother had just left him a walnut and sent him to his half-siblings. Shichimi makes farewell to an old tough firefighter whose cloak emblem is the same with his. On arrival in Edo Shichimi faces a stranger sneering at outer peace and disillusioning people.

The H2 manga was in print 1992 to 2004 becoming Adachi’s biggest work (34 volumes). It developed into a namesake series. Kunimi Hiro had been a baseball talent before learning his arm was crucially damaged. So he transfers to a high school without a baseball team only to find out there his arm had a wrong diagnosis being perfectly OK. Then Hiro arranges a premier baseball team against his ex best friend and teammate, Hideo, in the Koshien.

2000 released a 5-volume manga Always Beautiful Sky (Itsumo Misora) about 6 kids brought together by providence.

The Katsu! manga has been released since 2002. In it Satoyama Katsuki is a carefree and lazy teenager. His secret love, Mizutani Katsuki, has a father who was a pro boxer and inherits this hobby. Satoyama enters a boxing gym just to impress Mizutani but soon discovers genius abilities inside…

The Cross Game manga has reached 17 volumes so far since 2005. It proceeded into an anime series. The hero, Kitamura Koh, has long befriended the Tsukishimas. Their ties are even supported by symbols. But their friendship has to shockingly end some day…

In 2009 Adachi released a short manga, My Sweet Sunday, together with another famous Japanese writer, Rumiko Takahashi. It’s an autobiography describing their careers in the manga business.

2009 also released the Q and A manga currently in 2 volumes. 15-year-old Atsushi Ando’s family returns to their towna after some time. There he encounters fortunes and misfortunes due to pranks by his dead older brother, Hitsushi Ando aka Q-Chan, whose death caused this move. The biggest prank is that only Atsushi can see the ghost.

Mitsuru Adachi is a baseball fan as a viewer and even an owner of a team called Vitamin A. He’s been focusing his manga on this sport for years leaving no doubt about keeping up the trend.

Dani is a huge lover of manga. He suggests visiting the website AnyManga.com to read mangas online.

Tsukasa Hojo - Cat Eye and City Hunter Manga Creator

By Dani Brown

Tsukasa Hojo was born March 5, 1959 in Kitakyushu, Japan. He’s famous for Cat’s Eye, City Hunter and Angel Heart. He began drawing manga as a technical design student at the Kyushu Sangyo University. After short stories he released manga series:

* Cat’s Eye (Weekly Shonen Jump, 1981-1985)

* Nicky Larson (City Hunter) (Weekly Shonen Jump, 1985-1992)

* Gift from an Angel (Weekly Shonen Jump, Fresh Jump, 1988)

* Parrot (Weekly Shonen Jump, 1988)

* Sakura no Hanasaki kukoro (Weekly Shonen Jump, 1993)

* Komorebi no a de (aka Under the Dapple Shade; Weekly Shonen Jump, 1993-1994)

* Rash!! (Weekly Shonen Jump,1994-1995)

* Shounentachi no Ita Natsu (Shuueisha, 1995)

* Family Compo (Manga Allman, 1996-2000)

* Angel Heart (Weekly Comic Bunch, 2001-current)

Hojo’s manga features excellent humor and always adventurous plots. Apart from a mangaka, he’s a character designer for the Fist of the North Star anime created by his friend, Tetsuo Hara. For the 2006 movie he designed Reina’s character and co-worked on its 2008 series movie. He also taught Takehiko Inoue who assisted him in releasing City Hunter. Inoue’s best works include Buzzer Beater, Chameleon Jail and Slam Dunk.

Hojo’s 1st big manga Cat’s Eye, was released 1981 to 1985 in 18 volumes. Looking for their lost father, once a prominent artist, 3 sisters steal his public pictures to let him know. “Cat’s Eye” is their gang and coffee shop. This case’s investigator, Toshio, falls in love and even engages to the middle sister, Hitomi… The story proceeded into the same 73-scene anime series.

Next came City Hunter manga, Hojo’s biggest manga with 35 volumes. Released 1985 to 1992, it underlay several anime seasons (100+ series), short movies and a 1993 movie with Jackie Chan as Ryo Saeba. Saeba is a Tokyo “sanitarian” ridding the city of the rabble and helping out the desperate. His only minus is male hormones sometimes turning him into a fool near ladies. However his friends try keeping him in hand.

1988 released a 1-volume story collection, Gift from an Angel. In 1 story a constantly quarrelling couple realizes their love only seeing their daughter. The book also contains 2 early City Hunter scenes.

That year saw another 1-volume collection, Parrot, co-created by Nagata Futoshi and Mayuko Nishiyama for CG. Unlike a typical black-and-white manga, it was colorful. The lead story is 9 scenes about Parrot, a cute voice imitator.

After completing City Hunter in 1993, Hojo released a 1-volume collection, Sakura no Hanasaki Kukoro, of 4 stories.

1. Family Plot

After amnesia Hideyuki, a photographer, digs for the memories of his son and beloved.

2. Sakura no Hanasaki Kukoro

A prequel to Komorebi no Moto de…

3. Taxi Driver

A night taxi is run by a vampire thirsty for easy victims. A girl asking for his help suddenly changes the scene…

4. Shoujo no Kisetsu - Summer Dream

Misako has a childish aquaphobia torturing her in dreams that bring her to a weird imaginary place….

1993-1994 released a 3-volume manga, Under the Dapple Shade (Komorebi no Moto de…). Tatsuya Kitazaki wants to cut down a tree falling from which paralyzed his sister. But stopped by a strange girl, Sara Nishikujo, appearing to speak with plants, he hears the tree’s surprising version of the accident.

Rash!! is a 2-volume comedy manga released in 1994. Pretty Yuki takes over as a jail nurse causing troubles and chaos around, including detective Tatsumi, a childhood friend and neighbor.

1995 saw another collection, Melody of Jenny (Shounentachi no Ita Natsu), about personal WWII tragedies.

1996 launched a new big manga, Family Compo, finished in 2000 with 14 volumes. Prior to a university, Yanagiba Masahiko loses his dad in a car crash. And that after his mother’s death at 4! But he was lonesome even before as his father was either busy or far away. Yanagiba’s uncle adopt him to his family which however hides a terrible secret why the parents had stayed away from their relatives. The truth also concerns his cousin’s past…

Manga Angel Heart is Hojo’s latest and not finished yet manga. Released in 2001, it has 30 volumes published so far. Its plot develops in the City Hunter universe. The heroine, a Taiwanese assassin girl aka “Glass Heart”, committed suicide but incredibly resurrected through heart transplantation. Her recovery dreams bring her to Japan in search for her donor appearing the City Hunter’s ex-affiliate. The manga’s 1st 18 volumes based an anime series since 2005.

Dani is a huge lover of manga. He suggests visiting the website AnyManga.com to read mangas online.

You might find the Sexy Video you are looking for

By Shane Fallas

When you are looking for a sexy video to make you sweat or simply to turn you on you might think that there are not that many places to look. You need to realize that what you are looking for as far as something sexy might be something that makes you melt inside. Yet someone elses idea of what is sexy actually turns out to be a funny video to them. How do you know what is sexy and what is a total turn off to someone? Many people simply like watching things that are both funny and sexy at the same time. You need to make up your mind for yourself as to what you like and what you dont.

There is many a sexy Prank video out there that you might want to check out to see what you think of them. You might not think that you can fid such a thing, yet there are videos out there that fit this description perfectly. As has been said earlier, almost any video can actually be turned into a Prank video if you really wanted to make it that way. Do you think that pulling a prank on someone that is trying to make a sexy video is going to be funny; or are you thinking that you are going to make that video into something else? There are so many different ways to make sexy videos that will make you laugh and have fun doing it too.

One of the places that you can turn to for these videos and much more is hey, you never know what you will find. Although the site will be brand new, there is no doubt whatsoever that you are going to be able to find what you are looking for in terms of good videos that will keep you laughing for many hours. Making videos that make people laugh is something that people really love doing. The fact that there are websites out there online that are exclusively meant to allow people to share their own video creations with everyone that cares to check them out.

This writer has seen some pretty interesting videos that have been so blasted funny that I could not stop laughing for quite a while. This is what is so cool and well received about websites like this. These sites allow an average person to upload their own videos and share them with everyone and with anyone that wants to check them out. Finding videos that will make you laugh is something that some people spend many hours on so that they can find what they want to see.

You know, there are many times that you just need to watch and listen to some videos that are just plain funny; while there are going to be other times that you will want something that is sexy in nature. How may times have you simply wanted to simply watch a videos that shows people having a prank pulled on them?Please visit http://www.vidbang.com and http://www.frickenfunnyvideos.com

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