Manga, SeraMyu, and skating news
Jan. 27th, 2015 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heavenly_pearlThree exciting pieces of news!
1. Fushigi Yugi Gets New Manga About Priestess of Byakko
Yay, so excited about this news! It was pretty inevitable that Yuu Watase would finish things off with the Byakko arc, but I wasn't expecting her to start on it so soon after Genbu. (She didn't start Genbu until about seven years after the original series.) I'm really looking forward to it. From the small amount we learned in the original series, the main couple's love story is tragic, but really sweet, and I liked the two elderly Byakko warriors that Miaka and the Suzaku warriors met in the original series. I'm curious to see what the rest of the group will be like!
EDIT: An article posted after this explains that it's not going to be a full-fledged series, just something called a yomikiri, which is a short story of a few chapters or less. *sigh* Too bad, although I guess it's possible that it could be expanded into a full series if it does well in the reader polls. At the very least, I hope it is long enough to fill out at least one volume of manga, because otherwise I don't think we'll get an official English translation of it. Something like that would usually only be included as a bonus story, and the only series of hers currently being published in the U.S. is Arata: The Legend, which is published in a different magazine (and is shonen, rather than shoujo), so I doubt that has any hope of happening.
2. 3rd Sailor Moon Stage Musical To Run This Year
I've loved the first two revival musicals, so I'm so happy that we're getting a third, especially since that means there's a good chance we'll get a possible fourth (a.k.a. based on the Dream arc). Really can't wait to see this!
3. Last, but not least, last weekend was the U.S. Figure Skating Nationals, and it was AWESOME. Such a great competition, and I'm thrilled that most of my favorites did really well, especially Ashley Wagner, who earned back her national title with one of the most amazing skates I've ever had the pleasure of watching. I doubt anybody reading this is really interested in this, but I'm going to post a link to a Youtube video of her free program, anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uTgLmLW4nQ
Serious chills.
If she skates like that at Worlds, she should definitely at least make the podium, if not outright win the gold.
1. Fushigi Yugi Gets New Manga About Priestess of Byakko
Yay, so excited about this news! It was pretty inevitable that Yuu Watase would finish things off with the Byakko arc, but I wasn't expecting her to start on it so soon after Genbu. (She didn't start Genbu until about seven years after the original series.) I'm really looking forward to it. From the small amount we learned in the original series, the main couple's love story is tragic, but really sweet, and I liked the two elderly Byakko warriors that Miaka and the Suzaku warriors met in the original series. I'm curious to see what the rest of the group will be like!
EDIT: An article posted after this explains that it's not going to be a full-fledged series, just something called a yomikiri, which is a short story of a few chapters or less. *sigh* Too bad, although I guess it's possible that it could be expanded into a full series if it does well in the reader polls. At the very least, I hope it is long enough to fill out at least one volume of manga, because otherwise I don't think we'll get an official English translation of it. Something like that would usually only be included as a bonus story, and the only series of hers currently being published in the U.S. is Arata: The Legend, which is published in a different magazine (and is shonen, rather than shoujo), so I doubt that has any hope of happening.
2. 3rd Sailor Moon Stage Musical To Run This Year
I've loved the first two revival musicals, so I'm so happy that we're getting a third, especially since that means there's a good chance we'll get a possible fourth (a.k.a. based on the Dream arc). Really can't wait to see this!
3. Last, but not least, last weekend was the U.S. Figure Skating Nationals, and it was AWESOME. Such a great competition, and I'm thrilled that most of my favorites did really well, especially Ashley Wagner, who earned back her national title with one of the most amazing skates I've ever had the pleasure of watching. I doubt anybody reading this is really interested in this, but I'm going to post a link to a Youtube video of her free program, anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uTgLmLW4nQ
Serious chills.
If she skates like that at Worlds, she should definitely at least make the podium, if not outright win the gold.
