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Mangaka Makoto Raiku, known for creating the Zatch Bell! franchise, took to Twitter on Feb 12, 2024, to express his concerns about the lack of transparency surrounding the suicide of Hinako Ashihara following a statement released by Shogakukan editors.

Although Raiku commended Shogakukan, the publisher of Ashihara’s work ‘Sexy Tanaka-san,’ for acknowledging Ashihara’s good character, he criticized the company for failing to shed light on the events leading to her suicide.

The mangaka highlighted Ashihara’s deleted blog post, where she exposed her exchange with the scriptwriter of Sexy Tanaka-San, and social media posts before the suicide as evidence of a deeper issue that remains hidden.

“Well… Now, regarding the incident involving Ashihara-sensei, I’ve also strongly voiced my opinion, so I’ll write about my thoughts on the comment by the editors of Shogakukan’s First Comics Department regarding the ‘Sexy Tanaka-san’ incident involving Ashihara-sensei that was released the other day.

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Ideally, every great manga should get an anime at some point, but there are some great manga out there that will likely never get an anime, and for good reasons. While it’s often the case that a critically and financially successful manga will receive an anime at some point, sometimes this never happens, because the series was only critically successful and not financially, or because the subject matter of the series, or even simply its aesthetic, wouldn’t work as anime unless a studio was willing to put in an extreme amount of effort.

Whatever the case, there are plenty of reasons why some manga never receive anime adaptations, and that’s the case for 10 specific manga, despite how great they all are.

Related: 5 Best Manga Without An Anime Adaptation Yet

Psyren

The first great manga being discussed here is the cult hit Psyren.

Despite the fact that she started her career as an actress and now mostly directs TV series, Hana Matsumoto still manages to direct the occasional feature, with “Dadadada Seventeen” being her most renowned work as of now. Her latest movie is based on the novel “Akegata no Wakamonotachi” by Masahiko Katsuse and looks like a typical Japanese romance, before it is revealed as something a bit more “unusual” than one would expect.

“End of the Pale Hour” is screening at Nippon Connection

The story begins in Tokyo in March, 2012, where the nameless protagonist is about to graduate from university and has just been invited to a gathering of “winners” who have received job offers from well-known corporations. While there, he meets a nameless woman, who, a few moments later, invites him to have a drink with her. He leaves the party, meets her at a nearby park, under the shadow...

No one enjoys being forced to get along with strangers, let alone come to terms with having to live with them. The foundation of a new family, much like a funeral, collides people together with little regard for their desires but, no matter how much resistance is fought or how falsified the pleasantries, we have to accept it as a situation out of our hands and learn to make do. Much can be said about Shiro Tokiwa’s feature length debut “The First Supper”, which features both scenarios in two narrative timelines joined in spirit by the homely presence of food; while both timelines could have made for interesting viewing as separate films, this hodgepodge of a movie forces its audience through a menu of workable ingredients clumsily orchestrated into a buffet of nothingness.

“The First Supper” is screening at New York Asian Film Festival Winter Showcase 2020

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