By that, I mean niche stuff like Shibuya Kanon’s quarter-Spanish ancestry in Love Live Superstar. I don’t care if I get it or not right now, I can study to understand them sooner or later.
There’s a comic book series from the 1970s called Altri Mondi (“Other Worlds”) by Italian physicist and illustrator Andrea Romoli, that only ever came out in Italian and Spanish. Despite this, it was adapted in the 1980s into a 77 episode TV anime called Spaceship Sagittarius. Most of it are original stories not directly based on the comic books, though.
By the way, watch it if you get the opportunity, it’s good.
The longest battle in manga history is Akagi’s mahjong match against Washizu, which took 20 years of serialization to complete. The match begins in chapter 70, published in 1997 and concludes in chapter 296, published in 2017. That’s one match that spanned a total of 226 chapters.
So if you ever wondered why the 2005-2006 anime just cuts off partway through the match, that’s because they’d caught up and were more than a decade away from actually being able to finish the arc. There is a live action adaptation that ran from 2015-2018, and does cover the whole thing start-to-finish.
Just read a bit about it. Apparently, part of the reason the match lasted the way it did is to keep the magazine the manga is serialized in afloat. I thought the editors asked the mangaka to do it that way. It was the opposite.
Ninja scroll is a cinematic masterpiece.
