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because god has forsaken this world
It's literally all they have, and they've convinced the courts they have sole rights to it, so they can't risk anyone getting anywhere near it. They'd rather nobody make any money off of it than lose the chance to possibly make money off of it at some point.
Each book is about the main guy encountering someone experiencing "puberty syndrome" which is basically magic resulting from teenage stress, and because of plot reasons he is usually immune or resistant to these effects and helps them solve it.
The first book was "Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai" where he's at the library when he suddenly sees an upperclassman from his school walking around in a bunny suit and he's the only one who can see her. This is the only time she wears the suit as far as I remember, and she was wearing it specifically to see if anyone could see her. Her puberty syndrome is causing people to not be able to perceive her or remember her existence.
At the end of the first book (or first couple of episodes of the anime), they resolve her issues and become an official couple. Some later girls might crush on the main guy, but as far as I know he and Mai stay together and I don't think it'd really be considered a harem because of that?
Later cases of other character's puberty syndromes cause a day to keep repeating Groundhog's Day style, an "evil" doppelganger, body swapping, an alternate personality, time travel, and so on.
Despite having the title of the first book, the anime actually covers the first five books. They also promoted the hell out of the bunny suit even though I think she only wears it that one time. After they're a couple she might joke about wearing it in private for him or something, but I don't think she ever does.
Is Harmony Gold the Warren Beatty of anime production companies?
I don't know, has the head of Harmony Gold ever dressed up as a Macross character and claimed they really were that character and then gotten into split-screened arguments between the character and their real self?
still pissed we never got DYRL on home media in any form in the west (legally)
So original Macross was coproduced by animation company Tatsunoko and marketing firm Big West. Tatsunoko thought they owned the international rights to Macross and signed them over to Harmony Gold. Big West was like "no that's our decision to make". And sued Tatsunoko over the rights.
This created a decades long blood feud between the two companies which is why the international rights to Macross are such a mess. Tatsunoko wants Harmony Gold to have the rights because they don't want to risk the possibility of them slipping back to Big West if they lose them.
I figured it was because of Robotech brand recognition, but that's even pettier.
I assure you it is, I know people who grew up on Robotech that have no idea what Macross is.
It's for the group of IT/Sysadmin/Application specialist type people at the district office for the local school district, folding them into the existing union that covers most of the non-teacher non-district-office employees, so hopefully it's not too much of a fight but I'll guess we'll see.
Driving force was:
* The IT VP is a huge bully and a micromanager, leading to him constantly shifting people's workloads and getting angry when things aren't done on just-invented timescales.
* He is in the middle of multiple HR harassment complaint processes for the anger, like literally shouting at nd insulting employees.
* District just did layoffs which only hit non-union employees (shocking).
* Including the one employee who was at the core of several of those harassment complaints... shows you just how good non-retaliation policies are.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
She has good taste in characters. Many of those characters are some of the best of their respective casts.
And then Camellia is there too!
You might get a one-time pay bump that disappears over the next several raises. In my experience, technical education credentials is only valued as good enough unless you are an industry leading expert.
At this point I wouldn’t mind Weekly Jump circulating a rotating schedule of manga to give mangaka and their staff the time they actually need. It’d retain the weekly release schedule and then give the creatives the time they need to actually not kill themselves sticking to a release schedule that honestly are what likely killed Tezuka and Ishinomori when they were setting the expectations of what you had to do to be a pro in this industry:
Only downside is I’m not sure how Jump contracts are set up, if it’s per week or per chapter delivered, which could prevent less established mangaka from going that route because they need the weekly deliveries to keep the lights on, and I suspect Jump wouldn’t expand the line up to compensate for not having all their series running each week (even if such a thing might have benefits of allowing more series to be able to stand for themselves instead of getting crushed in the Jump Churn; imagine setting it up so your biggest hitters aren’t all piled into one week’s release but you have a “headliner” that draws in a lot of crowds each week, and hten the smaller series get a bump up in attention following in the headliner’s wake that week)
To help this make a bit more sense as well: Tatsunoko, despite being a studio, wasn’t the one doing the production work on it (technically; they had a couple subsidiary companies doing assisting work on production), but like Big West were primarily a sponsor; Studio Nue and Artland were the ones helming actual production and Nue was the one to approach both BW and Tatsunoko for sponsorship after their original partnership with Wiz Corporation collapsed due to Wiz’s going out of business while Nue was still in pre-production on it (when Macross was still going as “Megaroad” among the staff), and it was through Tatsunoko international distribution rights were handled, leading to the hell-headache of today with Harmony Gold, despite all other rights now resting with Nue today.
Ironically, the Tatsunoko aspect of the Sponsorship is kind of how we got original Macross as we did; originally Big West had Nue cut the production from a planned 48 episode run to 27, bringing on Tatsunoko gave teh staff more breathing room (particularly as the show was going overbudget), which when the show took off was met with Big West expanding their runway, no pun intended, to the three-cour run we know today
EDIT: Ah correction on last bit I just erased, Tokyo District Court recognizes distribution rights for OG Macross to Tatsunoko, but no subsequent work, but that BW and Nue are sole owner to characters and mechanical designs for the OG.
Which honestly begs the question why on earth HG holds onto Robotech specifically, given that their license, as far as I can tell, is generally OG Macross in whatever for it takes, so why on earth hold onto a bizarre mishmash representation of three different shows instead of just pivoting to being The Distributor for Macross-proper, outside of, say, anyone sitting in the corporate executive chair immediately being possessed by the delusional ghost of Carl Macek
From watching that long(looooooooooong) documentary about HG, it seemed like Macek genuinely did love the series and at least tried to push the brand, whereas the shambling corpse of HG without him cares solely about protecting their """rights""".
Also oh hey Kenjiro Tsuda
But also FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
I think the problem is the japanese court ruling is different from the US court ruling, where it was ruled that harmony gold itself had exclusive rights to OG macross for the duration of their license (which was until 2020 or so) in the US specifically, and harmony gold parlayed that into blocking any of the sequel series from being brought over by anyone by being very litigious and making it dangerous.
Fortunately, it's kind of in a 'everyone wins' situation now... well, as best as we can hope for. If you want the other Macross shows, they can finally come out here.
If you want to watch the Robotech stuff, it's all on CR now.
If you want classic Macross, uh... well, there's the rub, unless you have the ADV sets, it kind of sucks to be you, unless HG decides to play ball with rereleasing it somehow(unlikely).
What a lad.
"At this point?". People have always known that a weekly schedule is unsustainable. Hisashi Eguchi in 2016 put it as such, regarding why his manga Hibari-Kun! ended:
This whole thing has been decades of Jump execs being forced to admit it inch by inch instead of just cracking the whip until artists give out.
also seeing Lawine and Kanne again was nice, bringing up this meme again although I think it applies to Fern and Stark as well
2. Impress Serie with your skill/potential. It's still not on Serie's level but then again nothing is.
3. Bewilder Serie by being a fucking weirdo. Serie hurt itself in its confusion.
A lot of anime elves seem to have the ears that run out perpendicular from the head, likely because that's what Deedlit had. Though often not as long as Deedlit's were.
Manga chapter #126 spoilers:
It would be embarrassing when the show comes back again.
This is hinting at something that was just revealed in one of the most recent manga chapters just so it's clearly marked.