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2018 MANGA MADNESS brackets, pt.2!

Added 2022-03-12 14:00:06 +0000 UTC

Following up on an earlier post, here are the results from the first round of competition in a set of "March Manga Madness" brackets I worked up back in 2018:

(BTW, the correct title of the #15 seed at lower right is To Your Eternity, of course. Whoops!)

A few words on the more obscure manga titles that lost out:

*Dance 'Til Tomorrow was a rather different take on the romantic/sex comedy series; this one, I actually read in Viz translations from their adult-skewing Pulp line back in the day.

*Kenji was a late-80s, somewhat "old-school" manga about a globe-trotting young martial artist encountering well-referenced fighting styles from many hither and yon. (Influential on some key aspects of how I depicted fight scenes, mostly.)

*Ai To Makoto was a hilariously grim and violent high-school drama drawn by the artist who would later go on to draw the much better known The Legend of Mother Sarah (which was written by Otomo Katsuhiro, of course). I am not surprised at all that Takashi Miike apparently did a movie based on this comically gritty, early-70s-AF series; I am somewhat surprised that the resulting film was a g-d musical.

*Natsuki Crisis was a violently 90s martial arts dealie set at a high school, written and drawn by an artist who I think was an assistant to Kazushi Hagiwara on Bastard!!—a (winning) title from the same bracket, you'll notice.

*Da-You! was a 1999 ecchi slice-of-life comedy with a really engaging art style; not a lot available about this single-volume series online, but here's the artist.

(For the record, I wouldn't expect quite this much text about the brackets going forward, folks.)