Smoky B.B.: Research Notes
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Title:
- Smoky B.B.
Author(s)
- Writer: Komiyama, Kenta 小宮山 健太(こみやま けんた)
- Ko-mee-yah-mah, Ken-tah
- Illustrator: Kawada, Yuuya 河田 悠冶(かわだ ゆうや)
- Kah-wah-dah, Yɯɯ-yah
Characters
- Haimura, Enjirou 灰村 煙爾郎(はいむら えんじろう)
- High-mɯ-rah, En-jee-row
- Family name written as “ash village,” personal name written as “smoke person” …once again, very on the nose
- Kazami, Hayata 風見 隼汰(かざみ はやた)
- Kah-zah-mee, Hah-yah-tah
- Family name written as “wind-seeing,” personal name written as “falcon-washing”...that “wash” part I’m less confident about, but it seems like a sky/air theme regardless
- Kuhou, Komado 九宝 小窓(くほう こまど)
- Kɯ-hoe, Ko-mah-dough
- Family name written as “nine treasures” (referring to the nine players of a baseball team she’s assembling?), personal name written as “little window”
- Kurumada, Kazuto 車田 和登
- Kɯ-rɯ-ma-dah, Kah-zɯ-toe
- Family name written as car-ricefield
- Kuhou, Daimon 九宝 大門(くほう だいもん)
- Kɯ-hoe, Dye-moan
- Personal name sounds sorta like “diamond,” right? …but it just means “big gate”
- Kitazato, Ayumu 北里 歩(きたざと あゆむ)
- Kee-tah-zah-toe, Ah-yɯ-mɯ
- Bonda, Ikki 梵田 一旗(ぼんだ いっき)
- Bone-dah, Ee-っkee
- (I used っ to symbolize a momentary pause before pronouncing the following consonant, since there’s no way of writing that with Roman letters)
- The translation lists his name as “Honda,” but as far as I can tell, that is a mistake! Japanese sources and from what I can tell from a kanji dictionary, this dude’s name is Bonda, not Honda!
- Muro, Shouhei
- Mɯ-ro, Show-hey
- Sakamaki, Tsutomu 坂巻 力(さかまき つとむ)
- Sah-kah-mah-kee, Tsɯ-toe-mɯ
- Mikami, Shun
- Mee-kah-mee, Shɯn
- Toratani
- Toe-rah-tah-ni
- Means “tiger valley” because of course it has to be that literal
- Seou Kotobuki
- Seh-oh, Ko-toe-bɯ-kee
Other
- Koushien
- Koh-shee-en
MaxyBee
Manga Details: Smoky B.B
- Writer: Komiyama Kenta
- Notable people they were an assistant for
- None Known
- Notable people they had as assistants
- None Known
- Other works
- Kikai-banashi Hanasaka Ikkyu (2011, 15 chaps/2 vols, Weekly Shonen Jump) w/ Yuuya Kawada
- A clever young monk engages in games of wits alongside the mysterious ayakashi Karma, at first to defeat him, and then to save him. A golden future cup-winning series that was serialised all on its own, giving us hope of a hit at the time. What fools we were
- Kikai-banashi Hanasaka Ikkyu (2011, 15 chaps/2 vols, Weekly Shonen Jump) w/ Yuuya Kawada
- Notable people they were an assistant for
- Artist: Yuuya Kawada
- Notable people they were an assistant for
- None Known
- Notable people they had as assistants
- Gen Oosuka (Golem Hearts, Doron Dororon)
- Yusaku Shibata (ZIPMAN!, Yoakemono)
- I think Shibata is officially our assistant MVP for this podcast. Man’s worked everywhere!
- Atsushi Nakamura (AGRAVITY BOYS)
- Kentaro Satou (Magical Girl Site)
- Keisuke Gotou (One Operation Joker)
- Other assistants that are notable but not really worth mentioning on the podcast:
- Ryuusen Kumada (A Love That Begins After Stepping on a Mine, Missile Bird)
- Hirokazu Yasuhara (Miss Healer is Acting a Little Strange)
- Toshinori Yano (From Misunderstandings to Marriage)
- Junichi Tarutani (Beast Saga)
- Tatsuyuki Maeda (professional assistant with a youtube channel)
- Other works
- Kikai-banashi Hanasaka Ikkyu (2011, 15 chaps/2 vols, Weekly Shonen Jump) w/Kenta Komiyama
- Hey, do you remember earlier, when you read about this Golden Future Cup-winning failure? This is still that.
- Kikai-banashi Hanasaka Ikkyu (2011, 15 chaps/2 vols, Weekly Shonen Jump) w/Kenta Komiyama
- Notable people they were an assistant for
- Publishing
- Run Dates:
- May 27, 2013 to September 09, 2013
- Series it replaced
- Run Dates:
- Rookie Policewoman Kiruko by Masahiro Hirakata (3 vols, flop, SHONEN FLOP EPISODE 88)
- Series that replaced it
- Hachi -Tokyo 23-ku- by Yoshiyuki Nishi (3 vols, flop)
- That's the Bokke-san author
- Series that started at the same time as it
- Muto Black by Daijiro Nonoue (2 vols, flop)
- That's The Last Saiyuki's author
- Muto Black by Daijiro Nonoue (2 vols, flop)
- Chapters/Volumes:
- 15 chapters/2 vols
Manga Itself / Misc thoughts
- I (that is to say, Maxy Bee, researcher and trivia monkey) once wrote a multi-part history of baseball in Weekly Shonen Jump, declaring this the beacon of hope for the genre moving forward. DIDN'T WORK OUT THOUGH, DID IT?
- Volume extras include:
- Very basic character profiles
- One-panel comedy bits after some chapters
- Character sketches of the girls
- Full-page bonus comics
- A full-size epilogue/prologue chapter
- Illustration Gallery
- Concept art
- There is so little information out there about these creators, who’ve basically disappeared since, that it’s actually a bit sad. Thankfully, friend of the show and former guest Andy’s Islands of Patch Café, Mankin-trad, and (most relevant to this) Manga Properties pulled through MAJORLY for me with a collection of author comments from the magazine run of this series, as well as the author avatars featured earlier. I’ve linked it here but among other things we learn:
- Yuuya Kawada’s grandparents gave him some locally made juice during a visit
- Kenta Komiyama has muscle pain
- Kenta Komiyama enjoyed Masato Sakai’s performance in the TV drama Legal High
- One of Yuuya Kawada’s friends got married during this serialisation
- Kenta Komiyama thinks baby geckos are cute