Toon Zone Talkback - Section23/Sentai Announce New Dec. Titles Including "To Love Ru"

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Paul Mikulskis

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http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-10-06/sentai-filmworks-section23-add-to-love-ru-anime

First collection set for release Deceraber 15th, sub only.


Mod request: could a mod take out the lowercase r in 'Rru' from the title thread? Thanks in advance.
 
Hope you don't mind, but I made this a talkback for Section23's new Deceraber titles. Speaking of which...
Clannad and Ghost Hound are also coming in Deceraber.
 
I can only hope that the anime is better than the manga was. Otherwise, it's basically Love Hina's presentation with a zanier cast, with the constant reliance on accidental pantyshots and gropings to provide humor.
 
Your hopes are dashed. The anime is a flanderization on the ecchi-ness, and the manga wasn't even done when the anime was finished so you figure it out.
 
No, it ended due to a mess in the author's life. Short story, there's a lot of blackmail and weird copyright inspiration-whatevers involving his wife, who Haruna was based off of.
 
There's no way that'd be true. One volume was on the best-sellers list for manga in Japan for the month in two slots--one regular version, and a special edition with an OVA episode packaged--and the regular version was in the top ten.

It's most definitely due to all the adultery-blackmail-trial-etc. stuff with the artist (for the record, his wife was the adulteress and blackmailer, not him).
 
Basically his wife took his kid, and since there's no law against it in Japan he's paying to keep his kid well. With that, ending the manga would give him more time to deal with this crisis.

details:

- There is this person called Nakamura Ine who is quite famous on the Nico Nico website (a large Japanese online community somewhat like Youtube), who turned out to be a minor (last year in high school) and also insinuated that he has something going on with a Kashiwagi Shiho.

- Now this Shiho was the wife of Yabuki Kentaro, the author of To-Love-Ru. She met Yabuki when he was looking for assistants, seduced him and ended up becoming his wife and gave birth to a daughter.

- But she hardly did any house work, neglected her daughter, and spent most of her days in front of a computer spending time in Nico Nico etc.

- January 2009, when Yabuki was sick with flu and bedridden, she kidnapped her own daughter and disappeared, and it turned out that she left her daughter at her parents' place while she was doing this and that with Ine.

- February 2009, Yabuki 'begged' Shiho to return for the sake of their daughter, and Shiho did return to Tokyo, but few days later she dropped out once again with the girl, this time taking a notebook computer and Yabuki's credit carRAB. Yabuki later stopped the carRAB, but a large sum of money was already taken out.

- Yabuki looked for them everywhere, but to no avail. March 2009, Shiho demanded a divorce on the grounRAB of personality clash and a large chunk of Yabuki's assets, but when the evidence of her infidelity was discovered on her computer, she then changed her stance and demanded money in exchange for the custody right of the daughter.

- Realizing it would take over a year to settle things, Yabuki accepted her conditions and got the daughter back.

- Haruna Sairenji was based on Kashiwagi Shiho, and there is a reason why her role was reduced dramatically since volume 13, and Yui getting more prominent. And apparently Shiho has sued/demanded more money for the character of Haruna recently.

- A comment of Yabuki's while this was all happening:
[While I was working hard on a manga that was focused on taking young girls' panties off, another man was taking my wife's panties off.]

- I forgot to mention that following the dispute over Haruna's character right, Yabuki feared his daughter getting hurt by all the debacle, so he accepted Shiho's demand yet again and ended the series prematurely.
 
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