New anime announced!
Title: "Stairway to Adulthood"
It's a TV Special

>>279882702 (OP)
what ever happened to aka's new manga thing?
whats the title? does /a/ like it?

>It's a TV Special

New season when?

>>279882757
I think this is it

>>279882702 (OP)
>Stairway to Adulthood
Finally, Kaguya's nakadashi in 4K

>>279882702 (OP)
>It's a TV Special
LOL

>>279882746
i made multiple threads about it and they're all dead with some of them having 0 replies

Miko a shit.

>hacka ran out of ideas
>still wants to have a laugh at our expense
FUCK YOU HACKA

>tv special about the only good post confession arc
Smart anime company, they know no one wants to sit through Kyoto, ishigami, Miko and osaragi garbage.

>>279883237
We all love Miko

>>279882702 (OP)
They really dropped the ball on this adaptation.
Every previous entry was received well and it always sells. I have no idea why they waited.

>>279883237
Wait, is the manga actually that bad post-confession?

>>279883364
No, is worse than before it but still good

>>279883317
They didn't want to steal the thunder from Oshi no Ko but now that Oshi no Ko is widely viewed as a piece of shit and Aka's latest manga is giga flopping it's time to bring Kaguya back

>>279883280
>>279883050

>>279883237
Kyoto had its moments

i love tsubame

>>279882702 (OP)
That's unexpected.

>>279883456
College chad...

>>279883406
They could have easily released them in different seasons to avoid clashing.

>>279882702 (OP)
Are all the good staff members currently working on Makeine season 2?

>>279883364
It's awful.

>>279883456
>t.

>>279883364
Only parts.
Ice Kaguya (the movie) was good despite the schizo contrarians for example.
But yeah, there's also a lot boring slog, and moslty, Aka clearly didn't care about delivering anymore since he had started OnK.
So many plot points teased since the erliest chapters were brushed off, ignored, or resolved hastily.

>>279883827
>So many plot points teased since the erliest chapters were brushed off, ignored, or resolved hastily.
Still mad about him never going into Prez and Momo's story from the first year.

>>279882702 (OP)
>It's a TV Special
BASED
I didn't want anime to adapt further at all so I'll take it

>>279882702 (OP)
Hopefully this will spawn more bobcut Hayasaka art

>>279884018
Somehow I'm more annoyed at Abe's cat thing. Aka even teased it, and then basically went:
>"... yeah no nevermind, can't be bothered to do this after all: I namedropped, so be happy with it and let's pretend that now the princess Kaguya stuff is done."

>>279884322
No way, now everyone seems to hate Ai art lol

>>279883237
Hayasaka arc was pretty good though

>>279884696
This is a weird statement, because it's usually considered the worst offender.

Reminder that Prez cheats on Kaguya with Hayasaka

>>279884759
Kaguya is a cuckquean so is fine

>>279884759
"cheats"?
thats a weird way of saying "Eastern-style wife-sanctioned concubinage"

>>279884759
Hayasaka is a master of disguise and deception, like half of the time he thought he was fucking Kaguya was actually Hayasaka

So they're just skipping to the end?

>the legacy of the cursed greentext is still alive even after the manga and its threads died
Grim.

>>279885076
post it

>>279884018
And the teased "Dark Fujiwara" arc that never ended up happening.

>>279885097
I fear God too much.

>>279883364
It's more that it slowly gets worse and worse after that, with no definite moment at which you can say "wow this manga is shit, I'm dropping this fucking garbage". People just say to drop it at the confession merely because it's a satisfying cut-off point even when for example iceguya is still fun.

>>279882702 (OP)
im tired of fucking rom com trash

>>279885224
>even when for example iceguya is still fun.
And also a better cut-off point, in my opinion (especially if you're buying the physical manga).

So did he ruin OnK out of spite, or was it psychosis?
You can give the script to an unborn baby and it'll prioritize developing its vocal cords, so that it can tell you how obviously shit it is.

>hayasaka having a good ending? no i dont want that

>>279882702 (OP)
>adapt the only part I care about after the confession
based

>>279884696
The stuff with Hayasaka herself was pretty good, and the general Kyoto SoL stuff was great, but ANYTHING involving Kaguya's brothers is universally shit.

Only positive about Kaguya's brother is that he's the best of the 3 brothers. The Climax arc is so fucking bad with all 3 of them.

>>279882702 (OP)
i don't remember what arc this is

>>279886154
It's even worse than I remembered!

>>279886154
Didn't made Hayasaka's children slaves to Kaguya's 0/10

>>279886604
i think that was the "little maid" Kaguya referred to in the middle

miko ruined the series

>>279883031
Good
Hackasaka can't write

>>279883031
I looked it up, would Jag-era /a/ have liked it? it feels too bizarre to be an aka story what the fuck

Will there be more Hayasaka?

>>279886821
It's funny because despite reaching 11 chapters already its 1st vol is still not announced yet.

>>279886657
For each of Kaguya's kid there should be an Hayasaka kid eternally enslaved to them

mokibtfos...

>>279885262
But this is THE romcom

>>279886147
I think he stopped caring. There are hints of good ideas peaking out through the bullshit in the ending, but he didn't care to put them together in a cohesive way, or at least in a way where Aqua doesn't come across as a massive retard.

>>279883630
OnK S3 isn't due until 2026, but I'm not sure if it's just a scheduling thing for Doga Kobo or they genuinely need time to tweak the script to soften the landing for the second half.

>>279887494
No, that's Nisekoi

>>279887704
>tweaking the script
That’s a nice way to say “rewrite the whole thing”

>>279887858
>the otters
Fuck.
These threads were thrash.

>>279888189
Depends on how much pull Aka has with the adaptation. Knowing him he'll want to keep things mostly as is despite the clear drop in writing quality after Tokyo Blade.

>>279883364
Past confession hrough different arcs Aka demolished Ishigami's character and removed every single female character that people were
>still better to ship Ishigami with than Miko
because it made Aka pissy fans never bought IshiMiko only for Aka leave it open at the end.

>>279885113
He fucking promised it to us

>>279882757
>>279882791
Sugoi said this was originally meant to be S4 but aniplex changed manegement and plans for the series.

>>279882746
It's just another flop, turns out without a super expensive marketing push like Oshi no Ko had, Aka can't really produce another success.

>>279884018
NEVER. EVER.

>>279883237
I like Miko.

>>279887858

>>279888667
>Aka
>get successful
>Kagua manga going well
>get divorced
>start an idolshit manga
>gets successful
>drops the quality of Kaguya
>people start critizing your manga
>double down on shitting on it
>OnK isn't getting any better
>start yet another manga
>doesn't take off well
>new work gets the axe
>gets mad and is done with OnK
>delivers a polemic ending
>gets mad at the critiques
>doubles down and writes a second ending in LN format
>it's even worse
>MFW
Aka is hack and I have only to blame myself for not hearing others warnings

>>279888847
Kanokari fags are the new otters

>>279882702 (OP)
Very nice. I missed these idiots.

>>279889007
>doubles down and writes a second ending in LN format
>it's even worse
Which one was that?

Reminder that ishitgami and mikoshit ruined the story and killed this manga

>>279889111
That was fine. Osaragi was the pushed one.

>>279885224
>at least iceguya is still fun
Thats the most charitable description of that arc I've seen.

>>279889161
Osaragi was Aka's expy to people against Ishimiko.

>>279882702 (OP)
Oh!

>>279886232
Oko is a good villain though
Probably the only good villain Aka has ever done

>>279888189
I can't remember a single anime that did actual major rewrites to a controversial manga ending.

I only care for Maki :(

>>279882702 (OP)
wake me when it's new anime announced "Chika's Anal Awakening"

>>279889502
Fuuka sort of

>>279889550
Too bad she was made just to suffer.

>TV special
>skipping 100 chapters at least
What's the next step on A1's master plan?

I'm still missing her ...

>>279889285
iceguya arc has been recieving a lot of revisionism lately. I remember actually being in the dump threads every week for that dogshit arc and how many people hated it

How will the reddit yuri lovers react to Chika saying she wants to marry a sumo wrestler?

>>279889900
We didn't knew the worst was yet to come back then

>>279889900
Because people were just retarded, even back then, with a lot of newfags finally reaching weekly regimen after binging and now becoming cranky because they were not used to it.
I read it recently and it was fine, completing nicely the roffto confession.

>>279889907
I don't know, why are you so interested in reddit reactions?

how long till the sex arc is animated

>>279882746
It was too genius for the masses.

OH MIKO

Hacka robbed us of this

>>279883406
Has oshi no ko gone downhill? I haven’t been keeping up with it.

Hayasaka archetype sex

>>279890685
Did you really missed one of the biggest crashouts from last year?

>>279890696
Liar Liar's Hayasaka is better than Hayasaka

>>279882746
The cover looks too generic, as if its the manga adaptation of a Japanese isekai novel.

robbed of a proper Christmas Party

>>279890685
Off a cliff, if you will.

>>279883456
The problem with Ishigami-Tsubame is that Aka spent way too many chapters on then but the ending was, quite frankly, pointless. If he wanted to have Ishigami suffer he honestly didn't need to spend so much narrative energy on them and destroy the structure of the plot so much. It seems like Aka wanted her to win but changed his mind halfway due to divorce and chickened out. Like as much shit we give Game of Thrones' ending, imagine one where Daenerys fucking dies coming from Mireen because a sudden storm sinks all her ships. Ishibame gives me that kind of feeling.

Alternatively perhaps Aka wanted to write guya for 400 chapters and would have had Ishigami hook up with Tsubame and Abe (the cat owner who was never important) hook up with Iino, but alas that didn't happen either.

>>279891157
>changed his mind halfway due to divorce and chickened out
That seems to be the running trend of the second halves of both Kaguya and Oshi no Ko.

>>279890879
Not really, no.

>>279890696
Alya's Hayasaka clone is such a hot slut.

>>279882757
Look at the poster, this is the finale of the series.

>>279890696
You forgot Ruby

>hacka manages to crash two big things with no survivors
it's sort of amazing how much he hates his audience and gives them the shittiest endings he can crank out after going on a bender drinking hostess clubs dry & fucking ALL the whores.

>>279891157
>It seems like Aka wanted her to win but changed his mind halfway due to divorce and chickened out.
Probably this. I wouldn't say he chickened out, it's more like he got so disillusioned that he went for a negative ending, but still wanted to include stuff he wrote with Tsubame "winning" in mind.

>>279883364
Yes, everything after the ice kaguya arc was awful. The only good thing was the sex chapter but even that was disappointed. The is an arc where Aka goes full white knight and they threaten Kaguya'd older brother with canceling him on Twitter. I'm not kidding, that's how they solve the final conflict.

>>279889900
Because it was pretty bad at the time. It was pain to read on a weekly basis but made sense by the end. The rest of the series is just worse and only romcom retards would it that shit.

For a series I followed for literal years, I’m amazed how effectively I deleted Kaguya from my memory after dropping it during the final arc. I was never even curious to check out season 3, despite enjoying that part of the manga. Regardless, I think the studio adapting the back half of the series in a piecemeal way is the right call, given how much of the content is mediocre to bad.

>>279889900
Iceguya arc coincided with the beginning of secondaries invasion, that's why it got so much bitching.

That new artist aka's collabing with should have just done an ib rewrite for him or something all that blood and gore could have fit that series well
instead we have this fantasy world shit and im not even being hooked like kaguya or onk did

Aka really is a genius when writing comedy. Too bad he doesn't like comedy.

>>279883827
Yeah this is why I'm wondering why this is even being made since that latter portion of Kaguya was frankly pretty ass. Even the Hayasaka stuff was super weak and lackluster in my opinion.

>>279892081
I think this thing had a name: people being skilled at something but disliking it and preferring to do something else entirely which doesn't really come out good.

>>279892116
Because it's bad, that's why they're are wrapping the series as quick as they can instead of adapting the full thing.

>>279892206
it's sort of the peter principle, though no promotions are involved with aka
"Every employee has a tendency to rise to their level of incompetence" or something like that

>>279882702 (OP)
This series went way too heavy on the rom aspects. S1 is fucking hilarious and just a lot of fun, but each season became more and more serious and it just lost me by the end of S3.

>>279892304
The end of season 3 is the peak of the manga, but the series lost quality in terms of direction with each new season.

>>279892340
The direction was never good. That's why secondaries don't even remember the fireworks episode.

>>279892015
The "new artist" is a group of 4 women btw.

>>279892442
It was good in season 1. You can tell the difference by how long they tried to stretch the punchline with unfunny visual metaphors.

>>279892578
>It was good in season 1.
I specifically mentioned fireworks because it was a part of s1.

>>279882702 (OP)
will we get this?

>>279892732
i always wondered if they used protection
and thought there'd be a chapter regarding that which is also a thinly veiled safe sex PSA

Hayasaka/Fujiwara kiss SOON

>>279882702 (OP)
So, will we get the helicopter?

>>279882746
I hope it fails hard and he never writes anything ever again

>>279893174
We'll get the airplane

>>279893174
post THAT

>>279882746
It is Marchen Crown. It is pretty much another one of those fairy tale, but dark kind of stories. royalty that attempts rape, the KKK but foot fetish, you know that kind of shit

You know, in these cases in which I don't feel much about the material. watching the anime always ends up improving the manga for me somehow.
I''ll watch it, maybe it will happen again.

qt

>>279893200
I hope he doesn't fail, but that instead he actually manages to learn how to be consistently good.

>>279891238
With Oshi no Ko, I think he wanted to kill off Akane while Mengo wanted incest. In the end neither got what they wanted.

>>279891508
Disillusionment is a certainty. I remember several of his volume extras towards the end had his"advice" and thoughts on love, and reading it made me think its something someone well educated will come up with after getting dumped and exclusively browsing /v/ or Wotakoi threads on /a/. It was very very cringe.

Did his editor’s back finally give out after carrying Aka’s career for the last decade?

>>279893541
>his"advice" and thoughts on love
Like what

Did anons really forget that the overwhelming majority of mangaka are fucked in the head weirdos?

anons actually didn't like the movie? I thought it was great

>>279893377
I did this.

>>279893822
It was good, people were just bitter because the manga was going to shit at that point in time.
Still, the part adapted by the movie is still among the good ones.

>>279889790
You can treat this arc as standalone and no one would care.
It's fantastic BARRING the girls talk chapter which is just Aka's usual retardation and talking through characters.

>>279889900
Because the manga got worse, but the criticism was fucking spot on and aka got so much shit from it that he backtracked as hard as humanly possible and basically rewrote the whole conflict.
It was unfuny, kaguya was behaving like a retard AND he went out of his way to shit on the moment he had built up the whole manga just to be edgy.
It was shit, but the manga got so much worse.

>>279894050
>but the criticism was fucking spot on and aka got so much shit from it that he backtracked as hard as humanly possible and basically rewrote the whole conflict.
Retard, you don't even understand how manga publishing works.

I miss the old Aka. There was a lot of cringe, but the soul was poured out in equal measure. Current Aka wishes he could write something half as honest as IB now.

>>279894238
he still couldn't write a story back then

>>279882746
I'd never heard of it before, I just checked it out.
It's edgy but not unbearably so for me so far, let's see where it goes.

>>279894050
Blueballing the audience after the confession was a risky move but then all of the emotional stuff was weaker than everything before it, bar Iino's baggage, which made it even worse.

>>279882746
overdone is what it is. I really want him to blow what's left of his money on the Ib game so when THAT flops he's left with nothing.
>bites the hand not once
>but TWICE
>because he's bored of the series HE wrote

>>279886950
Because most chapters seem short, like half the usual or so.

>>279894344
if anything it's not edgy enough, it's 80% boring dialogue between characters I can't give a shit about

>>279894519
>characters I can't give a shit about
Is that because they're genuinely boring, or because you know Aka is going to fumble them eventually?

>>279894367
>on the Ib game
on the what now

>>279894519
>it's 80% boring dialogue between characters I can't give a shit about
I don't feel that way: to me it seems the manga does a decent job keeping me interested in the plot and world buildng.

>>279894238
Instant Bullet 2 will be his magnum opus.

>>279894818
He's just talked about doing more Ib since it ended and mentioned games around the time kaguya was ending, so you can say it's conjecture but considering he's done drawing manga, I can see it happening.

>>279894734
Mikel and Rapunzel are pretty generic lovebirds. In a sense it's fine since they're fairy tale characters and fairy tales aren't very concerned with characters anyway but Aka is attempting to write some kind of nuanced story here and it feels like it just doesn't gel really well with the setting

>>279892732
I don't think so since they didn't seemed like they planned havin sex, i guess they just lucked on skipping the teen pregnancy arc

>>279896148
for >>279892799

>>279894734
I think it's faster to check it out than for me to try to explain it: it's 11 chapters so far, but the chapters are very short.
I can't really dismiss it as "generic" nor "innovative", but it gives off the feeling to me that it might have something to offer.
Also, the art is nice and I like the designs of the villains.
Lastly, somehow I'm genuinenly curious of what's Aka spin on this genre he will likely build up something and then fumble it yeah, but now Im already prepared, so it won't bother me much.

Kaguya is the first and last Hacka work I will ever read because it's clear he can't finish a story properly.

>the anime was a massive success, one of the biggest in history
>Ai practically became the queen of idols despite only being in the prologue
>the manga was also a massive financial success, outselling stuff like Love Hina, and on track to outsell Kaguya
>then the ending happened, and a year later, there wasn't even a squeak about the third season
When people say "this downfall needs to be studied", this is what they're talking about. This is such a spectacular flub, it needs to be in the textbooks. Akasaka flushed his magmun opus down the shitter out of boredom.

>>279896405
the ending wasn't terrible but the big emotional moment of the whole school doing that big goodbye to Shirogane felt "unearned" in a meta sense if that's the right word for it

Sounds like Akira Hiramoto 2.0

>>279896405
I second this

>>279896496
I don't think Aka wrote ONK's ending out of spite. I think he wanted to be poetic, and rhyme Aqua's fate with Ai's fate. Ai's death was a huge shock, and kicked the story off. Aqua's death was a huge shock, and ended the story. He clearly came up with that ending in the beginning, when he decided to kill Ai off. A mystery is crafted backwards, after all. He wanted Oshi no Ko to be a story of two children, the light side who wants to continue Ai's legacy, and the dark side who wants to avenge her and self-destructs in the end. The problem is, as the story became more and more popular, it grew in size, and suddenly, the characters outpaced what he intended for them. The good kid was now falling into darkness, and the bad kid was the hero, this had to happen to keep shit interesting. We even ended up dabbling in incest for a bit, that's how lost Aka was in his Jenga tower of character development. But he didn't want to change the ending; he still wanted that rhyme, and that was his fatal error. He hoped to shock the audience in a good way, but didn't see the bigger picture. I wonder if he would be willing to add some material to the anime adaptation, which is supposedly coming in 2026, to fix shit up a bit.

>>279897114
Personally I reckon you can fix the ending with some minor tweaks so that it actually makes sense for Aqua to go with that plan. At worst they can copy the live action ending, or use a variation of that one fan ending floating around.

>>279897942
whats the live action ending

>>279889007
Where's your face?