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NEWS: Seraph of the End Gets 2nd Spinoff Novel Series About Guren Ichinose




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BodaciousSpacePirate
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 6:28 pm Reply with quote
Great news! I was worried the franchise was starting to die down.

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Kodansha published the seventh volume in December 2016. Asami launched an ongoing manga adaptation in June. Vertical published the first three novel volumes in English in 2016.


Each of the Vertical volumes contained two of the Japanese volumes.
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amc9988



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 8:40 pm Reply with quote
Wait so SoTE Gurren Ichinose at 16 is already completed or not? After all this new one is a sequel to the previous Gurren novels right
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 8:47 pm Reply with quote
amc9988 wrote:
Wait so SoTE Gurren Ichinose at 16 is already completed or not? After all this new one is a sequel to the previous Gurren novels right


As far as I know, the @16 storyline is still going on, as they haven't quite caught up to the manga/anime's first scene. I would think of these new @19 novels as more of an attempt to "fill the gaps" between the @16 novels and the manga than a proper sequel.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 8:52 pm Reply with quote
The timeline with all the side content is confusing.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 2:10 am Reply with quote
I kinda wish that the Guren Catastrophe at 16 novels got their own anime adaptation. Guren is a pretty great lead character.
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AnimeFlyz wrote:
I kinda wish that the Guren Catastrophe at 16 novels got their own anime adaptation. Guren is a pretty great lead character.


Even though I love the Guren Catastrophe at 16 novels to death, I'm not sure I'd want to see them turned into an anime, simply because I'm afraid they'd end up looking like every other "persecuted student at a magical high school who secretly is more powerful than 99% of his condescending classmates" light novel adaptation. In my opinion, a major part of their appeal is that right now they feel exactly like light novel versions of the Seraph of the End anime and manga, and adapting all of that back into anime form seems like kind of a Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game move.
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Even though I love the Guren Catastrophe at 16 novels to death, I'm not sure I'd want to see them turned into an anime, simply because I'm afraid they'd end up looking like every other "persecuted student at a magical high school who secretly is more powerful than 99% of his condescending classmates" light novel adaptation. In my opinion, a major part of their appeal is that right now they feel exactly like light novel versions of the Seraph of the End anime and manga, and adapting all of that back into anime form seems like kind of a Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game move.


The only thing is that the Guren series reveals things that anime only people would have no chance of knowing and it would be a good way to help them understand the timeline of the series.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 7:16 pm Reply with quote
AnimeFlyz wrote:
I kinda wish that the Guren Catastrophe at 16 novels got their own anime adaptation. Guren is a pretty great lead character.


Hey it's got a manga already, why not?

Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen: The Animation sounds like a great title, too.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 8:30 pm Reply with quote
This sounds lit! Surprised
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