Friday, January 9, 2009

The End of the Series?

Shinobu Inokuma's weblog states that the Young Sunday Special #5 will be the last--the last what I'm not sure. Young Sunday ceased weekly publication some months ago, meaning either its series have had to find new homes or wind up--fast!
Volume 21 of Toritsu Mizushō came out a couple of weeks ago and it zoomed over a lot of time fast. The first two school years of Mizushō required nineteen volumes, but only two volumes into its third year, we're at a festival halfway through it (that is, the end of September--in Japan, the school year starts at the beginning of April.)  I'm not going to throw in spoilers now (for once) but it looks like my favorite character got happy-ended out of the series, another major character sports a wedding gown, and a third very major character has a reconciliation. The volume ends with a cliffhanger (of course) but the resolution of this this one just might tie up the longest-running plot thread in the entire series.