1968
Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #1
Otoko Ippiki Gaki-Daisho by Hiroshi Motomiya
1969
Dr. Toilet by Kazuyoshi Torii
1970
The Gutsy Frog by Yasumi Yoshizawa
1971
Tezuka Manga Award 1st Edition
Samurai Giants by Ikki Kajiwara & Ko Inoue
Boy of the Wilderness Isamu by Soji Yamakawa & Noboru Kawasaki
1972
Astro Kyudan by Shiro Tōzaki & Norihiro Nakajima
1973
Play Ball by Akio Chiba
Hochonin Ajihei by Jiro Gyu & Jo Big
1974
Akatsuka Manga Award 1st Edition
1975
The Circuit Wolf by Satoshi Ikezawa
Doberman Deka by Buronson & Shinji Hiramatsu
1976
Toudai Icchokusen by Yoshinori Kobayashi
Kochikame by Osamu Akimoto
1977
Ring ni Kakero by Masami Kurumada
Susume!! Pirates by Hisashi Eguchi
1978
Cobra by Buichi Terasawa
1979
Kinnikuman by Yudetamago
1980
Dr. Slump by Akira Toriyama
1981
Captain Tsubasa by Yoichi Takahashi
Cat's Eye by Tsukasa Hojo
Stop!! Hibari-kun! by Hisashi Eguchi
1982
High School! Kimengumi by Motoei Shinzawa
1983
Fist of the North Star by Buronson & Tetsuo Hara
Ginga -Nagareboshi Gin- by Yoshihiro Takahashi
1984
DRAGON BALL by Akira Toriyama
1985
City Hunter by Tsukasa Hojo
Miraculous Tonchinkan by Koichi Endo
Sakigake!! Otokojuku by Akira Miyashita
1986
Saint Seiya by Masami Kurumada
1987
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki
The Burning Wild Man by Tadashi Sato
1988
Bastard!! by Kazushi Hagiwara
Jungle King Tar-chan by Masaya Tokuhiro
Rokudenashi BLUES by Masanori Morita
Magical Taluluto by Tatsuya Egawa
1989
Weekly Shonen Jump reaches 5.000.000 copies in circulation
Dragon Quest: The Great Adventure of Dai by Riku Sanjo & Koji Inada
Video Girl Ai by Masakazu Katsura
1990
SLAM DUNK by Takehiko Inoue
Chinyuki by Man Gataro
Yu Yu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi
1992
Hareluya II Boy by Haruto Umezawa
1993
Tottemo! Luckyman by Hiroshi Gamo
Hell Teacher Nube by Makura Sho & Takeshi Okano
1994
Midori no Makibao by Tsunomaru
Rurouni Kenshin by Nobuhiro Watsuki
1995
Weekly Shonen Jump reaches 6.530.000 copies in circulation
Sexy Commando Gaiden: Sugoi yo!! Masaru-san by Kyosuke Usuta
1996
Hoshin Engi by Ryu Fujisaki
Yu-Gi-Oh! by Kazuki Takahashi
Kochikame 20th Anniversary & Chapter 1000
1997
I's by Masakazu Katsura
Seikimatsu Leader den Takeshi! by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro
ONE PIECE by Eiichiro Oda
1998
Rookies by Masanori Morita
Whistle! by Daisuke Higuchi
HUNTERXHUNTER by Yoshihiro Togashi
1999
Hikaru no Go by Yumi Hotta & Takeshi Obata
The Prince of Tennis by Takeshi Konomi
NARUTO by Masashi Kishimoto
2000
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean by Hirohiko Araki
BLACK CAT by Kentaro Yabuki
2001
Bobobobo Bobobo by Yoshio Sawai
BLEACH by Tite Kubo
2002
Strawberry 100% by Mizuki Kawashita
Eyeshield 21 by Riichiro Inagaki & Yusuke Murata
2004
Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata
Gintama by Hideaki Sorachi
Katekyo Hitman Reborn! by Akira Amano
D.Gray-man by Katsura Hoshino
Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation by Yoshiyuki Nishi
2005
Neuro: Supernatural Detective by Yusei Matsui
2006
To Love Ru by Saki Hasemi & Kentaro Yabuki
2007
Sket Dance by Kenta Shinohara
2008
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan by Hiroshi Shiibashi
Toriko by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro
Bakuman. by Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata
2009
Kuroko's Basketball by Tadatoshi Fujimaki
Beelzebub by Ryuhei Tamura
Medaka Box by Nisio Isin & Akira Akatsuki
2010
ONE PIECE New World Begins
2011
Nisekoi by Naoshi Komi
2012
Haikyu!! by Haruichi Furudate
The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. by Shuichi Aso
Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui
Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma by Yuto Tsukuda & Shun Saeki
2013
World Trigger by Daisuke Ashihara
Isobe Isobee Monogatari by Ryo Nakama
2014
Hinomaru Zumo by Kawada
My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi
2015
Black Clover by Yuki Tabata
2016
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs by Tadahiro Miura
Kimetsu no Yaiba by Koyoharu Gotouge
BORUTO by Mikio Ikemoto & Ukyo Kodachi
The Promised Neverland by Kaiu Shirai & Posuka Demizu
Kochikame 40th Anniversary and Serialization End
2017
We Never Learn by Taishi Tsutsui
Dr. STONE by Riichiro Inagaki & Boichi
2018
Jujutsu Kaisen by Akutami Gege
2019
Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto
Mission: Yozakura Family by Hitsuji Gondaira
2020
Undead Unluck by Yoshifumi Tozuka
MASHLE by Hajime Komoto
Ayakashi Triangle by Kentaro Yabuki
Me & Roboco by Shuhei Miyazaki
BURN THE WITCH by Tite Kubo
SAKAMOTO DAYS by Yuto Suzuki
2021
The Elusive Samurai by Yusei Matsui
WITCH WATCH by Kenta Shinohara
Blue Box by Kouji Miura
2022
Akane Banashi by Yuki Suenaga & Takamasa Moue
So, just for everyone so we can get this whole thing over and done with. Arakawa and Jo stuffed their babies in lockers (both for different reasons). Arakawa felt bad so he went back to save Ichi, but since the planets aligned and there were two babies in different lockers he rescues Aoki. Then jiro kasuga comes to actually get baby Ichi because the handout (which I’m assuming means pay off the Yakuza that we’re after Ichi’s mom) goes to shit so rescues Ichi and then Kasuga dies when Ichiban’s 15 and then he goes to live at a whore house.
we're gonna run this back one more time from the very beginning if you're still confused come quiz day i'm failing you and kicking you out of the classroom and im forcing you to read the entire yakuza wiki before you're allowed to write another ask
Masumi Arakawa was expected to date the daughter of the Hikawa clan. However, he was already seeing his girlfriend, Akane, on the side. Eventually, Akane became pregnant, and after Arakawa tells his patriarch about the situation, the two become prime targets of the Hikawa clan.
Just a bit after midnight on New Year's Day, Akane gives birth to Ichiban at the hospital and contacts Arakawa via payphone. Because the two had plotted to meet at Cafe Alps to skip town beforehand, Arakawa was already at the cafe and thus took the call. Over the phone, Arakawa instructs Akane to place their baby in a coin locker at the train station once Akane lets him know the Hikawa are following close behind her. Akane urges Arakawa to take care of their baby, implying she was aware that would be the last time they spoke to each other.
Some time beforehand on the night of New Year's Eve, Jo Sawashiro and his girlfriend at the time, Ikumi, similarly produced a child. Because of their unstable situation as two teenagers barely getting by with just the two of them, Sawashiro takes their child and locks him away in a coin locker, doing so being a common practice in Japan during the 1970-80's.
Back to Arakawa, Arakawa wasn't able to immediately go to the coin lockers due to being cornered by the Hikawa family at the cafe, forcing him to endure a fight with them before reaching the station. Not thinking there would be multiple babies in lockers that night, Arakawa seizes the first locker he hears emit crying- this locker being the locker Sawashiro used, and thus letting Arakawa take Masato to the hospital while Ichiban was left behind.
After Arakawa absconded from the scene, Jiro Kasuga- an ex-coworker of Akane- arrived to the lockers once it was apparent the trade off didn't go as planned. With Arakawa long gone and no one else left to take care of the remaining baby, Jiro adopted Ichiban as his own and raised him in Shangri-La alongside his workers.
Arakawa, unable to reconnect with Akane, assumes she was killed by the Hikawa family, the family infamous for making people disappear without a trace. What exactly happened to her is unknown (as of right now), but it wouldn't be until decades later it's revealed she survived the ordeal. The Hikawa family were unable to find neither Masato or Ichiban that night before Arakawa and Jiro reached their respective children.
Five years later, Sawashiro would encounter Masato and Arakawa, at this time learning that Arakawa had become the patriarch of his own family. Upon seeing Masato's severe health condition, Sawashiro would decide to devote the rest of his life to Masato and to the man who raised him, swearing up to Arakawa and joining the Arakawa family.
Jiro would pass away once Ichiban was 15, leaving Ichiban a drifter. It wouldn't be long after Jiro's passing that Ichiban would cross paths with Arakawa. 100 days after their initial meeting, Ichiban would be allowed to join the Arakawa family.
Arakawa never knew Ichiban was his son, and Ichiban only found out Arakawa was his father after his murder. In LAD8, Ichiban's newest adventure revolves around him venturing to Hawaii to reconnect with his mother, Akane, and to give her Arakawa's ashes in the form of a necklace. Masato never knew Sawashiro was his father, nor did he know Ikumi was his mother.
1. All’s Well by Mona Awad (tw for addiction, college professor puts on a production of All’s Well That Ends Well with mysterious benefactors)
2. We Hunt the Flame and its sequel We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal (Arab-inspired fantasy world)
3. The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale (character-driven ballet drama)
4. House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland (perfect balance of creepy and feminine)
5. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (everyone already knows this one, I know, but it’s so good)
6. Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl (it’s hard to discuss this one without spoilers, so I won’t, but this author is excellent)
7. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Woman tries to uncover the truth about Vlad the Impaler)
8. The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas (I know I’m late to the party on this, but it’s so good)
9. Unlock Your Storybook Heart by Amanda Lovelace (poetry collection)
10. The Belles by Dhionelle Clayton (What if plastic surgery, but magic?)
11. Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler (retelling of Taming of the Shrew)
12. A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat (Thai-inspired retelling of Les Mis)
13. Great or Nothing by Joy McCullough et al. (retelling of Little Women)
14. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (reread, but newly rated 5 stars, Think Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, but mostly light and fluffy with a gay romance)
15. Bright Ruined Things by Samantha Cohoe (retelling of The Tempest)
16. The Caretakers by Amanda Bestor-Siegal (tw for death of a minor, a group of au pairs experience Paris)
17. Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur (cute lesbian romance, third in a series_
18. Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall (regency gay romance)
19. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden (lesbian romance, quintessential lesbian reading)
20. Sailing by Orion’s Star by Katie Crabb (seriously so good, if you read anything on this list, read this, Les Mis meets Robin Hood set during the Golden Age of Piracy)
21. Gallant by V.E. Schwab (feels similar to Coraline, but less creepy)
22. Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (retelling of the Ramayana, featuring one of its villains)
23. Ballots and Barricades by Ronald Aminzade (academic text about class politics in France during the 1800s)
24. Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman (poetry collection)
25. The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd (woman solves her father’s murder, featuring an old map)
26. Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune (think The Good Place, but gay)
27. Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake (cute lesbian romance)
28. A Bite-Sized History of France by Stephanie Henaut and Jeni Mitchell
29. King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye (retelling of Hamlet)
30. Portrait of a Thief by Grace Li (Heist with an all-Asian cast)
31. Ship of Theseus by Doug Dorst (basically an epistolary text between two college students trying to uncover the identity of an elusive author)
32. Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust (A poisonous princess learns to navigate her world)
33. Macbeth by Jo Nesbo (MAJOR tw for drug use, what if Macbeth was a cop and Hecate was a drug lord?)
34. Guardians of the Louvre by Jiro Taniguchi (translated comic about a man and his experiences in the Louvre and meeting artists)
35. Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf (Scrabble tournament but add murder)
36. Elektra by Jennifer Saint (feminist myth retelling, which is what Jennifer Saint does best)
37. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (wildly acclaimed, triple perspective story about an apothecary who helps women)
What I find interesting in the naming of SOL members is that their surnames contain a homophone for the kanji for 'god', that said, looking for the specific kanji is driving me nuts. Can you clarify?
Well, your confusion may come from the fact that 神, ‘god’ in Japanese could be pronounced two ways. ‘Kami’ or ‘Shin’. Also, bear in mind that kanji pronunciations can change depending if they are used on their own or with another kanji, and that the ‘kami’ or ‘shin’ can be spread out across several kanji.
Now, as far as the last names of the Riders go, two of them actually do have the kanji for ‘god’ in it. 神山, Kamiyama (Touma), and 神代, Shindai (Ryouga and Reika). For the homophones, we have these characters’ last names (kanji homophones in bold red)
上條- Kami-jo (Daichi, the previous Saber)
新堂- Shin-do (Rintaro)
富加宮- Fu-ka-miya (Kento and his father, Hayato)
尾上- O-gami* (Ryo)
緋道- Aka-michi (Ren)
大秦寺- Dai-shin-ji (Tetsuo)
長嶺- Naga-mine (Kenshin, the previous Blades and Rintaro’s master)
亀巳川- Kam(i)**-ka-wa (Toshikazu, the previous Buster and Ryo’s master)
鏡- Kagami (Amane, the previous Kenzan)
新閃- Shin-sen (Kyoichiro, the previous Espada)
篠崎- Shin-jiro (Shinozaki, one of the three Kamen Rider Falchion and Rintaro’s birth father)
The swordsmen who don’t follow the naming convention are Yuri, Sophia, Bahato, Desast, Master Logos/Isaac, Storious (none of whom have last names), and the other two Falchions, Mamiya and Tachibana Yuina. Interestingly, those last two could’ve shared the last names of other Riders- Mamiya is actually Touma’s adopted son Riku and could theoretically use his father’s name for himself, and Yuina would’ve taken Kento’s name if they had married.
*Japanese convention usually switches out k with g if it is preceded by a vowel-only, hence the slight difference between Kamijo and Ogami despite being the same kanji
**亀is actually read as “kame”, but changed into “kami” so it flows with the rest of the name better
Floor 40: get my entire ass handed to me on a silver platter with parsley sprigs and a lemon wedge by...
AMONS x 4
I was doing... pretty okay until they started busting out Tag Team attacks. HEY. WTF. YOU CAN'T DO THAT. THAT'S OUR THING. C'MON MAN. MAN C'MON.
Okay. Fine. A little fine-tuning of the party is in order. At least we don't have to trudge through five floors of bullshit to get back to them.
The second time, I was ready. I was loaded for bear and tiger and shark and everything. And we were doing pretty okay again! Better than okay, in fact...
Me: Okay! Cool! Bye Jiro! Okay, Sango's looking a little peaked so let's concentrate on him next--
Jo: *rez* 😎
Me: ..............okay! new strat! Commencing Operation Fuck This Amon In Particular!
So once Jo went down, we had a much easier time. Apparently he is the leader of the party seeing as how the tag teaming stopped once he was KO'd (and I'm going to split that hair and say if our party leader getting knocked out loses the fight, it is SOME BULLSHIT that this fight continued after THEIR party leader went down but anyway)
And once again... some squid parts, some equipment. No Robo Michio tokusatsu squad poundmate from the Hawaii haunt, no Amon poundmate from the Yokohama dungeon. I repeat: some bullshit.
Okay so Arakawa adopted Aoki because he thought he was Ichi and Jo adopted Ichiban… because free baby? You know why don’t we rename it to Like what the fuck!?!
HELP anon jo doesnt adopt ichi ☠️ jo and ikumi initially planned to get rid of aoki/masato because they weren't capable of taking care of him: it wouldn't make sense for jo to take another baby ☠️☠️
what actually happens is jiro kasuga (former boss of akane, ichiban's mother) picks him up from the lockers after discovering the hand off to arakawa failed. THAT is who ends up adopting and raising ichiban