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Mental Health Month: Cross Game & Coping With Loss
(The following is a guest post by Charles of Beneath the Tangles. Thank you, Charles, for providing a great article!)
May is Mental Health Month, a time to emphasize the importance of mental wellness and to spread awareness of mental health conditions. As such, Manga Therapy is addressing anime or manga characters who have overcome the challenges of mental trauma. Tony has been so nice as to allow me to write a guest post on this topic.
While many encounter depression or another mental health condition personally, one area that will affect all of us sometime in our lives is death. Although the topic is often used for shock value in anime and manga (I’m singling you out, Code Geass), every once in a while, a mangaka or animator will create a work that instead treats bereavement in a most sensitive way. Perhaps no mangaka consistently tackles the issue of death and bereavement with more heart than Mitsuru Adachi, which he masterfully demonstrates through the series, Cross Game.
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Pokemon Goes Mature
Wow, looks like Pikachu will be dealing with horny teenagers. A new Pokemon manga will be published on Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday and it will be targeted towards older readers. The series is expected to start serialization this March.
I’m wondering how this will turn out, although as Anime Almanac points out, he would like to see a seinen version of Pokemon. I would heavily be more interested in that.
I’m more curious on Shintaro Ishihara’s reaction to this since, judging from this picture, he seems to like Pokemon. The last thing he probably wants to see in a manga are kids going through puberty & Pokemon dealing with adults who have huge issues.
Anyone here excited about Pokemon “growing up”?
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Hayate Ayasaki (Hayate no Gotoku!)
So you think you have the worst luck? Have you ever had your parents sell you off to pay off their huge debt? Have you ever been surrounded by crazy people at EVERY turn? Have you ever been told that you always looked poor & needy? Then you haven’t been Hayate Ayasaki, the star of Hayate no Gotoku! (“Hayate the Combat Butler” in the English version). He is a character who suffers from a huge case of terrible luck and is regarded as a very pitiful character, even by the mangaka, Kenjiro Hata.
