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[kaoarika]

Was taking a look at how different were WSJ volumes from two different series with a 12-years difference and, besides the obvious price rise from 400 -> 520 yen, I also noticed cute little things.

Like, I know not every Weekly Shonen Jump series in their tankoubon release had spaces were the authors usually released writers' notes (or rants/vents in case of gntm), sometimes some of these used those spaces for extra info or character profiles (ie Takei in Mankin, Matsui in Ankyou), and I feel like Tozuka has taken this same approach in Undelu, except that in his and Undelu's case some of these tend to be reprints from the notes that he shares on the official Twt account of the series (that is managed by someone in his team, maybe even his editor?) before the actual release of that week's chapter, besides your typical character profiles (and, as of lately, the tankoubon are including sketches of the color chapter covers and the volume covers), and some of the illustrations from the collaborative/editorial thematic WSJ covers, which are neat, and I wish they were in color, anyways... but at least the social media team of the magazine TRY to post them online these days.

And I think this is also important to note because... social media/SNS really changed a lot of things about the interaction between fans and authors. Thankfully, not everyone has a public SNS account (many cases, it's the series that has an official account for news and the like), and prefer to keep their privacy in check, so no complaint about that, however, I see that those "fan corners" (unless kept by tradition at this point, ie Oda in OP) in the tankoubon have been greatly reduced to, well, nothing.

I say this because looking back in the volumes I have of Sukedan, Shinohara seemed to have had a space at the end of the volume where it looks like he shared questions from fans? thoughts? and fanart that was sent to the editorial team, besides his after-chapter thoughts... which, unfortunately, a majority of them remain untranslated (unofficially and officially) because the series doesn't count with an official release in English and/or Spanish (in my case), and the scanlation teams didn't seem to favor much the tankoubon raws until VERY late in the game (or more like, if they did, they didn't tl'ed much than the chapters themselves), which is kind of sad, lmao. And Shinohara used to have a twt account and basically it was there where he resumed his interaction with fans (he made an account, iirc, because he was hijacking the Astra manga account a LOT)... and even so, I still have very unclear if, as many claim, he left because he was getting TOO addicted to Twitter... this was ALL before Witch Watch because he was still active a little bit after the Astra anime aired in 2019? but the pandemic really made everything in 2020 very blurry as everyone was "safe at home", you know?).

I wish I can say the same about shoujo series, but... I mean, the latest one I am buying is technically from the late 2000s, and the author still was doing their thought columns even though they started to mention they were starting to use SNS blogs, and I don't know how other magazines from different publishers tend to approach those spaces (I do know some authors do, others don't... but my knowledge is pretty outdated at this point; like, in OreMono, from the mid 2010s, I know Aruko and Kawahara shared a writing page with final thoughts about the volume in turn...)

[these-are-the-first-steps]

It’s always bizarre running into some random account that has blocked this one, the ✨Star Wars Blog✨. 😂

What on earth?? Who are you even?? My only conceivable guess is that they are/were anti-reylo once upon a time and picked me up off someone’s obligatory hate list years ago. In which case, I have a strong side-eye for these places posting content that have a random og reylo/sw blog blocked with zero interaction on the record, and I figure it’s better not to reblog from them anyway. 👀