After a few days away from the internet (actually the better part of two weeks), I just noticed that the Inubaka comic has come to an end here in Japan.
Inbaka fans in North America will know that there was a long hiatus after volume 15 of the English edition, but it appears that work on subsequent volumes has started up again and English fans will likely get the rest of the series (don't quote me on that, though, because I don't know).
This month volume 22 comes out in Japan and I think 23 will wrap up the collections, so if they are all going to get translated, North American fans still have a few volumes to look forward to.
Unfortunately for me, I won't get to finish what I started because when Inubaka resumed translation it didn't find it's way back to me (which is, for the record, in no way the fault of the publishers or anyone who works for them. I want to make that perfectly clear!).
Anyway, when you start from number 1 and get all the way to 15 over the course of a few years, you tend to get a little attached. I was attached, and so knowing now that it's ending makes me really wish I could have been the one to finish it.
Oh, well. Shit happens, right? I'm still going to read the finale in Monthly Young Jump. (If I can find a damn store that sells Monthly Young Jump! It isn't exactly on every store's shelf)
Although I won't get to finish Inubaka in English, I did get my first new title in a while, so I've got something comic related to look forward to. I don't think it has been announced yet so I won't mention the title, but I expect it will start sometime this year. My work has had little to do with comics lately other than overseeing some translations and the odd script brush-up (none of which was done for any North American companies), and I had really missed reworking translations and adapting for comics that would actually be published on good old fashion tree pulp and end up on North American store shelves. I'm really looking forward to getting into this new title.
So, all's well that ends well!
I hope Inubaka ends well too.
The final chapter of Inubaka is called "Don't forget."
It was one of my first two comic adaptation assignments way back in 2006, both of which I started at the same time. They say you never forget your first, so I'm sure I won't forget.
Bye bye, Suguri and Lupin!
It was fun while it lasted.
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