[Predictions] Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi! Chapter 1 Discussion and 2 Predictions

[Hexuze]

This is one of Shimabukuro's (mangaka of TORIKO) previous work in Weekly Shonen Jump. This was a very popular series and was serialized during the same year as One Piece. This manga is a 25 volume series (247 chapters) [1997-2002]; ended due to the *** scandal that Shima experienced.

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This series just got translated, hence why I included "chapter 2" predictions in the title since no one really knows how the series ends (unless you read the series in Japanese already). I just wanted to give this brief introduction before giving context.

Also, here's a better/lengthy introduction/background on the series from the translator's mouth:

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OOokay, so this was a long time coming. but here it is, Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi! chapter 1. The first series done by Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi, author of Toriko. I wanted to work on this series a looong time. I think I bought the series back in 2011.po0-We’re gonna do this series by chapters because we’re using wide-bans as raws, which is a sort of deluxe reprint version of the series which is a little less than 2 regular volumes worth in length. So it’s kinda too much to try to release at once. I’m also not saying I’m gonna do the whole series, I’m just gonna start at the beginning and see where it goes. I’ve got a lot of projects I’m doing right now and a lot are ones I started like many years ago. I dunno if I’ll be able to finish them because as talked about in my post about Toriko’s ending, I do this as a hobby and I have a full time job. Trying to get a long series done on a weekly basis or something close to that can be impossible sometimes without losing tons of sleep or stressing yourself out. So I’m gonna see how this goes. We have a new staff member Joeabandonedmine who’s doing a lot of work on this, so major props to him.

I’ll talk a little about Takeshi the series. Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi (OrLegend of End of the Century Leader Takeshi) started in Shounen Jump issue 1997-33. That’s exactly one week before One Piece started, and Shimabukuro-sensei and Oda-sensei were friends at the time and still are, I think. Takeshi is a comedic adventure manga. Much more of a parody of typical shounen manga than a straight-up shounen manga. Though it has its own world and battles and stuff, it gets really goofy, they break the 4th wall, and they purposefully go out of their way to not take things too seriously most of the time. Like the main character looks like an ugly middle-aged man but is in the 1st grade of elementary school. Stuff gets weird and over-the-top, but it’s still got an emotional core to everything. Its ability to snap back to that emotional core from the crazy weirdness is its best point, I think.

It was one of the most popular manga in Jump for a few years. It also won the 2001 Shogakukan Manga Award for children’s manga. Though also, as I’m sure a lot of you know, it got cancelled because the author was convicted of paying for an underage prostitute in 2002 mid-arc. And Shimabukuro-sensei didn’t work on any manga for a while. Later in 2005, the series was finished off in Super Jump, a seinen manga magazine that ended publication in 2011. They printed the Wide-Bans and finished compiling the uncollected Shounen Jump chapters and also the Super Jump chapters in those (Which was the last 10 chapters of the series, and were released alongside the author’s other series Ring, which we scanlated a while back). It ended up as 24 volumes, plus a “gaiden” volume which had the original Takeshi one-shots (There were 2 of them) along with some other one-shots the author did. Shimabukuro did another book of One-Shots that was released around volume 4 of Toriko, too, if you hadn’t heard about that. Toriko also had 2 one-shots, one of which was published in 2002, so it’s possible he was planning to end Takeshi soon anyhow.

Here’s an article for Takeshi as a series if you want to hear a bit more background.

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Synopsis

The manga tells the story of a young man named Takeshi who was born to be a leader. Takeshi always dreamed of being a leader like his father Hiroshi, who was considered a leader among salarymen; however, when his father died, Takeshi became more determined than ever to become a leader like him, and after starting school for the first time, he decides to prove himself by becoming a leader to his classmates.

Apparently this gag series turns into a battle series so enjoy! Definitely give this a try, especially if you enjoyed Toriko! The dates when this manga will translated will be inconsistent since the translation team of this manga is not promising to translate everything.

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[V h o]

Will look it over.

 

[Hexuze]

Pretty funny chapter and wasn't expecting the feels near the end. I can't wait for the next chapter to come out. (hoping that it would xd)

 

[Ansatsuken]

Komatsu?? :elmo: