Happy April Fool’s!
Okay, so it’s midnight my time and thus the joke’s officially over.
This was all an April Fool’s joke, and it wasn’t a very good one. It was one I just thought up in the spur of the moment with full realization that it was very highly unlikely and not at all trustworthy. And yet a number of you fell for it. I guess this shows we have a bunch of gullible fans!
To set the record straight, there will NOT be Akashachi Gaiden, Juuza Gaiden is NOT cancelled, Araki Hirohiko is NOT drawing anything HnK-related (though that would be awesome), we are NOT picking up this project, Wimmo is NOT returning, and we are NOT dropping anything.
Also, I hate to be a fanboy, but to those of you in the comments: Shachi was the Hokuto Ryuken guy. Akashachi was the pirate. Make sure you get those straight.
For those of you that missed the joke, here’s the original post:
We at Hokuto no Gun have just learned from a very reliable source that due to lame artwork, Juuza Gaiden will be prematurely cancelled, and Comic Bunch will replace it with a much more awesome Akashachi Gaiden. Most of the details about this new project are top-secret, including its release date, so not even we know much about it, but according to the most recent rumors, this Gaiden will be drawn by none other than Araki Hirohiko.
The HnG Staff are very excited about this new release and will begin translating it as soon as it comes out. We will be dropping all of our other projects just so we can focus on this piece of pirate awesomeness. Rumors have it that even Wimmo will return just so he can translate this manga. We are excited to bring you this incredible Gaiden to you, and we hope you will enjoy it!
Nice!
Akashachi… Why would he get a gaiden? Sounds mysterious to be honest.
Interested.
I’m surprised too. He had a cool backstory, but I would have thought that everything anyone needed to know about akashachi was covered already by the canonical stuff (HnK2 was canonical right? I was never 100% clear on that). But hey, Akashachi was cool too. Plus his dad was a pirate!
I really liked Juuza, and I’m kinda sad that they’re scrapping the project instead of, you know, finding another artist whose work is not lame. Oh well, Juuza’s gets a decent amount of face time in Yuria’s gaiden. I guess that’s good enough.
At least they didn’t decide to Juuza with…
Rihaku Gaiden: The Boring Chariot Star of Boringness
April fools right?
I can see Falco getting a gaiden, but Akashachi? Is this an April Fool’s Day joke?
Gotta be a joke. Talking about dropping all projects for an excessively minor character? Had me going for a second, though.
Son of a bitch, I forgot what day it was!! ><
The thing about Wimmo should have tipped me off
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what about kinnikuman?
Please no , Why should they cancel Juuza gaiden for that Akashachi , Why its not Souther , Fodu , Falco , Ein or Shin .
For me I will prefer Rihaku gaiden instead of Akashachi .
So , I am a fool hahahaha , This was a good a one , Hope that Wimmo will came bach soon .
Thank goodness, Akashachi would be so lame. haha
Hmm seem to have missed this one.
By the way, Cypher, I’m gonna have to plagiarize your “Boring Chariot Star of Boringness” in my abridged series.
Please do
I don’t know what you’re talking about either…
@SC: Nice one. I got a kick out of that April Fools ;)
@Ahab: Who? What? Me thinks me just swatted a pesky Mick-fly once more…He’ll never learn.
PS: I’ll be back soon guys so expect a chapter of SnK maybe by the end of the week.
it’s been long since a release, whats up?
(no offence :) )
There should be a new chapter of SnK soon, it’s done the translation check and last I heard it’s in editing.