The Swordcerers: Origins of my Personal Manga!

12 years ago, I was younger…Single, with no worries at all and lots of free time. It was also a time when I drew a lot of manga. That´s right…Manga! I was very enthusiastic about the idea of doing my own manga, that I figured out this silly story about a warrior in a quest and guided by a goddess in a headband. The name of that manga?…The Swordcerers! I thought of that name by combining two of my favorite genre: Swords and Sorcery, hence the title word of my personal manga!

This was an experiment to see how difficult it was to draw a manga…and certainly, it is not an easy task. I have the whole idea in my mind and I want to continue and finish this story…someday!

I wanted to share with my readers some of the highlights of this personal project I thought about, 12 years ago! I abandoned the idea because my whole portfolio was stolen with my laptop…Fortunately, I managed to recover some of the sketches and the first chapter of the story I draw many years ago. Here is one of the main characters…An Elf!

I still need to think her name. I thought of several…Faye, Amber…You could help me here!

Black and White Sketch!

Final Drawing!…Do you like her? I think She is cute…. …But She will not appear until chapter 2!

I abandoned the pencil and not sure how is my drawing style now. Certainly, I need to improve my drawing skills…Lots of things! However, the experience of doing the things you love has no price and I had fun doing this project. You can check out the first chapter here!

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If you like this manga, I might consider the idea of drawing the next chapters as a weekly project and add it to Cartoon Leap. After all, I thought about using this site as a platform to launch it at first but it ended up as an anime blog! Please feel free to comment and share your opinions. 12 years ago, this was just an experiment…Today, this could be something fun!….

So, how much money has disappeared on the Haruhi movie this year?

As we should remember, on February 6th of this year, the movie Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu was released to theatres in Japan.

Since then, the movie has moved to 108 theatres in Japan and two in the United States for a total of 110 theatres worldwide. I’ve been tracking the theatres on this spreadsheet since February. It’s still being shown in Japan as I am typing this post. No, literally due to time zones, it’s being shown now somewhere in Japan.

The anime business site Anime!Anime!Biz has published their report of how movies released in the first half of 2010 have done in the box office. Not surprisingly, the top movies were One Piece, Detective Conan, Doraemon, Shin-chan, and Precure. But it finally gives confirmation to the rumor that I had found a few weeks ago.

Three weeks ago during a stream produced by Kadokawa of the first episode of Strike Witches 2, they announced that the movie had earned 820 million yen. I found this through 2ch, but could not find another text source to support such a claim and had to remain silent about it. However, the report from Anime!Anime!Biz confirms that the movie has earned 830 million yen in 102 theatres (this is up to a couple of weekends ago, a little after the date claimed during the stream).

By comparison, two “late-night anime” movies that were released during this time, Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 1st and Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works only had 68 and 66 theatres respectively and earned only 380 million yen and 280 million yen each. That’s less than half of what the Haruhi movie earned and in about 40 less theatres.

So it’s very safe to conclude that the Haruhi movie is a huge success. It’s still being shown in theatres and they’ve announced a third campaign to get people back to see it. For those attending the theatres soon, you will get a special desk pad with Yuki and Kyon on one side and a poem by Nagaru Tanigawa-sensei in the voice of Yuki on the opposite side. They’ve not announced details yet, so it’ll be a little longer to see what the pad looks like.

Images used in this post have been taken from film bookmarks posted by 2ch users without permission.