Medalist
| I hardly post on MAL, but I'm bored and just wanted to share this story that's well known in Japan about how Medalist came to fruition. This story is well known in the idolm@ster fandom as well. It started when the manga-ka, Tsurumaikada, became a huge fan of the seiyuu Haruse Natsumi after she discovered her through idolm@ster Cinderella Girls. Natsumi played Kaoru Ryuzaki, one of the idols from the U149 group (yes the lolis).  She made a 100 page doujin about Natsumi basically chronicling her various roles and appearances in the anime industry. The doujin was offered free because she wanted the world to know about Natsumi.  She eventually quit her day job to become a full time manga-ka with the intention of making Natsumi voice the main character of her manga. She found common interest with Natsumi's pass time, figure skating. Problem is the manga-ka had never ice skate in her life, so she had to learn how to ice skate to understand what makes the sport interesting. Despite suffering multiple fractures and attended multiple surgeries in the name of research, she managed to get her story picked up for serialisation. When she created Inori, she was definitely inspired by Kaoru. If you look at both of them side-by-side, they have similar big foreheads, same coloured eyes, and most importantly that sweet and beautiful smile. Her story was awarded various accolades, including something like best new manga I think 2-3 years ago. During that time, Natsumi did the voice over for the first volume's commercial. And then the anime project was announced for it and everyone knew who Inori's seiyuu was going to be long before they announced the cast list. tl:dr - manga-ka is the giga simp. |
| Wow that's a pretty interesting story ngl, thanks for sharing. |
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| Also if you are wondering why Natsumi is in a cardboard box, it's a reference to this: https://x.com/amimen_agqr/status/897009257031155712  Somehow Satou Amina (Arisu from Cinderella Girls) convinced Natsumi and a couple of other cast members to get in the box. It's stupidly cute. This was back in 2017 during the last leg of the Cinderella Girls concert. |
| Salute! For the mangaka dedication towards her oshi. This is truly a dedicated achievement. |
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Reply to AkeZZZ
Salute! For the mangaka dedication towards her oshi. This is truly a dedicated achievement.
| @AkeZZZ I wanted to make a joke about how this is the real Oshi no Ko that we deserve and then I suddenly realized that the male MC is voicing by Aqua's VA, lmao. |
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| That's actually pretty wholesome. Glad the mangaka's dream came true. |
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| that's nice. sad how there's so little attention to this anime right now so i'm glad to find some interesting threads like this. |
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that's nice. sad how there's so little attention to this anime right now so i'm glad to find some interesting threads like this.
| @ryzxgum Looks like a really good story about how a suffering character earns their happy ending. Unlike authors who simply make characters suffer for the sake of shock value and do not know how to reward it correctly. |
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| I love it when an author takes the extra step instead of just taking something and stuffing shonen elements in it that don't exist. It shows you actually care and not here to cash in on a popular show. |
| I had to change this because some loser couldn't make an actual argument. So....yeah I hope you guys like the new sig. |
| Wow that's really interesting, thanks for sharing ❤️ |
| Damn, I was gonna pick up all the volumes of the manga when I got the chance either way, but now I got 100 times more motivated to get it ASAP and start reading. This show is too good, and I don't think it's a stretch to say it's the best anime currently airing imo |
| btw, if you can read Japanese, the doujinshi is available here. I'm sharing it here because I'm fascinated with this story, and I think there isn't any problem on sharing because at the time Tsurumaikada-sensei made the PDF available to download for free. |
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