{"id":1065,"date":"2012-05-07T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T03:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2012-05-07T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T03:50:53","slug":"adachi-returns-to-meisei-26-years-after-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/2012\/05\/07\/adachi-returns-to-meisei-26-years-after-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Adachi returns to Meisei 26 years after Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/news_large_adaci-mix.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1066\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/2012\/05\/07\/adachi-returns-to-meisei-26-years-after-touch\/news_large_adaci-mix\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/news_large_adaci-mix.jpg?fit=447%2C640\" data-orig-size=\"447,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;default_image&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Main characters of Mix\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/news_large_adaci-mix.jpg?fit=447%2C640\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1066\" title=\"Main characters of Mix\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/news_large_adaci-mix.jpg?resize=209%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/news_large_adaci-mix.jpg?resize=209%2C300 209w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/news_large_adaci-mix.jpg?w=447 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a>While this may be old news, it&#8217;s still a thrill to see the illustrations for Adachi Mitsuru&#8217;s new title in Gessan called Mix. What&#8217;s awesome about this is it&#8217;s in many ways a sequel to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/2007\/07\/25\/06-touch-by-adachi-mitsuru\/\">Touch<\/a> but since it&#8217;s&nbsp;happening&nbsp;26 years after Tacchan&#8217;s Koushien win, it&#8217;s impossible that it is fully a sequel. Perhaps you can say that it&#8217;s part of the &#8220;Meisei&#8221; universe&#8230; those kind of things.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say much about this title as I have not read it yet. But <a href=\"http:\/\/natalie.mu\/comic\/news\/68703\">Comic Natalie speculates that these two are brothers<\/a>. I&#8217;m not so hot about this whole brotherly thing since I&#8217;m still affected by the shenanigans in Touch. However, I am more pleased that it looks like a catcher-pitcher team. At least I don&#8217;t have to worry about anyone dying. &gt;_&gt;) Soon. I dunno, there&#8217;s always someone who dies in an Adachi Mitsuru title.<\/p>\n<p>This title&#8217;s running in Gessan starting this month in celebration of Gessan&#8217;s 3rd year anniversary. Is it me or Gessan&#8217;s the hip cool place for awesome new shounen titles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this may be old news, it&#8217;s still a thrill to see the illustrations for Adachi Mitsuru&#8217;s new title in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[63,384,385,50],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adachi-mitsuru","tag-gessan","tag-mix","tag-shogakukan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/news_large_mix.jpg?fit=610%2C436","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26e5y-hb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41,"url":"http:\/\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/2007\/07\/25\/06-touch-by-adachi-mitsuru\/","url_meta":{"origin":1065,"position":0},"title":"#06 &#8211; Touch by Adachi Mitsuru","author":"khursten","date":"July 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Touch by Adachi Mitsuru Published by Shogakukan Serialized in Shounen Sunday Touch. 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