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It earned a distribution income of ¥520 million ($6. 52 million) at the Japanese box office. [23] In 2004, Initial D Fourth Stage
aired on SkyPerfecTV's pay-per-view service, airing two
episodes back-to-back every two months. 24 episodes were made until the final episodes were aired in February 2006. Following Second Stage in 2000, Initial D Extra Stage was aired as a spinoff to the original series. This story focused on the all-female Impact Blue team of Usui Pass and their point of view of the recent events of Second Stage and the upcoming Third Stage movie. This was followed by Extra Stage 2 in 2008, which look at the relationship between Impact Blue's Mako Sato and Iketani of the SpeedStars (following on from the original side-story in the manga). Eight years after the release of "Fourth Stage" in 2004, Animax aired "Initial D Fifth Stage". Animax has aired the series on a pay-per-view basis on SKY PerfecTV!'s Perfect
Choice Premier 1 channel. [24] The first two episodes aired on November 9, 2012. The rest of the episodes were broadcast two per month till May 10, 2013.
[180] Isaiah Colbert of Kotaku called One Piece a "masterpiece",
highlighting Oda's character writing, world-building and the balance between "fun and serious subject matter". [181] Dale Bashir of IGN wrote that One Piece is more about the world-building, adventuring, and the
meaning of freedom instead of the "usual shonen battling" from series like Dragon Ball and Naruto. Bashir concluded: "While not everyone would want to go so far for a franchise that isn't even finished yet, trust me when I say that it is definitely worth it. "[182] EX Media lauds Oda's art for its "crispy" monochrome pictures, "great use of subtle shade changes" on color pages, "sometimes exquisite" use of angles, and for its consistency. [183] Shaenon K. Garrity, who at some point edited the series for English Shonen Jump, said that, while doing so, her amazement over Oda's craft grew steadily.
Production[edit] After the end of his first manga series, B. Ichi, Atsushi
Ohkubo created a one-shot story called "Soul Eater" published in June 2003 by Gangan Powered. [8] Japanese readers were so fascinated by it that Ohkubo created two other one-shots called "Black Star" and "Death the Kid", published in September and November 2003, respectively. Since the results were high, the editor of Gangan
Comics asked Ohkubo to create a series from his one-shots which became the introductory chapters to Soul Eater. In an interview, Ohkubo said that the series was greatly inspired by ideas from Tim Burton's animations, and by concepts from J. K.
