Manga hall of fame updates:

Now that we know Prince of Tennis U-17 World Cup and Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card-hen are getting full anime adaptions, the two manga can't be in my value added rankings, which only assigns value to manga translated into English but with no anime adaption.  There's no point experiencing a story in an inferior medium so long as a superior one is available.

You could argue that Prince of Tennis and Cardcaptor Sakura manga are different from the anime and thus still have value, but the differences aren't important enough to merit an entire manga hall of fame slot.  It's pedantic to be concerned over minor trifles like that.

Taking their places are two very old and famous series, the same as Prince of Tennis and Cardcaptor are very old and famous series.

Hikaru no Go replaces Prince of Tennis, representing the final twenty or so chapters of the series that the anime failed to adapt, starting at chapter 166.  That's the value added, you get to see the actual ending of the series now.

Major replaces Cardcaptor Sakura.  Though currently the Major manga doesn't have any value added compared to the anime, there are people sporadically working on Major (the last update was three months ago) so someday years from now the manga translation might catch up with the anime adaption and then surpass it.  That's not where the value added comes from, though, at least not currently.  The value added comes from the second half of the series, Major 2nd, that focuses on Daigo as opposed to Goro.

The anime of Major 2nd ends at chapter 185 of the manga, but currently the ongoing manga is at chapter 262.  So that's 77 chapters of value added manga, right?  Well, not really.  Chapters 185-196 are translated into English, followed by chapters 220-222, followed by chapters 248-249, followed by chapters 251-255, followed by chapters 258-259, followed by chapters 261-262.  But if you're fine with all the gaping holes in the translation you can catch up to the currently released chapter in Japan!

These chapters can only be found at mangaDex.  Realistically the only sensible benefit is chapters 185-196, where you can pick up right after the anime ends and not miss any important plot developments.  Those twelve chapters are your value added and why Major is now in my manga hall of fame.  But twelve chapters is better than none, which is the only value Prince of Tennis or Cardcaptor Sakura are bringing these days.

New chapters of Major 2nd are coming out in Japan on a biweekly basis, so you'd think the English translators could fill in the holes and catch up with the author, but no.  Despite the fact that translating a chapter is a far easier task than drawing one up from scratch, there aren't enough diehard English speaking fans of Major to actually get things done.  It's the same story everywhere.  Aiyoku no Eustia still doesn't have a full English translation, for instance.  No matter how famous and high quality a work, somehow English translations are nary to be found.

The MIX manga has been on hiatus all year, though no one is saying anything there must be something wrong with Mitsuru Adachi.  He's 72 years old so it's no surprise.  His health or his motivation is gone, and sadly right in the middle of a fierce baseball game, so there isn't even any closure concerning the latest arc.  At least Hinowa ga Yuku! got to end at a nice stopping point, what's happened to MIX is the worst.  The MIX anime is going to virtually catch up with the manga in the next few weeks.  Maybe a few chapters won't be adapted in the end, but you've got to give the animators credit for doing everything in their power to bring this tale to the fans.  It's such a shame because this is one of my favorite stories, for it to end in such an ignoble and unheralded manner. . .  This means the value added aspect of the Touch/MIX manga is only going to be a few Touch chapters and a few MIX chapters, no better than the handful of Major chapters or Hikaru no Go chapters.  The curse of sports manga, it seems.

The fall 2023 anime season is chock full of hits, but 2024 is looking skeleton sparse.  Unless the 2023 fall anime quickly receive sequel announcements that start airing in 2024, 2024 is basically going to be an anime graveyard.  The year anime went to die.  So far the only great anime slated for 2024 release are a new season of Idolm@ster (which may not even be great since it's based on a new cast), a new season of Mahoutsukai Pretty Cure which may not be great because it's never a good idea to resume a series that already reached a nice ending, a reliable new season of Hibike! Euphonium, a reliable new season of Prince of Tennis and presumably the final season of Konosuba.  So all year long we're slated for 3-5 great shows.

Add to those 3 tv shows a handful of oav's and movies, some One Pace abridged episodes of One Piece, and a pointless Spice and Wolf remake that reanimates the same old animated material, and 2024 might reach 10 great new anime franchises.  That's less than the fall 2023 season alone.

I'm not saying this will really happen, I suspect a lot of series will be penciled in for 2024 that haven't been announced yet, and things will work out.  But even from an optimistic viewpoint we're probably looking at 15-20 great anime coming out next year, back to the same doldrums we saw under Covid-19.  2023 seems to have been an interglacial, a false dawn.

We might be on the tail end of anime as an industry.  Eventually all of Bleach, Kimetsu no Yaiba, etc. are going to be adapted, just like how all of MIX has now been adapted.  Then what?  There's nobody in the ballpen.  The famous old works are infinitely better than the new stuff coming out these days.  Once all of them have been adapted, you may as well turn off the lights and walk away.  The most important anime of 2024 is going to be the English translated Sailor Moon Cosmos films.  Sailor Moon's manga was finished in 1997.  That's called choking on fumes.