{"id":721,"date":"2003-07-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/07\/25\/ask-john-is-there-a-soultaker-2\/"},"modified":"2003-07-25T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-25T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-is-there-a-soultaker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-is-there-a-soultaker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Is There a SoulTaker 2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nIs there a Soul Taker 2?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThere is no direct sequel to the SoulTaker TV series, but the character Komugi Nakahara was popular enough to spin off into her own magical girl parody franchise that&#8217;s ironically more popular than SoulTaker ever was. Just like the Tenchi Muyo Pretty Sammy OAVs and TV series, which included all the members of the Tenchi Muyo cast but weren&#8217;t part of the Tenchi Muyo continuity, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komugi-club.com\/mugikko.php\" target=\"_blank\">Nurse Witch Komugi-chan<\/a> includes appearances from members of the SoulTaker cast, but their roles and relationships are different than they were in the SoulTaker TV series.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komugi-club.com\/magikarte\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nurse Witch Komugi-chan Magical-te OAV series<\/a> was originally scheduled to have only 2 episodes but demand from Japanese fans has turned Komugi-chan into a &#8220;virtual idol.&#8221; The original OAV episode 2 has been re-released in Japan as episode 2.5, expanded with a new music video and short bonus film, and the original 2 episode OAV series itself has been extended into a planned 6 episode series. Komugi-chan&#8217;s popularity has also spawned a Windows CD-ROM, manga published by Young Animal Magazine (the same magazine that publishes the Berserk and Air Master manga), a PC game, soundtrack CDs, a line of original posters, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>AD Vision has licensed the Nurse Witch Komugi-chan Magical-te OAV series for English language release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Is there a Soul Taker 2?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}