From: noone@invalid.invalid.com   
      
   Chris Buckley wrote:   
      
   > On 2019-10-29, Yes  wrote:   
   > > Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> On 10/28/19 2:01 PM, Yes wrote:   
   > >> > Hello,   
   > >> >   
   > >> > I'm confused about Quanzhi-Fashi and Versatile Mage.   
   > >>   
   > >> 	i am confused about why you did not post this   
   > >> in the rec.arts.anime.misc newsgroup?   
   > >> 	The title sounds as though it is Chinese?   
   > >> 	Have you checked the online sources?   
   > >> >   
   > >> > I first started watching the anime Quanzhi-Fashi at YouTube,   
   > through >> > season 3.  Later, I found a channel by Boat Ramp with a   
   > group of >> > videos titled Versatile Mage, chapter 1 up to nearly   
   > 400 after >> > searching on YT for Quanzhi-Fashi.   
   > >> >   
   > >> > What type of content am I watching On the Boat Ramp channel?  I   
   > read >> > some background info that said the series was released as   
   > an anime >> > it), as a manga and as a light novel IIRC.   
   > >> >   
   > >> > The Boat Ramp channel is missing some chapters, and it's   
   > numbering >> > is different from that of other channels with   
   > Versatile Mage in the >> > title.  I'd like to continue from Chapter   
   > 92 or so of the Boat Ramp >> > channel - the sequence skips at that   
   > point,  Does another YT >> > channel pick up from where the Boat Ramp   
   > stops?  >> >   
   > >> > Thanks,   
   > >> >   
   > >> > John   
   > >> >   
   > >>   
   > >> 	bliss   
   > >   
   > > It seems Chinese to me as well.  I don't believe my question   
   > > belongs in the anime ng, however.  The content I'm watching on YT   
   > > and the subject of my question here is not anime, but enlarged   
   > > copies of the manga or maybe it is a light novel.  If you look for   
   > > the anime series, as far as I can tell, the anime ends with season   
   > > 3.  On the other hand, if you search YT for the title "Versatile   
   > > Mage", you will find chapters into the 300 number range.  And I   
   > > noticed that one channel carrying this series calls them   
   > > audiobooks, not manga, or light novel or anime.   
   > >   
   > > There are maybe four to five channels that have content with this   
   > > title.  The numbering sequence throws me off because it seems as if   
   > > all of them have a partial number of titles, but not a complete   
   > > set.  If I knew how the titles on one channel merged into those on   
   > > another channel, then perhaps I could view the titles in sequence   
   > > by going hopping from one channel to another as I watched them.   
   > > The titles I'm watching are not anime, they are stills.  I don't   
   > > know if they are from manga or from some other form such as the   
   > > aforementioned light novels genre.  It would probably help put it   
   > > into context for me if I knew, hence the point of my query.   
   > >   
   > > John   
   >   
   >   
   > I believe the original form of _Versatile Mage_ is a Chinese   
   > webnovel, with the manga (manhua) and anime coming from that.   
   >   
   > Both the webnovel and manhua are currently being translated.  You can   
   > find legitimate licensed copies of both on webnovel.com, eg.   
   >    https://www.webnovel.com/book/7851773505001805/Versatile-Mage   
   >   
   > The webnovel.com manhua doesn't have as many chapters (268) as the   
   > "unofficial" versions; I don't know if the chapter numbering is the   
   > same.   
   >   
   > I'm reading the webnovel there, and am up-to-date on it; 2 new   
   > chapters most days, chapter 791 currently. Comments say that it's   
   > better than the manhua, but I have no personal knowledge of the   
   > manhua.   
   >   
   > Chris   
      
   Thanks.  I'll check it out.   
      
   John   
      
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