Back in August 2009, with the help of his editors Hiroyuki Takei created a Twttier account called take_pro. Since it’s creation it has been run by either Takei himself, but more likely run by his assisstants.
However, this morning, a new Twitter account was created! This was called takeimokei, the personal Hiroyuki Takei twitter! It appears that this version will be run by Hiroyuki Takei himself. The announcement tweet is below:
お待たせしました！武井宏之公式アカウント
@takeimokei 本日始動です。 よろしくお願いいたします！ hiroyuki takei’s Twitter account@takeimokei was started! check it out!
There was one line not officially translated by Takei, which was the “I’m sorry to keep you waiting” at the beginning.
On the new twitter account Takei also has a new image…
よりアクティブになるために製作開始… はたしてうまくできるかどうか。
This line roughly translate to “The production started to become more active… but will it truly be?” This may be in relation to his other tweets that reference the mini 4WD model kits.
There also appears to be some other smaller differences between the accounts as well..
- His e-mail address has changed from take_pro(＠)takei.cc to takeimokei(@) gmail.com
- The new account is no longer following @jumpkai or @JUMP_REMIX or @shonenjump, but added @takeimokei
- The new account is now also following @mini4wd
So what can we gather from all of this? Depends on how much you want to read into it. Takei not following JumpKai is meaningless, since that’s dead. Takei not following JumpRemix anymore means that nothing will be printed from them for a while (so no Shaman King Remix print 3 edition). Dropping ShonenJump is probably since they aren’t releasing his mangas anymore (only Viz Media). This might be the beginning of the true split from Shuiesha though. As Shuiesha might “own/manage” the old account for those on-going properties. Or it could be that Takei wants to say more of what’s on his mind. Or it could just be that they want to focus all of the model kits (for mini 4WD) onto one account.
