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Category: Manga

  • Die!

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    And here I was thinking that Detective Conan was just for kids (from Kissui.net): In the comic book Detective Conan, I forgot which volume it was, but as is always the case there are murders. A girl in the countryside was dating an American, and after he had left her place to temporary go back…

  • Hanaotoko

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    Last night I read a scanlation of the first book of Taiyo Matsumoto’s latest series, HANAOTOKO, and loved it to death. It’s a fairly low-key story of a boy who goes to live with his baseball-obsessed (to an abnormal degree) dad. One of the best things I’ve read in a while, and I can’t wait…

  • A Shojo Day

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    This is turning into a shojo-obsessed day — which I guess makes sense, since this is a girly blog. Following is the “Japanese Schoolgirl Watch” column from the current issue of WIRED: Anyone who thinks schoolgirls and boys enjoy the same fantasies needs to bone up on shojo manga. The Japanese comics for gals are…

  • The Life of a Shojo Artist

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    Last night I caught a great profile on NHK spotlighting a young shojo (girl’s manga) artist getting into the business. The first thing that sort of surprised me was how she looked. Contrary to the image I have of most manga creators (read: very otaku-style with no fashion sense whatsoever), this young girl (she’s 22)…

  • Nana

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    Why can’t the North American comic market support a female-oriented hit like NANA? From Yuki’s Kissui.net: Every girl reads the comic book NANA. It is on its peak of popularity right now, published monthly in the magazine Cookie and it is on volume 12 in the comic book. The story consists of friendships, love and…

  • EZ Book Land

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    From Gizmodo: au is all set to launch their “EZ Book Land!” e-book service in Japan, hoping to breathe new life into the dying market. I seem to recall e-books failing on pretty much all fronts, but given most of us have our mobile phones close at any given moment, this may prove to be…

  • Filming the Monster

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    Looks like Naoki Urasawa’s MONSTER is going to be turned into a live-action Hollywood film. Link via Paul.

  • Blue Spring

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    For those of you who still haven’t been able to enjoy the work of Taiyo Matsumoto, you’re in luck, as a North American edition of BLUE SPRING has just been released. The English adaptation was done by my friend Kelly Sue, and she kicks ass, so order the book already.