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All aspects of the Japanese storytelling art form.
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Looks like the manga Evangelion has returned in Japan...(no spoilers, per se)
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...in the premiere issue of Young Ace (emblazoned with Ayanmai Rei on the cover). Essentially continuing from where the story left off (in the anime, it would have been in the movie, where the soldiers have located Shinji). It doesn't essentially change from what I can see, but let's just say it isn't Misato who first reaches Shinji...... more »
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Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi
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I got lucky and found this at the San Francisco Public Library Main. Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi 235 pages of black and white with some color washes, in hardcover by Drawn and Quarterly depicting the struggle of young artists working in animation to come to terms with love and responsiblity.... more »
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Anime Companion Supplement - June entries
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June, 2009 15 new entries added: botan-nabe (boar meat hotpot) gaki (hungry ghost) itamae (Japanese chef) Jokanji kabu (turnip) Kongoyasya metsubushi (sight remover) nimono (simmered food) ninso (physiognomy) Rikidozan satoimo (taro) Shinshoji shiokara tensui-oke (rainwater buckets) yamakujira (mountain whale)... more »
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"Hana Yori Dango" final volume?
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Yo. I just finished vol. 36 of "Hana Yori Dango" (or "Boys Over Flowers"), which is the end of the main storyline. However, according to both Wikipedia and myanimelist.net the series actually consists of 37 volumes, with vol. 37 being a collection of short stories about Hanazawa Rui. This volume does not seem to be the same as "Boys Over Flowers:... more »
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"A Drifting Life" by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
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"A Drifting Life" by Yoshihiro Tatsumi is a lightly fictionalized memoir in manga format running to 856 pages,8 3/4" x 6 1/2" and 2 inches thick,on good paper with paper covers "A Drifting Life" starts about 1948 with the young protagonist obsessed with creating manga and in the midst of his troubled family before chronicling... more »
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Venice's first female gondolier
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Just saw this in today's The New York Times, and thought it tied in nicely to the recent threads about Aria: after nine centuries of male monopoly (in Venice, here on Earth), a 23 year old woman has become the first woman to pass the grueling test to become a trainee gondolier and can now take passengers on her gondola while completing her training.... more »
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Art materials FAQ
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Archive-name: art-materials Posting-Frequency: Posted on the 10th and 23rd of each month. Last-Modified: January 22, 2001 Version: 1.42 ART MATERIALS FAQ - Version 1.42 Last updated: January 22, 2001 Written and maintained by R'ykandar Korra'ti <rayek AT murkworks.net> Sourced from a message in reply to Tygger <graf AT primenet.com>... more »
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And now for something completely different, "Goodbye"!
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"Goodby 1971-1972" in hardcover is a manga from before the economic recovery of Japan by Yoshihiro Tatsumi and is an adult manga depicting the lowest in society. Foreword by Frederik L. Schodt and published by Drawn and Quarterly Publications. 2008 "Goodbye" the title piece is a manga drawing on memories of the... more »
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Three recent anime and manga related books
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Three anime books Clements, Jonathan Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade London: Titan Books, 2009 I was jazzed when the Cartoon Art Museum store got this one in. I spotted a box that the manager had yet to open, and knowing the book was on the way got her to process the order.... more »
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sighted in manga shop -Zipang! Returns.
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I walked over to Nihon Machi this morning to check in the Kinokunyia Manga Shop on the latest volume of The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls and Volume 6 was there! Small thrill. But on my way out on one of the big Japanese manga magazines I saw a headline with the hunky executive office pictured that Zipang!... more »
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