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Synthesse
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Wow! I never expected this. Definitely picking this up when it comes out
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Tenchi
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Is this manga roughly what it'd be like if Touma Minami and Makoto/Mako-chan from Minami-ke got their own spin-off manga?
I'd read that. |
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Patachu
Past ANN Contributor
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I'm surprised Aoi Hana wasn't picked up first considering that's the one with an anime adaptation.
But, this is the one that will get all the pundits and puffed-up pseudointellectuals (i.e. people who read Fantagraphics) talking because of the LGBT themes, whereas Aoi Hana is more straight out yuri. (Seven Seas, get to it) |
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tuxedocat
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Really looking forward to this, despite never reading the scanlations.
From what I've read about this publisher, I have high expectations that the translation will be pretty good. I hope they eventually license Aoi Hana as well:
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Fronzel
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I actually found this one to be pretty dull. I will say it does perhaps the best job of simulating life I've ever seen (especially the fickleness of the human heart)...and maybe that's why it's so dull.
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Ashen Phoenix
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*crying in joy* I couldn't stop grinning after I initially squealed with glee upon reading this. I'm following HM now and while parts of it irritate me, the overall story is so engaging I'm positively giddy that it's licensed!! 
You're right, typing its Jpn. title has been a challenge for me for whatever reason, but now switching over will likely be equally strange, at least at first. 
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Ashen Phoenix
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*crying in joy* I couldn't stop grinning after I initially squealed with glee upon reading this. I'm following HM now and while parts of it irritate me, the overall story is so engaging I'm positively giddy that it's licensed!!
You're right, typing its Jpn. title has been a challenge for me for whatever reason, but now switching over will likely be equally strange, at least at first.
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Moomintroll
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Ah, inverse snobbery - last refuge of territorial, insecure fanboys everywhere. There's a whole world of possibilities beyond your mother's basement, Carlo, and so long as nobody is forcing you to give up your body pillows and Negima doujinshi, you needn't be afraid if people want to explore them. |
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vashfanatic
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Examples? I'm having a little trouble finding anything on their site.
1) See that "L" in LGBT? (it's LGBTQ, btw) That's "lesbian." Or as they call it in Japanese slang, "yuri." Aoi Hana, with actual lesbian characters (not just eternal BFFs and "we'll get over it when we're grown-ups") deals with LGBTQ issues as much as Hourou Musuko. 2) Hourou Musuko is, at least as far as I've read it, a really good story. You don't have to be a "puffed-up pseudointellectual" to appreciate it, it portrays the characters well and really brings you into their troubled lives. It isn't preachy, it isn't even that intellectual, it's touching and well-written. I really don't understand the hate in your reply here. Is it against Fantagraphics? Or do you have something against anything that isn't just gobs of girls for you to ogle? |
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Moomintroll
Posts: 1600 Location: Nottingham (UK) |
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Presuming you mean examples of Japanese stuff rather than translations in general, you'll only find a couple of book-length examples in their main catalogue - Sake Jock (an anthology of underground manga from Garo magazine) and Anywhere But Here by Tori Miki - along with a few short manga stories in The Comics Journal and in international anthologies like Bete Noir (e.g. Yoshiharu Tsuge's Screw-Style, Moto Hagio's Hanshin: Half God and Kan Takahama's Seduction). You won't see most of their manga releases on their main page though, because they're published through their Eros Comix imprint. Not being a fan of porn comics I couldn't tell you off the top of my head what titles they've published but I think there's been a fair few of them and I'm sure you can find a link to the Eros Comix website via Fantagraphics' main page. |
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vashfanatic
Posts: 3489 Location: Back stateside |
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So do they have a "type" of manga that they specialize in? I've just never heard of the company, so I find it intriguing.
That's fine, I'm not much of a fan of them either! 
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tuxedocat
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Don't feed the troll. --Even if they are part of ANN's staff! 
I notice that Zac sometimes trolls certain people (who usually take the bait). I usually find those pretty funny. This one is whining about lack of wank material? Dorky. |
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Moomintroll
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They've never really specialised in any one thing. They're known for alternative comics (stuff like Love And Rockets and Ghost World), collections of classic newspaper strips (e.g. Peanuts, Popeye, Krazy & Ignatz), stuff from '60s underground cartoonists (Robert Crumb, Vaughn Bodé etc.), Euro-comics (by people like Jason, Francesca Ghermandi and Lewis Trondheim), anthologies of up and coming artists (MOME and suchlike), comics history and reference books, periodicals (i.e. The Comics Journal), artbooks and collections of gag cartoons, peculiar art-comic stuff (like their recent Abstract Comics collection) and some relatively mainstream stuff (Usagi Yojimbo springs to mind - though I suppose nothing could be more mainstream than the aforementioned The Complete Peanuts collections). And that's just scratching the surface. They don't publish superhero stuff or media tie-ins but pretty much everything else is fair game. Their manga releases, porn aside, have been equally random. Sake Jock is about as underground and artsy as manga gets, Anywhere But Here is a surreal gag manga (it's often compared to The Farside) that originally ran in Japan in a popular TV listings magazine, Hanshin is classic shoujo, Screw-Style is avant garde gekiga and Seduction is josei. They've also put out a Junko Mizuno piece in one of their collections - I'm not sure how best to categorise her work. |
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