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Nobody14
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Well we can at least wipe that fear away. Notch doesn’t make any money off Minecraft anymore. Microsoft entirely owns it, all goes to them. Which probably isn’t much better, but hey. |
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FireChick
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Huh, I didn't know someone had licensed a manga version of Night on the Galactic Railroad. I had no idea a manga version had come out in the 2010s, as I only knew about a version from the 80s. Will be buying it as I really enjoyed the movie from the 80s.
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Dr Marc
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In his review of Night on the Galactic Railroad, Kevin Cormack wrote: "I'd really like to read the original one day. Although this is a high-quality adaptation, I suspect this may be a story best consumed more slowly, allowing more time for the tone and surreal imagery to take effect. It reads too quickly as a manga."
Well, the original is very short too. It's a novella only about 70 pages long and it reads very quickly as well. There are several translations available in English and one of the best is "Night on the Galactic Railroad and Other Stories from Ihatov" translated by Julianne Neville (2014) which we've used in college literature classes. It's available on Amazon for about $11. |
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Dr. Wily
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I've never heard someone say this before but it cracked me up and I'll definitely be using it when referring to future shonen heroes of that ilk. |
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R. Kasahara
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I really shouldn't be buying any more manga right now (especially since I ordered full runs of Orb, Tomo-chan is a Girl!, and Aria of the Beech Forest recently), but I always look forward to these guides. Hope Dogsred gets covered; the first volume is excellent.
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fuuma_monou
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Is Mansect the first Shinichi Koga manga that's been licensed in English? I'm a huge fan of the live-action adaptations of Eko Eko Azarak, though I've never read the manga.
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malvarez1
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Regarding Mansect, I’ve been trying to add the release to the encyclopedia, but am unable to. I think a mod will have to handle that.
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ANN_Lynzee
ANN Executive Editor
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It's already in ANN's encyclopedia here: manga#34760 It was added back in February (I'm not sure when you tried to add the release yourself). |
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malvarez1
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I may have worded that badly, I mean that I was trying to add the physical release. |
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Swissman
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Christopher Farris wrote in regards to Older Girl Next Door:
The author is actually a woman, there's no need for a gender-neutral pronoun.
I see it differently. As a teacher at a junior high school I know and have known many boys over the years who think they're smart, talk smart and get good grades because they're diligent learners but who are emotionally not mature yet, and Tasuku is a great example of such an immature adolescent. He's in love with an older girl but is unable to come to terms with his feelings towards her and her passion for movies unless he studies her like she's some kind of study subject, a mistery waiting to be uncovered, which is somewhat hilarious but understandable from the pov of a 13 year old. In my book The Older Girl Next Door is one of the better, more realistic and sweet romcoms I read in the past few years, with real progress in the relationship between the two leads and a boy who slowly but surely matures emotionally over the course of the 4 volumes' storyline. |
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a_Bear_in_Bearcave
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Oh hey, "I’m in Love with the Older Girl Next Door"! I remember it as great coming of age story combined with "study" of romantic feelings, plus somewhat realistic and rarely found in manga depiction of mentality of rather young kid (and older kid too). I basically agree with @Swissman's take on it.
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Jenog
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This is about the manga "The failure at God school".
The basic idea is rather silly: there are lots of people who have superpowers, and they are dubbed “gods” ("kami"). They even receive a school certificate and are worshipped in shrines. This could only happen in Japan, a country where there are many shrines but where the deities worshipped there only receive attention at very few times of the year; that is why Japan is considered a country with a low level of religiosity. But the plot is well constructed and we're interested to find out what powers Nagi has (if any) and, in the following volumes, the tension that exists between these modern “gods” and some “terrorist” movements that staunchly defend the gods of the old Shinto traditions. Seven volumes have already been published (in France) with the eighth announced for early May. I really like the story and I'm interested to see how it continues. |
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malvarez1
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I feel bad for anyone hoping that Fabricant 100 will improve…even if it does, the manga was already cancelled. It’s only five volumes.
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CLAMPFan25
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I absolutely love this omnibus edition of Rozen Maiden. I discovered Peach-Pit this year, and was luckily able to find copies of DearS in great condition (out of print since the original publication by TOKYOPOP from 2005 to 2006). I've even bought some of the artbooks. I think they're becoming some of my favourite mangaka, along with CLAMP.
It seems that Peach-Pit has become sadly underrated over the years. True, DearS is pure camp, but it's far from being as terrible as some say it is. Even the anime was great, albeit the manga is unquestionably superior. Hopefully it'll get a reboot in the near future, as well as new editions. As for RM, the artwork is absolutely gorgeous. And as someone who's a sucker for any nostalgia between the 80s and 2010s, I didn't find the story dated at all. In the end, this was one of my best manga reads for the year, and I can't wait for the rest of the series. |
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noantwo
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In the review for meth-e-meth, Lauren Orsini wrote about Hebrew text being shown upside-down and how that is an author error that Yen Press should have included a note about.
However, this seems to be intentional to me. Prior to that page, we learn that the common language for the scrolls is Esperanto, and these scrolls unroll from the right side. The protagonist opens the Hebrew scroll the same way, during which his first reaction is "What language is this?" So he was opening the scroll like he usually would, and doesn't know that the language is upside-down. The author clearly knows the proper orientation of Hebrew because the chapter cover has it depicted correctly. While it is very much possible for authors to make mistakes about cultures they are unfamiliar with, especially given the harsh deadlines for manga artists and their delegation of work to assistants, we also shouldn't underestimate the amount of research they put into the worlds of these works. |
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