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The problem with the Comixology releases of Cyborg 009 is that they only have the first ten volumes; the other 26 were never added. The translation is the same as the Tokyopop volumes. I guess IshiPro wanted to see how well these would see before they translated any more.

Also, the image quality of Cyborg 009 (as well as Skullman) isn't the greatest. I guess that comes from using whatever Tokyopop handed over to IshiPro when they lost the licenses. It's not too bad, but you can't zoom in as much as you can with the Kamen Rider, Kikaider, and Inazuman volumes.

I'd pay seriously cash money for a souped-up flip phone like those that are/were so prevalent in Japan. I enjoy my tech, but I'm a firm Luddite when it comes to phones: I utterly loathe touch screens with every fiber of my being. (I have an iPad through work, and seeing the huge mass of finger-oil smears amassed on its screen by the end of the day never ceases to annoy me.)

I know I mentioned before that I'm afraid of scratches (even with screen protectors, the scratches would make using them more difficult and the image quality worse), but I do wonder why this is such a minor concern for people. Do people have a special place on their person they keep smartphones? EVERYTHING I keep on me seems to get destroyed if they get anywhere in the vicinity of my keys.

Back then I got into anime because it did stuff American cartoons weren't doing, and now I'm getting into the anime that American anime fans don't gush over because it does stuff that anime isn't doing. Stuff like Pretty Cure and Detective Conan, shows that aren't just fighting shonen like Naruto, DBZ, One Piece and Attack on Titan which seems to be the only thing that people hype up over here every year.

I normally put my keys in my right pocket and my phone in my left, but it's so leviathan I can get away with putting it with my keys since the screen simply can't come into contact with them if I put it against my person(the back's pretty battle scarred, though). More and more are also including scratch-resistant screens, so it's becoming less of an issue(I'd still recommend using a second pocket, though).

Truly If you don't know what "root" or "super user" means then you might want to stick with the past and keep using those flip phones. The leap might be too much.

Tokyopop only ever released 10 volumes of Cyborg 009 (I know, I got them all!) and didn't do any of the other titles that Comixology has like Kikaider.

Lavnovice9 wrote:

Back then I got into anime because it did stuff American cartoons weren't doing, and now I'm getting into the anime that American anime fans don't gush over because it does stuff that anime isn't doing. Stuff like Pretty Cure and Detective Conan, shows that aren't just fighting shonen like Naruto, DBZ, One Piece and Attack on Titan which seems to be the only thing that people hype up over here every year.

Is One Piece comparable to the other three? As a One Piece fan, I follow information regarding the franchise pretty closely, and I always felt that, even with its current growth in popularity, it still trails far behind the likes of Naruto or Attack on Titan.

I personally think it's because it doesn't look exotic enough. One Piece's look is strongly influenced by western animation, so to some extent, it resembles the shows that these people are trying to stay away from.

Truly If you don't know what "root" or "super user" means then you might want to stick with the past and keep using those flip phones. The leap might be too much.

JonLa wrote:

Tokyopop only ever released 10 volumes of Cyborg 009 (I know, I got them all!) and didn't do any of the other titles that Comixology has like Kikaider.

They did do Skullman, though.