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The Xenos



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:33 am Reply with quote
Well it sounds like I'm going to have to hunt down EVEN A MONKEY CAN DRAW MANGA. I'd noticed solicited before, but wasn't sure how good it was. Sounds awesome. Sounds better than that How NOT to Draw Manga book.
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Malintex Terek
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:43 am Reply with quote
As much as I like Negima!, a rating of "B" felt too generous. Akamatsu's tourney mini-arc and the festival arc were far too convoluted and long. The best parts of it were the interludes with Makie and Evangeline.
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v1cious



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:44 am Reply with quote
"Even a Monkey can Draw Manga" is hilarious. i highly recommend getting it if you can find it. a lot of great stuff in there, like how the key to making good a character is stealing, and how a manga can be used to make anything look exciting(a funeral home, a train schedule, etc.), it has also some genuine drawing tips
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britannicamoore



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:48 am Reply with quote
With this one being titled: Kingdoms Heart I expected some talk of Kingdom Hearts.

Lol oh well.

I will try to find To Terra..but who is Vertical? I haven't heard of them before.

I've been debating on Wild Adapter for awhile ever since I mistook the guy on the cover for one of the Saiyuki boys. It seems like a lot of his books are being published- i'm still waiting on the next Bus Gamer.

The Wandering Son is something I really want to read. my japanese sucks though- so I don't think i'd be able to get through it.

And i've seen Monkey manga before- I hope they still have copies.

Nice column.
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HitokiriShadow



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:56 am Reply with quote
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The Wandering Son is something I really want to read. my japanese sucks though- so I don't think i'd be able to get through it.


You don't need to know Japanese to read it, unless you are against reading scanlations.
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GATSU



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:05 am Reply with quote
I can't give To Terra more than a B or B-, because it suffers from ineffective transitions.Plus it tends to get childish. (Think "yippee" from The Phantom Menace. )Also, The Magician's Nephew was a more interesting read than The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, which is the laziest story-telling of the series.

britannica: Vertical
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Neverwhere



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:30 am Reply with quote
I was interested in reading The Twelve Kingdoms before but now it is definitely on my Must Buy list. I hope it does well so even more novels will be licensed. (Like Saiunkoku Monogatari. Please. Smile And do I really need to add to the chorus of Suzumiya Haruhi? ;- )
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CMB



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:34 am Reply with quote
I'm happy to see a good review of The Twelve Kingdoms. I hope the book is as good as the anime or better. The Wandering son may be interesting, but will be hard to come by for the near future would be my feeling. Wink
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Patachu
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:38 am Reply with quote
britannicamoore wrote:
I will try to find To Terra..but who is Vertical? I haven't heard of them before.


They used to just do contemporary Japanese fiction (like the novel version of The Ring), but a couple of years ago they broke into doing premium-edition classic manga like Tezuka's "serious" works (Buddha, Kirihito) and now this.
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WindAlchemistJen



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:58 am Reply with quote
I must go hunt down a copy of Even A Monkey can Draw Manga, assuming our little Barnes & Noble has a copy. Laughing
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Vikio



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:17 am Reply with quote
I loved the Twelve Kingdoms anime, and wanted to read the novels to learn more about the world, but I read a Preview Chapter online...It was middle-schooler level. I mean, the words and sentences and descriptions were SO simple. I thought - I'm not reading a whole book that seems to have been written for someone who recently learned English and may be confused by complicated verbiage.
Reading this review makes me think of giving it another chance though, I guess I can always "preview" more chapters at my local Barnes&Noble.
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hooliganj



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:32 am Reply with quote
Lots of good reviews, but I can't help but point out - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the first book in the series. Sometimes you'll find the books collected into chronological order, but Magician's Nephew, despite taking place first, was originally the sixth of the seven stories. And like Harry Potter, the third book was the best - the Voyage of the Dawn Treader is just too cool. Smile
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geishageek



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:42 am Reply with quote
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I've been debating on Wild Adapter for awhile ever since I mistook the guy on the cover for one of the Saiyuki boys. It seems like a lot of his books are being published- i'm still waiting on the next Bus Gamer.


The manga-ka is in fact a woman, not a man. And the magazine Bus Gamer was in was cancelled so I really do not think we will ever see any more of Bus Gamer.

I've read up to the end of the third book of Wild Adapter and as much as I want to say it gets better, it doesn't. I liked the premise but it fell pretty short of anything it could have been. The implied spoiler[homosexual relationship] between the main characters made the story a little harder to understand because the manga-ka never really says if they are or not (well at least not as far as I've gotten with the story anyway). It tries too hard to be serious and gritty that it misses the point. But a lot of the manga-ka's series (minus Saiyuki) are like that (most notably Honeycomb and The Executive Committee which stars the two main characters of Wild Adapter in school but has nothing to do with the story in WA)
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pluvia33



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:28 am Reply with quote
I've very happy to see Hourou Musuko getting some press. I love the series. Hopefully we'll be getting volume 3 out soon....

=Drake Aaron Rain
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shamelessfanboy



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:44 am Reply with quote
Dude, I'm totally with you on the transvestite chick being the least appealing character. I understand the need to introduce new characters to keep things fresh, but I kinda wish she would just leave and never come back.
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