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The Urge to protect
The Urge to protect ! An older siblings desire ( Read more... ) -
My exorcist manga
Writing a manga and looking for artists.
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Matt Thorn to curate/edit a line of manga with Fantagraphics
If you haven't already stumbled across this in the 456,997 blogs and websites where it has been extensively discussed, you may commence rejoicing now! The fantastic manga scholar and translator, Matt Thorn, will be working with the publisher Fantagraphics on an as-yet unnamed manga line.
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Kimi ni Todoke ch.38 response, with general shoujo manga commentary
Pasted here is my (very general and vague) Kimi ni Todoke ch.38 response, taken from my journal, which also touches on the shoujo manga trope of "she the therapist:"
( What I absolutely love about this series is that it's all about *her.* ) -
Hayao Miyazaki's Story Themes: How man and nature interact
In September, I visited the Ghibli Museum. Set in a heavily wooded park in Mikata, Japan, simply walking to the Ghibli Museum from the train station was an experience. The tree lined avenue was lined with beautifully carved poles, indicating the route to the Ghibli Museum. At the end of the avenue was a wooded park where school kids in perfect ( Read more... ) -
Villians of manga
I don't know what it is, but manga have at once the scariest villains i've ever experienced, and the prettiest. When I started writing this list, I realized the huge contrast with European/American/non Japanese :P stories whose villains are old, ugly, dark-skinned, overly manly and manga villains who are young, pretty, feminine, and fair skinned ( Read more... ) -
Location, location, location! Why most manga are set in schools!
Hi, I wrote an article about this topic on my blog, Myth and Manga. Not sure I can post the whole thing, so I've just posted a teaser below and you can go to my blog for the rest ( Read more... ) -
Q.E.D (Quod Erat Demonstrandum)
Have anyone hear about Q.E.D manga??
Yap..it's a manga by Katou Motohiro, relased on 1997. SO far it has 33 Volumes and still ongoing~
The manga is a bout ::
Touma So is an MIT-graduated-student who comes back to Japan because he wants to know how it feels to be a high school student. In the other hand, Mizuhara Kana is a strong girl who loves sports ( Read more... ) -
[Opinion] The Samurai Reimagined Gallery exhibit Review (sorta)
The Samurai Reimagined: From Ukiyo-e to AnimeThe Samurai Re-Imagined explores the roots of the popular Japanese art forms of manga (graphic novels) and anime (animation) in the traditional arts of Japan by examining images of the iconic warrior, the samurai. By juxtaposing depictions of samurai in Edo era woodblock prints, ink paintings, historical ( Read more... )