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September 14th, 2009
02:20 pm
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Question concerning the "Horror week" tags

I looked through the tags, and I noticed (at least) three different variants of the "Horror week" tag, either classifying it as "theme", an "event" or a "series". Which one is the proper one?

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09:17 pm
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Junji Ito's Frankenstein (2/3)


Another pivotal scene from this manga take on Frankenstein - his first meeting with the monster since its creation in part one. Then we hear straight from the monster's mouth, how he didn't really become a monster until years after Frankenstein left.

I realise this is a lot of scans, but it's a long work so it's not even close to a rule breach, I don't think.

Spoiler alert if you've been following along the story at its natural pace.

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September 13th, 2009
10:07 am
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Herr Doktor Tenma (Part 2 of 3): The Fallout
And now for part two in our three part series on how being the nicest guy in the world can sometimes just backfire, through no fault of your own. Part 1, for those late to the party.


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03:13 pm
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Horror week - Junji Ito's FRANKENSTEIN


Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, as imagined by Junji Ito, of Gyo and Uzumaki fame. Renowned for being one of Japan's most unsettling horror manga artists, his take is suprisingly straightforward but solidly decent.

Here, for horror week, is the birth of Frankenstein's monster.

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September 12th, 2009
03:09 pm
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Herr Doktor Tenma (Part 1 of 3): Best Intentions
Hey, I figured that since it's horror week, a bit more of Naoki Urasawa's Monster is appropriate.

Up until now, I don't think I've actually gotten into what the series is about. I've showcased a couple of characters, and I think that the themes behind the series has also been gleaned, but nothing much in terms of the overarching plot. To rectify this, how about a summary of volume 1? Let's go back in time to 1986 and witness the horrifying events at the Eisler Memorial Hospital in Dusseldorf.

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September 1st, 2009
02:15 am
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Mad gun-fu is a martial art, right?
One of the fun things about Gunsmith Cats was that it was an incredibly geeky series. Many of the plot points were designed specifically to allow Kenichi Sonoda to nerd out about things he liked, such as muscle cars, spy gadgets, and guns he is not allowed to own because of Japan's incredibly strict guns laws. Not only that, but occasionally, in the gaps between plot arcs, the action would break so that Rally could spend pages on end talking to the audience other characters about the tricks of her trade.

One such scene can be found beneath the cut.

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August 12th, 2009
01:07 pm
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Sweet Blue Flowers (Aoi Hana) by Takako Shimura
Someone posted about one of Shimura's other series, Hourou Musuko (Transient Son or Wandering Son), a few months ago. Sweet Blue Flowers starts off with an older crowd. On the surface, it may look like just another "childhood friends are reunited" story, but it's so much more. It's about sexuality and friendship and crushes and growing up. It has subtlety and realism.

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August 4th, 2009
01:19 pm
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Time for some obscure manga! The Five Star Stories!
I love obscure comics and manga mostly because they are most of time worth the effort to checks out because it's things I've never seen before, and sometimes they are so much better then what's well known. This is one of those but I warn you, your mileage will most likely very.

Current Location: Virgina
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: The Beatles
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July 21st, 2009
08:10 am
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The Yuriness of Anita King and Hisami Hisaishi redux pt 2 of 2.
Wow...took me forever to get around to posting this. I fail. >_> This is the second part of this post from Saturday. Go there for the background.


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July 18th, 2009
03:19 pm
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The Yuriness of Anita King and Hisami Hisaishi redux, pt 1 of 2
I posted these scans this time last year, on the old S_D...I figured I might as well repost them again, rather than have them lost...lost to time. *cries* Besides, I posted them for International Day of Femslash, and it's the second one, so, hey.

I'm a big fan of Hideyuki Kurata and Ran Ayanaga's Read or Dream manga, the follow-up to Read or Die - it is, in fact, my favourite manga currently commercially available in English, and in the running for my favourite ever. The entire RoD series - Die, Dream, and ROD the TV (loosely based on Dream) - is pretty full of yuri moments... For Dream/the TV, that mostly focusses on Anita...primarily her relationship with Hisami Hisaishi.

Which...is the focus of these two posts.




In reference to the rules changes since then, this post, and the second one, are a total of 28 or 29 pages (it's hard to add up the partial pages) taken from throughout volume 4 of the series, which is about 220 pages.

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July 12th, 2009
03:20 pm
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How would you handle this situation?
Finally I found this image again! It was posted at least twice on the old s_d and I've been hoping someone would post it here, because I couldn't find it on my computer. Google didn't help either, but I finally found the right google-fu move.

People said this looked like it was from Prince of Tennis, but as far as I know this was never confirmed.

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July 11th, 2009
11:16 am
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Really? You don't say.
A nice moment of accidental meta, courtesy of the existentially-troubled narrator of 'Berserk':

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July 6th, 2009
02:01 pm
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Gates-chan is so kawaii!
Because there hasn't been enough brain-breaking in this community yet: Billionaires, by Takada Yuuki!

OK. So, a friend of mine posted a link to this particular comic back in February. This friend is... well, let's just say she shares several interests with slashers. Anyway. She urged everyone on her friends list to get this comic... so I did. And this is what I saw when I opened it.

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July 4th, 2009
09:50 pm
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FREEDOM DAY FUCK YEAH!
Relevant and otherwise images beneath the cut.

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July 2nd, 2009
11:13 am
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On the light of women drawing hot women
Read more... )

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June 30th, 2009
11:32 pm
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High School Drama in every possible sense of the word
Crossdressing week, eh? I have just the thing. Have a few pages of W-Juliet, my personal favourite gender-bending high school rom-com. Brought to you by Japan! The only nation who would produce enough gender-bending high-school rom-coms for it to be considered a genre in it's own right!

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09:56 pm
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An amusing scene from Yu Yu Hakusho #48.

Yusuke and Kuwabara are invading some rich crime lord's house to rescue a demon girl he has kidnapped. The house is guarded by both ordinary and paranormal guards, providing the ideal opportunity for the kind of long-running sequence of fight scenes that shonen anime thrive on.

Our scene opens:

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June 25th, 2009
10:25 pm
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Thank You for participating in the LIAR GAME!
I've been sorta going through my scanlations folder, trying to remember what I have and where I was in various stories. While I'm at it, I figure I can share some of the tidbits I dig up from the depths of my hard drive. This time, it's Liar Game.

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June 23rd, 2009
01:00 pm
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20th Century Boys: Rock and roll revolution and the horrible, horrible price of a customs job.
Up next on my Naoki Urasawa lovefest (I may revisit the previous two series later) is 20th Century Boys. 20th Century Boys is strangely reminiscent of Stephen King to me (in a good way), only replacing King's love for classic Americana with Urasawa's native Japan (although they do intersect at times). 20th Century Boys is Urasawa's love song to his generation.

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June 22nd, 2009
10:41 pm
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Your lost pencils remember you fondly....
Have some Fuguruma Memories. It's pretty.

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