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June 21st, 2009
11:12 pm [dejadrew] [Link]	She Does Not Have An Appointment. From the creator of Antique Bakery, Fumi Yoshinaga's latest series: Kinou Nani Tabeta? Or, in English, What Did You Eat Yesterday? What Did You Eat Yesterday? has everything that Yoshinaga does best, and which we loved so well in Antique Bakery: adorable slice-of-life, cute men, and hardcore food porn. Seriously, when Fumi gets her food geek on, you want to eat the pages. And WDYEY goes into such detail describing the process of making and serving food that you can actually use those scenes as recipes. Don't read these manga on a diet. I may include a cooking sequence in a later entry, but for now, let's stick with the cute men! ( Somebody's gonna be blogging to customers_suck tonight... ) Tags: creator: fumi yoshinaga, medium: manga, title: kinou nani tabeta, title: what did you eat yesterday (10 comments \| Leave a comment)
01:18 pm [grazzt] [Link]	Pluto: Of Astro Boy, ice cream, and megalomaniacal robot teddy bears. So, in my very first post I mentioned that I fell in love with the works of Naoki Urasawa. To this point, however, I've only posted scans of one particular series, Monster. So how can I demonstrate this wasn't a fluke? Let's dive into another series. ( Five scans from Pluto Volume 2, and one and a half from Volume 5. No real spoilers, though. ) Tags: char: gesicht, char: tetsuwan atom/astro boy, creator: naoki urasawa, creator: osamu tezuka, medium: manga, title: pluto (9 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 14th, 2009
03:24 pm [grazzt] [Link]	A perfect moment: Inspector Runge Okay, so you have an wrongfully accused man chasing a guilty one. You need a cop to chase the innocent one, too, right? Monster provides us with a rather creepy one named Runge (Lunge in some translations and the anime). Runge has two defining characteristics. The first, is that he has an odd mnemonic device to store information. Basically, he types the information on the air, and it's stored in the computer in his head. Then simply make the appropriate gestures, and the information is retrieved. This is both very creepy and oddly cool, and the almost robotic nature of those gestures highlights his second defining characteristic: he is one of the most single-minded people in all of fiction. This is the trait we'll be examining in our perfect moment. ( Five and a half scans and spoilers for Monster volumes 5 and 6, under the cut. ) Tags: char: heinrich runge, char: kenzo tenma, creator: naoki urasawa, medium: manga, series: one perfect moment week, title: monster (6 comments \| Leave a comment)
09:46 am [grazzt] [Link]	One perfect moment: Roberto Behind every great criminal genius is a tough as nails enforcer, fanatically loyal, murderously tough, and just plain deadly to encounter. Monster gives us Roberto in this role. And if that's not enough to draw you in: slash! ( Three and a half pages from Monster Volume 7 under the cut. ) Tags: char: roberto, creator: naoki urasawa, medium: manga, series: one perfect moment week, title: monster (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
June 13th, 2009
11:19 am [grazzt] [Link]	A perfect moment: The Nameless Monster Okay, I've fallen in love with the works of Naoki Urasawa. So, I figured I would stop lurking and share a bit from one of his best series: Monster. Monster is...well, it's hard to describe without spoiling it. At it's heart, it's about a man wandering the world (well, Germany for the most part) and trying to set right a wrong from his past. To do this he has to hunt down a monster. Along the way, his strong sense of morality causes him to intervene in others problems, all while the police chase him and he struggles to find out more about the monster's past (the better to track him down). But this post isn't about that man. This is about his quarry. He goes by many aliases. Many seek him out, convinced that they can harness his massive charisma and intellect for their own purposes. But the monster has his own agenda, and people who come close to him for too long have a nasty habit of dying. ( Four and a half pages and major spoilers for Monster Volume 7, behind the cut. ) Tags: creator: naoki urasawa, medium: manga, series: one perfect moment week, title: monster (29 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 5th, 2009
05:43 pm [galateus] [Link]	Four Swords+ part three: "Day of the Tentacle" (manga: read right to left) A bit of a late entry, but part four should be back on track. Nothing to do with either Theme Week, but it does contain blatant subtext that even context can't make better. Unlike the other posts, this is less plot advancement and characterization and more of an eclectic collection of "special" moments in the series, but if you want to catch up on who these people are: Previously, on Four Swords+... (CHUN-CHUN.) Our hero, Link, was struck by a radioactive magic sword, from that day forward becoming Quadruplicate Lad. The four Links could never really get along, even in the face of certain doom. So without the mightiest superpower of all to save them (it's teamwork), the merciless river rapids destroyed their stolen boat and sent the Links to an early, watery grave. ( Or did it? ) ( If you find heterosexuality offensive, do not click ) Of course, because this is Japan, that one Seduction of the Innocent moment is completely eclipsed by the homoerotic subtext that follows...in spite of the minor obstacle of all the characters involved being the same person. (God, I love this series.) ( One Link, Two Link: Red Link/Blue Link! ) ( I don't remember the final boss fight looking like this... ) ( Even when, sadly, the adventure is over... ) Really brings up the age-old question of "does that make it narcissism, incest, or masturbation" doesn't it? ...What's that? You say I've been skipping something? Oh, right. The entire plot. There's plenty of that, even with some subtext that's actually subtle, in the next installment. That bittersweet ending might still be coming, but it ain't here yet. On the next Four Swords+... ( Shadow Link! ) Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Evil Tags: in-joke: bondage, in-joke: crack, medium: manga, title: four swords plus (3 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 3rd, 2009
03:26 pm [freddylloyd] [Link]	A Different Take on Batman and Robin ( Would you believe this is Dick Grayson? ) Tags: char: batman/bruce wayne, char: clayface, char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson, medium: manga (13 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 21st, 2009
02:26 pm [galateus] [Link]	Four Swords+ part two: "Four's A Crowd" (and other unoriginal headlines) (manga: read right to left) Previously on Four Swords+... One Link was not enough. (And Zelda was kidnapped, but that's not important. Yet.) So meet the Links! ( I believe introductions are in order: ) ( On the road again... ) It's all fun and games on the road: sparring, studying, and making Red do all the cooking. But then they discover something that threatens to tear their young group apart: They discover girls. ( Or three of them do, anyway... ) ( Of course, as much fighting as they do, they still always make up afterwards ) ( Next stop: Death Mountain. What could possibly go wrong? ) On the next Four Swords+... ( Day of the Tentacle! ) And Other Inappropriate Uses Of Four Links Tags: franchise: legend of zelda, in-joke: crack, medium: manga, title: four swords plus (11 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 17th, 2009
08:58 pm [galateus] [Link]	Four Swords+ part one: "My Anti-Drug is Crack" (manga: read right to left) At first, I didn't expect or even try to enjoy The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords+ manga. I looked at a few pages out of curiosity and it just seemed so silly and pointless, but... ...somehow I simply *could not stop reading. I told myself it's just yet another cheap cashin on the part of a longlived cashcow videogame franchise, yet I can't bring myself to care. I mean, it's a comic about Link! Who is actually four Links!* Links who bicker and cry and yell at each other but ultimately learn lessons about friendship and teamwork and fighting over girls, just like a Saturday morning cartoon. And of course despite being in a black-and-white manga, they can only distinguish each other by the color of their clothes, somehow. What's not to love about that? But when I saw there was even going to be a fifth, evil Link as the villain, that was the moment I knew I was hooked. A near-100% Link cast? Can't say no to that. ( What it is ) ( Cheap licensed tie-in manga. Warning: may contain delicious crack ) ...And that is why 1 = 4. On the next Four Swords+... ( Four's a Crowd: ) Or, A House Divided Cannot Stand (But It Is Really Funny To Watch) Tags: creator: akira himekawa, franchise: legend of zelda, in-joke: crack, medium: manga, title: four swords plus (14 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 5th, 2009
10:46 am [chthonicspirit] [Link]	One piece continues to rev up. Just one of the many, many HOLY SHIT moments from the latest arc of One Piece. Major spoilers for recent chapters. ( Read more... ) Tags: creator: eiichiro oda, in-joke: context is for the weak, medium: manga, theme: pirates, title: one piece (16 comments \| Leave a comment)
April 27th, 2009
10:19 pm [water_pot] [Link]	Kinnikuman Manga a couple of pages warsman vs teabag man ( Read more... ) Tags: medium: manga, title: kinnikuman (8 comments \| Leave a comment)
April 15th, 2009
11:50 am [chthonicspirit] [Link]	Dope week: Surprise, surprise . . . One Piece is not exactly the type of Manga where you expect to find recreational drug use, but there you have it, in this scene from OP 514: ( Read more, and be amused ... ) Also, if I could get a modly opinion on something - what exactly is the policy on posting manga? Is it one third of the single chapters, or one third of a volume? This post is legal either way, but I was just thinking - there's a case to be made in favor of applying the one third rule to volumes, since most manga haven't ever been published in English as single issues. Also, some manga have chapters of wildly varying length - Hellsing, for instance, has chapters eight pages long, and chapters thirty-four pages long - making it difficult, if not impossible, to post anything cohesive from the shorter chapters while staying under one third of them. Just food for thought. Sorry if that issue has been already settled, somewhere where I missed it. Tags: creator: eiichiro oda, medium: manga, title: one piece (14 comments \| Leave a comment)
10:00 am [mizuno_youko] [Link]	An unusual lesbian manga: Honey & Honey Takeuchi Sachiko's Honey & Honey is an autobiographical manga. Though some of it is educational (intended to show people what Sachiko's life is like as a sexual minority in Japan, and clear up misconceptions), it's mostly funny stories about Sachiko and her friends. The art is not for everyone, but I think it's cute and suits the style of the story. If you like Plica, you'll probably like this too. ( Honey & Honey ) Tags: genre: yuri, medium: manga (20 comments \| Leave a comment)
April 12th, 2009
10:07 pm [dejadrew] [Link]	Amazon-fail and Yoshinaga-win within. As many of you already know and are rightfully and righteously freaking out over, Amazon.com has started de-listing books with GLBT content from the Amazon rank sales charts. (Google-bombs away!) Upon hearing this, with a sinking feeling, I started surfing Amazon's selection of graphic novels, and yup, they appear to have de-listed one of my favourite shounen-ai manga, featured below the cut. ( Oh, Miss Ito, you've got some cream on you... ) Tags: creator: fumi yoshinaga, medium: manga, theme: homosexuality, title: antique bakery (22 comments \| Leave a comment)
March 31st, 2009
11:49 pm [xdoop] [Link]	Soviet Land! ( Story behind the cut. ) Tags: creator: shintaro kago, group: communists, medium: manga, nsfw: nudity, nsfw: sex, theme: ninjas, title: dance! kremlin palace! (10 comments \| Leave a comment)
March 30th, 2009
06:51 pm [xdoop] [Link]	"The Cossaks, Perestroika and Me" This one isn't as bad as the last one. ( Story behind the cut. ) Tags: char: mikhail gorbachev, creator: shintaro kago, group: communists, group: nazis, medium: manga, nsfw: gore, nsfw: nudity, title: dance! kremlin palace! (9 comments \| Leave a comment)
March 29th, 2009
09:32 am [xdoop] [Link]	"His Excellency, the Daredevil" ( Story behind the cut. ) Tags: char: joseph stalin, creator: shintaro kago, group: communists, medium: manga, nsfw: gore, nsfw: nudity, title: dance! kremlin palace! (24 comments \| Leave a comment)
March 27th, 2009
10:07 pm [xdoop] [Link]	"Under the Star of the Red Flag" ( Story behind the cut. ) Tags: char: joseph stalin, creator: shintaro kago, group: communists, medium: manga, nsfw: gore, nsfw: nudity, title: dance! kremlin palace! (20 comments \| Leave a comment)
March 22nd, 2009
08:55 pm [danielolsen] [Link]	Transient Son by Shimura Takako I started reading this on a whim and it turned out to be the best darn thing I've read for months, maybe even years. Transient Son (Houro Musuko)(or Wandering Son) by Japanese cartoonist Shimura Takako is the story about Shuichi Nitori, a gradeschool boy coming to terms with transexuality, gender identity and puberty. No fetishization, no gimmickry. Just... ( A whole lot of heartwrenching. ) Tags: medium: manga, theme: crossdressing, theme: slice of life (13 comments \| Leave a comment)
March 18th, 2009
08:05 pm [fungo_squiggly] [Link]	Fuan No Tane is Watching You Masturbate As one of the manga's chapter quotes remarks, an alien presence can be disturbing just in itself, regardless of whether or not it is actually hostile. That goes double when the presence in question is staring at you with its creepy, creepy eyes. (WARNING: Possibly NSFW due to nudity) ( When you look into the Fuan no Tane, the Fuan no Tane looks back into you... ) (Note that things with freaky eyeballs are so common in Fuan no Tane that this is actually going to be a two-part post!) Tags: genre: horror, medium: manga (11 comments \| Leave a comment)