I was puzzled by a scene in Wakako-zake a while back, enough to ask my Japanese coworkers what it could mean. What was different about the stately old gentleman eating yakitori? Fortunately, manga provides answers. Fist, Wakako takes upon the yakitori after excercise and gobbles them. The gentleman savours them …
read moreAfter watching an episode of Jitsu wa Watashi wa, I rushed to Batoto and loaded up on spoilers. Hoo, boy. The important fact we ought to know is that the manga is resolved, so the anime ought to be safe.
The character designs differ from the anime and the lead …
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Some parts of the Denki-gai manga are outstanding, like ch.44. Some are so-so, even poor (anime creators had a good sense to maneuver around some of them, in particular Tai). The ch.44 is in v.8, which I just ordered at Amazon.co.jp. It would never occur …
read moreI ran through all 10 available episodes, and a thought occured to me: why bother with all the somewhat slightly animated manga thing? Just scan manga, and have the cast read it aloud, voila.
Alas, it's not so simple. Manga has speech balloons, which this quasi-animated manga thing does not …
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I don't want to announce a turnaround, since there were such false flashes before, but Watamote manga suddently took a turn to good in ch.58. It didn't follow up in ch.59, but there's a hope. It really depends on what signals the Japanese readers send.
Somewhat unsirprisingly, the …
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Manga did not interest me much previously and I generally considered it from anime perspective. That is why I have 3 sets of Azumanga: ADV English edition, original, and another original that I bought by mistake, thinking that it was the 10th Anniversary Edition (it's the one where Tomo asks …
read moreread moreWell, it looks like JManga is closing down and after the end of the month any manga will no longer be usable. This is the second reason why I don’t like “view online only”. “I can’t access it during my two one-hour work commutes each …
I picked the 4th volume of GA manga yesterday. It is as pleasant as always. But here's one funny thing with the translation:
Why is Sasamoto-sensei "he"? This is not a typo, there's a referral like that on the next page too. Either the translator is very confused, or Sasamoto …
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In vulgar use, Preference Cascade refers to a situation when nigh everyone in a population does something subversive in secret, until a certain event triggers a massive coming out. The key mechanism is individuals not realizing how many likeminded people are around.
In this vein, when Brickmuppet posted about "Moster …
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