Wow, what a blast from the past. Martin got around to My Lovely Ghost Kana, which was profiled at Ani-nouto back when "manga" category did not exist and Extrange was hanging out at #animeblogger every day.
read moreNew Azu(manga), new chapters?
Oh goodie. Zepy reports:
Azuma Kiyohiko will be doing three all new chapters for the new monthly magazine by Shogakukan called Gessan (short for Monthly Shounen Sunday). These new chapters will also be in the Shogakukan special re-release version of Azumanga which will be recompiled to 3 books instead of …
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Andrew Cunningham on OEL manga
The famous translator and internet personality (read "uses the word ``fuck'' a lot in his LJ") found a fault in OEL. And the fault is not that it's disgustingly fake, but that it makes the definition of the manga too narrow.
Not a new topic, but an interesting twist; a …
read moreLearning from manga
As seen at AstroNerdBoy, there's another manga-based quazi-textbook. His key question is, "So, will this work? Will people who read this actually learn statistics?" The answer to the complimetary inversion is obvious: those who read in order to learn will not read this. Certainly there must be better books for …
read moreScott on Tokyopop
The Anime Almanac takes on the issue of the Tokyopop. Since I almost do not follow the manga at all, the article contained one eye-opener for me. I knew about the Tokyopop's big OEL push. I knew that something was fishy with it when things like Van Von Hunter began …
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