Archive for: manga

Tatsumi: The Facsimile as Homage

A review of Tatsumi. Directed by Eric Khoo. In Japanese with English subtitles.

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Umezu Kazuo: Gods and Devils

On Umezu Kazuo’s The Left Hand of God, The Right Hand of the Devil. Contains images which are NSFW.

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Overthinking Things 8/29/2011

Thermae Romae, by Yamazaki Mari explores the connections between the bathing cultures of Ancient Rome and Modern Japan is an eclectic and charming way.

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Borders and Manga: Interviews with Shaenon Garrity, Lillian Diaz-Przybyl, and J.R. Brown

B&N in my area also just carries much less manga generally, with a more specific focus on the best-selling series and new releases biased towards the larger publishers.

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Overthinking Things 8/22/2011

One of the factors of why anime and manga are so popular globally – they deal with topics that can’t be addressed comfortably over the dinner table.

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Manga and the Best Comics Poll

It comes as little surprise, then, that many of the manga on the Best Comics list are ones that outlived the market’s dramatic boom-and-bust cycle.

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Tom Gill on Tsuge and Tatsume

Tom Gill responds to comments on his essay about Tsuge, Tatsume, and Fetuses in the Sewer

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