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Manga-A-Day 9 – Comic Party v1 Monday, June 1st, 2009

For some reason, I thought this was going to be a rather tame series, focused on the crafting of doujinshi with somewhat realistic characterizations. Doujin-making aside, I couldn't have been more wrong. Opening with a nailbat wakeup call, lots of metal references, and a quick jump into the world ...


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Manga-A-Day 8 – Dogs 0 Prelude Saturday, May 30th, 2009

New acquisition! I'd completely forgotten this was coming out, and so was pleasantly surprised to see it sitting on the shelf at Borders this afternoon. When I was actively following scanlations of Tenjou Tenge, this was constantly sitting off to the side of the translator's site staring ...


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Manga-A-Day 7 – All-Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Hrm, even given its thinness, that was pretty much less of everything than I was expecting. I've never gotten around to either the OVA or the TV series, but with an android female in the lead, its one of those things that is almost automatically on my radar. ...


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Manga-A-Day 6 – Gunparade March v3 Friday, May 29th, 2009

So, how well does the series finish? The interesting thing about our hero didn't really get any play, an unexpected threat shows up, sacrifices are made, the day is saved, and everything works out in the end. All things considered, a fairly generic tale with a couple underutilized ...


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Manga-A-Day 5 – Gunparade March v2 Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

As noted previously, we're continuing with cautious optimism here. While things start off fairly light, with a hunt for food and then preparation of the inevitably bad cooking when the wrong ingredient is used, but then we spiral rapidly downward with the inevitable character death (hey, it is ...


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Manga-A-Day 4 – Gunparade March v1 Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

The character designs/artwork that I've seen for Gunparade March, and more specifically the anime, have always intrigued me, so, when Big Brain Comics started a huge manga sale a couple weeks ago ($20 for as much manga as you can stuff into a bag, the source of much ...



Manga-A-Day 3 – Gunsmith Cats: Burst v3 Monday, May 25th, 2009

Opening with another short, Rally's gotten a gig as a firearms instructor at another shooting range and proceeds to school a group of people who have a very Hollywood-based view of handling firearms, explicitly copying Keanu Reeve's gun-fu in The Matrix and the various antics found ...


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Manga-A-Day 2 – Gunsmith Cats: Burst v2 Sunday, May 24th, 2009

For some reason, I didn't pick up on it so much in the first volume, but the main story running from the first volume through a good chunk of this one shares a commonality with the Daniel Craig Bond reboot, Casino Royale. Namely, both involve baddies ...


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Manga-A-Day 1 – Gunsmith Cats: Burst v1 Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Okay, I've accumulated a big pile of manga, enough for 3 weeks straight without picking any more up, so I'm going to try and go through them at a volume a day, or as near to it as I can, with some sort of blog post accompanying it, probably just ...


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