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After much delay, my attempt at a review of Land of the Blindfolded vols. 4 & 5.

I scribbled notes on volume 4, but I don't think I've posted on it. And now I've lost the notes. I was going to reread volumes 1-3 & refresh my memory, but I haven't yet.

Volume 4 is all LotB (chapters 11-15). Previous volumes had fewer than 5 chapters; they filled the page count with extra backups about other characters. No backup short story in this one. It's basically the "Student Council President" arc. I don't think we learn her name, actually. The student council president tells Arou (the sole member of the Gardening Club) that he has to cut back his garden on the school lot. He eventually gets her to allow him to keep the vegetables growing until harvest.

Tsukuba may have gone for an innocent feel to this series, but she knows what she's doing.¹ There's a serious sensuality to the series, however innocent the things portrayed. The way things are framed, the way things are associated, creates implications. All those zucchini!

That said, I also found my reactions were "wrong," being used to fantasy stories with more expansive time scales. When Kanade (Arou's girlfriend who sees glimpses of the future) saw a vision of Arou in the future, looking at a picture of a woman who looked like the student council president but also like Arou, my mind went to, "It's their future daughter!" Well, no, not in this series. Kanade doesn't see that far ahead. The picture is of Arou's mother, who the president just sort of looks like. Which is meaningful.

One episode is a cute little digression with Namiki & his dog--who meet the Student Council President outside of school. At one point I was struck by how old my eyes are & how little one panel was. :sob!: In the "Sakura Mail" Tsukuba asked if we'd noticed the ostriches--I had to go back & peer.

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Land of the Blindfolded vol. 5 (chaps. 16-20). The word for this volume is "akebanatsu," to throw open the door. So far we'd seen Arou with sort of passive seeing powers, but in this one it seems like something weirder happens. And we meet his junior high friend Honma Eiichirou,² who's definitely a strong personality & with an emotional nature almost opposite to Arou's in a way. Honma thinks this manga should be more superheroic. Arou disagrees. So, yeah, the power level & possibly the stakes go up in this volume.

Again, Kanade may be innocent, but Tsukuba isn't really avoiding sexuality, just writing a virginal character. Kanade's friend Eri is doing rather more with her boyfriend³ than Kanade is doing with Arou. Kanade considers sharing a room with Arou overnight & then sabotages that.

And Tsukuba is having fun drawing half-naked guys in the beach scenes. The guys are a bit gangly here. The artist had been covering them up to this point, & with their shirts off, their torsoes are clearly a bit idealized--narrow waists & broad shoulders. (This sent me back to Tsukuba's later series Penguin Revolution to compare. I think she did get the hang of shirtless guys more in time. Still idealized, just more expertly drawn.)

The first episode this volume (chapter 16) is going to be creepy to a lot of American readers, with its attempt at a justified crush on teacher. I think it's a relationship with cute elements, & the guy doesn't try dating her while he's in her class. But it could be a trigger.... So, yeah. Just get past that & go on.

I love the way Namiki relates to Arou. He's still trying to be Arou's rival for ~~short plain girl~~ Kanade, but he also comes to Arou's defense when people call Arou a monster. Back & forth, more or less in the same scene.

The collection also adds a tiny (6 p.) backup story about Namiki's dog, showing Namiki's adoption of the dog from the dog's perspective.

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When I tried to get these on the library's shelves, the library was happy to comply (they'd already started the series), but then we were told that these 2 volumes are permanently out of stock. I don't really know about CMX in general, but at least these two specifically. That was about when CMX's shutdown was announced, & they'd gotten volume 3 not so long before, so I gave up on ordering any CMX. I borrowed these through inter-library loan so I could read them, but I'm not making CMX even a little bit of money now, I suppose now practically no one is.

So, that said, if you're interested, you can read some scanlations through chapter 20/volume 5 here. It's not as good, as they don't translate all the 'Sakura Mail' panels, but it can give you a taste.

1 Of course she does. It is a Love Manga.
2 Whose character design reminds me of the "rebel" guy in Whistle!
3 (Just how much more seems undefined in the English script.)

OK, so I've read Chikyu Misaki v1 now.

I momentarily thought it neat seeing a series with so many female characters playing off each other. But it bothers me that it's using the trope of having several of them fall for the male obake-child. It's not a harem manga, not yet anyway, but the protagonist, her best friend, & one apparent antagonist are all kind of crushing on the squirt after five chapters. Or rather he's imprinted on the protagonist & the other two are crushing on him. And of course the protagonist also has to deal with her new pet/little brother, so it's not just a crush thing; reality impinges. That leaves one female character that's not attached to him nor that impressed so far (but then she has a boyfriend, much to the protagonist's chagrin).

I like it. The lake monster is cute, so far the bespectacled friend is only a little annoying, & I appreciate the sense of a built setting & a story that knows where it's going. I also note that as someone closer in age to the main character's father, I may be rooting for him to get together with his girlfriend more than one is supposed to. (But I may change my mind on that.)

I'm going to continue with this. I hope it doesn't end up putting me off lake monsters.

This is really different from the other Iwahara series I'm reading, King of Thorn. I was looking for comparisons, but they're just very different series.

I mean, technically, King of Thorn has a female ~~protagonist~~ p.o.v. character, but the male characters (Americans no less) have actually done a lot of the work so far, to the point I'm identifying more with them. It's an ensemble, with quite a team. So far we've seen bits with Marco & Tim alone against monsters. At the end of volume two, they're mostly split up.

And maybe therein is a similarity.

In Chikyu Misaki, we get to see bits away from the main core cast, things with other characters that we don't see. Some of this ties back to the weird child; one scene shows him playing with the little brothers of one of the main characters. Some of it is setting up future conflict. And some of it is due to it being a series where a lot is coincidentally going on.

So, lots of characters, & shifting points of view, rather than really focusing on one protagonist.

Both series play with the image of a young woman taking care of a small boy. Obviously Tim is not Neo, but they are both fair-haired I think.

And of course they both have ambiguously amphibious aquatic dragon/dinosaur things.

So there are similarities.

Also, at this point, I think these are both stories that knew where they were going from the beginning. I'm not as sure this is true of King of Thorn, but at this point it feels like it--probably because there's so much visible world-building & backstory in Chikyu Misaki.

But Chikyu Misaki is funny & means to be. A romp, I think. King of Thorn is an action story with deeply detailed violent action scenes. I like both, but they're not the same genre.

I'd read King of Thorn v1 a few years ago. While looking for some interesting manga, I saw a plug for the same artist's Chikyu Misaki. So let's see what there is to see from Yuji Iwahara.

I notice that when I get a copy of Nightschool, I devour it immediately. I put off reading King of Thorn v2 for days. But it's cool.

King of Thorn has a token Japanese girl lead & a bunch of Westerners--Beikokujin. It's sort of a disaster movie scenario, where you're wondering who'll get picked off next.

It's definitely a different feel than, say, Nightschool. Not so packed with characters, & moving in a very different way, lots of panels of detailed physical action. But I like the action in this as opposed to the quick high-magic fights & overpowered characters in the last Nightschool volume. Then again, it was really in Nightschool v3 that we see over the top powers, as that's one with Mr Roi & Daemon showing that they're more powerful than one expected.

I got Chikyu Misaki v1 as well & am also putting off getting through it. I notice there is also a little blond boy in this. And a lake monster! Seriously, second page, full color, there's an image of a lake monster! I love lake monsters! I hope it's good.

Nightschool: The Weirn Books, volume 3, or chapters 13-18 (plus bonus story!)

Mr Roi rocks.

Daemon is cool.

They are both called teachers, but they are very different.

There's a night university? Eron says he goes to university & it looks hard for him to hide his night-thing-ness. Interesting that someone like Mr Roi is at a high school.

That phrase gets used a lot in v. 3: "Night things." What the hunters call the various monsters & such. Which gets us "Nightest night thing that ever nighted" as a description of Mr Roi.

I suspect that the Sohrem-chosen & those who remember the taken are the same but I suppose I could be wrong.

The Sohrem is probably lying when it says that killing the other one will help.

I'm really not writing well when I sit down to the computer, sorry. This post feels thin to me.

The Time Team is the first of the digest-sized Go Girl! volumes.

I'm not the target audience for this, I know. But in theory this has the sort of things I want to see. A female protagonist; an easy generationality (Lindsay is a second-generation superhero); a light touch; self-contained issues as part of the larger life of the character.

And yet, getting to the end of it, I thought, "I'm glad I didn't pay money for this." (Then I thought, "Is that fair? I mean, would I really regret paying $6 for this when I was buying comix?" Actually, I have paid much more for such thinly written stuff. And to be honest, I don't think I personally care enough to own the whole run of some the manga I've been reading lately either. Maybe Land of the Blindfolded, but not Takeru or Penguin Revolution. But when I was buying comix, I might have bought Takeru & not Land of the Blindfolded. It's so girly! But mostly I don't care about having my own private library anymore.)

Anne Timmons's art avoids the pinhead look of so many superhero comix; it's simple, yet both representational & expressive. The digest format suits her page layouts of 1-3 panels per page.

I just don't like it very much.

The writing is so simple, the formulae so familiar. Would I like it better if I were a child? I don't know.

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Ah, the syndrome of the jaded reviewer, who's seen too much the same & wants something different. At some point you should probably look for other work, once you're only praising things that are sufficiently subversive & surprising. Or titillating in the way you like.

If I were a professional reviewer, at some point I might have to give up on fiction & go into politics.

Can you imagine a jaded reviewer as a politician or pundit? Constitution questions: "Wouldn't it be more interesting if we rewrote the constitution so that elections were every six months, but each voter could only vote once every three years? I want to see that, just for my own amusement!" Statutes: "Let's have a five-year mandatory minimum for possession of whiskey, & sell cocaine in the drugstores! But only for three years!" Foreign policy: "NATO, SchmATO, what happens if the USA's primary ally is Brazil? Ooooh...."

No, it's more that US politics is so freaking resistant to change, that you can call for change for years without getting anywhere. The new & different is something you push for for a long time. It becomes a long fight, & you can constantly call for reform. That has a certain appeal to me.

Actually, that probably means the easily bored give up on politics, & go off in search of things that more quickly sate their boredom. Ah.

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Anyway, my problem with Go Girl! may in fact be partly that it's not what I'm used to. Anne Timmons's art may need more time to grow on me. But it's also--so old hat. Someone who'd never read a comic book about superheroes or teenagers might like it. But I found it silly & bland.

Part of it is probably that my copy was badly bound, so bits of the page were cut off. At one point Lindsay appears to say, "These guys look like kings. How did we end up in Norway?" Of course it's, "These guys look like Vikings."

Maybe it's that I'm adjusting from relatively high-impact actioners, & the deeply emotionally invested Land of the Blindfolded, & Go Girl! is so light, so low-impact, in effect. And it's short.

I never read Trina Robbins's Barbie comix. They did go for a while, as did her California Girls (which I may have flipped through once; I don't remember for certain, but I seem to recall being unimpressed). Maybe she's just kind of a thin writer. Not my cuppa.

The plot twists come fast & furious--no really, there's a lot of plot twist in this volume, & we leave things in even more dire shape, with at least one new unresolved problem. When does it get resolved? I don't know.

The action gets very brutal by the end of volume 2. It may be triggering, what with one character undergoing a very sudden personality shift.

But Izumo is still sexy.

I suspect the Jagara really are too keen to put outsiders in positions of authority.

Not for nothing is it called, "Sword of the Devil." Don't get too attached to these characters.

I haven't been buying all these things I'm reviewing. I've relied pretty heavily on my local public library. Give your library some love. Pay your taxes, donate (mine sells old books, you could donate those), call your legislator & remind them to keep funding public libraries.

Today's & yesterday's I found in the children's section.

Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi. The art looks like Copper. There's a reason for that.

I got Book One. Young kid fantasy adventure. Unfinished, natch. Lots of unnecessarily anthropomorphic automata. Disappointing to read the day after Whistle! which is reality-based & about hard work paying off. This is the opposite. Our protagonist is just handed awesome power.

I kind of want to see what happens next, but not enough to recommend the library get the rest of the series. Shame. I liked Copper.

Whistle! is a pretty good sports manga. (Sport manga? Sounds like a fish.) A good example of the Japanese idea that it's fine to be a dork in pursuit of excellence at something--even something other people don't understand.

I hope one day my country stops teaching Holden Caulfield in schools & we can regain that belief ourselves.

There's a definite lead character to draw you in--you start out identifying with him, perhaps. Then we meet more & more characters, & build up a team. The first star of the book is not the superstar jock, in fact he has an inferiority complex. But he gets better. The book is about growth.

I played soccer one year about the same age as the characters here. I never knew the stuff about strategy the author sticks in. If I had been exposed to that in training, I might have stuck with it. Or maybe not.

Marv Wolfman tweaked the script for Shonen Jump's translation. This is mostly not so noticeable, except around the main character's older brother, who works at a host club. I don't think we have those; we get a little note at one point: "Host club = bar." Sometimes older bro comes off like he's a gigolo, & referring to his job as "escort," while accurate, reinforces that impression. I'm not sure how they should deal with that stuff in what's supposed to be an all-ages book, but I suppose explaining host clubs to kids is no harder than explaining adult-oriented businesses in our own country.

Ping Pong (2002) is amazing. It's a sports movie, but since it's (a) Japanese & (b) about an individual sport, it can avoid the tropes of Western team-sports movies. And boy, does it. I really thought it was going in a different direction. The director is an fx guy, & he threw some neat visual effects in the movie in a few places. Judicious use of special effects, I would say.

Apparently the manga that it's based on is by the same mangaka who did Black & White, which I think I read some of & hated. I love this, though. Maybe the best movie about sport I have ever seen, in its themes.

Most of the main cast are supposed to be in high school, but several of them were about thirty when it was shot & look it. Ah well. And most of them find their appropriate endings, which is interesting to me.

I like the coach character. I didn't realize the actor was one of the guys from Shall We Dance? (When the DVD extras mentioned that, I visualized the wrong character in fact!)

Natsuki Mari played the only major female character. She's hot for a 50ish Japanese lady. (I am not Box.)

I want to gush about something, but I don't have the ability right now to do the post that does justice to this.

Svetlana Chmakova's Nightschool blows so many other fantasy-outside-your-window series away. Is it what superhero comix used to be to me? Or better than they ever were?

The cast is huge. Like seriously huge, a lot to keep track of. There are many concepts floating around in the series, & each has depths, which are unexplained but which the writer seems to know. I wonder if at some point the mystery & the inventiveness will run out & I'll be bored. But for now, it's still unfolding & interesting.

And what characters! Among others: The little Russian-American (OK, Russo-Canadian) seer who was used to play the stock market by a gang of werewolves & just wants to go home; the Hunters who protect her, & the mysterious teacher who trains them. The spell scientist who teaches young witches at the school (& is always breaking holes in the classrooms) has left various large "seals" around in the past--how old is this guy anyway?--& has a sentient library who smiles with glee when he leaves it (her?) new scrolls. The comical night principal who may have swiped the percolator from the teachers' lounge; the pointy-eared "demon" teacher training young weirns (witches) in use of their "astrals" (sort of sentient assistant extensions of oneself)--who throws a snotty new pupil (previously home-schooled) straight into the final...and that pupil, about whom a mystery is brewing.

I get the impression that Chmakova at least has some idea what it all means, that this isn't JJ Abrams-style mysteries-without-solutions-yet-thought-of. I hope that the characters that are lying near death will come back so we can see more of them. I care about these strange characters.

The cast has actual ethnic diversity too. Not only are there weirns (a sort of witch), "demons" (with pointy ears), Hunters (that feels like it should be capitalized here), vamps, a mermaid, blah blah blah; but each group incorporates characters of different color, language background, etc. In the black-&-white art, character colors seem to come mostly in white & toned, but they have different face shapes & hairstyles--so if you're keeping track you can tell them apart.

I guess Chmakova has spent time around young children, maybe teaching even; the "astral training" class has that wonderful sense of understanding pedagogy. In so many ways, this reflects what people are actually like, in their wild imperfection & messiness. Not something an antisocial self-isolating nerd could manage to put in his raging power fantasy--which is why it walks all over what we get from too many "fantasy comics."

Midway through Broken English, I thought, "This is the best movie I've seen in a while." Well, is it really? It seems like whatever I'm into at the moment, past a certain threshold of cool, can seem the "best ever." And hey, it'd been a week since I'd watched a movie, so best in at least that long.

Is it better than Linda, Linda, Linda? No.

Well, maybe it is. It's different. To me, its appeal is actually akin to that of In Her Shoes, which I watched recently--but this is, yeah, better I think.

I enjoyed it is what I'm saying.

I like a movie with a character that's almost as pathological as I am--well, half as much as I am. And the way the storyline works--this is how I would write if I wrote.

What's it about? Um, love or something.

The pushiness of the Julian character is interesting. Do women want a man to be insistent & pushy? Is that how you tell a woman is into you, that she tolerates that noise & doesn't just tell you to bugger off? Because I think that's an unreliable marker actually.

The last act also surprised me. It's neat to see a movie that goes roughly where you know it's going to go--or almost does--but does unexpected things once you get there. At least, they were unexpected to me.

On the DVD extras, I noticed that the deleted scenes largely seemed to fit into the movie, like they were part of the overall flow, just a bit long. That's not always the case. (The one with the lesbian was obvious & ended clunkily, though.)

The other night I finally watched ST:TNG: "Justice" to the end. The blond sex maniac ~~Eloi~~ Edo--still creepy. But there was some neat stuff in the ep that I had never seen: their god, & curly wig woman's reaction to same; & the sad but dutiful "mediators".

Still, there are giant problems with this ep.

Why was Wesley even on the away team? Granted, this is after "Where No One Has Gone Before," so Picard is taking an active interest in the boy. But how does taking an active interest turn to, "send to planet of simple-minded satyrs"?

And the Edo themselves: Good lord, what's with the dumb pleasure-seeking blond stereotype?

And the final resolution, with, ""there can be no justice so long as laws are absolute," "life itself is an exercise in exceptions," &, "When has justice ever been as simple as a rulebook?" was a bit simplistic.

Production note: This many years later, I'm amazed at the flimsiness of the Edo costumes: Certainly another era. How did they stay in them? I guess this was to make the regulars feel better about their first season Lycra costumes.

Takeru: Opera Susanoh Sword of the Devil

I've only read the first TokyoPop trade, but it's a good take on "fantasy epic."

I went through it pretty fast, so I didn't catch all the visual details. I didn't notice that all the warriors of Jagara were missing their right breasts until it was mentioned in text.

Anyone wanting to write fantasy could take some notes on how this is done.

I like Izumo-no-Takeru a lot, & sort of expected not to.

Orange, by Benjamin (a.k.a. Benjamin Zhang Bin, Bin Zhang)

Took me a while to get around to reading this. It's very downbeat, & I wonder to what degree there is any edification to be had from it. But it feels honest to me, a longtime depressive.

What separates this from the angry "adolescent" work typical of Britcomix/Vertigo?

The Vertigo style is about externalized rage, trying to crap on everything else. All beauty is actively & passionately denied.

Benjamin's destructive impulses are internal, & the story is about self-destruction as a kind of sacrifice. The apparent futility is still laden with meaning & sense that there is beauty in the world, anyway.

Anyway, look at it for the art. Benjamin has a bunch of illos in the back he did for other things. Pretty. Pity the man himself seems so despondent.

Where did they shoot this, a quarry?

"The last six hu-mans on Earth live in a quarry...."

Actually, it looks like Southern California. Which is perhaps like a quarry.

Robot Monster is endearingly blatant & obvious. It is what it is, no bones about it. An amusing way to ~~waste~~ ~~shorten your life by~~ spend an hour.

I could try & get into the psychosexual implications of the Johnny/Alice relationship, but nah, really, that would be reaching. Johnny's just a kid with his head full of science fiction tropes.

What is the implication of the fact that the Ro-Man is apparently stouter under his ape suit than any two of the rest of the cast? Is this movie subtly anti-fat people, or are the aliens just a larger race?

Oh, never mind.
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I don't know if I should call these reviews, even, but I'm starting to enjoy doing them.

Metamorpho was a whimsical DC comic book in the 1960's. I only know it by reputation, but I'm given to understand that it was merry.

For some reason--or, worryingly, for no reason at all--DC for the last 20 years has insisted on portraying the characters from that series as deeply broken & morose.

I have a hypothesis that most "general DC fans" & most DC editors are unfamiliar with characters' own books & base their impressions of characters other than the Bat- & Super- casts on the various characters' appearances in books like JLA, & their guest appearances in Bat- & Super- books.

I wonder if Metamorpho's morosity is somehow traceable to the infamous The Brave and the Bold #123 (when it was a Batman team-up book). This is the issue which excited a minor controversy ten years later in the letters pages of Mike W. Barr's The Outsiders. Mike W. Barr condemned The Brave and the Bold #123 as a throwaway non-continuity Batman/Metamorpho/Plastic Man team-up in which Rex (Metamorpho) was out-of-character, being uncharacteristically downbeat. And MWB made a point of writing Rex as a happy guy.

But then The Outsiders was canceled, & Rex turned evil & died in a very strange final arc. Metamorpho was resurrected in Invasion! & got stuck in Justice League Europe, where he became mopey, because his wife had moved on while he was dead & evil. Then he was killed off again, & is now back in some strange form in a new version of the Outsiders.

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I like Shakespeare, I do. Underrated comedian, who is perhaps not well served by his worshipers. Look, Hamlet, stripped to plot, is a morbid sack of vomit, much like Titus Andronicus--it has survived because the soliloquy is that good. Romeo & Juliet seems like a romp gone strangely off to me. I liked Macbeth as a kid, but am afraid that on seeing it or reading it again, I'll now hate it. But yeah, good comedian, & decent work on his "histories." Some few of the sonnets are brilliant. Too bad English teachers mistake "tragedy" for "serious" & thus for "good."

But in no way did Shakespeare invent the human or something. English culture would have muddled through much the same without him, thank you very much. And I say this as a matter-of-fact Stratfordian; Shakespeare's output, much of it adapted from previous material, isn't that incredible in a world where J. S. Bach existed.

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All of which is to say I read The Sandman: Dream Country yesterday.

As a longtime comix fan, I naturally started with, "the one where Gaiman kills off Element Girl." They actually gave Bob Haney & Ramona Fradon credit on the title page for creating her, but I don't think it's the sort of thing Fradon would approve of, exactly. Gaiman's odd little pro-suicide piece might have gone down better if it weren't done as the canon fate of a goofy whimsical trademark.

Also, I don't think you're doing Colleen Doran's art a lot of favors with that inker (M. Jones III?).

Then I went to, "the one with the Charles Vess art." I have never in fact seen or read Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Perhaps this hot mess would have made more sense if I had. Can someone familiar with both tell me if the references work? There was some mildly cute characterization, but not a lot of, y'know, story there. It seemed like he was trying to ride on reference to a more well-known work with which his audience would be familiar, which is something I consider poor writing.

I read the introduction, & on reflection, no, I don't think the man's father was telling him the truth.

Then I figured I'd read the Kelley Jones ones.

I'll give Gaiman points for actually freeing Calliope from bondage in the first one.

Then there's "A Dream of a Thousand Cats." Maybe it's because I read that one last, but this one affected me. It really got to me. Not enough for me to let slide that apparently the colorist doesn't know what a blue point Siamese is (or Gaiman assumes that at least some cat owners who care about this can't tell blue from chocolate). Ahem. But no, it got to me.

Then I thought about it. Dream's just a big fat liar, isn't he?

I only knew Tsukuba Sakura from the (first few) Land of the Blindfolded trades, which have a certain low-key quality. (I have tried to describe it like, "There's this girl who can see the future, & she's trying to stop people from twisting their ankles, & the characters all think it's really important." But that's overstating it by a fair bit.)

When, in the first collection of Penguin Revolution, one of the characters is attacked rather violently in a sort of sexual way (not actually raped, just grabbed menacingly--which is a lot for Tsukuba) I saw this was bit more...something. Risqué? Violent? "Out there"?

Eh, whatever. Also, there is gender-switchery. Indeed, CMX put an E rating on Land of the Blindfolded, & a T rating on Penguin Revolution.

Penguin Revolution, with its rivalries & character rankings, seems to owe something to sport manga (maybe?) but its setting is the entertainment world. The p.o.v. character is the (tiny) manager/confidant to a rising star. (Maybe it owes something to Shaman King, or they have related influences.)

I kind of want to see a movie of this. Or make one.

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flip us for tea too

Land of the Blindfolded vols 4 & 5

Iwahara Yuuji series

not really a review as such

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In which I try for a humorous digression & mostly sound like a dick

Takeru: OPERA SUSANOH SWORD OF THE DEVIL Volume 2

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Footie manga 'Whistle!'

Ping Pong

Nightschool

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about that creepy ep of TNG I mentioned...

Takeru, Takeru, Takeru

Orange

Robot Monster!

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Penguin Revolution!

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