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Obligatory Aniblog Tourney Post
It appears as though this year’s Aniblog Tourney happens to include this blog among its contenders. Though I am unsure as to how my blog winds up in the latter part of the ranking/seeding. I am in Group 4, and going against other blogs that won from...
Recapping California 2012 and thinking about public transportation.
So I recently made my first adult cross country trip to CA hitting two places San Francisco and Los Angles. Being from New York, and the East coast. It was a slight culture shock, that made me question how I would survive if I were to move to other p...
Supporting or knowing about Origami Caravan 2012
Since the earthquake last year, there has been an outpouring of support and awareness. As with the consequences of natural disasters, it is an ongoing process. Last year Makoto Yamaguchi, a prominent Japanese origami creator, author and mentor began...
MMF: Concluding Thoughts on Sigikki
As an adult manga reader, I am a fan for what I can read that won’t be necessarily targeted toward teenagers. So I was quite happy to be able to read the variety that Sigikki books publishes. As a regular contributor toward Manga Movable Feasts, I am...
MMF: Saturn Apartments
I often watch kids, and being an adult myself, I can attest to the fact that transitioning into an adult is pretty hard. It is even more hard if parents are no longer there. After the death of his father, Mitsu takes over his job as a window cleaner....
MMF: Black Lagoon
An aspect of Black Lagoon manga that stands out is just how many gun fighting scenes there is. My experience with series is similar to other readers of this series as being initially exposed to the anime, but Viz has translated the manga superbly. Th...
MMF: Bokurano Ours
I always thought that Bokurano was another retelling of Evangelion since this is a story about youths forced to large alien invaders, while piloting within an ever-changing organic mecha themselves. On another aspect though, with reading the story af...
Review on Gen Manga’s Kamen volume 1
By Gunya Mihara Recently I was able to read Kamen volume 1, an ongoing yet compiled doujinshi from Gen Manga. Initially I was given the impression of Utawarerumono, since the protagonist is wearing a mask, and the setting is a “historical warring” pi...
MMF: The Quest For The Missing Girl
Shiga is a professional mountain climber, who travels down to the city in search of his missing niece, Megumi. Other than being similar to Taniguchi’s The Summit of the Gods, this is a solid mystery novel that has several things that make this a fan...
MMF: Taniguchi and Japan As Viewed By 17 Creators
Collaborations are always potential grounds for creative insights and positive cultural exchanges. Japan As Viewed By 17 Creators is an example of such. Nine French speaking authors were invited to tour eight cities in Japan, where eight Japanese cre...
MMF: Kodoku no Gourmet as a skeptical Japanese foodie read.
Goro Inogashira is a private merchant and every chapter in Kodoku no Gourmet, covers his eating experiences around Japan. The format of Kodoku no Gourmet is similar to a Zagat type of restaurant recommendation series, coupled with a fictional charact...
MMF: Looking at A Distant Neighborhood…
A Distant Neighborhood covers the story of middle aged Hiroshi Nakahara who ends up revisiting his hometown after boarding the wrong train. As a father and husband, he is fed up with his life, and wants to change. So when he finds himself reliving hi...
Review on Jmanga’s release of 100 Blossoms to Love
I definitely am planning to review Taniguchi’s Kodoku no Gourmet next week for MMF. So this is going to be a bit of a sidetrack. This is something I read recently that left me with such a warm feeling, that I can’t help but gush over it here. It hit...
Cleaning bookshelf… weeding thoughts and Manga Sale
Recently have spent time organizing and reshuffling my bookshelf. Until I can keep my bookshelf organize, I doubt my bookshelves would even look as neat or as awesome as a recent “Show us your stuff” category I see over at Kate‘s (Manga Critic’s) blo...
Review on Gen Manga’s Let’s Eat Ramen
Ramen is an Asian noodle dish with broth, and an eater’s customizable choice of meats and/or vegetables. It is also avaliable as an instant kind where the chef supplement their own ingredients to liven the taste. This is a dish that can be a meal or...
MMF: Tezuka and Book of Human Insects
I was quite hoping to finish reading Princess Knight to write a review, since this week I have been mostly writing essays of sorts. Unfortunately I felt my patience ran out for the story of Sapphire. So I am falling back to another book I have been c...
MMF: My foray into a master’s works.
Osamu Tezuka as a creator had left life far too soon, and a legacy that had an industry earning trillions and probably facing collapse. But the latter part of the prior sentence is obviously another can of worms, and not going to be focus of this art...
Manga License for Umi no Toriton (海のトリトン)
海のトリトン by Osamu Tezuka How can a non-Japanese reader sum up Umi no Toriton or Triton of the Sea? From my childhood experience of the anime series from the latter 80’s, I know this is an adventure/vengeance type story about an orphan named Trito...
Updates and clarifications..
We’re going into the second month of the Western new year, and we’re still in the midst of the Lunar New Year….which I forego mentioning or doing much about this year. I really must try to pick up myself from my dredges. It has been a rough personal...
MMF: My limited exposure with Usamaru Furuya
Of the manga that Usamaru Furuya has written that has been published into English, the one I have read is Lychee Light Club. That I read in about half an hour, concluding with a four word expletive. It was a dark roller coaster ride that is definitel...
MMF: Chibiusa vs Chibi-Chibi.. why the latter wins.
This is entry is probably going to highlight a wish that Kodansha hurries up with releasing Sailor Moon. Or my bias on not being able to successfully separate the anime from the manga. But yes people can call me a serious Chibiusa hater… and that’s t...
MMF: Sailor Moon – My Journey
Every fan has a different story or exposure, a definitely entry to go read about why this is such a huge impact is Erica’s article. Sailor Moon has become for me an action heroine that in spite of how her personality is, and of how Japanese woman thi...
Thoughts about DMG’s Healing Music from @BLBangBang
Released as one of Digital Manga Guild books, if you need to get your bl-loving fix… consider checking out this e-book. Healing Music is localized by @BLBangBang. Though several months have passed since Healing Music came out, and @BLBangBang has mo...
RT Secret Santa 2011: Summer Wars
In today’s society social media has taken the time of internet usage for millions of users. Summer Wars presents an advancement of internet usage where society’s livelihood depends the Internet. It is a Second Life dependent world! Or in the eyes of...
Adult consideration for 2011 Great Manga Gift Guide
This year Daniella has been calling for bloggers to submit lists, so if you want to check out other gift lists. Check out this year’s archive page. The selections that and why I call this an adult consideration, it is not meant for the other variety....
MMF: La Quinta Camera
Wheeeeee… it has been months since my evening with Ono Natsume. At the present time, I am trying to not drool and stare with want at the shrink wrapped copies of Tesoro at Kinokuniya, I’ll read it eventually. So I turn back to my manga pile where I...
MMF: Finding Horror in the Tragedy of Death
Death and the supernatural is a subject of interest, because it explains the unknown. Think then, the richness available in manga of this genre. October for the western culture is a month ripe for wanting to find the scare factor and though horror ma...
Americus and Choice of Reading
Yay, I am not to late, but if you didn’t realize. This past week up to today was American Library Association acknowledgment of Banned Book Weeks. Bannned Books are those books that people would try to get censored in order to further their own opini...
Yoshinaga, Character Development and Don’t Say Any More Darling
Yoshinaga is quite the prolific multiple series mangaka creator. Manga may operate in a strange way to readers since stories are released on per issue in a magazine. Cancellations or months of not reading the same author is a common issue, so manga t...
Guest MMF: Thoughts on Fumi Yoshinaga’s appeal for a fan.
A couple of months ago when I learned about this MMF, I immediately told a friend who is a fan of Yoshinaga’s works and wanted to see if she would want to participate. Now, I am glad to be hosting her words on scribblings for participation in this...
What are Artist Trading Cards aka ATC’s?
Recently on Twitter I have been using some origami acronyms, something I picked up from my intervals of attending the local Origami meet up group. So if you ask me to define what an Artist Trading Cards (ATC’s) is then in the context of origami, I wo...
Wild Adaptor…reading volume 1..
Wild Adapter, as I am quite sure people are aware is June’s MMF title, and unfortunate to say that with real life and other commitments. I made an attempt to find and read the series. Rightstuf has it for sale after Tokyopop shuttered its company. Th...
MMF: Cross Game… not something for everyone..
Baseball is a national sport in Japan, perhaps even more so, since there are several titles in graphic novels, dramas and anime that dealt with this sport. Still it is an American sport to begin with. Since New York has a thing for the Yankees or the...
Fire Tripper…. Classic, but poignant!
As a short manga story/anime OVA within Takahashi’s Rumic World series, I watched Fire Tripper‘s OVA when I was quite young, and got the chance to read the manga when I was in Junior High School. For a long time Fire Tripper stood out to me as a happ...
Rin-Ne: Signs of typical, yet fun Takahashi work can be seen.
Rin-Ne is Takahashi’s latest work, that she has been releasing, after Inu Yasha. It has been available online legally and simultaneously as the Japanese chapters are released. (Unfortunately, since the Tohoku Earthquake, the site had apologized and s...
Maison Ikkoku…what a trial!
Published during the 1980′s, there is Maison Ikkoku a romantic comedy between college ronin, Yusaku Godai, and Manager Kyoko Otonashi. Their relationship spans over a couple of years, and it is purely my opinion, but Maison Ikkoku is the shojo romanc...




