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OP & ED: Theme from Blazing Transfer Student, "Blazing Transfer Student" by Toshihiko Seki.


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Manga Adaptations Discussion:
- Haruhi Suzumiya
- InuKami
- .hack//XXXX
- Gurren Lagan

- Family Complex has a great description of eye surgery, couched in a very boring regular story. Here's my review.

- Peach Pit was hospitalized recently
- Who is Kazuo Koike?

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Burning Pen! Screaming Pen! Blue Flame!
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Blog post about the horizontal gutters being wider than the vertical gutters in manga.

I was talking about good and bad paneling examples from One Pound Gospel and S.A.. I can't find the S.A. example, but here's a nice sequence from One Pound Gospel:

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Mr. X talks about Mampu

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I mention the School of Visual Arts. (Pratt is also good.)

Unimpressive art in an autobiographical comic that made all the critics' top ten lists:
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In Japan, a bad run is a circulation of 50,000. In the U.S. a great circulation for manga is 5,000 - even though we've got four times the population.

The Yasha Craig Ape is from Grappler Baki.

Link to AWO's coverage of Lady Snowblood. It's at 37:28 - 57:52 in their show.

Kochikame has been around forever!

What are ikimen?

Bakuman

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OP: "Lookin' Cute / Feelin' Cute" by Gay Pimp
ED: "Fa***ty Attention" by Adam Joseph

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0:55-8:15 - Picnic as reviewed by Kate
8:15-9:58 - Can't Win With You - excerpt read by Gina
9:58-13:55 - Same Cell Organism as reviewed by Kari
13:55-14:28 - Brief mention of Little Crybaby by me
14:28-25:30 - Say Please reviewed as reviewed by Alison, with a discussion of rape in manga



All of these titles are recommended, except Little Crybaby, which was terrible.

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If you haven't been reading Comipress on a regular basis, it's not too late to start now. We received permission from Comipress and author Udagawa Takeo to read the introduction to Manga Zombie, which is being translated and made available for free online.


We also received permission to record a December 3rd panel at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. It started off as "Manga 101," but the audience was mostly Metro Anime Club members and Publisher's Weekly people, so the discussion rapidly devolved into sweet, sweet manga industry insider gossip!! Stick around, as the good stuff is in the second hour. On the panel:

- Moderator: Brigid Alverson of Mangablog.net
- Dallas Middaugh, Del Rey Associate Pubilisher
- Mari Morimoto, translator and veterinarian
- John Fuller, Kinokuniya manager for the NYC branch
- Designer/letterer Brad Foltz,

Special thanks to Gina Gagliardo for arranging the panel! The Calvin asking questions at the end is Calvin Reid of Publisher's Weekly.

Thank you so much to Udagawa Takeo and ComiPress for allowing us to promote your wonderful work!

These are not the final show notes, please check back later for more notes on this recording!

Manga Recon Show #005 Direct Download:

This entry is cross-posted on the mangacast.

These reviews are also posted (in text form) on my "Manga Recon" column on Popcultureshock.com You can direct complaints and discussion to this forum thread.

These reviews are made possible by Pop Culture Shock, (also known as Buzzscope) which is loosely associated with Midtown Comics.

These reviews were written and read by ninjaconsultant:

	Darkside Blues Story by Hideyuki Kikuchi Art by Yuho Ashibe ADV Manga The movie was imported by US Manga Corps
	Loveless volume 1 Yun Kouga Tokyopop
	Aria Kosue Amano ADV Manga The anime series is not yet available in North America
	Happy Mania Moyoco Anno Tokyopop
	Pastel Toshihiko Kobayashi Del Ray

Other Mentions:

• Akira Kurasawa's Dreams
• Josh in Japan podcast particularly the Dating Episode
• Big Big Truck and her great AMVs

Music/Sound Clips:

• "Jump in the Line" by Harry Belafonte, from the Harry Belafonte: Greatest Hits CD
• Why Harry Belafonte? Because of this AMV.
• Audio clips from the Darkside Blues movie.
• "Master and Servant" by Depeche Mode
• "Rainbow" by ROUND TABLE feat. Nino, the end theme of Aria the Animation.
• "Sex in the City" theme song, possibly by Douglas J. Cuomo
• Audio clips from the most excellent American Astronaut movie. Also check out the soundtrack by the Billy Nayer Show, since it is a sci-fi western musical.

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Manga Recon Show #004 Direct Download:

This entry is cross-posted on the mangacast.

These reviews are also posted (in text form) on my "Manga Recon" column on Buzzscope.com You can direct complaints and discussion to this forum thread.

These reviews are made possible by Buzzscope, which is loosely associated with Midtown Comics.

These reviews were written and read by mr_cutiepants:

	Angel Diary volume 1 Kara Lee YunHee Ice Kunion
	Saint Marie volume 1 Yang Yeo-Jin ADV Manga
	MeruPuri volume 1 Matsuri Hino Shojo Beat Manga

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Manga Recon Show #003 Direct Download:

This entry is cross-posted on the mangacast.

These reviews are also posted (in text form) on my "Manga Recon" column on Buzzscope.com You can direct complaints and discussion to this forum thread.

These reviews are made possible by Buzzscope, which is loosely associated with Midtown Comics.

My regular podcast is the Ninjaconsultant podcast, which you can subscribe to here:

If you only want to hear future Manga Recon podcasts, you can subscribe to this feed:

I wrote reviews of the following books, and the reviews were read by ali_wildgoose:

	Dramacon volume 1 Svetlana Chmakova (svetlania) Tokyopop
	Comic Party volume 4 Sekihiko Ino Tokyopop
	Brother volume 1 Yuzuha Ougi One Drama Queen
	The Young Magician volume 1 Narushima Yuri CMX

Manga Recon Show #002 Direct Download:

This entry is cross-posted on the mangacast.

These reviews are also posted (in text form) on my "Manga Recon" column on Buzzscope.com

These reviews are made possible by Buzzscope, which is loosely associated with Midtown Comics.


My regular podcast is the Ninjaconsultant podcast, which you can subscribe to here:

If you only want to hear future Manga Recon podcasts, you can subscribe to this feed:

I wrote reviews of the following books, and the reviews were read by ali_wildgoose:

	Tokyo Boys and Girls volume 1 Miki Aihara Shojo Beat Manga
	The Devil Does Exist volume 1 Takanashi Mitsuba CMX
	Lady Snowblood volume 1 Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura Dark Horse
	Cromartie High School volume 3 Eiji Nonaka ADV Manga

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I've made this entry to cross-post on mangacast, and I fully intend to, just as soon as I can figure out how Feedburner works.

These reviews are also posted on my "Manga Recon" column on Buzzscope.com, and I've pretty much read them straight from the column, but I have added the occasional audio note here and there. Buzzscope is loosely associated with Midtown Comics, which is right here in the heart of New York City.

I hope to have some kind of MangaRecon feed where if you really like MangaRecon, you can just subscribe to that. I intend to include all the manga reviews as regular Ninja Consultant shows, unless I get a ton of complaints or something.

Also, sorry to Andrew - your interview will be later than ever, and for those of you waiting for part three of David Ng... maybe this weekend I'll put another show up? We'll see what happens.

Here's the manga I reviewed:

	Love Roma Minoru Toyoda Del Ray
	Pieces of a Spiral Tachibana Kaimu CMX
	Ouran High School Host Club Bisco Hatori Shojo Beat
	Tenjo Tenge, Volume 3 Oh! Great CMX
	The Wallflower, Volume 1 Tomoko Hayakawa Del Ray
	The Wallflower, Volume 2 Tomoko Hayakawa Del Ray

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