Oh My Jump Heroines
Posted by Khursten in Blog, Insights on 18. Nov, 2008 | 7 Comments
How do you like your Shounen Jump manga is often misrepresented. An interesting rant came by my timeline today, a disheartened Katekyo Hitman Reborn! fan who cannot forgive Akira Amano for making cooks out her heroines. In her blog, she pines about why the female characters in Reborn have been ill-presented, nothing but dolls whose [...]
Translation Woes
Posted by Khursten in Insights on 02. Jun, 2008 | 1 Comment
Mr. Welsh, I feel you. There is an ongoing frustration among English manga readers of not getting their hands on some really good mangas. My friends alone would make it a habit to ask me what happened in the latest Nodame or Moyashimon not because they can’t buy the manga in Japanese (it’s a lot [...]
Making manga out of anything
Posted by Khursten in Blog, Insights on 27. Nov, 2007 | 9 Comments
I’m in the midst of post amazement season. I’ve been watching/reading this really funny series named Moyashimon. It’s been running for a month and I’ve been pimping their widget, the yellow thingie at the side that has rounded floating objects that would scream “Kamosuzo1” and every second or so. To the untrained eye, they’re [...]
Finding your place in this strange copyright mess
Posted by Khursten in Insights on 25. Oct, 2007 | 3 Comments
Okay. So Japan requests that America should put some kind of regulation with the distribution of anime online1 . Perhaps in the same strength that Odex tries to control the Singapore market? A part of me says that this kind of deal is fair. When I read stories of animators and mangakas and their hard [...]
Mixing East with the West.
Posted by Khursten in Blog, Insights on 14. Oct, 2007 | 0 Comments
This weekend, I can’t help but enjoy John Jakala’s slew of ideas with regards to mixing mangakas with amecomi. :3 Actually for the past two weeks, he’s been enjoying the idea of mixing eastern stories with that of the west. My favorite was the Yotsuba with Calvin and Hobbes (soo cute!) and now, even drabbling [...]
