From: ph111-dz@violet.berkeley.edu (david mou)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: IRC manga discussion
Date: 27 Jul 1992 20:27:07 GMT
Organization: studio 3x3, a.b.
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Jul27.062027.7758@csus.edu> kilpatri@nextnet.csus.edu (Joseph Kilpatrick) writes:
>In article <axolotl.712214842@syzygy> axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au writes:
>>
>>There is an IRC channel for manga discussion, currently called #anime!
>>(for historical reasons, mostly).  If your daily dose of r.a.m and
>>fj.rec.comics isn't enough, come to IRC and help scare off the anime
>>fans. (^_^)
>>
>>Like here, people are free to discuss anything relevant, and the channel
>>frequently sees manga news, translation fragments, artist hopefuls,
>>opinionated rants, and Dave Mou's enviable repetoire of Kleenex jokes. 
>>Belldandy makes an occasional appearance, too.
>
>Ya know, the anime and manga fans can be on there at the same time you know.
>And there's no reason that you can't start a manga channel...
>BTW, it's called the anime channel becuase people mostly talk about anime
>on the channel....

For a brief yet glorious moment, we did have a #manga! channel on IRC.  Of 
course we ended up having 2 channels talking manga at the same time.. ^_^;;
The usual scenario is if you /who #anime! and find Heretic, Ax, dnab, Urd,
and/or E_M on at the same time, 99.5% of the topic will be manga, and H-manga
at that.  And usually someone drops in #anime!, and we have something like
this:

<Heretic>  No, that's not what it means in Japanese.
<Ax>  But it's got blood all over it.
<dnab>  ...blood.. hmmmm... there can always be pleasure in pain

*** [someone] has joined #Anime!

<Heretic>  Hi [someone]
<Ax>  and now you have brain all over the place
<Ax>  hi [someone]
<[someone]>  hi, guys.  BTW have you seen <someanime>?
<dnab>  hi hi
<E_M>  Dave, can you think of anything else?
<dnab>  *** Action : Belldandy smiles shyly as she hands Dave the blood stained
+tissue.
<Heretic>  Yes, I have seen [someanime]
<dnab>  Yeah, I saw the manga version of [someanime] at Kino this weekend.
+Looks much better than the anime version.

*** Action : Belldandy blasts dnab's eardrum with her shriek.

<E_M>  Speaking of which, the [someauthor] also did [somemanga], which I 
+prefer better than [someanime]
<Heretic>  Oh that's stupid.  I prefer [someothermanga] over [somemanga] any
+day.

*** kunedog has joined #Anime!

<Heretic> Hi kune.
<dnab> hi k.  did you find [someobscuremanga] for me in Japan.
<E_M> Hey Kunedog.  Did you go pick up the [someevenmoreobscuremanga] at
+[someobscuredojincon]?
<Ax>  Hi, Kune.  I got your package but [someveryobscurething] is missing.

*** kunedog has left #Anime!

<dnab>  I think we scared him off again.
<Ax>  Have you guys read <someofftopicmanga>?
<Heretic>  Yes
<E_M>  Dave I told you having someone buy so many H-comic in Japan is very
+embarrasing.
<dnab>  A: I've seen it in Kino.
<dnab>  E: Oh yeah.  Does that stop you from reading?

  {20 minutes of irrevelant manga discussions omitted}

<[someone]>  Well have to go, c u l8tr.
<Heretic>  bye
<dnab>  sorry we scared you off with all these manga discussions.

*** [someone] has left #Anime!

<Ax>  bye
<Ax>  woops too late

*** [someoneelse] has joined #Anime!

<Heretic>  Hi [someoneelse]

...........


and hence a typical day on #anime!. :-P


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