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From: lonewolf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Benoy Koshy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: Question about Mai Manga
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 11:29:59 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

micro19@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (A Techno-Discordian) writes:

- 3. The ending to the Viz version of Mai seemed incomplete.  It was an end to
-    the original storyline, but there was no resolution to the conflict.
-    Perhaps it was meant to end this way, but I wonder if there is a sequel.
 
I've heard that Viz is getting the Mai Team (Kazuo Koike/Ikegami) to do a 
mini-series on Mai when the movie finally comes out.  I don't know if 
this is still true but thats what they were planning, they also said that 
it would be in color...consider Viz's new attitude to the color, I doubt 
it will be in color...
 
I think the Viz version is complete...
 
At least the re-released graphic novels are, the regular comics have 
pages edited or whited out...

Ben Koshy/Lone Wolf              lonewolf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
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From: kuo@sumax.seattleu.edu (Chih-Ping Kuo)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Tatsuo Hara
Date: 7 Nov 92 13:24:42 GMT
Organization: sumax city 0092

anybody know anything about this guy?  I think he did a Cyber something
in SJ sometimes ago.  any info on this guy would be appreciated. 
his artwork looks promising, that cyber story (written by someone else I
think) is not half bad, either. 

btw, anyone read the KOR look alike 'Kasumi'?  Instead of a very good/bad
Madoka we have a Kasumi who is a prostitute and very good at school works, etc.
It it more realistice compare to Angel in imitating KOR, not as bad as
the other title (star something) in SS.

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From: s92458km@sfc.keio.ac.jp (Kunio Muto)
Subject: Poll
Organization: Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus.
Distribution: rec.arts.manga
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 08:19:46 GMT



	What happened to the poll thing about Manga, by the way?

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				The kunedog (s92458km@sfc.keio.ac.jp)
				Freshman, Keio Univ. SFC. 
				Faculty of Policy Management 
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From: s92458km@msr.mei.co.jp (Kunio Muto,79204584,12)
Subject: Re: Quick news + questions
Organization: Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus, Fujisawa Japan
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:55:12 GMT

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>>   Does God save the Sugekoma-kun run on Young Magazine Kaizokuban, or did
>> it ever?  Will there ever be a new Nagano Noriko tankoubon??  ;_;

	Yeah, there was a Sugekoma-kun in the Young Magazine Pirate 
version... (I guess it's official) But then, I haven't read any  of
it, so I don't know what happened... 

>>   kunedog was discussing the various audiences of shounen manga mags...
>>   s. Jump -> everyone
>>   s. Sunday -> inner-city
>>   s. Champion -> macho/manly
>>   s. Magazine -> sport
>>   s. Captain -> otakus

	If anybody here has read Sarudemo Kakeru Manga Kyoushitsu
(Saruman), the four big ones (Jump, Sunday, Champion, Magazine) are
mentioned like the above. (I'll have the full descriptions
sometime...) But then I will add another list for some other
magazines...this time it goes for the Jump series...

The Jump series is targeted towards everybody, but to say it more
specifically, here goes...(IMHO)

Young Jump - For kids who read Shonen Jump, but want more sex,
violence, etc... I remember I used to read it along with Jump. 

Super Jump - This started out as a magazine to put new segments of
Cobra by Buichi Terasawa. You see a lot of guys who used to work for
Shonen Jump in this mag... I think it's the place for artists after
they've "graduated" Shoen Jump. So I believe that the audience also 
is for those who graduated from Shonen Jump. 

Monthly Jump - Somehow, I don't read this... Someone else should
inform...

Business Jump - As the name suggests, this is targeted toward
Salarymen.. That's why you have a lot of successful guys, guys who get
to **** women often, etc.etc.. I guess it works as an escape from
reality for the hard-working salarymen.... 

Bears Club - I should say this is a Monthly version for Young Jump....
I think you get a lot more sex... seriously, I'm not sure...

You also have Young Jump 30, Fresh Jump (RIP) Seasonal Jumps and other
Jumps whosesales haven't jumped... Well, these are what make up the
core of the Jump series... If I'm missing anything...well, you're free
to flame... 


				The kunedog (s92458km@sfc.keio.ac.jp)
				Freshman, Keio Univ. SFC. 
				Faculty of Policy Management
From: rang@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jyan-ken)
Subject: Winter Story?
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 13 Nov 92 08:24:03 GMT


Considering the vastness of manga, I don't know if anyone has read this manga.
It was done in 1988-89, and it's called "Winter Story".. I flipped thru it
and noticed it had a soap opera/drama feel to it and wondered if anyone
had some info on it, including comments on "is it good?"

(The character always get this goofy look on their face when their embarressed
 and has a MIk / KOR feel to it..[something which I know this minor story
doesn't reach caliber to, but sure enough, it looked interesting..]

BTW, did the artist of this story, Hara Hidenori, do any other manga stories?

Jyanken
From: emil@ocf.berkeley.edu (Emil Leong)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Wanted:  Masamune Shirow STUFF!
Date: 12 Nov 1992 04:50:52 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

Hello!  I am a GREAT fan of Masamune Shirow and am trying to find any
works that he has done.  This includes stuff like Ghost in the Shell,
Machine Head, and any stuff he got in Melty Lemon.  I am looking for
both translated and untranslated works, just about anything.

I've already got pretty much all the Appleseed and Dominion and 
Black Magic, but if anyone has or knows where I can get some of Shirow's
work, I'd greatly appreciate a message. [ If it makes a difference, 
seeing some of Shirow's stuff makes me lose all concept of "expensive",
"credit limit", or "arm and a leg" :) ]  Oh, I also know where to get
translated Orions, already...

Okay, I hope to hear from people soon.  Thanks!

Emil Leong
emil@ocf.berkeley.edu
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: Manga gimmick
From: Mark 'Mark' Sachs <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:28:50 EST
Organization: The Leader Desslok School of Diplomacy

In article <1dpnboINN1t2@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, bz079@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rich
Anderson) says:
>        (tall, lanky, mustached, long-haired guy in a trenchcoat trying
>to look suspiscious sees a short-haired glasses-wearing man walking
>through the Internet. Tall kid pokes around corner and confronts man
>with glasses)

>        "Psst, Ben... Wanna hire a manga artist? hehe..."

Now come on, Rich. It would be unmannerly to bug the man like this, as
he makes his first forays into the great Internet. We should take this
as an opportunity to talk about all the nifty things Antarctic publishes,
rather than to sell our own artwork.

         (an even taller, dark-haired man in a nifty black coat and fedora
elbows past the guy in the trenchcoat)

         "Besides, I was here first."

     :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

 "But Dr. Radium, was that necessary?" "Rez, _everything_ I do is necessary."
[Your blood pressure just went up.]        Mark Sachs IS: mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu
DISCLAIMER: If PSU knew I had opinions they'd probably try to charge me for it.
From: kuo@sumax.seattleu.edu (Chih-Ping Kuo)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: accuracy in manga
Date: 13 Nov 92 03:20:34 GMT
Organization: sumax city 0092

I was at Kino and just to spent time pick up the last issue of 
Laker Story again, and I didn't catch it the first time, but when
I realize what happen I was impressed.  you see, one of the 
game it depict happened in the Seattle Coliseum, and there is a panel
with one of the SuperSonics making a dunk, the angle is from the floor 
up so you can see the ceiling, you see, Seattle Coliseum had the 
distinction as one of the few 'rain out' ever occured in NBA history, 
(the rain came and they had a leak!), to fix that they just put a 
big blue canvas under the ceiling to contain the additional leak.

of course, on that panel the canvas was there, was I impressed!

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From: kchang@draco.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Where?
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:49:29 GMT
Organization: Rutgers University RUCS-Newark


	Where can I find Japanese comics in northern New Jersey area?  
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From: axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au (Iain Sinclair)
Subject: Quick news + questions
Reply-To: axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au
Organization: Megami Jimusho
Date: 12 Nov 92 09:48:36 GMT


  Ranma 1/2 #23 tankoubon + second Mermaid's forest tankoubon are out on
12th Dec.  (I think there's going to be a truly great martial arts manga
cliche in Ranma next week :-)

  Anyone know what the You and Me CD is like?  How about the Ushio to Tora
CDs?  (BTW, to Neil Asato, PLEASE keep posting newsbits from Business Jump
-- our store doesn't carry it any more).

  Does God save the Sugekoma-kun run on Young Magazine Kaizokuban, or did
it ever?  Will there ever be a new Nagano Noriko tankoubon??  ;_;

  kunedog was discussing the various audiences of shounen manga mags...
  s. Jump -> everyone
  s. Sunday -> inner-city
  s. Champion -> macho/manly
  s. Magazine -> sport
  s. Captain -> otakus

  Are these fair descriptions?

Any thoughts, flames, etc. welcome.


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 Iain Sinclair    axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au
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From: geirj@hsr.no (Geir Friestad)
Subject: Dominion manga
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:56:19 GMT

Does Shirow's "Dominion" from Eclipse/Studio Proteus exist in a collected format
(the complete manga compiled in a single volume)?

Please respond via e-mail, as I'm not a regular reader of this newsgroup.

       ////////   ///////    ////////   Geir Friestad, Norway
     ///        ///   ///  ///        Internet address for
    ///        ///   ///  ///        the brave ones :
    ////////   ///////    ////////  geirj@hsr.no

Reality is for people who can't face anime / Death to bootleggers!
From: bz079@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rich Anderson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: Manga gimmick
Date: 11 Nov 1992 01:24:07 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bz079@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rich Anderson)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, mhigh@nyx.cs.du.edu (Matthew High) says:

>
>BTW, folks, Ben Dunn will be on internet very shortly, just as soon as
>  a few bugsare worked out.  We were on earlier tonight, prowling around...
>  (ever get the feeling you're being watched? :-))
>
>Cheers,
>  - net.spy!
>
>
	(tall, lanky, mustached, long-haired guy in a trenchcoat trying
to look suspiscious sees a short-haired glasses-wearing man walking
through the Internet. Tall kid pokes around corner and confronts man
with glasses)

	"Psst, Ben... Wanna hire a manga artist? hehe..."

	(shows a REALLY hentai pic of Asrial to him)
	(glasses-wearing man blushes)

	"ohhh-kay, maybe these'll suffice..."

	(shows off the radman*.gif series on piggy.ucsb.edu. Not so
hentai, but still good...)
	(man with glasses and short hair says "I dunno...")
	(tall dude hands short dude a copy of his .sig file)

	"Here's where you can get in touch with me..."

	(tall guy disappears in puff of smoke as he logs off)
	(aside to audience: "shameless plug, ne?")
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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:02:05 EST
From: Mark 'Mark' Sachs <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Manga gimmick

Or maybe not, but in Ameri-manga such as Twilight X and A-OK (both very
good titles, BTW) I've noticed the gimmick of characters wearing buttons
that start out as smiley faces, but end up imitating the character's facial
expressions in every frame. I feel sure I've seen it somewhere before, too.
Any speculations...?

 "But Dr. Radium, was that necessary?" "Rez, _everything_ I do is necessary."
[Your blood pressure just went up.]        Mark Sachs IS: mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu
DISCLAIMER: If PSU knew I had opinions they'd probably try to charge me for it.
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From: mhigh@nyx.cs.du.edu (Matthew High)
Subject: Re: Manga gimmick
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 11:24:07 GMT



Heh...I've noticed that, too.  In Twi-X #3 and A-OK #2.  Seems like a cute
  little gimmick, that's all.

Twilight-X - hm. though Joe's artwork style is quite simplistic, it kinda
  grows on you.  I really wish this title was selling a hell of alot
  beter than it is now.

A-OK - is anyone else out there surprised at how *good* this title is?
  It's not great - I grant you, but it sure is alot better than I
  expected.  I recall this guys artwork in an earlier issue of NHS
  Yearbook - he's improved tremendously.  I really hope this series goes
  beyond the four issues it is slated for.

BTW, folks, Ben Dunn will be on internet very shortly, just as soon as
  a few bugsare worked out.  We were on earlier tonight, prowling around...
  (ever get the feeling you're being watched? :-))

Cheers,
  - net.spy!
From: melchar@shakala.rahul.net (Barbara Haddad)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: test post
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 10:43:38 PST
Organization: Shakala - (Clan Zen Radio Network) Sunnyvale, CA 1-408-734-2289

   Hi, please forgive my post; but could someone please e-mail me back so 
I can find out if I'm really posting here or only think i am.  :)  
Thanks.

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melchar@shakala.rahul.net or shakala!melchar@clubzen.fidonet.org 
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From: ph111-dz@violet.berkeley.edu (david mou)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: Quick news + questions
Date: 12 Nov 1992 19:02:41 GMT
Organization: a.b., s3x3, m.j., c.n.
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

to add my $.02

In article <1992Nov12.125512.2496@sfc.keio.ac.jp> s92458km@msr.mei.co.jp (Kunio Muto,79204584,12) writes:
>
>Monthly Jump - Somehow, I don't read this... Someone else should
>inform...
>
I don't read this either, but I have the impression it's for pre-Shonen-Jump
readers.  (Jump's minor league camp?)

>Business Jump - As the name suggests, this is targeted toward
>Salarymen.. That's why you have a lot of successful guys, guys who get
>to **** women often, etc.etc.. I guess it works as an escape from
>reality for the hard-working salarymen.... 
>
But sex has been toned down a lot in BJ of late.  Amai Seigatsu is in no
way satisfying my expectation.  (does not stop me from buying).  Gunnm is
too good for BJ, me think.

>Bears Club - I should say this is a Monthly version for Young Jump....
>I think you get a lot more sex... seriously, I'm not sure...
>
Young Jump Bears Club?  Me think it's a branch of a branch of Jump, and it
goes on seasonally.  I flipped through it occasionally to read Hen, and buy
it when I see something by Yui Toshiki.  (again, fond memories of the 
"good ol' days")

>You also have Young Jump 30, Fresh Jump (RIP) Seasonal Jumps and other
>Jumps whosesales haven't jumped... 
Donno about others.  I buy Seasonal Jumps to collect Bastard!, and pretty
soon Video Girl as well.  It is primarily a forum for artists who won 
Jump's manga contests; a spring board to the big league.  Most of them 
are pretty lame, but occasionally you'd find a gem here and there.  Some 
of them do get a break into SJ.  Now you know where those short lived 
shitty titles in SJ of late are coming from.  :)

>                                     Well, these are what make up the
>core of the Jump series... If I'm missing anything...well, you're free
>to flame... 
>
Jump Novels......?  (enuf said)

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From: s92458km@sfc.keio.ac.jp (Kunio Muto)
Subject: about Virtual Jump
Organization: Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus.
Distribution: rec.arts.manga
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 11:52:34 GMT

In article <Bx27C9.D21@jrd.dec.com> currmann@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Curtis Hoffmann) writes:

 >Subject: Virtual Jump:
 >
 >   Shonen Jump is running an ad for Virtual Jump, a manga that will
 >be released starting Nov. 4.  It's difficult to tell if this will be a
 >new weekly title, a replacement for Shonen Jump, or a one-shot gag.
 >There are three new titles advertised as running in V Jump:
 >   By the author of Bastard!:
 >	_Bakuen Campus_
 >
 >   From Akira Toriyama (creator of Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball Z):
 >	_Dabu and Peter One_
 >
 >   And, from the creator of Video Girl Ai:
 >	_Shadow Lady_
 >

	Virtual Jump (V-Jump) is an installment that comes out once in
a while (I don't know when).  It's pretty much aimed at multi-media
stuff, I guess. It said that it covers anime, video games, and manga..
Although it was released yesterday, I haven't had a chance to read it.
I remember reading V-Jump in the past, because I know Saint Seiya
ended in this magazine. (It finished in Jump, but was awkward..
Kurumada came out with the complete ending in V-Jump) I also remember
some gag manga by Toriyama called Cashman, which used to be  in this 
magazine... It was all right, but not that good. 

 >   Also now on sale is _Hen_, volume 1.  This is a very strange story,
 >and is one that I can't really describe, because I haven't sat down with
 >the book (haven't purchased it, either) and read it cover to cover.
 >Suffice it to say that _Hen_ is a "different" type of manga about high
 >school students in love.
 >
	I thought it was volume 3... I don't remember well, but I
remember the stack of _Hen_ volume 3 I saw in the bookstore the other
day... _Hen_ means "weird" in Japanese, by the way.....


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				The kunedog (s92458km@sfc.keio.ac.jp)
				Freshman, Keio Univ. SFC. 
				Faculty of Policy Management 
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:47:45 -0500 
From: "Curtis B. Jackson" <cj24+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: shonen and stuff like that

does anyone out there want to sell their weekly and monthly shonen? like
jump,sunday,and magazine? or monthly mags like, super jump,magazine,and
captain and champion?
I am looking for anything that falls under this category........
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From: nasato@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Neil Asato)
Subject: Re: Gunnm, fight 43 
Organization: University of Engineering, College of Engineering
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:40:36 GMT


     I was asked by e-mail to help provide a translation
of what Gally said when she was falling. After working
on it I decided to just post to here for anyone else
who might be interested.

Disclaimer: This is not intended nor to imply any challenge to
the copyright or trademarked status of the original work. It
is only to encourage others to read it. So there is no point in
suing a fan. 

[page 208 of Business Jump no. 21]

Zapahn: SaraAAAAH [Sarah was his girlfriend, until he killed her]

[Gally, recovers, encrusted inside and out with Zapahn's remaining
fragments]

Gally: ... and now ...?

[she sees she is falling to the ground from the sky]
[for those who want to set the font of the rest of the translation
into a more religious script] 

Gally: Strong and weak!
Gally: Good and evil!
       Do we speak and receive the same!?

[page 209]
[the remnants of the being called Zapahn responds to her thoughts.
wings alive with energy, but dying physically, form about her. bringing
her to a hover.]

Gally: 'Tis unfair...

[the dying wings collapse]

Gally's thoughts as she crashes into the ruins:
       my small wishes...

Well, the rest is kind of obvious. She finds herself in the
ruins of New Kansas, the bar where she tried to find a new life,
and where many of her friends died... 

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From: mikem@comspec.com (Ragnarok)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: Rough manga
Date: 11 Nov 92 02:14:06 GMT
Reply-To: mikem@comspec.com (Ragnarok)
Followup-To: rec.arts.manga
Distribution: ont
Organization: Comspec Communications - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Disclaimer: Comspec Communications knows nothing of what I write.

tkwcheng@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu writes:

| Does anyone know where I can buy copies of Rough vol. 1-12
| within Toronto and Mississauga?
| 
| I am looking for the one with the Chinese Translation.

Try downtown Toronto's Chinatown - lots of various manga translated
into Chinese.  Try the new Chinatown Mall, also downtown - there are
a number of bookstores and model shops that carry such within, I think.
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And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; |------------------------------
   And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - | UUCP:  ...uunet!uunet.ca!
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From: kuo@sumax.seattleu.edu (Chih-Ping Kuo)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Viz's ad for Ranma
Date: 7 Nov 92 20:39:07 GMT
Organization: sumax city 0092

well, in the latest comic review (or preview), the ads for Ranma in the
Viz section read something like this, that we found out Ryoga is 
a little black pig after he attacked Ranma at night "ON A TRAIN", 
I don't know how hard it is for Viz's staff to separate 'In The Rain'
from that above....thing, now we know how well Viz translates! :)
 

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From: dvc@eagle.hr.att.com (David Van Cleef)
Subject: Re: Hardbound KOR #9,10 ISBNs?, MI hardbound manga?
Originator: news@cbnewsb.cb.att.com
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 04:13:28 GMT

>>>>> On 6 Nov 92 00:42:47 GMT, rcamama@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Camama) said:
RC> 	As the header reads, could anyone supply the ISBN's for the
RC> Hardbound KOR volumes 9 and 10, since it looks like those volumes have
RC> been released?

Can't help you there.  Got the older reprint set.

RC> 	
RC> 	Next...Maison Ikkoku manga! (when my bank account recovers...)

RC> BTW:  How much do the MI hardbound manga cost, and how many are there?

1100 yen each, 10 volumes of 348 pp, assuming you're talking about the
Shonen Sunday Wide Edition.  It's not a hardbound, and is in A5
format, which is the same size as the original collection.  I don't
have these yet.  (Have the older version again.)  My source is a pair
of nifty bookmarks for the "1992 Summer Shogakukan Comic Fair" that
were handouts in the NJ Kino last month.
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