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From: kuo@sumax.seattleu.edu (Chih-Ping Kuo)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: R.A.M awards '92
Date: 23 Jan 1993 14:03:46 -0800
Organization: sumax city 0093
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> axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au, Iain Sinclair wrote 
> (long, high-signal articles deserve long, high-signal replies. :-)

high-signal? more like high temperature :)

> I thought of taking a poll of male characters, female characters and
> favorite manga.  I still might do that.  (And use it in the Guide as
> a proper recommendation list.)

female 	Lum		Urusei Yatsura
male	Ryo Saeba	City Hunter
manga			Urusei Yatsura

>  >Ah! My Goddess (a slow down second half cost it the title)
> Best of '92?  A bit too uneven for that, IMHO.  I think Fujishima
> has just about breached his audience's tolerance for do-nothing

of the 12 stories since last Jan, I would say 3 are gems, and 3 more are
good, and all of them July or earlier.

>>Deep and Beautiful Asia
> I hope you (or anyone else) does a guide or synop. for vol.1.

as soon as my friend from Taiwan send me a copy.....

> I think this would be a good candidate for English adaptation, even though
> an enormous amount would obviously be lost in the translation.  It even
> seems to lose something in the Chinese->Japanese translation. :-)

I actually notice that, and for once, I might top the Japanese translator :)

> My best New 'Alternative' Manga for '92 is God Save the Sugekoma-kun.

sadly Down Under is getting thing so much faster than here, I guess 
I will wait.....since I got lots of empty space back it is time for
me to get some new titles! :)

> (BTW, I think most artists for Afternoon
> only do about 12 pages/week.)

but it is a monthly, most of the time of complete story and better art-work,
one of the reason I sold my Patlabor is because I can no longer stand
the pace, may be when the wide edition come out I will buy them again
(you can bet on it, when Superman R can get wide, so will Patlabor)

>  >Izumi Matsumoto (who knows what he is up to, and who cares?)
> Quite. :-)  But his former assistants live on..

that is about the only good thing from KOR, the assistant got notices
and move on to better things....

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From: pearl@remus.rutgers.edu (Starbuck)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: Jademan Comics
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:41:51 GMT
Organization: the Worlds Welfare Work Association, Rutgers Anime division

In article <8912.22042@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM> jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman) writes:

> So, did they say the were tying up all their efforts, or, or just
> starting a new round of products?  The post wasn't clear.  
> 
> Personally, I like some of their limited publications, like
> "Jademan Opens the Gates of Night."


Those were great!  I really enjoyed their one volume anthologies!

I hope they aren't packing up house...

Steve
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 18:33:48 JST
From: vray@cs2.cs.oki.co.jp (Miho NISHIDA)
To: rec-arts-manga%darwin.sura.net@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Got a loadful today


I got a loadful of posts that I hadn't been getting from the
r.a.m today.  It's dated as early as Jan 10.  

List manager, are you sending me the stuff (meaning, problem not
fixed) or is there really a big bucket someplace sucking all my
mail from the r.a.m??

Miho aka Griff
From: michaele@nagisa.nsg.com.au (Michael Edwards)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Sailor Moon in Young Jump?
Summary: I lied :-)
Date: 23 Jan 93 23:47:25 GMT
Reply-To: michaele@nsg.com.au
Organization: Chamber Militant Ordo Malleus
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Not really but Young Jump 7 has a new story called "Soredemo Akuma" 
[Naka Masato] has a main character that is a thinly disgused Usagi... 
well maybe "thin" is the wrong word!  Hmmm... is my imagination or is the
"H" level of Young Jump rising?  There's this story with domination and
the current domination side-theme in B.B. Fish [there's a scene in this
that reminds me of uni ;-)].  

What with penguins and UFO's showing up in a title I'd never of expected 
them in... and Oss! Karatebu shaping up to another big fight [um.. Iain you
haven't posted that guide yet have you?]  and all the bits i like ... 
I think this has been the best issue of Young Jump that I've seen... 
[I've been picking them up from about 32 last year]

Michael
[Who is Rika Takahashi and does Young Jump Weekly do this often?  I thought 
it was Young Magazine Weekly that did this sort of photospread? ]
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Subject: Viz Nausicaa issue 2 is here
From: larryg@batpad.lgb.ca.us (Larry Greenfield)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 17:36:04 PST
Organization: The Batchelor Pad



   Hi all.  Just wanted to tell you all that the 2nd issue of Viz's 
new Nausicaa will be out starting tomorrow at your friendly 
neighborhood comic shop.  So don't forget to pick it up!
   I already have a copy of it.  56 pages of story (no additional 
sidebar stuff). The cover is ok (again printed on flimsy paper). 
However, it looks like the coloring of the cover is incorrect, though 
I have no way to be sure. Nausicaa's hair is brown (not red), the 
windmills in the background a big spashes of red (instead of brown), 
Nausicaa's clothes are all light-orange color (instead of blue)... 
get the picture?  Well, it's certainly a Miyazaki drawing, but I 
wonder if Viz colored in an originally black-and-white-only picture, 
or if someone made a mistake in the color process.
   I haven't read the issue yet, I'll read it tonight (Thurs) before 
I go to bed, although I already know what happens. :)
   At any rate, I suppose it's nice to see that there wasn't a long 
wait (probably because the 1st issue was so delayed). I'm only 
guessing, but I wouldn't be surprised if Viz had all 3 issues printed 
and shipped from Japan at once to avoid hassles.  Hopefully, there 
will be a short wait for the last announced Viz issue (the next one) 
as well.
   And if Miyazaki keeps up writing new Nausicaa (starting up again 
in this March's Animage!) then that's good news.
   As a side point, someone on the nets posted that Tokuma stated 
that Mr. Miyazaki would probably be in Franch for June/July 1993, and 
speculated that perhaps he's researching a new film. This could be 
the case, however, someone reminded me that there is a French comic 
fest going on at that time, and Miyazaki could be off attending 
that...
:::::Larry:::::



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From: pearl@remus.rutgers.edu (Starbuck)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: Sazan Eyes v13 (difficulty in finding it)
Keywords: sazan eyes, original volume, locating, ordering
Date: 25 Jan 93 15:17:51 GMT
Organization: the Worlds Welfare Work Association, Rutgers Anime division

In article <43896@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> carraghe@cs.ucsd.edu (Robert Carragher) writes:

> Ok, here's a question for Sazan Eyes fans:  how hard is it
> to locate or order volume 13 (the last one).  While in Tokyo,
> I managed to pick up 1-12 fairly easily, but looked every-
> where (fruitlessly) for #13.  Is it out of print?  Do the
> collectors hoard it because it has some fantastic revelation?
> If I went to Books Kinokuniya to order it, would they laugh
> at my face?

There were plenty of 3x3 Eyes #13 at the NJ Books Kinokuniya when I
was there 2 weeks ago.

Sometimes, stores sell out of the new manga volumes rather quickly.  

Steve
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From: kuo@sumax.seattleu.edu (Chih-Ping Kuo)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: R.A.M awards '92
Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:28:44 -0800
Organization: sumax city 0093
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In article <wfN0xT_00WB00DDlIZ@andrew.cmu.edu> Hiroshi Haga <hh0u+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>I think Deep & Beautiful Asia sucks.
>Hiroshi Haga 
>$@K'2l(J $@Bg;V(J(heretic+@cmu.edu)

I refuse to be 'bait' into this by the relative of Anime Kami :) beside,
with the coming of new year I think it is a grand idea to start another
round of self-introduction, you know, new quarter, new people, so 
we can get to know each other much, much better, so Hiroshi, want
to start introduce yourself to the people of R.A.M. ? 
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From: gainax@venice.mps.ohio-state.edu (Ukyou)
Subject: Re: WOMAN IN THE MAN - info?
Organization: Ohio State University; Physics Department
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:32:37 GMT

In article <-1358082197snx@izumi.DIALix.oz.au> michael@izumi.DIALix.oz.au (Michael Studte) writes:
>For anyone interested (I can't really tell much from the first few
>pages), the girl in it is a definite Ai-Moemi combination, with a
>chest-size beating both of them combined. :) It definitely seems a bit
>more along the comedy and H streak that Ai was, rather than his Angel
>Beat.
>
Hmm..well Michael, you set yourself up for this..but,
I never thought in a manga that chest size counts...hmmm, I thought it
was the story.....oh well, morals of a avrage manga fan going to hell!
^_-

(just giving you a hard time ^_^;)


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From: ncc1701@madoka.its.rpi.edu (Mark Chadwick)
Subject: Re: Sazan Eyes v13 (difficulty in finding it)
Keywords: sazan eyes, original volume, locating, ordering
Reply-To: ncc1701@acm.rpi.edu
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:16:25 GMT

There were also about 15-20 copies at Yaohan in Torrance, CA (a bit
closer to you, I think)

-Mark

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From: msr@kepler.unh.edu (Reno no BAKA)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: R.A.M awards '92
Date: 24 Jan 1993 05:47:59 GMT
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Keywords: H-For Hentai

In article <1jsvro$jb5@agate.berkeley.edu> chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU (James Chiu) writes:
>In article <rec.arts.manga.9301231452.AA19047@syzygy.socs.uts.EDU.AU> axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au writes:
>
>>>***Worst Americanized Manga Title in 1992
>>>Ranma 1/2
>>>classic + colorization + adaptation = trash 
>
>Sad thing is that some people actually like it. :(

Well, it is better than nothing. What little manga I find, I buy instantly. I
didn't think the color was the best idea, but it didn't really ruin it for me.
But I guess I am not too picky. I would have continued to buy it even if they 
had kept coloring it, although I like the new price. 
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From: liebgold@crowe.seas.ucla.edu (Dan M. Liebgold)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Manga for sale/trade?
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:33:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles



Anyone have any manga (preferably translated) for sale or trade?

email me back... thanks.

dl
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From: rmc@wang.com (rmc)
Subject: Raika 13-16
Organization: Wang Laboratories, Inc.
Distribution: rec
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:38:21 GMT

This month's Raika installment(s) appeared at Million Year Picnic over
the weekend.  The action continues to pick up, the "real story"
continues to get second shrift.  This feels like a transition period
between "politics in the valley" and "regional politics", so i don't
know if the story is ever going to get more personal again.  I think
Iyo should take Raika out behind the cave and give him a good
thrashing, but so it goes.

Ragnarok Guy #6 was in too, but i haven't read it since Ragnarok Guy
#5 didn't arrive.  Sigh, anyone else have this problem?

R Mark Chilenskas
rmc@wang.com
From: ph111-dz@violet.berkeley.edu (david mou)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: R.A.M awards '92
Date: 26 Jan 1993 07:57:16 GMT
Organization: studio 3x3 ..... maybe
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Keywords: H-For Hentai

In article <1jsvro$jb5@agate.berkeley.edu> chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU (James Chiu) writes:
>In article <rec.arts.manga.9301231452.AA19047@syzygy.socs.uts.EDU.AU> axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au writes:
>
>>>honorable mention:
>>>Ah! My Goddess (a slow down second half cost it the title)
>
>>Best of '92?  A bit too uneven for that, IMHO.  I think Fujishima
>>has just about breached his audience's tolerance for do-nothing
>>stories.  I'm not really in a position to give the guy advice, of
>>course. :-)  But I think most people would agree that he could be
>>doing a lot more with the characters.
>

Why, has it become politically correct to insult the Goddesses?  AMG 
epitomizes the "do nothing, stay pretty" genre, and we should take it 
as that.  Since when did people read it for the stories?  What few 
gems Fujishima-sensei managed to produce were happy coincidences, and we
should be grateful for that.

And remember, anime can ruin a good manga in more ways than one.

>It's time K1 OFFICIALLY gets laid. Speaking of which... wasn't SOMEONE suppose
>to write SOMETHING around here?
>

...........?  eh?

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From: amos@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Walter M. Amos)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Ragnarok Guy (was Re: Raika 13-16)
Date: 27 Jan 1993 23:09:05 GMT
Organization: The Leader Desslok School of Diplomacy
Distribution: rec
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In article <RMC.93Jan27093821@miyazaki.wang.com> rmc@wang.com (rmc) writes:
>Ragnarok Guy #6 was in too, but i haven't read it since Ragnarok Guy
>#5 didn't arrive.  Sigh, anyone else have this problem?

Actually I must have.  I rarely take notice of comic book numbers. If a new
installment is there I pick it up assuming it's the next one.  But upon
reading there was obviously a bit of missing story, so I am missing #5 too.

Sadly, tho, it wasn't MUCH missing story.  The main problem I have with Sun's
Ragnarok Guy is how SLOW the story moves.  Almost nothing happens in a single
issue.  This coupled with the INCREDIBLY ANNOYING Gundam model kit ads every
other page (which break up the story terribly) are almost enough to make me
forget this mag.  But I love Tsuguo Okazaki's stuff (I wish we could get the
entirety of JUSTY translated!) so I will continue to get it.  But does anybody
else get annoyed by these problems?  Any other comments on Ragnarok Guy out
there?


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From: dlo@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Dickinson Kapo Lo)
Subject: Re: Jademan comics titles...weird
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Reply-To: dlo@ics.uci.edu (Dickinson Kapo Lo)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:19:21 GMT

From ucivax!news.service.uci.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!srvr1.engin.umich.edu!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!rit!isc-newsserver!ultb!jtl2447 Fri Jan 22 12:13:59 PST 1993
Article: 2201 of rec.arts.manga
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From: jtl2447@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.T. Liu)
Subject: Re: Jademan comics titles...weird
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:54:46 GMT

In article <9301212334.aa10947@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu> dlo@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (Dickinson Lo) writes:
>I don't know if this is considered manga, but anyways, I've noticed
>that two of the Jademan titles(Blood Sword and Oriental Heros)seem to
>have the title mistranslated.  I can read chinese, and the english
>names just don't match(unlike the rest which does, these are the only
>two).  First of all, the verbatim translation to Oriental Heros's
>chinese title is"Gate of Tiger and Dragon", while Blood Sword
>translateds to...youguessed it, "Oriental Heros" !  Did they switch
>the english titles or something?  Has this ever been asked?
>

>The first rule of translation is that you can't translate word by word.
>"Gate of Tiger and Dragon"
 ^^^^

Ok..my fault for not remembering what that character meant in that
context.  But my main problem is with Blood Swords' title since it
directly translates to Oriental Heros(not just word for word, but the
meaning is also the same).  I don't see why they didn't call switch
the two titles around...


>In this case, the gate means Gang, Clan, School, etc.  The word can also
>mean door.

>I'll give you another example.  "to eat tofu" can mean take advantage of
>someone.

Heh heh...haven't heard that in a while >:-)
Jaa ne.
Dick

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From: isc30176@nusunix1.nus.sg (CHEN JIA TYAN)
Subject: Re: How manga is done
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 08:34:20 GMT

[comments taken into account]

: >double paging, there is no boarder at the center of each page.  Draw the 
: >picture (
: What happened to the end?

What?  You mean it was truncated?  Did _anybody_ get the entire post?

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From: wai@mackinac.ecn.purdue.edu (Benjamin Wai)
Subject: Re: City Hunter
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: rec
Date: 27 Jan 93 01:27:46 GMT

irie@husc11.harvard.edu (Robert E. Irie) writes:

>Hi all, I just read in rec.arts.anime that City Hunter has come to an
>end. Is that true??? The last one I have is I think 36 or so (its
>at home)

	Yup, it's ended. The last one from Jump Comics is the #35.

	Of course, there are other versions out there which continue, mainly 
	in Korea (which I _have_ in fact seen it) and other places (which I
	heard about), but I wouldn't even recommand getting anywhere near
	them. As far as it goes, the original CH manga series has ended.
	Not only are those Korean (and other) versions nowhere resembling the
	original series, they are (in my opinion) basically an insult to the
	original series. Yup! They were not by Hojo Tsukasa at all. Art
	work is obviously different (on another word -- cheap stuffs).

	By the way, has anyone read the Korean version of the "Orange Road 3"
	series? A friend of mine showed it to me a while ago, and what it is?
	I have a very very strong feeling that whoever complied it  took the 
	"Touch" series and called it the "Kimagure Orange Road 3".

	No, it's not a joke. I am serious. Trust me.

>Robert
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Subject: 3x3 Eyes
From: larryg@batpad.lgb.ca.us (Larry Greenfield)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 22:02:47 PST
Organization: The Batchelor Pad
Followup-To: 

Just a question.... is anyone out there still working on any 3x3 Eyes 
manga translations or was the ones we saw a while back the last ones? 
Also, has Hitoshi or anyone else kept a record of which 
volumes/sections have been translated yet?  I'd be interested to see 
this, to see if it matches what I have. I can't ftp.  Please could 
someone email me on this?  Thanks!
:::::Larry:::::

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From: whitefox@eng.umd.edu (M.S. Pope)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Battle Angel Alita (Gunnm) will continue
Date: 28 Jan 1993 03:31:34 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity von Uniland, College Park
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I just found out in the latest copy of Previews that Viz's
translation of GUNNM, aka BATTLE ANGEL ALITA, will continue
after the first 9 issues.  After the 9th issue, ALITA will
continue with Book 2, which will span 7 issues in the same
format.  I don't know about anyone else, but I was quite
pleased when I found out this bit of news. 


				M. Steven Pope
				univ of md
				college park
Organization: The Leader Desslok School of Diplomacy
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:34:10 EST
From: Mark 'Mark' Sachs <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Venus Wars II, any thoughts?

I usually pick up #1 of any new translated series that looks interesting, to
see if it's really worth spending a whole $2 or so on a comic every month.
Venus Wars I didn't inspire me at all -- there were some vaguely interesting
things in there, but absolutely nothing memorable (that is, I'm trying to
remember anything at all from it right now and can't!)

On the other hand, VWII... I leafed through some current issues and it looked
like it was worth a second glance, so I picked up a back issue of #1. Wow!
This is cool! Political intrigue, mystery, immediately interesting characters,
not half-bad art (though some of the characters look like they're smiling when
they should be grimacing...) nice architechture, and tanks. What more could
you ask for in a comic book? And the translation seems to be quite good
as well (the usual smart Studeo Proteus job.)

So anyway... that's me throwing my opinions around. What do others think
of this series? How long is it likely to go?

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