Monthly Archives: April 2017

Shoujo Manga as Sumo Wrestling or “Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga”

From page 12. “Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga” is an old comic from 1990 created together by two artists also dabbling in essays and critique, Aihara Kouji and Takekuma Kentarou. Japanese nerds call it “SaruMan”, which is short for … Continue reading

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So I read Missing v1 in Japanese…

The cover. A while ago I bought the first volume of Missing in Japanese as a challenge. It’s theĀ first physically existing book in Japanese that I own. I have to say, reading English releases of light novels all the time … Continue reading

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