From: invalid@diespammers.moc   
      
   Ping Kuo wrote:   
   > In article <87slsxddk8.fsf@catnip.gol.com>, Miles Bader    
   > wrote:   
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   >>Ping Kuo  writes:   
   >>   
   >>>Mushishi (current topic)   
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   >   
   >>I tried reading this last year (the art and atmosphere seemed great),   
   >>but it drove me nuts, it seemed much harder to read than other manga!   
   >>It sort of ruins the fun if I'm constantly having to use a dictionary...   
   >>Anybody else notice this?   
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   >   
   > actually, Mushishi is not the first title I will read when I get my   
   > Afternoon, neither is it the second, third, etc.  as I said, it is   
   > current w/ the TV series,  and many other people had said good thing   
   > about it, which is why I list it here.  I actually like the suicide   
   > short story that author did on Afternoon a while back, but that is   
   > another story.  to me it pretty much take the same approach as YKK,   
   > Love Roma, Azumanga Daioh, etc.  if you never take any risk in your   
   > story, then while your series would be consistenly good w/ little   
   > chance of failure, but you also will not have a chance to be great,   
   > either.  that is one of the reason why I value titles like Historie and   
   > 20CBS higher.   
   >   
   > and as understanding goes, as one who is not fluent in Japanese I need   
   > to use a dictionary most of the time on any manga anyway, Mushishi does   
   > not appear to be harder than others, (well, may be more than airhead   
   > titles like AMG, etc.)  but you have to remember I don't have problem   
   > reading Kanji, for how much that is worth.   
      
   Which dictionary do you use? I was planning to get:   
   Kodansha's Furigana Japanese Dictionary   
      
   Any others you would recommend for manga? I can read hiragana and   
   katakana and am learning kanji.   
      
   Thanks   
      
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