From: tnaran@no-more-virii-please.direct.ca   
      
   Ping Kuo wrote:   
   > In article , Chris Kern   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> We may see the owner come back or at least hear what happened to him   
   >> -- personally I have always thought he died, since the last time we   
   >> heard anything concrete about him was back in volume 2 or so.   
   >   
   > I finally read the last chapter,   
   >   
   > thus ended YKK, at 140 chapters and 12 years, one of the most enduring   
   > and beloved title for the fans.   
      
   I'd vaguely heard of it for years, but just now checked it out.  Seems   
   like an interesting premise for a manga.  A manga about nothing so to   
   speak, but still exploring the decline of the human race (if I   
   understood the summary pages).  I'll wait for someone to publish it in   
   English.   
      
   BTW, don't you feel that after the gold rush for manga, there's been a   
   trend to avoid licensing non-mainstream manga again?  When Tokyopop   
   burst onto the scene publishing a wide variety of titles, we finally got   
   some of the breadth of manga into English, but now it seems like the   
   publishers are sticking to niches they know always sell.  Nothing   
   "experimental" or "unproven".   
      
   Oh well, just another incentive to keep studying Japanese. :-)   
      
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