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   Chika to Miles Bader   
   Re: What's your favorite domestic manga   
   15 Apr 07 21:16:29   
   
   From: miyuki@spam-no-way.invalid   
      
   In article <874pnh5uyo.fsf@catnip.gol.com>,   
      Miles Bader  wrote:   
   > What I find depressing is the way classic well regarded stuff like   
   > Tintin has essentially been turned into a source of bland images on bath   
   > towels in Japan... (and I emphasize _bland_ -- there are lots of great   
   > scenes from Tintin books that I'd personally love to have on a bath   
   > towel, but they never, ever, choose those ones :-( ).   
      
   To be honest, my problem with classics such as Tintin and Asterix is the   
   amount of attention they attract from the ploitically correct.   
      
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