XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 01/08/2012 03:19 PM, Aje.RavenStar wrote:   
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   > "Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:jed1lp$q6t$1@dont-email.me...   
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   > On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:20:31 +0000, Rob Kelk wrote:   
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   >> Just thought an on-topic thread might be appreciated, so...   
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   >> What anime did you watch most recently?   
   >>   
   >> I finally got my R2 DVD player hooked up (running the cables for a   
   >> second DVD player was a pain), so my most recent anime was "Nanoha the   
   >> Movie 1st". In some ways it's better than the TV series (Precia in no   
   >> longer one-dimensional, for example), in others it's almost as good   
   >> (Nanoha's backstory is barely touched upon, for example).   
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   >> I have been reading a lot of manga though stuff that   
   >> most likely will never be brought to market, translated, in the USA.   
   >   
   >> Family Compo - Strange family with mangaka dad   
   >> who is actually a born female father to a child who is secretive about   
   >> actual gender. Mother is a male TV/TG playing full time. Lots of Humor   
   >> from the encounter of a male college student relative (taken in when   
   >> parent is killed) with this redoubtable family. Mix in love- maddened   
   >> yakuza and a exploitative school club as well as homophobic grand dad.   
   >> I liked this so much that I am buying the   
   >> books in the Japanese language at Kinokuniya and no I don´t read   
   >> Japanese.   
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   > I've seen and like this too. Doesn't hurt that it's by Hojo Tsukasa from   
   > City Hunter and Angel Heart. Sohelpme, I'd swear Will Eisner immediately   
   > reincarnated as a mangaka.   
      
   	I don´t know about Eisner aside from the fact that he is flat   
   marvelous even in his instructional stuff for the military in WW II   
   which was written for Motor Pool mechanics but if he wanted greater   
   artistic freedom reincarnation as a mangaka would do it.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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