XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 04/17/2013 10:08 PM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:   
   > Kurumada is very famous for Ringu O Kakero (boxing manga) and Saint   
   > Seiya (Knights of Zodiac in U.S.?).   
   >   
   > Ringu is very interesting in that it started off as a very basic boxing   
   > manga where the main character was learning how to throw a jab.  Then   
   > all of sudden everyone developed super powers where a punch could knock   
   > the opponent one hundred feet into the air.  Then it degenerated into   
   > constant splash pages with zero character development but it was still   
   > very popular nonetheless.   
   >   
   > Saint Seiya must have made Kurumada very rich in toy licensing as every   
   > character has a "cloth" that could transform into a sculpture depicting   
   > a constellation and other item.  If you look at eBay, they appears to   
   > have created the action figures for all the characters in that series.   
   >   
   > One thing that is very interesting about Japanese delinquent youths is   
   > that once they are out of high school, they outgrow that phase and would   
   > most often get a job and start living normally.  Unlike America, the   
   > gang members in Japan don't end up joining Yakuza when they get older.   
   > These days the delinquents are often called "Yankees" perhaps because   
   > they dye their hair blond.  (I don't know what is the fascination Asians   
   > have with different hair colors but it's very obvious in many manga and   
   > anime.)   
      
   	Most of our delinquents don't end up in organized crime. Most find   
   reasonably honest work and do crime quietly on the side.  You have   
   to be very bad and well connected to join a crime family.  I am not   
   talking Crips and Bloods level here but the banking families that handle   
   the cash from the operations that the lower level criminals generate,   
   bribe judges and police officers.   
      
   >   
   > If you like Sukeban manga, try Wada Shinji's (recently deceased at the   
   > age of sixty) Sukeban Deka.  Deka is a slang for cop and this is about a   
   > "sukeban" that was recruited to work for police as an undercover   
   > informant. Her signature weapon was a loaded yo-yo.  I was very   
   > fortunate to find the complete set at a used book sale for next to nothing.   
      
   	I covered the anime for Rob Kelk's primer, I believe.  I watched   
   it because it is the show which the KOR gang attempt to recreate as a   
   live action film. In production though Kasuga slips and has to use his   
   powers where others can see him.  So the production degenerates into   
   an attempt to force the "superhero" into the public eye.   
      
   	bliss   
      
   >   
   > "Bobbie Sellers"  wrote in message news:kknn8a$kdq$1@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   >   
   > Sukeban Arashi 1 is on Manga Fpx   
   >   
   > Sukeban Arashi 2 is coming next...   
   >   
   > SUKEBAN ARASHI Manga   
   > スケ番あらし   
   > Released: Author & Artist Genre(s):   
   > 1977 Kurumada Masami School Life, Shounen   
   >   
   > I find this really interesting and entertaining.   
   > Sukeban means delinquent and Arashi is the heroine's name.   
   > She does not like to study and prefers to sleep in class.   
   > A rich girl with the usual chauffeur/bodyguard transfers   
   > into her class and appropriates her desk.  Oh yes and she   
   > is your strong Karate shojo.   
   >   
      
   	[snip of the rest of my little post]   
      
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