From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 03/15/2017 05:21 PM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:   
      
   	Based on your recommendation or at least your remarks I   
   have begun to read this manga.  It will take me months to catch   
   up though since I can no longer sit at the computer endlessly.   
   My legs get too stiff.   
   	   
   	bliss   
      
   > I can't believe someone made a manga about calligraphy.  The main   
   > character grew up in Canada but had to move back to Japan right before   
   > he starts high school.  (School year beings in April in Japan.)  He is   
   > coerced into joining the school's calligraphy club and immediately   
   > breaks his arm!  He then must recruit the girl who injured him into   
   > joining the club in order to meet the school quota.   
   >   
   > I acquired the first seven volumes at a book sale and went through them   
   > very quickly.  Last week I was at SFPL and lo and behold, they had the   
   > entire fourteen volumes even though I have never seen any of them in my   
   > previous visits.  I checked out the final seven volumes and went through   
   > them in couple of days.   
   	I guess you mean in Japanese or Chinese?   
   >   
   > This is highly educational but the characters are also very well   
   > developed and it's never boring even though most of the time they are   
   > just writing. There's some romance between the boy and the girl that   
   > injured him but it's very subdued and they usually focus on history of   
   > calligraphy and different techniques that the students must muster.   
   >   
   > And the author had to ask actual calligraphers (many are students) to   
   > come up with the calligraphies that peppered the manga.  I wonder how he   
   > could ask someone to write substandard ones so the characters'   
   > progresses can be shown.   
      
   	You start with the unskilled and maybe due the final   
   examples yourself?   
      
   >   
   > It took the author good nine years (published biweekly or less   
   > frequently with sixteen pages per episode) tell two years' of these   
   > characters' lives. But style is very clean and characters are almost   
   > always easy to identify.   
   >   
   > And someone took the time to translate this into English...   
   >   
   > http://www.mangareader.net/tomehane   
      
   	Thanks Kenneth.   
   	bliss   
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