From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 03/15/2017 09:33 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   > 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   
      
      
   	Barely into this just a chapter or so and it is good stuff.   
   The protagonist is damaged when a Yawara-like girl tosses a masher   
   onto him.  She is a runner up in a national Judo tourney but as   
   the boys point out Yawara was not at that tournament.   
      
   	So a big thanks again Kenneth M. Lin.   
      
   	Bliss   
      
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