Time Guardian and Go Go Heaven
Today I’m looking at a couple of recent series published by CMX. Time Guardian by Daimuro Kishi and Tamao Ichinose (amazon.com) Miu is an ordinary high school student, having problems managing her time taking tests. One day she accidentally stumbles across a curious shop. At the Kusaka Time Shop time is loaned out to whoever [...]
Big Hands
Rachmaninoff had big Hands {via my Dad}
Happyville, Evilsevier, A Plum a Week
Happyville Library Blog says goodbye Evilsevier Seeks Victims Plum blogging – Bully blogs Wodehouse
testing, testing
Just checking to make sure everything’s working ok after upgrading wordpress. How are YOU doing?
Tail of the Moon
Tail of the Moon by Rinko Ueda, #1-4 (amazon.com) Usually I tend to know what manga I’m interested in following before the first volume is published, so I tend to be resigned to reading a series very slowly as new volumes are translated. So it is a nice change to be able to go on [...]
Library Fever
Peanuts Library Strips over at Scans Daily shows some nice early cartoons of Linus being traumatized by going to the library.
According to Pew, I’m a 40 year old man
In the Pew Quiz I scored as a “Lackluster Veteran,” I guess because I’m not overwhelmingly enthusiastic about technology even though I use it all the time. I don’t really see why I should value my cell phone all that much. Hmmm. Basic Description Lackluster Veterans have the necessary gadgets for the information age, such [...]
Vampires and their wacky animal sidekicks
Two of the manga that I’ve read recently feature vampires and their crazy animal companions, although they differ in tone. Millennium Snow by Bisco Hatori (amazon.com) Millennium Snow is by the author of Quran High School Host Club, and while it does feature the occasional bit of slapstick humor, it doesn’t begin to approach the [...]
A museum of great interest
I got a hot tip from a reader about this most excellent Webseum of Pocket Protectors. I like the Robin Hood one.
Twelve Kingdoms
Twelve Kingdoms Volume 1: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono(amazon.com) The anime series Twelve Kingdoms is a bit of an anomaly – it starts out looking like it is going to be a typical magical girl story, but the series ends up dwelling more on interlocking stories among a large cast of characters and the [...]
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