Yesterday I read all of Spice & Wolf II by Isuna Hasekura and Keito Koume (ISBN 978-0-316-10232-2). See "What a Beautiful Sky..." (August 2010) for my very brief review on the first volume. Reading about the franchise, we are well past the peak of the S&W hype. Or at the very least, Japan is. The two anime seasons aired in 2008 and 2009, respectively. The original run of the light novel series, the basis of the whole franchise, has concluded recently. Luckily for ...
Updated 26 Mar 2011 at 9:15 pm by Katajainen
Yesterday I finished reading "Kapteeni Britannia" (ISBN 978-952-233-067-3). The book is a Finnish-language hardcover collection of comic stories about Marvel's Captain Britain -- more specifically, containing the "Jaspers' Warp" storyline written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Alan Davis, originally published from 1982 through 1984. "Jasper's Warp" makes for a very enjoyable reading experience, somewhere halfway between "Superman: Red Son" and ...
Updated 9 Mar 2011 at 1:16 am by Katajainen
A few comics deserve to be listed here. Too bad I cannot spend much time on my diary these days. ___ Finished a week ago: KIO, SHIMOKU [2005]: Genshiken. The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture. 1. ISBN 0-345-48169-0. A must-read for every comics enthusiast who wants to understand what the Japanese otaku subculture looks like from inside. Dōjinshi and statuettes, boys who never get girls, sweating at crowded comikets. In addition ...
Updated 14 Jan 2011 at 5:04 pm by Katajainen
[The following text is an exact copy of what was originally (accidentally) released in Hinarei's group blog, "The 'Nana Bunch" on 27th November 2010 at 5:17 pm (EET = UTC + 2).] __________ Today I finally gathered the courage to finish the V volume of collected "Strangers in Paradise" by Terry Moore. The original division into volumes, as the story was being published issue by issue in the nineties, differed from the later ...
Originally Posted by hinarei This is quite something. the guy's a machine It doesn't even look like he's even trying, once he found his rhythm. I'm sue there's plenty more of these videos about, but this is my favourite
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