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It's Hexenhammer Time!

Sat, 25 May 2013 19:51:59 GMT

Posted by: skjam

Hi folks! I need to get a bit more manga from JManga posted before my access goes away, so here's "Brocken Blood" by Etorouji Shiono.

It's a magical girl manga...kind of.

( 2 pages of 8 from Chapter 0, 5 pages of 16 from Chapter 1 )

Your thoughts and comments?
SKJAM!

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From Eroica With Love: Origin Stories

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:56:26 GMT

Posted by: nomadicwriter

More Eroica! These scans come from a pair of side stories that were published alongside the main story in volumes six and seven. They are part of the ongoing continuity, but mostly exist as an excuse to give us some flashbacks to our heroes' respective childhoods. Warning for scenes involving coercion of a minor in the second story.

32 pages beneath the cut. (12 out of 50 from the first side story; 20 out of 99 from the second.) Pages read from right to left.

( From Eroica With Love )

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Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

Mon, 13 May 2013 02:28:06 GMT

Posted by: skemono

Rejoice! On this day I bring to you several pages of a manga series that is, in my opinion, pretty good: Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, written by Eiji Otsuka of MPD Psycho, and drawn by Housui Yamazaki of Mail. In fact, it seems to exist within the same continuity as those manga, because characters from those series show up in Kurosagi.

I would recommend checking out this series! Unless perhaps you're rather squeamish; then don't. As the title would imply, there are corpses--and while it doesn't deliver grossness or gore for its own sake, it doesn't shy away from showing the various things that can happen to a body. There's not much of that in the scans below, but I'm gonna put not safe for work tags on here anyway.

But what is a corpse delivery service, you ask, impatient rhetorical voice that only I can hear? Also, I should burn things, you say? Well, first things first.

( Mysteries await you below this cut )

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From Eroica With Love: The Alaskan Front

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:11:14 GMT

Posted by: nomadicwriter

So, erm, I meant to post some more of this series after posting the first parts in, cough, February, but that got away from me a bit. Anyway, here's more Eroica! This story is from volumes four and five, and marks the point where the series starts moving into longer, multi-part stories. It's still fairly episodic in nature, though there is continuity between stories; this one takes place shortly after the events in my last post.

41 pages of manga beneath the cut. (8 out of 73 from part one; 33 out of 218 from part two.) Warning for Klaus's homophobia. Pages read from right to left.

( From Eroica With Love )

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Secret of the Haunted Mansion

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 01:23:01 GMT

Posted by: cyberghostface

( Story under the cut... )

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Women's History Month--Kitty Hawker Chapter 3

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:49:02 GMT

Posted by: skjam

Continuing our look at the manga soon to go away from JManga.com, I have another Takao Saito (Golgo-13) creation, "Kitty Hawker."

Created in the 1990s, Kitty Hawker is the story of Oki, a Japanese pilot who, while trying out for Pacific Air, managed to somehow destroy a $300,000 simulator. Apparently, he's aces as a pilot, but a little bit unlucky. As a result, he's been assigned to Lian Air, a subsidary of Pacific. There, he must perform any insanely difficult and hazardous mission ordered, in order to pay for the simulator.

Oki is accompanied on each mission by Bud, a really good mechanic (one wonders what he did to be saddled with these jobs) and a young, pretty mission specialist of the week. But "young, pretty mission specialist" just doesn't seem enough for Women's History Month, so we're going to skip Chapter One, and go to Chapter Three, and the introduction of someone more interesting.

Sixteen pages of fifty.

( Old, but still going strong. )

In real life, the first female air traffic controller was Mary Chance van Scyoc. http://www.ninety-nines.org/index.cfm/mary_chance_van_scyoc.htm You can read more about her in her autobiography, "A Lifetime of Chances."

Your thoughts, comments, and favorite women in aviation?
SKJAM!

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Doll the Hotel Detective

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:42:43 GMT

Posted by: skjam

In case you hadn't heard, JManga.com is closing up shop. No, I don't know why, but I would guess it involves money. Anyhow, before they go, I should post some manga just in case you want to track them down later.

And in keeping with our March theme, I'll start with a female lead story, "Doll the Hotel Detective" by Takao Saito, the creator of "Golgo 13."

The premise is right there in the title. Doll (that's the only name we're ever given, and she's had it since childhood) is a Japanese-American hotel detective for the Sunshine Hotel Group in the 1980s. She's a stoic character with a tragic past, and seems to be asexual.

Thirteen pages of forty from the first chapter, NSFW for gratuitous nudity.

( Before the President's Arrival )

Your thoughts and comments?
SKJAM!

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Favourite Not Quite Heroines: Bambi

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:37:43 GMT

Posted by: leoboiko

Everyone's posting their favourite manga women, so I thought I'd post one of mine for something different. Cut for large images, and trigger warning for dark themes, strong content, nudity, misogyny, ableist language, and violence. A. lot. of. violence.

( Parental advisory... )

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Favourite heroines: Erza Scarlet

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:44:08 GMT

Posted by: q99

Shounen fight manga is a genre not know for giving female characters good roles. In most series, they're either barely there, on the sidelines, or playing second fiddle to the male lead whenever a major fight rolls around.

Fairy Tail is not one of those series!

( Erza Scarlet in Pandemonium behind cut )

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Favorite Female Manga Heroine

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 02:03:08 GMT

Posted by: azure_flame_god003

( Yare yare dawa... )

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One Punch!

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:40:58 GMT

Posted by: skjam

Hi folks!

Shonen Jump Weekly has added a few new series, including one I quite like, One Punch Man.

Saitama was once an unemployed salaryman who was bored and unhappy with his life. A chance encounter with a monster convinced him to become a superhero, since that sounded way more fun. Problem is that he's too powerful, able to take any opponent out with one punch. So now One Punch Man must search for meaning in a world that holds no true challenge for him.

Or does it?

( Four pages from the latest issue )

It's funny, but I don't know how long the premise can sustain itself.

Your thoughts and comments?
SKJAM!

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From Eroica With Love: Pope-Related Hijinks

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:19:35 GMT

Posted by: nomadicwriter

I was already planning to post this as a follow up to my first Eroica post, but suddenly it's become rather timely. This story is told across two volumes in chapters 7 and 8, and marks the point when the espionage plots start becoming more complex and continuity-driven, as our heroes make a visit to the Vatican.

42 manga pages beneath the cut. (Original stories were 98 and 136 pages respectively.) Warning for homophobia; possibly NSFW for some partial nudity. Pages read from right to left.

( From Eroica With Love )

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The Seashore

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:13:39 GMT

Posted by: cyberghostface

( Scans under the cut... )

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From Eroica With Love

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 01:27:29 GMT

Posted by: nomadicwriter

I don't read that much manga, I must admit, but this series has managed to completely win my heart.

From Eroica With Love is a long-running series by Yasuko Aoike that dates back to the 70s; the first 15 volumes were translated into English by CMX before they folded. Like the name suggests, it's a bit of a cheerful spoof of Bond movies and cold war era spy stories, with wacky capers going on all over the globe. But the real heart of the series is the relationship between its two leads:

They are: Dorian Red Gloria (right) and Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach (left). Dorian is a flamboyantly gay English Earl who moonlights as the infamous international art thief Eroica. "Iron Klaus" is a bad-tempered, homophobic, either deeply repressed or asexual German NATO Major who's distinctly unhappy about being the love of Dorian's life. Together, they ~~fight crime~~ squabble a lot, interfere with each other's missions, and occasionally team up against their mutual enemies.

43 manga-sized pages below the cut, taken from chapters 2-5 of the manga. (The original stories are each around 70-75 pages.) Warning for homophobic language and threats.

( From Eroica With Love )

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Anesthesiologist Hana

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:32:38 GMT

Posted by: skjam

Hi, Everyone!

A while back, a site called Jmanga ( http://www.jmanga.com ) was created to host legal scanned translations of manga. It's a pretty good site, with the caveat that a) you have to pay to get more than a tiny taste, and b) it's mostly obscure titles, not the hot ones, because that's what they can get the licensing for.

So in the interest of plugging the site, I though I'd show you a bit of one of the series I've been following, Anesthesiologist Hana.

It's in a rarely seen in the States subgenre, the edutainment manga. Hana is a semi-realistic look at the work done by anesthesiologists, with a storyline attached. Today we'll have 8 pages of 25 of Chapter 1, "Anesthesiologists".

( For this I went to medical school? )
If you're a fan of medical dramas or have always wondered what it would be like to work as an anesthesiologist, this manga might suit you. I do have to caution that there's excessive fanservice, and Hana is awfully undertrained for someone who isn't even an intern anymore.

Also, I have an interview with one of the translators up at my blog, http://www.skjam.com so please stop on by!

Your thoughts and comments?
SKJAM!

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The End of Shonen Jump Alpha

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:38:18 GMT

Posted by: skjam

In case you hadn't already heard, as of Monday, the online US release of Shonen Jump is going simultaneous with the print edition in Japan. So they're changing the name of the online edition from Shonen Jump Alpha to Shonen Jump Weekly (a direct translation of the Japanese version.)

So I thought now was a good time to show you four semi-random pages from the latest issue and get everyone caught up on what's been happening.

( Love, Death and Other Important Things )

And so the wheel turns.

Your thoughts and comments?
SKJAM!
(Still struggling through second week of college.)

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Helvetica Standard

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:26:58 GMT

Posted by: skjam

Been meaning to post one of these for a while. "Helvetica Standard" is a monthly strip published in Newtype Magazine and created by Kei'ichi Arawi, who also does "Nichijou." The latter manga has become an anime series--here's an AMV inspired by it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Z9PKIOEwI

( And now the strip itself, from Newtype April 2012 )

Your thoughts and comments?

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One Perfect Moment: Dio Brando is a Total Dick

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:33:35 GMT

Posted by: captain_ziggy

Tomorrow's Halloween, so let's talk about vampires. One vampire, actually. I generally don't like vampires very much, but everyone has exceptions, and this particular vampire is one such exception.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Dio Brando from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

I've talked a tiny bit about him in my previous post a couple of days ago, but not much. There are a lot of things you can say about Dio Brando. He is a vampire with psychic powers (by an unusual definition of psychic) who sucks blood through his fingers. He likes to pass time by hanging out in the dark, often shirtless, sipping what may or may not be wine and reading books that get the series in trouble with certain Islamic religious groups. He goes around in some very questionable outfits, presumably because nobody is going to make fun of a 6'5" and incredibly ripped psychic vampire for wearing headbands with hearts on them. It is hypothesized that most, if not all, of his henchmen want to jump his bones regardless of their gender. He has fathered at least four sons with four different women in a span of about three years. Thanks to a video game by Capcom and a certain Albino Black Sheep flash animation, he is a minor but perpetual internet celebrity, and probably the biggest reason as to why anyone in the States knows that JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is even a thing that exists.

But most of all, Dio Brando is a giant asshole.
( Some gore and spoilers for JJBA Part 3 behind the cut. )

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Mai the Psychic Girl #1

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:47:40 GMT

Posted by: skjam

Hi again!

Digging in my longboxes, I found one of the first few manga to make it in a legal translation to the United States. Indeed, it was part of the first wholesale translated manga importation attempts. Viz teamed up with Eclipse Comics (remember them?) to present three bi-weekly series, Kamui, Area 88, and today's offering, Mai the Psychic Girl.

Among the reasons this series was chosen for the initial launch was that it was relatively short, and Ryoichi Ikegami's art was Western-influenced, which Viz thought would go over well with the skittish general American readership. (They figured they already had the small but fanatical manga fandom by the balls, so they didn't need to cater to them.) As part of the "seamless translation" process, the pages were flipped to read left to right, then individual panels were flipped to restore handedness, and extensively retouched to allow Englishy sound effects. This resulted in what were for the time very expensive comics.

Twelve pages of thirty-eight.

( Twenty-fifth anniversary of publication, by the way )

There was a collected edition, but I believe it's out of print.

Your thoughts and comments?
SKJAM!

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Blood Sickness of the White Sands Village

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:52:57 GMT

Posted by: cyberghostface

( Scans under the cut... )

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In Which a Poker Game Drives a Man Insane

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 03:11:40 GMT

Posted by: captain_ziggy

So, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

With the new TV anime they're currently airing, I figured, "Hey, why not ~~shill my fandom~~ share one of my favorite stories from this series?"

For those not in the know, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is an ongoing shonen (well, now seinen) fighting series. However, something that sets JoJo's from all other shonen action series like Dragonball, One Piece or Bleach is the nature of these fights, which are rarely straightforward fights, but rather bizarre battles of wits.

This is best exemplified by the story I bring today: "D'arby the Gambler", volume 23 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

( 22 pages (of a 116 page story) behind the cut. Read right to left. )

And so ends the story in which our hero drives a man mad with poker and parlor tricks. Perhaps, if anyone is interested, I'll post on Dio Brando and his hilariously over-the-top villainous antics.

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Tiger and Bunny

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:35:57 GMT

Posted by: blackruzsa

An anime series that reconstructs the classic American hero and the rampant PROPERTY DAMAGES most writers just brush aside when super heroes break stuff in the fight for justice.

It surprised me, honestly. It's really Western-oriented in terms of the superheroes and the setting in general, and very anime in terms of the drama and character development.

In this show, superheroes take part in a reality TV show that ranks them by "villains captured" and "people saved", and have sponsors which pretty much pay for property damages and use the superheroes' suits for product placement.

BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY YOU MAY VERY WELL ENJOY IT.
( Pages under the cut, plus background. )

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Red String

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:11:23 GMT

Posted by: cyberghostface

( Scans under the cut... )

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The Dark Drinks Blood

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:18:36 GMT

Posted by: cyberghostface

Here's another Junji Ito story just in time for the Halloween season. Remember to read from right to left. This is 1/3 of the story.

As a warning, eating disorders factor into this story.

( Story under the cut... )

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Another kind of "strong woman" (Lizzy Midford) part 3

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:16:45 GMT

Posted by: blackruzsa

Okay, well anyway...

( A lady... )

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