Manga splurge

Well, after spending the work week in “The City” I raidied the local book store every day after work and managed to aquire the entirety of the Pretty Face manga. Which I recalled hearing about a whole bunch somewhere around eight years ago, when it was new and not in english form yet. A particular piece of the Megatokyo (www.megatokyo.com) mentioned it in a blog of his on the comics site and iirc he translated it to a script form. So I saw it on the shelf and figured “oh, hey, I think I heard of that.” And indeed I had.

Pretty face is about a dude named Rando. He’s this absurdly strong little guy. Very violent and well everything you’re not supposed to be. He has a crush on this girl blah blah blah, enter horrible bus accident and he wakes up looking exactly like the girl he likes. Because his face was screwed up so horribly it had to be entirely reconstructed… and they found the picture of that girl in his wallet and crazy scientist guy made him look like that. It gets way better from there; the girl Rando likes, Rina, had a twin sister, and they think he’s her. he plays along for zod only knows what reasons and decides he’ll go looking for Rina’s real sister, whose name is yuna btw, and yeah. Most of the comedy here is the result of the fact that Rando is now a trap…. ie, a ‘girl’ who is actually a guy. (The polar opposite being a reverse-trap, girl who looks like a guy. See “Fujioka Haruhi” of Ouran Highschool Host Club for an example)

Apart from those 6 volumes I picked up Welcome to the NHK vol 2, the Third vol 2, and yubisaki milk tea vols 6 & 7.

The Yubisaki is entirely an impulse buy. >.> Volume 6 had some art on the back that made me pick it up and well yeah. I’m weak to dfc okay?

On a much more random note I also picked up Iced Earth’s new album “The Crucible of Man: Soemthing Wicked Part 2″ Yeah I know, not anime related at all, but hey they did do an entire album centered around spawn, who as we all know originated in comic books… which is essentially what manga is. Because we all know “graphic novel” is just a facy way of saying either, comic book, or picture book but picture book doesn’t serve my devices near as well. >.>

No posts under manga?!

Well I was busy adding a bunch of categories for some of the stuff I just watched and plan to yap about in the not so distant future… when I noticed I have a Parent category for manga, and it’s empty. Well I can’t have that so here’s a post about something called Otaku no Musume-san. I decided on it as I didn’t feel the need to terrify people with Kodomo no Jikan… yet.

Otaku no Musume-san is exactly what the title suggests. You have an otaku living in one of those awesome one room apartments. (I can say that, it’s bigger than my fortress of awesometude, I mean my room. And all of a sudden he’s got this little girl on his doorstep with a letter that claims she’s his daughter. Now, I can relate to this manga for numerous reasons. Mainly that it’s an entirely possible scenario for my future, and yes, that means I have a spawn, supposedly. (Long story) Anyway as one would imagine the humour in the series is the result of entirely awkward situations such as his pillow cover starring a character from a show his daughter watches. IT’s one of those nice ones with an almost dirty picture on one side, and a dirty one on the other side. She picks it up with the almost dirty side facing her and he sees the other side… There’s a picture of it floating around somewhere and it’s the entire reason I picked the manga up.

Now for horrible news. Yes the manga is being scanslated; And gettable here. (As per usual it’ll try to open in a new window) If after several months of inactivity you can still say such things like ‘being’ and not ‘used to be’ or ‘was being’. Though I’ll admit, the group did release a chapter of something, last month, though not Otaku no Musume-san. They took us to Chapter Six and have left us there it seems. Last update of it was in October of last year. So, Akatsuki manga, please scanslate more… or someone…

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anyone?

please?