There was news that a man was buried to death by a couple hundred of manga and magazines that had fallen on top of him during the earthquake. Apparently he’d suffocated to death from the books that had fallen on his chest.
With the rooms so small in Japanese apartments, this could eventually happen to me too (@@;)
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I just happened to be looking at it and saw three Vampire Knight volumes and a Skip Beat volume in the top 20. Ureshii ne!
Bookstores with large foreign book sections here do sell translated manga, but the only shojo manga I’ve seen there are NANA and Nodame Cantabile. The rest are all shonen manga. So when I saw most of the books I’ve translated actually being stacked on the shelves in San Francisco last month, I was finally able to really feel that the books I’ve worked on are…well, actually being SOLD.
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The author of novels such as “Nante Suteki ni Japanesque” died of lung cancer today.
I’ve only read the manga version, but it was one of my favorite Japanese period mangas.
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Ichiru - Miyano Mamoru
Maria - Nakahara Mai
Shizuka - Orikasa Fumiko
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