ebullience

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Bakuman in English August 20, 2008

Filed under: Manga Related, bakuman — ebulliencejj @ 4:05 am
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Yes, yes it seems that the Japanese anime/manga industry has been reaching out more to its fans here in the West.

The Jumpland website, which has been hosting several popular manga online in Japanese has recently added Bakuman, except unlike the other titles, it is made available in FOUR different languages: English, French, German and Japanese. You’ll need to download an application to view the manga which only works on Windows XP and Vista. Awesome eh?  I wonder what will happen to the groups that has this title as their project? XD

 

An “Explosive” (Re)appearance! August 5, 2008

Filed under: Manga Related, bakuman — ebulliencejj @ 6:30 am
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Gosh darn it, why am I always late for these sort of things? Okay so apparently the ever famous Obata Takeshi will team up with the acclaimed writer Ohba Tsugumi once again to produce another manga, entitled “Bakuman” set to be released on August 8/9 (COUNTING DOWN NOW. Date is always spiffy when it comes to comparing NA time to JAPAN time @_@). It’s been described as “explosive” (explosive in Japanese is bakuhatsu) Since the announcement, people have been questioning if it will be on par with Death Note (I suppose in terms of how popular it will grow). Since this is for the makers of Death Note, there will be a lot of critism ready to fire back and lots of comparisons made with their previous work. Ahhhh I can just see how some people will be disappointed:

“OH MY GAWD!!! MANGA FROM OBATA AND OHBA!!!! KYAAAA <3 *reads*…… WHERE THE HELL IS MY L/LIGHT??!!!”

Ahahaha well some people will probably approach this thinking the duo will continue the story of Death Note (or completely redo the story so that L lives on as many would wish). But yeah, a lot of people will be waiting in anticipation for it and a large majority of them will have expectations. As for me, I’m just glad Obata’s working on something else. I’m a total fan of his art. Well I loved the Death Note storyline as well, so I’m interested to see what else Ohba will come up with.

image from きる on pixiv

EDIT: Made a mistake. It seems that Bakuman was released this week on the Aug 9 release