What was supposed to be one or two bonus installments at most became a month-long affair, but it’s finally over: the last bonus installment of our decade in review! Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
With the upcoming Pokémon movie, Zoroark: Master of Illusion set to premiere in English speaking countries early next year, The Pokémon Company International have today updated the official Pokémon Black and White website with new information. As expected (considering The Pokémon Company International registered Zoroark.com), Zoroark will keep its Japanese name and so will its pre-evolution Zorua.
What has changed through is their classifications, Zorua has gone from an Evil Fox Pokémon in Japan to a Tricky Fox Pokémon. Zoroark is known in Japan as a Monster Fox Pokémon but is now classified as an Illusion Fox Pokémon. Both Pokémon have the Illusion ability whilst the attacks Claw Sharpen and Trickery will be known in English as Hone Claws and Foul Play respectively.
Right now you must be busy with the episodes of Dragon Ball Z: Kai, which aired recently on Nicktoons. In other words, the most successful manga series from Japan has entered America, in English! There are lots of fans around the world who look for Dragon Ball Z download. But I want to ask one thing, do they have the two ‘specials’ of Dragon Ball Z?
Yes guys, if you are unaware of the fact, then lemme tell you, that after finishing 291 episodes on April 7, 2003, Dragon Ball Z came up with two specials called, ‘Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku’ and ‘Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks’, which were released on February 19, 2008. These series were based on the characters of Dragon Ball Z episodes, but were given a different touch.
Dragon Ball Z Bardock
I know, you’re excited to known about the series! So, I won’t disappoint you! So, here goes
Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku, is a special that revolves around the Bardock. He embarks on a mission to Planet Kanassa, to destroy all life on the planet. While winning over the planet, Toolo gifts him a power to see the future. With the power, he finds that his planet Vegeta, is destroyed by Frieza.
The story moves on, where Bardock tries to save his planet from Frieza. When you watch Dragon Ball Z online, don’t forget to catch the action of Bardock and Frieza.
The second special that is Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks, starts on a sad note. It shows the death of Goku, with a viral heart illness. After 13 years of Goku’s death, Gohan and the Trunks appear. After being defeated by Androids several times, he trains Trunks who wish to defend Earth!
If you watch Dragon Ball Z, you will come across some fierce action and unbelievable stunts. But, both the specials are pretty different from what you see in a regular show.
I am not saying that it is entirely different, obviously they do have some link with the show, but they’re more than just action and dialogues.
Try these specials along with Dragon Ball Z show, for some special fun.
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In the news this week; the November/December Manga Movable Feast begins! Critics become critical of the manga blogging community, but not in a constructive way, more digital news from both sides of the Pacific, news from Japan, podcasts, and the Manga Village Roundup. So make with the click-y…
Manga Movable Feast Sets Sail
This month’s Manga Movable Feast started on Sunday, and features a personal favorite of mine, One Piece. The manga started here in the US in 2003 with the debut of Shonen Jump magazine and earlier this year got a massive release to catch it up closer to the Japanese releases. It’s also probably the most under-rated of the Shonen Jump titles, probably partially due to the bad dub it got originally from 4Kids Entertainment. Naruto and Bleach had decent dubs from the start, and the manga took off with them. One Piece did finally get a good dub, but it had missed the train. So hopefully this MMF can help rekindle the love it deserves. It’s hosted by David Welsh of Manga Curmudgeon. You can read the intro post here, and the archive of all the participants here. And there are a lot of posts to read, covering a wide range of topics, including not participating, so be warned. A lot of people participated in this. I even had multiple posts for it. Two here at my personal blog, and two at Manga Village. It’s a great series with a lot to talk about. Definitely check this one out!
Fanning the Flames
Moto Hagio and the collection of her short stories published here this year by Fantagraphics has garnished a lot of attention in the mangasphere, but no set of reviews had become as infamous as those written by Noah Berlatsky for the Hooded Utilitarian. His criticism raised the ire of a lot of bloggers. His final article looked at the way other reviewers had reviewed the series, which included calling out several bloggers and calling their style of reviewing “completely useless” and likening the manga blogging community to book clubs than critical writing. Naturally, this wasn’t taken very well by the mangasphere. Like most manga bloggers, my reviews are about whether I like the book or not and my reasons why. I’m not trying or interested in going through a critical, line-by-line analysis of the books I read, not even the “important” ones, because, these are books I’m reading for pleasure, not to get my degree in literature. I’ll point out themes when I see them or find them interesting, but that’s not going to be the focus of my reviews. I write a blog to share my love of manga, not try to turn it into a thesis. While I might enjoy reading such reviews occasionally, I wouldn’t want to do it on a regular basis. I also don’t find reviewers that rip a book apart and then say “but I really did like it” to be useful.
Dialing the DHD
While not completely relevant to manga now, it may be in the future. Dark Horse Comics released more information on their digital comics initiative. First announced at NYAF/NYCC, there hasn’t been a lot of information forthcoming from Dark Horse. This week they have announced price points, how it will involve brick-and-mortar stores and what titles will be available at launch. As manga fans, we can be hopeful that this works out for Dark Horse, and we can start seeing our manga titles appear this way as well. While Dark Horse doesn’t have a huge library of manga, they do have a lot of premium titles that digital might be able to spark back to life (What’s Michael if you please?).
Morning Becomes Digital
Morning, a senien manga magazine published by Kodansha will soon have an English version of the site. This is the first step in creating multi-language sites that will make Morning manga titles available to a world-wide audience. The revamping of the site also includes the availability of mobile apps for both the iPhone and Android operating systems. This is a good step by Kodansha. They really do seem to have recognized that a world-wide audience exists for the works, and it’s a good idea to reach out to them. Now, if only their physical distribution could have as much progress as their digital seems to have.
News From Japan
Girls Are Doin’ It!
Super Jump, a senien manga magazine from Shueisha has spawned a spinoff issue called Girl’s Jump. It will feature one-shots all drawn by female manga artists. It’s quite a list of artists, including Kumiko Suekane, the creator of Afterschool Charisma and Blood+ Adagio. This is really pretty cool, having female artists being recognized and publishing in something that isn’t marketed to girls. I hope this does well, as we see more. Maybe an anthology to introduce some of these artist, eh Viz?
One Piece to Rule Them All
Oricon, the marketing research firm has announced the manga ranking for 2010. And sitting at the top of them all, is One Piece (subject of this month’s MMF). Volumes 56-60 take up the top 5 spots, with a total of over 10,000,000 copies sold between them alone. Overall, One Piece has over 200 million copies in print. If this doesn’t prove the awesomeness of this series, I don’t know what would.
A look at all the top-selling manga series in Japan for 2010 shows that US licensers have been paying attention to the rankings, as every single one of them are available in English. Eight of them are held by Viz, and two by Del Rey, though not necessarily the ones that hit our top charts regularly.
NYT Best Seller List
Holiday shopping is in full swing (just try to go to a mall right now), but has all that buying affected the list any? Lets see… Naruto returns to be king of the list again as volume 49 takes back #1, while Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle vol 28 debuts at #2. Black Butler vol 3 holds on to #3 while last week’s #1, Alice in the Country of Hearts vol 5 falls three to #4. Hetalia: Axis Powers vol 1 moves back up one to #5 but Bakuman vol 2 falls back two to #6. Negima! vol 28 loses its hold on the top 5 to fall back to #7 as D.Gray-Man vol 19 moves back up one to #8. Black Bird vol 6 hops up one to #9 while Ninja Girls vol 4 falls back three to #10. Del Rey, with the last of their titles under the Del Rey Manga, imprint gains another spot on the list, taking up three. It’s like a last hurrah for the defunct imprint.
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256 / COMBUSKEN – Pokémon Papercraft
Name: Combusken
Type: Fire / Fighting
Species: Young Fowl Pokémon
Height: 0.9 m (2′11″)
Weight: 19.5 kg (43.0 lbs.)
Interesting Facts: They are very noisy and can often be heard squawking. In battle, their sharp cries are said to be very distracting. It evolves from Torchic starting at level 16, and evolves into Blaziken starting at level 36.
THE PAPER MODEL
Height: 18.4 cm/7.2 in
Width: 9.5 cm/ 3.7 in
Depth: 12.5 cm/4.9 in
Pages: 4
Pieces: 53
Level: Easy/Medium
Designer: PMF
Photo: Carnilmo
NOTES: Start building from the comb, make your way down, attaching the arms as soon as possible. Glue the fur spikes to the yellow part of the body, then glue the crotch. Build the legs, starting from the feet, attach them to the body then close at the tail. Be careful while gluing the palms to the arms. Insert a coin inside its left thigh for balance.
Sin fornicación, solo hay formicación. – An otaku in NAFTA
Without fornication, there’s only formication. Without skinship, there’re only withdrawal symptoms. Without skinship, people withdraw from a 3-D life. We become acute social withdrawal, in other words, hikikomori.
Sin tetas, no hay paraiso. -Colombian proverb
In other words,
Sin tetas, solo hay infierno.
In Brazilian,
Sem fornicação, só há formicação.
In other words,
Sem carinho, só há saudade.
Without skinship, there’s only saudade. This holiday season has been making me antsy.
Ah, thanksgiving, campaigned by Sarah Joseph Hale, who wrote “Mary had a little lamb.” I’m a little lamb. Yes, I’m eternal youth at heart. Sanat Kumara (“eternal youth” in Sanskrit) is always 16 years old. But I’m 17 years old, 17 forever. Just like Kikuko Inoue claims. Maybe besides Akiba, I should make pilgrimage to Mt. Kurama, where Kurama Temple is, which worships Sanata Kumara. Mt. Kurama is where Kurama Tengu lives, and where many spiritual people train themselves to be in tune with the cosmos. And the founder of Reiki also achieved enlightenment at Mt. Kurama.
Cold Turkey means “without preparation.” Without preparation, I’m not having skinship at all. My heart has never been prepared for cruelty of the 3-D world. I’ve never been ready for that. I’m always prepared for skinship. So, life without skinship is cold turkey. Without preparation, always Chega De Saudade (arrival of melancholy). I got leftovers from Thanksgiving, but turkey is already cold. So, I need to reheat it again with microwave. But I actually don’t need that to heat up my body. Microwave causes cancer. The stuff also used for cell phone and blue-tooth. It’s very malicious. I need a girl’s warmth to heat me up. But instead radiation beats me up pretty badly. Yes, skinship is all about warmth, i.e., body heat. Her warmth I am missing. And I hope that my dream would…
Eight Day Itch
Seven Year Itch. That’s actually Seventh Year Formication. After being married for seven years, you start to have formication, so that leads to fornication, extramarital skinship. Mine is Eight Year Formication, since the number “8″ signifies indefinite time in Japanese mythology. Like “Eight million gods.” So, whether eight years or eight days, it means “all the time.” Yes, eight days a week cold turkey. Itchy all the time. Eight Day Itch.
Eight Day Itch
Ah, Xmas Eve in Japan, when lovers spend the night together, a peak season of skinship. Ah, how I wish I could spend Xmas with a girl, listening together to The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole. How romantic would that be? School Days is also about Xmas skinship. And Amagami SS also is about Xmas skinship. School Days, too real…ah, fatal attraction… Kettle whistle. A sign or flag of blade exchange. Not Kincho like Hakuouki.
Kinchou
School Days blade exchange
Ah, my school days, eating cake all by myself… Didn’t they know it’s the b-day of Christ? Why did it become the day of romantic skinship? Do I need to have cold turkey for eight years? Black Day after Valentine’s Day. Black Friday after Thanksgiving Day. Do they want to paint my life black? Paint it black? Eight days a week, it’s black day. F@ck consumerism. F@ck market fundamentalism! We need Christ to drive out merchants from Christmas holiday.
Mary had a little lamb. Why do the lamb follow Mary? The answer is clear: Because Mary loves the lamb! Ah, why do I still love 3-D girls? Because they love me? No…The hope two years ago hasn’t change anything. So, it’s not making sense why I still want to cherish them. They don’t love me. They’re not gonna have me. They’re not gonna come and get me. They’ve hurt me. They’ve been cold. I can’t eat cold turkey. So, I resort to beef jerky…
Jāji
Going for jāji is too tragic. Like going for burumā at burusera shops. Contagious magic doesn’t solve anything. Tragic is magic. Because you can’t get a girl, you try to get what she was wearing. That’s what fetishism is about. Same principle with indirect kiss. In other words, indirect skinship. Kansetsu-skinship. Jaji is a new jersey. Just like buruma is a new bloomer. Japanized western outfit. So instead of Akihabara, New Jersey would be mecca for jaji collectors.
So, I better go to 2-D. 2-D girls will love me. 2-D girls are my Mary, Our Lady! Otaku’s Lady indeed. Maria-Sama Ga Miteru. Maria-sama is caring about me. Sachiko-oneesama! I want to be a girl, because I need a rosary from elder sister. What I want is not sisterhood-in-Christ, but sisterhood-in-Mary. And rosary should be a sign, flag, or miracle of that. From here to eternity. From 3-D to 2-D.
To pay homage to 2-D girls, I will end this article with a quote from John Lennon’s Women, since today is John Lennon’s martyrdom, and Gautama Buddha’s enlightenment day.
The little child inside the man. Please remember my life is in your hands.
I’m a little child, little lamb, indigo child, eternal youth, eternal seventeen, and 17 forever…
Images from GA Graphic
