Okay man, I’ll check for Ares next time there’s a slow comic book week thanks! 
I finished reading the 4th edition of Dominion. This is probably one of the more lighthearted and funny of Masamune Shirow’s manga series. The mangas original run was about 22 years ago, and looking at it I see how different manga art is today.
I really need to read all of the Dominion manga. I’m a HUGE fan of both the anime series.
EndLeSS8: I didn’t know Initial D was still going on. Since I haven’t heard of any releases lately I thought it might have just stopped, but I primary watch the anime anyway. I’m new to alot of racing and car terminology, so watching it helps me understand shit better. Hopefully more eps get made eventually.
Gunsmith Cats: Burst v.3 was supposed to be released today, but it was pushed back. I’m pissed.
currently reading/collecting:
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[] ARIA
[] Bamboo Blade
[] Binchou-tan
[] Lucky Star
[] Sekirei
[] Sumomomomomomo!
[] Tenjho Tenge[/LIST]
recently completed:
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[] NHK ni Youkoso![/LIST]
the attached pic is five volumes of Sekirei currently available… just got them last week from Amazon JP
Let’s see…Battle Angel Allita, 3x3 Eyes, Excel Saga, Gunsmith Cats, Slam Dunk, Chobits, GTO, Get Backers, Sexy Voice and Robo, Ranma 1/2, Naruto, Akira and Nana. All of them are very pimp one way or another.
some good ones of the top of my head for y’all.
berserk
vagabond
blade of the immortal
naruto
death note (first half till L…)
full metal alchemist
slam dunk
hunter x hunter
theres many more great titles out there, just cant think of em right now.
I agree man. I just got done reading them all, and I must say the first half is really what sucked me in. The rest was cool, but not the same to me.
Oh well, on to my next manga. Thinking it’s gonna be either One Piece or Berzerk…probably both.
Yo MUSOLINI, you might wanna spoilerize that note about L since it’s a major point in the series :P.
i revealed too much with till L? till L finds the money to buy himself a Benz? you might be right though:P
I’d figure this is the best place to vent as it relates to manga.
Man, fucking School Rumble is ending. I straight fell in love with the series over the summer and the most recent chapters are all seeming to be leading to the end. To make matters worst, the drama is spiking and I don’t want it to end. It has been so great, filled with humor, stupid romance and ridiculous characters. A brother is going to miss it.
God, I don’t know how I will survive when One Piece eventually ends. Good thing that should be years away.
I read mostly card captor sakura but even then I got lazy and stopped. I plan on getting back to reading though, along with bleach and other mangas.
I’m quite new to manga so what I don’t get is why are they all black and white? It’s the one thing I don’t like about them.
Of the ones I’ve read, I really liked Basilisk, lone wolf & cub and Satsuma Gishiden. I hated Bleach though.
I’m currently reading The Yagu Ninja Scrolls.
it’s just the way they have been for years.
main reason for this is that most manga out there are serialized in large-volume magazines (typically weekly or monthly) 200~400 pages in size. couple of titles usually receive color spreads for each magazine release, but they are kept to minimal in order to keep the cost of magazine low. also, demanding color out of most of these weekly manga serialization is pretty much impossible on the production side.
also, manga art form in general over the years has cultivated remarkable ways to express light, dark, and “colors” without the use of actual colored inks through various techniques and toner applications.
however, there has been some high-profile all-color projects that has been done in recent years, like “ghost in the shell: man-machine interface” by shirow masamune (which was visually godlike, btw).
Shoju, in case you didn’t there are in fact Black and White comics, like the TMNT comics; only very few issues of the series and Vol. 2 are coloured, the rest is Black and White.
The majority of comics in the entire world are black and white. Seriously. Color comics is really an American thing. Sure, there are color comics in Mexico, Hong Kong and other places but the vast majority of it is still colorless.
Today, I bought vol. 18 of Tenjho Tenge that just came out and vol. 1-4 of Minami-ke
I just picked up and started reading Genshiken. It’s a little odd but at the same time very interesting. They even play fighting games in it, and they refer to KoF as CoF…lol.
^They also play KoF XI in the anime and OVA :).
BTW Sano if you’re reading this, I heard word that Kenichi anime will get licensed in the US.
got some new mangas today…
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[]** ARIA vol. 12**
[]** Bincho-tan vol. 3**
[*]** Minami-ke vol. 5
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holy shit. i didn’t even realize ARIA ended, since i only kept up as new volumes came out… wtf!! the ending was very nice, but i can’t believe that it’s over. this has been one of my favorite mangas for the past 3 years or so. T_T
now i’m pretty convinced that there is a high probability of the anime version to wrap up in the current 3rd season (ARIA: The Origination) as well.
the cover for the new Minami-ke is hilarious. 
i got the limited edition, which came with a bonus dvd containing the first episode of Minami-ke: Okawari.
