Thread for MANGA REVIEWS
Jul 24, 2013 19:16:09 GMT -5
Post by thegl0r on Jul 24, 2013 19:16:09 GMT -5
Wow, you read Barefoot Gen at elementary schoo andl from your school library! The world could certainly learn a lot from reading even just the first few books.
I don't know what I can say about the nuclear disaster in Japan. It should be a delicate subject and a painful lesson for everyone. Living in the UK, I only heard about it on TV news shows. It was on the news in this country quite a lot when it first happened but with only very sketchy coverage. For some reason we were shown things like interviews with British people living in Tokyo who were worrying about radiation and wanting to get the first flight home, rather than telling us much about the people living near the disaster area. The fact that the reactors were cheap American prefabricated ones of a type that were not allowed to be built in many countries barely got a mention.
But enough of this heavy serious talk, so on a lighter note...
Is that your collection of issues of Bartender in the picture you posted?
Thanks for the link to the anime episode of "Bartender", I thoroughly enjoyed watching that first episode. I'll have to watch more. Somehow I doubt that I'll get the opportunity to read the books, so much to do and so little time.
I don't often drink alcohol, and have had very few proper cocktails, but I do like a Tequila Sunrise. Its the Grenadine in it that does it for me. The only time I've been in a cocktail bar was a couple of years ago when Shonen Knife were playing in a room above one. But as I had hired a car to go to the gig and would be driving home later, I was only able to have soft drinks.
I had intended to watch another episode of Bartender straight away, but I clicked on "Heaven's Lost Property: The Angeloid of Clockwork" with subtitles, it was supposed to be the "full movie", but finished rather oddly making me think that there should have been at least a few minutes more. Grr! So I tracked it down on "dubbedanimeonline.net" and got the last few minutes to properly finish the story - but dubbed into English. The subtitled version was much nicer to watch.
I'd initially thought this was aimed at teenage girls - a school romance story but there was a lot of shots of schoolgirl's legs and panties, and, from time to time large breasts often barely covered with fabric, so I don't really know.
It was very funny with some real LOL moments and a few excruciatingly funny moments. Especially when all the girls panties somehow got ripped off and flew across the sky in formation like migrating geese.
Then towards the end, the story evolved with various threads being pulled together to reveal what was "really going on" some of which had been previously hinted at. Presumably in the manga and anime series more of this is revealed.
The DVD was released in North America in February 2013.
I don't know what I can say about the nuclear disaster in Japan. It should be a delicate subject and a painful lesson for everyone. Living in the UK, I only heard about it on TV news shows. It was on the news in this country quite a lot when it first happened but with only very sketchy coverage. For some reason we were shown things like interviews with British people living in Tokyo who were worrying about radiation and wanting to get the first flight home, rather than telling us much about the people living near the disaster area. The fact that the reactors were cheap American prefabricated ones of a type that were not allowed to be built in many countries barely got a mention.
But enough of this heavy serious talk, so on a lighter note...
Is that your collection of issues of Bartender in the picture you posted?
Thanks for the link to the anime episode of "Bartender", I thoroughly enjoyed watching that first episode. I'll have to watch more. Somehow I doubt that I'll get the opportunity to read the books, so much to do and so little time.
I don't often drink alcohol, and have had very few proper cocktails, but I do like a Tequila Sunrise. Its the Grenadine in it that does it for me. The only time I've been in a cocktail bar was a couple of years ago when Shonen Knife were playing in a room above one. But as I had hired a car to go to the gig and would be driving home later, I was only able to have soft drinks.
I had intended to watch another episode of Bartender straight away, but I clicked on "Heaven's Lost Property: The Angeloid of Clockwork" with subtitles, it was supposed to be the "full movie", but finished rather oddly making me think that there should have been at least a few minutes more. Grr! So I tracked it down on "dubbedanimeonline.net" and got the last few minutes to properly finish the story - but dubbed into English. The subtitled version was much nicer to watch.
I'd initially thought this was aimed at teenage girls - a school romance story but there was a lot of shots of schoolgirl's legs and panties, and, from time to time large breasts often barely covered with fabric, so I don't really know.
It was very funny with some real LOL moments and a few excruciatingly funny moments. Especially when all the girls panties somehow got ripped off and flew across the sky in formation like migrating geese.
Then towards the end, the story evolved with various threads being pulled together to reveal what was "really going on" some of which had been previously hinted at. Presumably in the manga and anime series more of this is revealed.
The DVD was released in North America in February 2013.