Forum - View topicJason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Chikyu Misaki
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vashfanatic
 Posts: 3495 Location: Back stateside |
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All you really needed to tell me about this manga was that it was written by Yuji Iwahara. After King of Thorn, I am game for anything he's written.
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Jozoiscute
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Thank you muchly for this great review of Chikyu Misaki! It's one of my most favorite manga (partly because of the great story, and partly because of its charm).
When CMX went under recently, a lot of people wondered which manga they licensed that were worth reading. My answer was Chikyu Misaki (and Gon)!! 
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Jure
Posts: 50 Location: Croatia |
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Great article as always. I love Yuji Iwahara, he is one of my favorite authors and I bought all of his manga that are translated on English. It's a bit funny that all three of them are from different publishers and two of those publishers are now gone. And I definitely agree that his artwork is amazing. Even though I liked King of Thorn more, Chikyu Misaki is definitely worth reading.
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ss-hikaru
 Posts: 269 Location: Western Australia |
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Oh this looks so cute! Is it really hard to find now? All I could find was an ebay listing that only ships to US
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Myaow
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Thank you so much for this last year of wonderful reviews! I've enjoyed all 52 installments of "House of 1000 Manga"; it's helped me discover a lot of gems that I'd never heard of or overlooked, and reminded me of my love for my longtime favorites. I look forward to another excellent year!
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here-and-faraway
 Posts: 1529 Location: Sunny California |
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I read this a few years ago and was really impressed with all the unusual twists and turns the story takes. It really is a gem. |
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zensunni
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A fantastic review! It really makes me want to find the title and read it. I would love to see it made into a movie or single season TV series, since 3 volumes can be done very well in a single season!
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Jadress
 Posts: 807 Location: Seattle. It purdy and nerdy! |
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Wow.. this looks like yet another perfect recommendation for me, as Monster Collection was. Thanks so much for this column- it's become a valuable resource for me! I hope I can track this title down!
I'm also reminded of the old anime, Coo, which also featured an adorable plesiosaur. |
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Genten
 Posts: 71 Location: A Mitten (Michigan) |
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Oh Jason, you've just reminded me that Chikyu Misaki sits uncompleted and alone on my shelf. I only own the first two despite coming across the third volume many times in bookstores. Now that so many years have passed since I first collected the series I'm afraid I'll never find the last volume.
Despite that depressing revelation I'm happy that someone has found and enjoyed this little gem as much as I have. Chikyu Misaki made me into such an Iwahara fangirl. I've read and own nearly everything of his released in the US. It's interesting that he had a deal with Marvel to produce a comic. I really would have loved to see Quest.
While I can't speak for Australia, living in the US myself, I think the book has been out of print for quite some time and is probably hard to find. Out of curiousity, does that eBay listing have the three volumes as a bundle or are they seperate books? |
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Truered
 Posts: 515 Location: Uni |
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Add another person who enjoyed that series. I bought it last year (I think) while in another one of my "I want a new series, but not a long one, or not fully published one" and picked up this along with a couple of other short series. Was quite pleased with it as I wasn't expecting too much from a three volume series, but I got quite a cute and fun story
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kyokun703
 Posts: 2505 Location: Orgrimmar |
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Thanks. More money to spend. My tax refund is depleting much much faster than I had planned with TP going under and this column.
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ss-hikaru
Posts: 269 Location: Western Australia |
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Ahh I see. Being from Australia, I've never really known or heard much about CMX titles, until it was much too late of course *sigh* The ebay listing has all three volumes plus (all?) 4 volumes of King of Thorn. It's a bidding listing rather than a buy now listing but the price at the moment is quite decent. If it were only Chikyu Misaki I'd consider using a shipping service to get it, but I have no use for and no interest in King of Thorn, so the cost and effort isn't worth it (imo). Time to include Chikyu Misaki on my 'to buy when I get decent in Japanese' list... |
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Ian K
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Rightstuf apparently still has all three volumes still in stock.
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ss-hikaru
Posts: 269 Location: Western Australia |
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oh what?! Thanks so much Ian K! I'm definitely gonna pick those up with my next order *crosses fingers that they'll still be in stock* |
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kyokun703
Posts: 2505 Location: Orgrimmar |
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Two of them have the status "More Arriving Soon" which I'm not sure what that means. I don't know if they have a secret stash or something since CMX has been closed for what, a year now?
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