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Nobody14



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 10:22 am Reply with quote
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I don't like the idea of supporting something that helps the racist and transphobic Minecraft creator makes money

Well we can at least wipe that fear away. Notch doesn’t make any money off Minecraft anymore. Microsoft entirely owns it, all goes to them. Which probably isn’t much better, but hey.
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FireChick
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 1:30 pm Reply with quote
Huh, I didn't know someone had licensed a manga version of Night on the Galactic Railroad. I had no idea a manga version had come out in the 2010s, as I only knew about a version from the 80s. Will be buying it as I really enjoyed the movie from the 80s.
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Dr Marc



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 1:53 pm Reply with quote
In his review of Night on the Galactic Railroad, Kevin Cormack wrote: "I'd really like to read the original one day. Although this is a high-quality adaptation, I suspect this may be a story best consumed more slowly, allowing more time for the tone and surreal imagery to take effect. It reads too quickly as a manga."
Well, the original is very short too. It's a novella only about 70 pages long and it reads very quickly as well. There are several translations available in English and one of the best is "Night on the Galactic Railroad and Other Stories from Ihatov" translated by Julianne Neville (2014) which we've used in college literature classes. It's available on Amazon for about $11.
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Dr. Wily



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 2:09 pm Reply with quote
the minecraft review wrote:
Nico is a textbook shonen manga hero, brave of heart and dumb of ass.


I've never heard someone say this before but it cracked me up and I'll definitely be using it when referring to future shonen heroes of that ilk.
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R. Kasahara



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 2:33 pm Reply with quote
I really shouldn't be buying any more manga right now (especially since I ordered full runs of Orb, Tomo-chan is a Girl!, and Aria of the Beech Forest recently), but I always look forward to these guides. Hope Dogsred gets covered; the first volume is excellent.
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fuuma_monou



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 9:56 pm Reply with quote
Is Mansect the first Shinichi Koga manga that's been licensed in English? I'm a huge fan of the live-action adaptations of Eko Eko Azarak, though I've never read the manga.
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malvarez1



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 10:24 am Reply with quote
Regarding Mansect, I’ve been trying to add the release to the encyclopedia, but am unable to. I think a mod will have to handle that.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 11:37 am Reply with quote
malvarez1 wrote:
Regarding Mansect, I’ve been trying to add the release to the encyclopedia, but am unable to. I think a mod will have to handle that.


It's already in ANN's encyclopedia here: manga#34760

It was added back in February (I'm not sure when you tried to add the release yourself).
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malvarez1



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 2:35 pm Reply with quote
ANN_Lynzee wrote:
malvarez1 wrote:
Regarding Mansect, I’ve been trying to add the release to the encyclopedia, but am unable to. I think a mod will have to handle that.


It's already in ANN's encyclopedia here: manga#34760

It was added back in February (I'm not sure when you tried to add the release yourself).


I may have worded that badly, I mean that I was trying to add the physical release.
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Swissman



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2025 6:18 pm Reply with quote
Christopher Farris wrote in regards to Older Girl Next Door:
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That's something, but it's few and far between, with the rest of Older Girl Next Door otherwise floundering about in the boring and frustrating shallow end. At times it might almost come off like the author working out some very specific personal hang-ups from their youth experiences.

The author is actually a woman, there's no need for a gender-neutral pronoun.

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It doesn't help that Tasuku doesn't come off like an authentically typical 13-year-old boy a lot of the time. He speaks in verbose formalities, but by his admission can barely understand movies more complex than a Ghibli animation.

I see it differently. As a teacher at a junior high school I know and have known many boys over the years who think they're smart, talk smart and get good grades because they're diligent learners but who are emotionally not mature yet, and Tasuku is a great example of such an immature adolescent. He's in love with an older girl but is unable to come to terms with his feelings towards her and her passion for movies unless he studies her like she's some kind of study subject, a mistery waiting to be uncovered, which is somewhat hilarious but understandable from the pov of a 13 year old. In my book The Older Girl Next Door is one of the better, more realistic and sweet romcoms I read in the past few years, with real progress in the relationship between the two leads and a boy who slowly but surely matures emotionally over the course of the 4 volumes' storyline.
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a_Bear_in_Bearcave
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 3:56 am Reply with quote
Oh hey, "I’m in Love with the Older Girl Next Door"! I remember it as great coming of age story combined with "study" of romantic feelings, plus somewhat realistic and rarely found in manga depiction of mentality of rather young kid (and older kid too). I basically agree with @Swissman's take on it.
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