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...into a fight, who would win? The conundrum isn't as tricky as the Superman-vs.-Batman debate that has divided comic-book readers for generations. Wolverine, an American superhero from the venerable Marvel stable, is a hulking genetic mutant with claws like knives. Yugi, a manga character from Japan, is a stunted schoolboy with a penchant for games and puzzles, low self-esteem and eyes the size of moon pies. When classmates pick on Yugi, girls jump to his defense...
Surprisingly, turtle-porn—or, at least, its genre—has a long history. “The TMNTijuana Bible” falls under the category of hentai, a pornographic subset of Japanese anime and manga. Janicak explains that hentai is a socially acceptable genre in Japan—so much so that businessmen often read it on the bus. The popularity of hentai is such that a rudimentary Google search on the topic yielded a massive 5,500,000 results. Links included sites promoting XXX videos and featuring erotic pictures of everything from Disney?...
...sought the opinions of The Crimson’s newest staff comic artists, Laura E. Yilmaz ’04 and Isabel S. Eisner ’04, who co-create the manga-inspired “This Space for Rent...
...Customers are impressed too. College student Kaoru Ikeda, 19, heads to her local Bookoff in Tokyo at least twice a week. "Here I can buy 10 manga comics for 1,000 yen [about $8.50]," she says. "In a regular bookstore they would cost me 4,000." Apart from the low prices, Bookoff is virtually indistinguishable from the regular bookstores in the area, and consumers don't seem to mind that its offerings aren't brand-new. "I just can't buy anything at a full-price store anymore, not when I know the same thing is here for less," Ikeda...
...Astro Boy," by Osamu Tezuka, likewise transcends its natural audience of robot-obsessed boys. In fact, Boomers may pick it up to relive their memories of the '60s animated TV show based on these stories. First appearing in Japan in 1951, until now the original manga have never been published in the U.S. Dark Horse plans on putting out the complete multi-volume collection (printed left to right, by the way) on a monthly basis. It's about time. Astro Boy has become iconic in Japan. Considered the "God of Manga," Tezuka's work laid the foundation of manga style...