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Title: Skyhigh

Author & Artist: Takahashi Tsutomu

Chapters: 1-10 (Complete)

Summary

You live, you die, and rest forever in either heaven or hell (or somewhere else that isn’t heaven or hell). But what happens to those whose lives have been wrongfully taken away? Welcome to the Gate of Grudges where your guide Izuko will give you three choices: go to heaven by passing through the Gate of Grudges to be reborn, refuse death and remain a ghost on earth, or proceed to hell by killing one person on earth. Each soul gets one choice, which will they pick?

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The economy isn’t looking too great nowadays, which means cutbacks on a few of our favorite shopping items like comics and manga. But if you really need your manga fix, even if it’s just one volume, here are a few dollar saving tips.

Buy Online

There is a simple reason for this other than laziness. Products offered online at retail websites are cheaper than at the store. Take a testimony from me.

Windy, Leenah, and I drove to Borders over the weekend to look for some “How To Draw Manga” books. Windy found one by Hikaru Hayashi priced at $25 (retail price). Leenah found another one by Christopher Hart priced at $22 (retail price). Since Leenah didn’t have money to pay for hers, I had to. I knew it was cheaper online, but she didn’t want to wait for it in the mail. She wanted it now.

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For all you manga lovers out there wanting to score a free manga or a movie book, well today is your lucky day.

The good people at Manga Worth Reading are giving away a free X-Men: Misfits. More details to the contest at their site.

The Anime Blog is holding a daily contest entry for a chance to win the soon to be released 9 movie book. Just make sure you have a twitter account. Hurry, the contest will end soon. All contest rules are at their site.

Ain’t It Cool is giving away a signed poster of the White On Rice movie by the cast. Details to the giveaway is at their site.

I know this doesn’t have much to do with manga, but more for American comics. Either way, this is big news. Disney owns Marvel.

You can find the article here.

This may be a smart move on Disney, though some fans don’t feel easy knowing their favorite Marvel franchise is in the same boat as Mickey and Donald. Will Disney change Marvel to hold up to their family-friendly standards?

Probably not.

Disney does control the ABC networks, home to Lost and Desperate Housewives, and Pixar, which doesn’t seem to have changed much from when they first started. But who knows what the future holds for newly bought Marvel characters. Luckily for you, this isn’t the only news to come out today.

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For those who haven’t noticed, we (by we I mean me) have joined the tweeting world. Yup. If you would like to follow me, you can find me at julesnmoe. I’ll try to make the others join, even though only one of them owns a computer.

We need your help in identifying this suspect. This person was caught on tape stealing multiple items from our vender. We don’t have much of a lead as to whom this person is, but we do have a few clues:

1. The suspect is female

3. A bent spoon was left behind

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For those aware how the scanlation nation works, you’d know the scans are out. Sadly this week looks pretty weak for Shounen’s top series: Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece (NOT ONE PIECE TOO!). On a lighter note, it seems an early scan of Skip Beat has come out for Shojo fans. The chapters of Skip Beat are starting to get intense.

Title: Tales of Innocence

Author & Artist: Kaidou Hiroyuki

Chapters 1-12 completed (since January at least)

Summary:

For many years the Kingdom of Regnum has been in control over the land.  After the many years of tumultuous war, Regnum has managed to have peace over the land.  But people who display supernatural powers (known as Inousha) start to appear. The people come to fear and hate them, causing a nationwide search to seize and capture them.  Around this time the main character Ruca, a simple merchants son, discovers that he also displays the same supernatural powers.

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Whether you love him or hate him, Naruto will be around for awhile. But what is it about the series that makes it so popular? Fans and non-fans (is there another word for haters?) have asked this question. Some say it’s the story, others say it’s the humor, a small minority say it’s the “hot guys”… I ignore those people. There is no one answer, but there are a few ideas.

It’s the Action and Adventure Aspect

… maybe. I don’t doubt the adventure and action is what keeps the audiences’ attention. Pokémon and Dragonball Z (the animes) were hugely popular in their time. But the popularity of the two series started to dwindle later on. Why? From my point of view, they were getting repetitive. The boss battles in Dragonball Z stuck to the over-the-top, over-stretched episode format. People started to skip episodes. Ash (Pokémon) never got around to reaching his dream of becoming a Pokémon Champion, maybe because there were too many pokémon around, so the series stretched. So, is Naruto any different? Yes and no. Yes because the series in manga and anime form have lasted for so long. No because it is starting to show signs of repetition (at least the anime is). Naruto still has a long way to reaching his dream, hopefully before it gets boring.

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