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I've been having a blast introducing Sherwood (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sartorias) to anime and manga. First was X/1999. Then I loaned her all six volumes of Saiyuki, my current # 1 favorite manga. After she returned them, I got to watch today in a bookshop as she pounced upon them-- all six of them-- with visible glee, then requested scanslations of forthcoming volumes and the prequel series Gaiden. (Who has a good scan source? I have them downloaded, but can't find my bookmarks to where I got them?)
There is a problem with a recent shipment of Saiyuki. Some of the art at the beginning, pin-ups which are supposed to be glossy and in color, are black and white and matte. I had noticed this elsewhere and was able to swap out her bad ones for the correct ones-- very important as she would have gotten a cruddy reproduction of the stunning image in volume 2, with the guys looking moody in white shirts.
She has also purchased the first volumes of Fruits Basket, Rurouni Kenshin, Trigun, Gravitation, and others which I forget. I eagerly await her reports on them and on the nature of panel transitions in manga as they differ from Western comics.
sartorias) to anime and manga. First was X/1999. Then I loaned her all six volumes of Saiyuki, my current # 1 favorite manga. After she returned them, I got to watch today in a bookshop as she pounced upon them-- all six of them-- with visible glee, then requested scanslations of forthcoming volumes and the prequel series Gaiden. (Who has a good scan source? I have them downloaded, but can't find my bookmarks to where I got them?)There is a problem with a recent shipment of Saiyuki. Some of the art at the beginning, pin-ups which are supposed to be glossy and in color, are black and white and matte. I had noticed this elsewhere and was able to swap out her bad ones for the correct ones-- very important as she would have gotten a cruddy reproduction of the stunning image in volume 2, with the guys looking moody in white shirts.
She has also purchased the first volumes of Fruits Basket, Rurouni Kenshin, Trigun, Gravitation, and others which I forget. I eagerly await her reports on them and on the nature of panel transitions in manga as they differ from Western comics.