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There have been all sorts of things delaying and prolonging the Manga Moveable Feast, (almost all of them personal and I don’t think most of you care) but I am most pleased the ‘official’ end was put off long enough that I’m able to point you to this piece:
Eva Volin at Good Comics for Kids posts a dialogue she had with Robin Brenner about the series, about it’s suitability for teens and for library collections, and about it’s overall appeal: to teens, to adults, for casual readers and for manga fans.
“Eva: I think what Emma has been successful in doing is converting casual manga readers into lifelong manga readers. Both male and female readers have asked me about Emma because they’ve heard about it from a friend. Or they’ve stumbled across it while browsing the collection and been attracted to its sophisticated look. You’re right, it is less visually intimidating, but it is in no way simple or easy. The reader has to have his or her brain engaged while reading Emma to be able to see beyond the basic romantic storyline.
Robin: Very good point! Emma is a wonderful series for readers graduating from the stereotypical fare — the time it takes to absorb and appreciate Emma fully certainly exemplifies the strengths of the format and the diversity that manga has. I love startling people when they realize that such an intense, detailed Victorian romance was actually created in Japan.”
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Yes, all the links are broken.
On June 1, 2015 (after 6 years and 11 months) I needed to relaunch/restart this blog, or at least rekindle my interest in maintaining and updating it.
Rather than delete and discard the whole thing, I instead moved the blog -- database, cms, files, archives, and all -- to this subdomain. When you encounter broken links (and you will encounter broken links) just change the URL in the address bar from www.rocketbomber.com to
archive.rocketbomber.com.
I know this is inconvenient, and for that I apologise. In addition to breaking tens of thousands of links, this also adversely affects the blog visibility on search engines -- but that, I'm willing to live with. Between the
Wayback Machine at Archive.org and my own half-hearted preservation efforts (which you are currently reading) I feel nothing has been lost, though you may have to dig a bit harder for it.
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Such gushing! I’m rather surprised at how one-sided this month’s perspectives have been. Those for Sexy Voice and Robo were much more evenly split. Am I the only one who really didn’t like this? Hmm.
Comment by Garrett Albright — 22 March 2010, 16:32 #