A Thankful Manga Feast: Wednesday Roundup
Since we’ve only five days, and since a large chunk this go-around is going to be taken up by travel and activities related to the [US] holiday, I expect this Manga Moveable Feast to be a smaller, more collegial affair.
Friends and Family, I guess we could say: welcome, internet manga family, to A Thankful Manga Feast.
The introductory post that announced the MMF last week has some details you might want to review — I included some idea-starters and topic suggestions should you feel stumped about what to write and needed (or wanted) one. This week we’re writing about manga we’re thankful for [and creators, and publishers, and professionals, and others to whom we are thankful]. I’ll be accepting submissions through Sunday: if you have links please send them to me either at matt[at]rocketbomber.com or via my twitter, @ProfessorBlind.
If you would like to write something, but don’t have webspace or a blog: please contact me as well: I can easily post your essays or reveiws here on RocketBomber.
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For our Appetizer course we have a few select delicacies:
From Aaron at Manga Energy, the first of his submissions to the feast: Manga Thanks
“After 12 volumes this series is a revelation from the moral ambiguity, the attention to little details it it’s own self-contained world. … a series that shows Manga’s potential not only as a story telling medium but also as a visual medium from the tense two page fight sequences questions about the ethics of espionage.”
From Izandra at Reading is Delicious — how very apt. :) — we have MMF Thanksgiving Edition: Appetizers Wednesday which actually covers my seed-topic for today: The Manga My Best Friend Lent Me That Got Me Into Manga
“She introduced me to Fushigi Yuugi and it was amazing–ok, it’s not so amazing now, but back then it was a revelation. Who knew that animated men could be so dreamy?” [editor’s note: pull quote not representative of the whole essay ;) ]
There is also my Daily Diary post for today, which outlines my own Voyage of Manga Discovery — I’m glad I wrote mine before I read Izandra’s (ours are similar).
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Tomorrow’s seed topic is the rather generic “Manga I’m Thankful For” –- but as is appropriate, this is also the meat of the feast: our main course. I’ll be glad to link to any and all Thankful posts, though: covering any suggested topic or even going off the rails a bit. [You might notice in the course of this MMF that I am the first and most egregious offender in that regard.]
