CLAMP comics are ultimately a tad superficial, but they are entertaining as hell. There is plenty of more accomplished authors out there, which I love to read just as well, but after so many years somehow I'm still hooked on CLAMP storylines and stereotypical characters. I am even a little older than you, and I keep going back to reading (avidly) their works every two years or so, in a sort of "this is getting boring - this is really annoying - who cares? - oh no wait, I'm enjoying this after all" cycle. As embarassing as it sounds, inner fangirls never grow up, 'm afraid.
Anyway, thank you for the translations and sorry for the random comment from a complete stranger. ;)
What I've been coming back to your journal for, though, is that post of yours where you mentioned reading a gazillion unpublished pages of Glass no Kamen. Oooh! Are they magazine chapters that haven't been released in tankobon format yet? Has the Hana to Yume serialization gone on for so long? Or maybe are they pages that where revised/removed from the volumes? I really do hope it's the former, as I'm still hoping I'll get to read past volume 42 one day.
Another Garakame fan?! *sparkly 70s manga eyes*chou_addictedJuly 17 2006, 06:41:32 UTC
Thanks a lot for your comment ^^.
As embarassing as it sounds, inner fangirls never grow up, 'm afraid.
I know XO. Hell, yes, I'll be probably still shipping something when I'm old and grey and I would be the oddest thing they'd have ever seen to enter a doujin shop...haha...ha.....
I think I'm gonna write a seperate entry about the"Garakame part" of my trip to Tokyo later, i.e. "a guide on how to hunt down the old chapters" if you ever go to Tokyo. I myself read about the unpublished chapters (about 2000 pages, i.e. 10 volumes worth of unpublished pages!) on a site called garakame.com that closed down sometime in April last year(?). These unpublished chapters have been published over a time span of 10 years in Hana to yume, but since you can't order old issues of weekly/biweekly manga magazines in Japan the only place in Japan that still has those magazines are Japan's biggest library(the National diet library in Tokyo) and the Tokyo manga library(in the proximity Waseda university in Tokyo). Now, there's way to much to exlain in a comment so I'll leave that for a seperate post. But I'll just say this: you can have old chapters copied at the National diet library but it's very expensive and you can't copy everything because some of the issues are so old they're already falling apart and they will onl let you view them in a special 'reading room' (with security personnel watching you...). I had some scenes/ chapters copied but not much. I'll explain another time....(this reply is already getting to long...)
Re: Another Garakame fan?! *sparkly 70s manga eyes*wererabbitJuly 19 2006, 20:52:54 UTC
Thank you so, so much for your reply and all the information! :D
Wow, 10 volumes worth of unpublished pages - the mind boggles. I think I read somewhere that the story's supposed to get to an end in another couple of volumes, or little more. If that is true, I guess these chapters will never be published again - what a waste of perfectly good classic shoujo crack cocaine*!
* (Honestly, GaraKame is so strangely addicting it's basically a hard drug. :p )
Did the HanaYume chapters add any relevant plot development past volume 42? Eh, I'm starting to doubt I'll ever get to see Maya's and Ayumi's alternate takes on the Goddess...
I am even a little older than you, and I keep going back to reading (avidly) their works every two years or so, in a sort of "this is getting boring - this is really annoying - who cares? - oh no wait, I'm enjoying this after all" cycle.
As embarassing as it sounds, inner fangirls never grow up, 'm afraid.
Anyway, thank you for the translations and sorry for the random comment from a complete stranger. ;)
What I've been coming back to your journal for, though, is that post of yours where you mentioned reading a gazillion unpublished pages of Glass no Kamen. Oooh! Are they magazine chapters that haven't been released in tankobon format yet? Has the Hana to Yume serialization gone on for so long? Or maybe are they pages that where revised/removed from the volumes?
I really do hope it's the former, as I'm still hoping I'll get to read past volume 42 one day.
Sorry for the rambling!
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As embarassing as it sounds, inner fangirls never grow up, 'm afraid.
I know XO. Hell, yes, I'll be probably still shipping something when I'm old and grey and I would be the oddest thing they'd have ever seen to enter a doujin shop...haha...ha.....
I think I'm gonna write a seperate entry about the"Garakame part" of my trip to Tokyo later, i.e. "a guide on how to hunt down the old chapters" if you ever go to Tokyo. I myself read about the unpublished chapters (about 2000 pages, i.e. 10 volumes worth of unpublished pages!) on a site called garakame.com that closed down sometime in April last year(?). These unpublished chapters have been published over a time span of 10 years in Hana to yume, but since you can't order old issues of weekly/biweekly manga magazines in Japan the only place in Japan that still has those magazines are Japan's biggest library(the National diet library in Tokyo) and the Tokyo manga library(in the proximity Waseda university in Tokyo).
Now, there's way to much to exlain in a comment so I'll leave that for a seperate post. But I'll just say this: you can have old chapters copied at the National diet library but it's very expensive and you can't copy everything because some of the issues are so old they're already falling apart and they will onl let you view them in a special 'reading room' (with security personnel watching you...). I had some scenes/ chapters copied but not much. I'll explain another time....(this reply is already getting to long...)
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Wow, 10 volumes worth of unpublished pages - the mind boggles.
I think I read somewhere that the story's supposed to get to an end in another couple of volumes, or little more.
If that is true, I guess these chapters will never be published again - what a waste of perfectly good classic shoujo crack cocaine*!
* (Honestly, GaraKame is so strangely addicting it's basically a hard drug. :p )
Did the HanaYume chapters add any relevant plot development past volume 42?
Eh, I'm starting to doubt I'll ever get to see Maya's and Ayumi's alternate takes on the Goddess...
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