Someone I know wanted to write a story around the idea of swords versus tanks, magical weapons against modern military gear but he had to Munchkin the swords and armour to ridiculous levels of magical ability to make it anywhere near an even fight.

The new anime series Gate: Thus the JSDF fought there doesn't try to make swords versus tanks an ( Read more... )

 Ashinano Hitoshi, one of my favourite mangakas (Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Kabu no Isaki) is back in the saddle again with a new series, Kotonoba Drive running in Afternoon magazine. It's not anything radically different to what he's done before but that's not a problem for me -- basically a girl on a small-capacity motorbike (a Honda ST70, I used ( Read more... )

Anyan the Korean manhwa artist I mentioned in my previous blog entry has been busy. This time around it's Mahou Shoujo who are getting parodied with a military slant. Without further ado, I give you...

Magical Girl RPG-7!


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 Thog's Iron Law of the Internet states that 90 percent of the images on the Web are porn. It's kind of a relief to discover someone on Pixiv whose art isn't pornographic and is also of decent quality. More interesting is that he's Korean and, apparently, not a professional illustrator although what he's put out would make a very convincing ( Read more... )

 The final tanko volume of the manga I've been scanlating, "Koukou Kyuuji Zawa-san" has been announced and it will be published on 30th April. Here's the cover.


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The manga I've been translating about the girl baseball player, "Koukou Kyuuji Zawa-san" by Mishima Eriko has just come to an end it seems. The dread Sigil of Extinction "完" appeared on the last page of the latest magazine chapter I downloaded a short time ago. That's 198 chapters and, I presume, 12 collected volumes of slightly weird high-school ( Read more... )

 So I'm scanlating away, doing another chapter of Koukou Kyuuji Zawa-san, a manga which I've mentioned before as being not the sort of thing I'd be interested in at first sight, a high-school sports manga involving a girl playing baseball. It is however weird enough that it tickles my off-centre funnybone while also being well-written and ( Read more... )

 I got out of bed to write this, after one of those nodding-off-to-sleep epiphanies that creep up on you ( Read more... )

 I've not tracked down a copy of the raw magazine release of chapter 48 of Kabu no Isaki yet, but the Share listing for it looks like this ( Read more... )

 Hoookay, chapter 47 of Kabu no Isaki, after the... 'event' of chapter 46, and Shiro-san taps the bottle again.


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