Comments on: Manga Before Flowers — The Short Good-Bye

By: Friday is Meta-day · Manga News

Friday is Meta-day · Manga News — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:16:52 +0000

[...] Danielle Leigh devotes her latest Manga Before Flowers column to the conclusions of two series, After School Nightmare and Her Majesty’s Dog. J. Rentilly reviews Ral Grad and Honey and Clover at Graphic Novel Reporter. Billy Aguiar sees more [...]

By: jun

jun — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:52:20 +0000

Thanks! I’ll be doing v10 for Manga Recon, but the rest’ll be on my personal blog.

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By: Danielle Leigh

Danielle Leigh — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:47:53 +0000

I don’t watch DW, somehow I picked up some classic Sci-fi nerd culture (i.e. Star Trek: Next Gen, X-files) but not all of it (DW, all other flavors of Trek). I’m completely random ….also, I would *kill* for LoM dvds, simply because lots of people in the U.S. would love this show (as they should) and shouldn’t have to download it to see it, support it, etc. But mostly I just want to show it to my boyfriend! And thanks to the thick working-class British accents we really need the subtitle feature on a show like this.

ohhhhh! Can’t wait to see you examine this series for Manga Recon…I say it all the time, but you guys do such a great job

By: jun

jun — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:19:24 +0000

I am totally with you on the Life on Mars remake! Who needs some other random dude when you can have John Simm?! Also, when oh when is that coming out on DVD here?

Now you’ve got me wondering whether you watch Doctor Who. I am betting you do.

Marathons and I don’t generally mesh too well. I do it sometimes, like with Monster, and then my mind gets all frazzled and I start to kind of want to take a break. Usually I’m doing it to try to meet a Manga Recon deadline (as is the case with HDM). Normally, I prefer to read stuff in chunks or 2 or 3 volumes.

By: Danielle Leigh

Danielle Leigh — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:41:41 +0000

Jun — *nods* The British “Life on Mars”! Why did they even try to make an American one? Bah!

And good luck with the HMD marathon — it is one of those “supernatural” case file of the week type story that usually drive me kind of crazy. The fact I still like HMD in spite of the fact I tire of that genre fairly quickly hints at its many charms. Also, it may be hard to stop yourself from marathon-ing ASN once you start, but I feel it is one of those titles that is packed with emotional content and might read better if savored.

By: jun

jun — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:28:47 +0000

I’m embarking on a marathon of Her Majesty’s Dog this week, and have yet to start ASN, so I only kind of skimmed your comments. Still, certain phrases like “more than the sum of its parts” or “surprising places and do it so beautifully” make me very happy.

I, too, love the definitive endings of manga. And also of British TV shows.

By: Danielle Leigh

Danielle Leigh — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:49:35 +0000

hi Michael, I was referring to hatred for particular characters in a title not the series itself — I’m not a big believer in reading things you dislike just for the sake of completing something. I mean I want to smack lots of the characters in NANA but I still adore the title….

Is my grammar unclear in that first paragraph? just curious….

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:43:56 +0000

You know, if you hate it so much you throw it across the room, you can always stop reading it before the ending.