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::sigh:: there are some things that I'll never get.... but maybe in a few more years, it'll be popular enough that people will start scanning it.... (It's already pretty popular in Japan, I think...) Okita looks really cute in it....

" Kaze Hikaru-
by WATANABE Taeko (Flower Comics, Shogakkan). About a girl who disguises herself as a young man and enlists in a rounin samurai group, which becomes the infamous Shinsengumi. Full of japanese history, and the inevitable romance between the heroine and Okita Souji.
Recommended to: Fans of Rurouni Kenshin, who just need to know more about Saitoh Hajime, Okita Soushi/Souji, and the rest of the Shinsengumi. "

ack! manga! comic! anime!

It's weird how I haven't seen anime/manga for so long, I'm once again startled by the large cutesy eyes. But hey, I finally drew someone with anime hair and chin today in Comp Sci.... (scary... that was the second today... after the doodle on my math homework...)

Today Gregorio was dissing manga again. geh. well, I agree that there are some stories that are quite pointless, but there's a lot of good stuff, too. American comics appear to me to being more... traditional. I mean, there's writers, pencilers, inkers, letterers, colorists, etc; while in manga it's more like the mangaka and a few assistants. Manga layout is also more... free? I dunno.... I don't read enough of either to make an educated, well-founded statement in these regards. While comics have full color pages most of the time, manga has tones and other cool stuff.

been trying to draw sequential art. Very hard. can't think in frames. I picture people getting up from a chair, you know, lean forward, shift weight, butt rises, straighten legs... but how should I express that in art frames? I need to study some comics...