Princess Ai — You Better Like It or Else! No offense to the creators of original English language (OEL) “manga,” but I’m not a fan of the genre. I think in part it is the attempt on the part of American companies to expand manga from comics created in Japan to anything that looks similar
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Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoukyou
January 23rd, 2007 
AstroNerdBoy I didn’t really want to believe this at first, but I’m now convinced that there’s a new religion in the world, specifically Japan and the United States. That religion is Suzumiya Haruhi, aided in part because in the story, Haruhi could indeed be the “God” of that universe. Bandai is now taking requests to see
New Manga Arrives…Finally
January 5th, 2007 AstroNerdBoy Well, I finally have School Rumble #4, KageTora #4, and Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE CHARACTer GuiDE. I had planned to pick them up from Borders since I had a coupon to get them for a decent price. However, Borders irritated me to no end by not having manga in stock when the release dates hit. What
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Tags: KageTora, rant, School Rumble, Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE 
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“Takeshi’s Castle” — What Have They Done To You?
December 29th, 2006 AstroNerdBoy “Takeshi’s Castle” — What Have They Done To You? In 1989, I was fresh out of Tech School and was sent to my first duty station at Yokota AB, Japan. Being 19 at the time, there was clearly much I had yet to experience and Japan was about to give me a ton of experience
Suzumiya Haruhi no Kodai
December 28th, 2006 AstroNerdBoy When Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu (aka: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) came out, my eye was caught by all of the buzz it was generating. For those who don’t know, the story is of one Suzumiya Haruhi (or in the superior western style, Haruhi Suzumiya) — a female high school student who’s bored to death
