Manga aka Japanese comic books
These can vary from the small tonkoubun (reader's digest sized) books collecting
several weeks of stories of one particular title (Ranma Nibunnoichi [1/2] for
example) to the big weekly "bibles" like Shonen Sunday, Young Jump, and many
others containing at least 15 different comic titles. Generally these larger more frequent
books cost about 200 to 300 yen and are printed on heavily recycled paper of a green, red,
or blue tinge. (Japanese publishing companies put out so many of these that it only makes
sense to recycle the books and reuse the paper) The small digests hold the same stories,
albeit printed about 40 percent smaller, but on a cleaner light newsprint colored paper.
Manga in the storage boxes:
- Black Magic (Black Magic 066) (Masume Shirow)
- AA Megami-sama (Ah! My Goddess) #1-11 (excellent. Artwork changes
style somewhat as artist matures)
- Geobreeders #1-5 (Peter Evans turned me onto this one. Catlike
daemons and team that hunts them down like Ghostbusters)
- Boku no Mari (My Marie) #1-7 (Boy makes robot girl in high school who looks
like a real girl he has a crush on, general sit-com ensues, story starts to drift when it
is apparent the robot girl is much more interesting than the boy.)
- Assembler #1-3 Compiler#1 (Interesting series about two
"girls" who come from space to Earth and do what their names suggest. One
"Compiles" and records all she sees and the other "Assembles" things.)
- BRAINS:Pioneers in Computer #1 (Amazingly interesting comic adaptions of
Alan Turing and Charles Babbage life stories)
- Legend of Lemnear #1-3 (Cute, perky, frequently ripped clothing
~_^```... oh yeah, the story is something magical/medieval)
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