Comments on: Japan Trip 2009: Jinbocho

By: Scoli

Scoli — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:23:07 +0000

Not to head into flamewar territory, but 20th Century Boys, as well as most if not all of the other Urasawa was published by Shogakukan not Shuesha..

By: James Hanrahan

James Hanrahan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:36:53 +0000

I never saw any tankoubon of Moon Knight at the time :( But he had vaguely supernatural abilities and would use his cape to glide on air currents. One adventure had Moon Knight save a train car of grade-school children being held hostage by An Evil Organization? by throwing crescent moon shaped shuriken through the bad guys’ heads. It was as if Go Nagai authored Moon Knight… but with no nakedy females.

By: Travis McGee

Travis McGee — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:50:57 +0000

Chris- thanks for that. My sister is a paradigm example of a white teenage otaku, so I doubt they’ll be any problems in her being in the vicinity of somewhere like Mandarake, etc

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:38:54 +0000

Travis: Actually, they’re fairly reasonably priced, $10-$20 an issue. It kind of depends on how old the issues are, and how good condition they’re in. Quite honestly though, they’re only available in used manga shops, so unless your family member just HAPPENS to be a huge old-manga nerd like myself, it is highly unlikely she’d stumble over them in her travels.

Dave: Did you find any other good manga shops in Jinbocho?

James: That sounds… kind of exciting. :) Do you know if there were tankoubon published?

Lillian: Awesome! :)

Kransom: Thanks for the assist there. That’s a little disheartening actually. I’d love to know where it’s from… and buy it. And up-close the linework seems too scratchy and fine to be Tsuge. I’ll maybe do a scan of it.

Pitzer: Thanks!

By: Travis McGee

Travis McGee — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:57:25 +0000

A question – how much do second-hand copies of Garo go for? A family member is traveling to Japan fairly soon and I’m tempted to lean on her to buy me a few, presuming affordability…

By: dave merrill

dave merrill — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:56:45 +0000

AHHHH. I love that Jinboucho Nakano store. You got a picture of the Prince Planet mask that I failed to get a picture of, or to buy. Actually I didn’t get any photos in that store, I was too busy hyperventilating. DEEP BREATHS, DAVE.

By: James Hanrahan

James Hanrahan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:56:51 +0000

I don’t think there was ever a Captain America (too American), but Moon Knight ran in the monthly, Terebi-kun, published by Shogakukan in 1978-1979. It was far more violent and less faithful than the Bat-Manga was to Batman.

By: LillianDP

LillianDP — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:28:27 +0000

I’m off to Jinbocho myself next week, and these photos are definitely whetting my appetite for the local scenery!

By: kransom

kransom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:29:07 +0000

The sheet you got actually says “Artist Unknown”… reminds me a bit of Tsuge Yoshiharu, personally, but I think that’s just because I’ve been reading too much of him recently. Also, I doubt they wouldn’t have identified the artist had it been him.

By: Chris Pitzer

Chris Pitzer — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:49:40 +0000

Thanks Chris! I love these reports!

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