{"id":2272,"date":"2009-02-10T03:12:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T08:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2009-02-11T01:17:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T06:17:42","slug":"viz-to-publish-more-good-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"Viz To Publish More Good Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I twittered excitedly when I heard the news, but just to follow up, I’m really happy that this:<\/p>\n

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…is coming to North America! Taiyo Matsumoto’s original graphic novel (a real rarity in Japan…) Go Go Monster!<\/em>\u00a0is a book I’ve personally been looking forward to seeing for years. Back in the day, a website I was visiting when I was researching Matsumoto put up the then-new television commercials (!) for this book, and it was the distillation of that desire for the unknown that I feel feeds a lot of what I love about manga. Youtube has one of the commercials:<\/p>\n

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I’ve had copies in my hand a couple of times, in Japan I decided another heavy hardcover book was probably a bad purchase and so I left it on the shelf when I was buying one of everything Matsumoto… Mostly because the book has been widely available in French-language translation for years now and we’ve had copies at the store pretty regularly. But I held out hope for an English edition, and lo! And Behold! We’ll all have a chance to pick it up this fall. I’ll try not to be obnoxious in recommending it.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile! New work from Taiyo Matsumoto wasn’t the extent of Viz’s new license announcements. Most websites have run with the lead story–New Work From Rumiko Takahashi! I like Ms. Takahashi’s work a great deal, but seeing her work in English, at this point, is something of an inevitability. No, I was much more interested in seeing that Viz was going to be releasing this:<\/p>\n

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During my trip to Japan in 2007, I spent a lot of time digging through manga stores like Book-Off and Mandarake, and I visited pretty much every single bookstore we came across. A then-new release caught my eye in several of the stores, and–you guessed it!–it was Not Simple <\/em>by Natsume Ono. Funnily enough, I actually bought it TWICE while I was there for two weeks, because everywhere I went I kept picking it up, being amazed by it, and then putting it back down… or so I thought. It’s a really interesting book, it reminds me a little bit of Sexy Voice and Robo<\/em>\u00a0which Viz published a few years back. The storytelling is superb, very easy to follow even in another language. I also found myself drawn to the art style, which uses heavy blacks and simple lines to communicate a wide range of body-language and emotions, it’s great. I also figured out that Ono also does yaoi and gay-themed work under the nom-de-plume “Basso”, and I bought up a bunch of that as well. \u00a0Heh, I actually bought a couple of books of her work at the New York Book-Off this past weekend before I heard the good news. So despite having paged-through this one 3 or 4 times already, I’m pretty darned excited about really reading it for the first time.<\/p>\n

So, in closing, it’s gonna be a good fall ’09.<\/p>\n

– Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I twittered excitedly when I heard the news, but just to follow up, I’m really happy that this: …is coming to North America! Taiyo Matsumoto’s original graphic novel (a real rarity in Japan…) Go Go Monster!\u00a0is a book I’ve personally been looking forward to seeing for years. Back in the day, a website I … <\/p>\n

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