Whenever people ask me if anything 'surprised' me about Japan, this is usually my answer. I'm not sure I ever saw what we would think of as a 'normal' bar in Kurihara. It was all Snack Bars. I only ever want to one alone once, and it was a very strange and expensive evening. It ended when I saw one of the ladies take some money out of the wallet of a passed out patron and then call him a cab. You knew this was not the first time they had this interaction. Seemed like a good time to head home.
|JP webcomic c.1-107|ENG webcomic c.1-90 (91-107 are available on other unlinkable places)|(2 NSFW pages)
Chapters 1-3 translated by El_Thor, 4-27 by Boon (and for four panels PA's Cantide and for one PA's Winder) and edited by me, 28-30 by El_Thor yet again, and 31 onwards by someone who shall remain anonymous since I don't know who they are.
The purple wheelie bins in today's comic may seem a little too regal to be real, but we have a purple wheelie bin and we didn't have to pay extra or nothing. Sincerely, HRH John Allison Duke Of Rutland.
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
Welp, it’s official. I can now announce it to the world… This summer I’ll be moving to Angouleme, the comics/animation capital of France. Long story short, our family was recently accepted to the artist in residence program for one year! For those of you who don’t know, the Maison des Auteurs Residency accepts cartoonists, illustrators and animators to the city, sets them up with studio space, amenities and sometimes even a place to live for anywhere from a few months to a few years.
I’m taking the one year option myself, and during that year, I’m planning to design and pencil my most ambitious project to date. “The Box” will be a 500 page interactive comic, similar to “Meanwhile…” but 7 times larger and for adults. It’s hard to describe but it’s half “escape room” and half maze. It’s themes are memory, reality and what it means to live life. There’s going to be about 1000 tabs in the book so I’m hoping someone will want to publish it, cause if I’m cutting those tabs by hand there might just be 2-3 copies of “The Box” out there in the world.
I have to admit, I’m still not exactly sure what’s in it for France. They’re setting me up with an apartment, a studio, a school for Kazuo. And in return I’m going to write my moonshot comic… because I can. But I guess that’s France for you. I like to kid, but the more I learn about French culture, the more it sounds like the way I would organize a society and they way I would want my son Kazuo to think about the world he lives in. In France, comics are seen as more than just pop culture but as an art form that’s deserving of public support. Preschool doesn’t cost $1000/month like it does over here. It’s thought of like a public service and is offered free to everyone. Same with medical care. After a lifetime of living in America, it’s hard to wrap my mind around the concept of the most expensive parts of life just being handed to you for free. Everyone likes to make fun of the French but it’s a pretty amazing system and culture they’ve got and it’s hard for me to describe the amount of gratitude I feel at this moment. For a country and a culture like this to not only exist but to open their ams to me, and invite me to live there has been incredibly humbling.
As for you poor fools still living in America, I’ll send you a post card. I’ll make sure to write it in a cafe while wearing a beret and a red neckerchief. I’m still planning to update the site too, so check back regularly for more news and announcements about France, “The Box”, and the First Second editions of Demon. Speaking of Demon, one last important point of business I should get to is that I am closing the store section of shigabooks on the first of August so if you want your Demon minicomics, box sets, slipcases or PDFs, you’ll have the rest of June and July to order. Then, that’s it. I’m out!
(for people who don't know, the Angouleme comics festival is a big deal; wikipedia says it's the third biggest convention in the world after 'Lucca Comics and Games' and Comiket, with ~200,000 people attending (SDCC is ~167,000) )
I could see Demon being novel and amusing - especially the first few chapters - if you're reading it as a compiled comic rather than a daily webcomic, and also your point of reference is print comics
then 1) you dismiss the art because it's a webcomic 2) it's not video gamey stuff by some boy 3) it's not slice of life stuff by some girl
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Whenever people ask me if anything 'surprised' me about Japan, this is usually my answer. I'm not sure I ever saw what we would think of as a 'normal' bar in Kurihara. It was all Snack Bars. I only ever want to one alone once, and it was a very strange and expensive evening. It ended when I saw one of the ladies take some money out of the wallet of a passed out patron and then call him a cab. You knew this was not the first time they had this interaction. Seemed like a good time to head home.
Edit: Apparently she was... misinformed by her coworkers what "nijikai" meant, here's the original:
Yeah, nijikai is second party. I had some parties even go to a sanjikai (third party) and one once went to a yonjikai (4th). It's basically every time you change locations. Which just involves a group of drunken teachers stumbling from one side of town to another. It's something special.
Also, snack bars are like the most depressing god damn thing in the world. It is just sad stacked on top of sad. The gardener at my school loved one local snack bar, the girls there were from the Philippines and could speak English and missed speaking it, so he would try to drag me there every chance he got to try and impress them to make them like him more. To the point where he lied to me multiple times about where we were going, once going so far to say that it was his birthday party, before I caught on as to what he was doing. When we went for "his" birthday party, it was actually the birthday party of his favorite girl at the snack bar and he brought her a giant bouquet of flowers like the size of a person, a bunch of other gifts, an expensive thing of booze to drink with her... and within like 30 minutes of being there she got a call from some other patron of the bar she had to take and then left to be with him. Like I said, the most depressing god damn places on the planet.
Our town used to have a decent, actual bar that for some bizarre reason had like the best Caribbean jerk chicken in the world. It was called LaLaLa Bar and was the side business of the local bad kids turned responsible community focused adults that ran one of the local car repair shops. Nice place, pool tables and karaoke and tons of food and booze. But I think they closed down right when Mary was getting into town and they became another snack bar. Such is rural life in Japan.
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Edit: Apparently she was... misinformed by her coworkers what "nijikai" meant, here's the original:
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And on that bombshell, here's a Q&A bonus chapter that ONE made. FIND OUT MORE IN THE VOLUMES, AVAILABLE AT VIZ MEDIA'S ONLINE STORE
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Chapters 1-3 translated by El_Thor, 4-27 by Boon (and for four panels PA's Cantide and for one PA's Winder) and edited by me, 28-30 by El_Thor yet again, and 31 onwards by someone who shall remain anonymous since I don't know who they are.
|JP Manga c.1-5, 15-59|ENG Manga c.1-40|
|Anime: Daisuki, Hulu|
Have a lot of sex there?
Or just super shitty roads?
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
As a middle aged father, I'm ok with that.
:winky:
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Are those the girls that she hitchhiked up to the castle with?
Yep, see the insect lady?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Am I the only person who mentally replaced Parley with Ronnie in this GK after panel 6?
(for people who don't know, the Angouleme comics festival is a big deal; wikipedia says it's the third biggest convention in the world after 'Lucca Comics and Games' and Comiket, with ~200,000 people attending (SDCC is ~167,000) )
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No, it is the children that are wrong
Faustian deal
It is called Demon
Well a lesser demon Jason Shiga is
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then 1) you dismiss the art because it's a webcomic 2) it's not video gamey stuff by some boy 3) it's not slice of life stuff by some girl
Yeah, nijikai is second party. I had some parties even go to a sanjikai (third party) and one once went to a yonjikai (4th). It's basically every time you change locations. Which just involves a group of drunken teachers stumbling from one side of town to another. It's something special.
Also, snack bars are like the most depressing god damn thing in the world. It is just sad stacked on top of sad. The gardener at my school loved one local snack bar, the girls there were from the Philippines and could speak English and missed speaking it, so he would try to drag me there every chance he got to try and impress them to make them like him more. To the point where he lied to me multiple times about where we were going, once going so far to say that it was his birthday party, before I caught on as to what he was doing. When we went for "his" birthday party, it was actually the birthday party of his favorite girl at the snack bar and he brought her a giant bouquet of flowers like the size of a person, a bunch of other gifts, an expensive thing of booze to drink with her... and within like 30 minutes of being there she got a call from some other patron of the bar she had to take and then left to be with him. Like I said, the most depressing god damn places on the planet.
Our town used to have a decent, actual bar that for some bizarre reason had like the best Caribbean jerk chicken in the world. It was called LaLaLa Bar and was the side business of the local bad kids turned responsible community focused adults that ran one of the local car repair shops. Nice place, pool tables and karaoke and tons of food and booze. But I think they closed down right when Mary was getting into town and they became another snack bar. Such is rural life in Japan.