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Batman Goes Manga, Gets Gory

Emperor — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:14:21 PDT

For previous manga Batman adventures see Child of Dreams:

[en.wikipedia.org]

Emperor

Batman Goes Manga, Gets Gory

Meiran — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:49:44 PDT

@insertinanename: Thank you.

Literal translation time! In Japanese:

Manga = comics
Anime = cartoons

It's a pretty simple distinction. People get caught up in it like it's difficult but I promise you it isn't.

Meiran

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ggodo — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:40:03 PDT

@TommySez: Moon Knight was the first thing I thought of too. Hey, maybe He's the secret villain?

That would be a cross over I'd love.

ggodo

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DrWest — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:15:03 PDT

"Damnit! Who's following me?"

Great writing!

DrWest

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Frozen-Tex — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:17:23 PDT

@Ghede: Ahh, go pok yourself.

Frozen-Tex

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Frozen-Tex — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:16:46 PDT

@Rasselas: Yes, "POK".

My face sounds like that every time it gets cut off.

Frozen-Tex

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Ghede — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:15:30 PDT

I'd have things to say about this, but I haven't yet invented the swearwords necessary to explain the depths of my feeling about this.

I think one of them will be Pok. Pok this Zaaa, pok it straight to thunk.

Ghede

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Rasselas — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:54:56 PDT

"POK"?

Rasselas

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insertinanename — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:38:48 PDT

The proper term is "a four-issue manga series", not "anime miniseries".

insertinanename

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TommySez — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:30:11 PDT

Faces being cut off? Ha! After years of being called a Batman rip-off, now Moon Knight get ripped off by the Dark Knight.

TommySez

Batman Goes Manga, Gets Gory

aquarius8me — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:04:05 PDT

Oooohhh, almost looks kinda as gory as Battle Angel Alita! Thank god for black and white. This is gonna be fun!

aquarius8me

Batman Goes Manga, Gets Gory

Plague — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:34:39 PDT

I love me some manga, but the art on this seems dulled down to a more American sensibility.

'course, I could be talkin' out of my Hurley's.

Plague

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ashadowcastinred — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:01:52 PDT

Reminds me of "NEWT!" and "MINT!" from that Simpsons episode a million years ago.

ashadowcastinred

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Moff — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:44:20 PDT

I like how it starts out with the basic sounds effects like SPLAT and THUNK to make us feel comfortable and draw us in, but then moves on to the more clearly non-American ZAAA and POK. I might just start working POK into my everyday conversation.

Moff

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braak — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:31:24 PDT

I think that's part of his lapel.

Clearly, because this is written by a Japanese man, the guy's face was cut off by a samurai sword.

braak

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SVreader — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:25:45 PDT

So...the guy's face fell off because someone threw a tortilla chip at him? Or is that triangle part of his lapel?

SVreader

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mitchel_stevens — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:09:36 PDT

"I'm...Batto-man!"

mitchel_stevens