Manga Recommendation of the Week - "Shunkan Heroism"

Shunkan Heroism

Author - Miura Satoru  

Genre: Action, Comedy, School Life, Shounen
Status: Oneshot (One Chapter only)

Summary:

There's an urban legend about a hero that is able to take out entire groups of delinquents. People have only seen the hero's back, where there's an X upon the hero's clothes. A friendless yankee type girl wearing an X on her back, Kinami Shino, may be this hero. She forcefully makes friends with Batsumaru, a boy with red and white hair, dragging him unwillingly into the world of violence. But is Shino really the hero or are things a little more complicated?

READ HERE:

http://www.batoto.net/comic/_/comics/shunkan-heroism-r2255

Japanese Culture Club Presents: "GOEMON"

Goemon

Come on down to the student lounge on

November 22 @ 11AM during common hour!!

It is loosely based on the story of Ishikawa Goemon, a legendary outlaw hero who stole valuables from the rich and gave them to the poor. The film is a fictional account of Goemon's exploits and his role during the final phase of Japanese civil war, especially the conflict leading to its decisive Battle of Sekigahara. With the use of over 2,500 visual effects, the director of Casshern mixes action with Japanese history and folklore into a film evocative of the classic Robin Hood-style tale.

Summary:

As a child, Ishikawa Goemon's (Yōsuke Eguchi) entire family was assassinated for political reasons. His mother sent Goemon off moments before she was killed herself. Running away with his caretaker, they were attacked by bandits, but he was saved by Nobunaga Oda (Hashinosuké Nakamura) who offered him a chance to become stronger. Goemon followed Nobunaga and he was assigned to Hattori Hanzō (Susumu Terajima) to train him in the ways of the shinobi (ninja) along with Saizō (Takao Osawa).

Manga Recommendation of the Week - "Kagami no Kuni no Harisugawa "

Kagami no Kuni no Harisugawa

[Translation - "Harisugawa in the Mirror World"]

Author - Kano Yasuhiro

 Genre: Shonen, Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, School Life, Fantasy

 SUMMARY:

"Boys are creatures whose sight will follow the girl they like wherever she is. And if there it comes the chance that the boy realizes that the girl is in danger, if he is able to save her they will feel the ultimate bliss in life" is something that Harisugawa Tetsu has pointed out, and true enough he has always been following with his eyes the girl named Satomi Mao.

Thanks to certain details in their childhood, Satomi has always been friendly with Harisugawa and she has a friendly budding relationship, completely unaware of Tetsu's feelings for her. Tetsu for his part preferred to play the friend part and keeps his feelings hidden for the sake of not endangering the closeness that they already have, ever since he was young Tetsu had believed that if he can build little by little a good relationship with Mao, he will get to the point where he can confidently confess to Mao and not get rejected, Tetsu has always been waiting for his one true chance without getting too close to Mao by accident.

At first it seems that this "stalemate" will never be broken; however, one day Mao sees a strange mirror in an thrift store and for some reason she feels that she must have that mirror. Mao buys the mirror without thinking twice about it.... But she is completely unaware that the mirror will change forever Tetsu's life as well as her own.

 READ HERE:

http://www.mangareader.net/kagami-no-kuni-no-harisugawa

Manga Hermit: Music & Those Who Live In It

Here is an online article by our club secretary... please enjoy!

Music is a powerful thing, ne? Whether you’re head banging to the latest heavy metal sound, mosh-pitting with the newest grunge rock, belting out the blues at karaoke amateur hour or singing in the shower to the newest Justin Bieber song, one cannot deny that music is an inherent part of our lives. Hell, during the writing of this article I had my YouTube favorite’s list on repeat. Music is like water – we all need it, but some just throw themselves into it. Musicians, singers, conductors, DJ’s – all those people are the ones who “throw themselves into the water” as I’ve so eloquently phrased it. Which brings us to this issue's subject: Nodame Cantabile!


FOR THE REST OF THE ARTICLE: PLEASE CHECK THE LINK BELOW...
http://leetneet.com/component/k2/item/690-manga-hermit-music-those-who-live-in-it

Just as promised.... NEW YORK COMIC-CON/ ANIME FESTIVAL PIX

Sorry Everyone.... (But SUPRISE !!)

Hey I have been plenty of busy with classes and such that I haven't been writing much on the blog much since school started.... there was alot of paperwork (and also homework) in the way of getting much done for the club this semester and next semester. Please forgive me, and I shall make it up soon.... With plenty of pictures from the NEW YORK COMIC-CON AND ANIME FESTIVAL!!! I'll have to post them later when I finish classes today... for now, enjoy the art work reference below (as u learn to draw like ur favorite Mangaka!!)

 

HELLO EVERYONE!!

Hope everyone had a great first week of school. We have plenty of events planed out for this semester lined up. I'm talking:

1. Video Games
2. Art Exhibit
3. Movie Nights
4.  THE NEW YORK ANIME FESTIVAL!!!

The NYAF is next month (exactly 30 days from now....) from October 13-16th (mark your calendars).

 If you wanna go for the 3 day weekend, its $65 for Friday through Saturday.

I will be purchasing passes from a local anime store instead of buying at the door during the festival (because the door has a line long enough to stretch around Jacob Javits Center everyday that weekend.)

For more info and questions, Please Email me at Supersayianwarrior@yahoo.com

Also, check out the official website

http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/

Manga Recommendation of the Week - "Countrouble"

Countrouble

Artist - Nao Akinari

Genre: Shonen, Comedy, Romance, School Life, Supernatural

Status: 2009 - Ongoing

A self-proclaimed angel decides to intervene with a boy's love life, starting with a timer on a boy's arm, which will count down every time the boy's heart beats from interacting with his crush starting from 10. At 0, the boy will confess everything he is thinking at that moment.

But it only starts there! The 'angel' has powers based on the number 10, and grant the boy the ability to stop time, make someone fall in love with him, learn who others like, and more. With comedy, romance, and drama, this is not a typical shounen series and should not be passed up. 

READ ONLINE:

http://www.mangareader.net/1440/countrouble.html

Manga Recommendation of the Week - "Tokyo ESP"

Tokyo ESP

Artist - Segawa Hajime

Genre: Action, Comedy, Shonen, Supernatural, Sci-fi 

Status: July 2010 - Ongoing

Urushiba Rinka was a fairly normal high school girl, though she was a bit poor and her only family was her father. Then one day, she saw a penguin and some glowing fish swimming through the sky. Rinka might have thought it was a hallucination if there hadn't been another witness with her, a boy from her school with a strangely scratched-up face. Contact with a fish caused her to pass out, and when she awoke, she had developed the power to move through inanimate objects... such as the floor of her apartment! Later, a call from her father showed her that she was not the only one the flying fish bestowed with hard-to-control superpowers! What exactly is going on here? And does Rinka's classmate know more about this situation than he's letting on? 

READ ONLINE:

http://www.mangareader.net/tokyo-esp

Anime Recommendation of the Week - "Deadman Wonderland"

Deadman Wonderland

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mature, Sci-Fi, Shonen, Supernatural, Tragedy

Status: Completed [April 17, 2011 – July 3, 2011]

A massive earthquake ravaged Japan's mainland and destroyed most of Tokyo, sinking three-quarters of it into the ocean. Ten years later, the story shifts to Igarashi Ganta, a seemingly ordinary student attending Nagano Prefecture's middle school. An escapee, a survivor of the great earthquake, Ganta has no memories of the tragedy and has lived a normal life. This all changes when a strange man covered in blood and crimson armour floats through his classroom windows. Grinning madly, the Red Man massacres Ganta's entire class but instead of killing him, embeds a red crystal shard in Ganta's chest. Within days of the massacre, Ganta is declared the sole suspect and, following a quick trial, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Deadman Wonderland, a massive theme park like prison.

WATCH:

http://www.animehere.com/anime/deadman-wonderland.html

Manga Recommendation of the Week - "Buster Keel"

Buster Keel

Author - Kenshiro Sakamoto

Genre: Adventure, Shonen, Comedy, Action

Status: October 2008 - Ongoing 

Keel, the hero of our story, is looking desperately for Silva the so called "best monster fighter" to retrieve something precious that he took away from him, on his search he joins a beginner monster fighter girl, along with her flying pig monster and goes for an adventure to find Silva who for some reason has been missing for 3 years?!? There seems to be more to the appearance of Keel, as he isn't even human for starters!! Will this adventure help Keel find Silva and what he is exactly looking for?!?!

READ:

http://www.mangareader.net/405/buster-keel.html

Manga Recommendation of the Week - "ST&RS"

ST&RS

Artist - Miyokawa Masaru

Author - Takeuchi Ryousuke

Genre: Sci-fi, Shonen, Slice of Life

Status: 2011 - Ongoing

On August 10 of 2019, humanity received a signal, which was verified for its integrity by hundreds of scientists, from an alien life form containing one message: let us meet on Mars on July 7, 2035. Thus began the creation of a space agency representing Earth as a whole named ST&RS. From there, things progressed quickly with man re-landing on the moon in 2022 and constructing many space stations orbiting Earth and the moon. The Space Academy was created to train the upcoming generation of ST&RS. The same August 10th that Earth received the message, Shirafune Maho spoke his first words and it was “Mars.” Since then, Maho has been an astronomy freak who has nothing but the universe on his mind. He decides he is going to apply for the Space Academy along with his childhood friend, Hoshihara Meguru, and recent transfer and super smart classmate, Amachi Wataru. The trio begins their almost impossible journey of being accepted into the school where only 1% of the applicants are allowed into the academy.

 

READ:

http://www.mangareader.net/strs