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By various (TokyoPop)
\nISBN 1-59816-493-7<\/p>\n
Here’s a particularly Japanese aspect of comics publishing that’s just making its way into Western Culture. Many Manga properties have vociferous and energetic fan-groups and unlike the American system of suing anybody who produces art and\/or stories of their favourite strips, the Japanese print the best of them in Official Fan Books (the phrase to Google is ‘Manga-Ka’ if you need more information).<\/p>\n
This volume contains strips from fans of the series DearS<\/strong> as well as material from its creator, Peach-Pit, and examines, with varying degrees of discretion and decorum, some of the odder aspects of the property. The original is a boy-meets-alien-girl tale of the sort much loved in Japan. Takeya, a high school boy, does an alien girl a favour, only to have her publicly declare herself his slave, with the usual embarrassingly slapstick consequences.<\/p>\n The work here ranges from the very good to excellent, although the fascination with bedroom secrets, whilst expected, gets a little tiresome. Still if you like looking at semi-clad women drawn in the oddly innocent soft-core Manga manner, it is quite engaging, but strangers to the parent series might be a little confused at times.<\/p>\n This book is printed in the ‘read-from-back-to-front’ manga format.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a9 2005 PEACH-PIT. All Rights Reserved. English text \u00c2\u00a9 2006 TOKYOPOP Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00c2\u00a0 By various (TokyoPop) ISBN 1-59816-493-7 Here’s a particularly Japanese aspect of comics publishing that’s just making its way into Western Culture. Many Manga properties have vociferous and energetic fan-groups and unlike the American system of suing anybody who produces art and\/or stories of their favourite strips, the Japanese print the best of them in … <\/p>\n