The Eastern Edge

I'm nearly done my next translation but it's a couple days away from post ready and I feel the need to drop a little something else before then.
This is one of those awkward posts that isn't really enough for a full post but too much for twitter, but these things happen and Takehiko Inoue i always worth it.

I think most fans know about Takehiko Inoue's mind-blowing "The LAST Manga Exhibition", but he now has an exhibition of his sketches at the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, which started this Saturday and runs until March 28th 2010. Unfortunately the museum website doesn't give examples of the art that's displayed in Inoue's exhibit, but I have a few art samples of my own from the latest chapters of Vagabond in Weekly Morning instead.

The last one is from the very last page of the latest episode from this past Thursday. It is a brilliant drawing of Kojiro foreshadowing exactly how I would feel two seconds after seeing that page and reading the small print on the bottom left, which says that Inoue will be taking 3 weeks off.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!"

Btw, there may not be many of us English speaking Vagabond fans, but I recently found out that there is a hardcore group at the Vagabond Inn forum on skullknight.net .
Extra props to this community for using spoiler tags when discussing those latest chapters, too.

If you are a Vagabond fan you must check out this community!

Thanks for the note to let me know you're there, Vagabond Inn!
I will be translating the Inoue/Oda talk for you guys in the near future.