The Eastern Edge

Or at least that's what this magazine is called:

I found this a couple days ago and am now dissecting it for material to translate and blog.

So far I am not exactly enthralled with Kawaguchi's newest comic Boku wa Beatles ("I am The Beatles"). It's currently being serialized in Weekly Morning and is about a Japanese Beatles cover band called Fab4 that gets transported back in time (a la Jipang) to the year the Beatles were about to hit it big. I won't spoil it any further than to say, what would you do if you were a cover band that had a chance to go back in time and actually debut the songs you were covering?

Retro identity theft is a very interesting premise, but the comic just hasn't hooked me yet. It's early, though, so we shall see.

In the meantime, while most of Kawaguchi's topics are not likely to be particularly interesting to non-Japanese, I still think he needs a little more international love.
I'm working on a few things to translate, blog, and hopefully expose to potential fans.

Stay tuned!