The Eastern Edge

Time to offload a few little bits and pieces of Urasawa goodness that I accumulated while researching for upcoming posts (which are coming soon, I promise).⇒　I know that Pluto is coming out in English, but I wonder if overseas readers are ever go… more »

⇒ This is old news now, but the Anime News Network reported that the am/pm chain of convenience stores in Japan has begun a test manga rental program.Unfortunatley they fail to mention what they will do about the manga that they are already renting… more »

Sorry, Urasawa fans, but no new Billy Bat until next week's Morning and I haven't finished quite enough material to start posting about the Urasawa interview yet. Things have been pretty busy for the last week or so, but I am working on it and I promi… more »

No word on fatalities, but at least three people were nearly throttled to death in Japan when they trusted their foot massage machines with other parts of their bodies. It seems they didn't realize that it isn't a good idea to stick your neck in the rol… more »

Although I haven't written a full post in a while, I seem to have accumulated a lot of disembodied drafts and bits and pieces that never quite became anything.I think I'll have to offload all that brain lint before I can really start writing full entri… more »

While scouring the internet for the Urasawa Bob Dylan comic, I stumbled on a few other things that I thought Urasawa fans might appreciate:⇒　For Urasawa fans who can read Japanese, here is a summary of an episode of an NHK series called "Professi… more »

One of my pet peeves is the Japanese insistence on using English when they use terms like "Samurai" to refer to athletes and sports teams.The latest team of "samurai" is their next entry in the World Baseball championships. I doubt they see the irony… more »

With both Vagabond and Billy Bat on hiatus for the next seven weeks, I will be deprived of my little bit of Weekly Morning entertainment to break up my dreary workweek. I'll have to survive until Urasawa and Inoue get around to giving me a reason to both… more »

Clearing the Cache is what I'm going to start calling posts in which I unload the many bits & pieces I've collected from the internet but haven't used in other posts. They seem to collect like lint in favorites lists, folders, notes, and other places… more »