1+1. One manga, one bande dessinée this 9 January 2013. (Yeah, surprised me, too.) The original URL for this post is: http://huamulan03.blogspot.com If you are reading this on any non-attributing web site, this content is stolen. Taiyou no Mokushiroku: Kenkokuhen vol 1 © Kawaguchi Kaiji/Shogakukan [First serialized in Big Comic]. Published in Indonesia as A Spirit of The Sun - Founding the
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Been slow going so far this season because nothing I’ve watched as of yet has interested me enough to write about it save Fireball Charming (but that’s just one-shot post) . . . nothing, that is, aside from Kaiji. I’m a big fan of the first season, and while writing about the second may get [...]
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「地の獄」 (Chi no Goku) "Earthly Prison" What a surreal feeling it is to be watching Kaiji again. Three years have passed since the first season ended inconclusively, but the feeling hasn't changed. It's still awesome.
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Synopsis: Itou Kaiji, a bum, gets in trouble after the friend whom he cosigned a credit for disappeared. Is there hope for him aboard the ship Espoir? I never expected I would be blogging about Kaiji. First, I don't like the graphics and second, I am not into gambling. usagijen suggested that I give the series I try. Well, I did and though it isn't something that I would rave about, the plot is pretty decent. Kaiji is one fresh alternative if you're sick and tired of the schoolgirls of this season. I also found out the manga won in the 1998 Kodansha Manga Award under the General category. Basilisk won the same award in 2004, Mushishi in 2006 and Ookiku Furikabutte this year. [ This is only an excerpt for the post! Go the the website for the full content + pictures + links. ]
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Clannad? Shana? Gundam? Meh, who needs them when you’ve got Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji! Although this show seems to be the red-headed (and pointy nosed) step-child of the fall anime season, here at EW it’s the number one item on our Must-Watch list right now. Read on and perhaps you too will be converted by Fukumoto Nobuyuki’s masterpiece…or [...]
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Opening Sequence: OP: “Mirai wa Bokura no Te no Naka” by Kaiji with Redbourn Cherries
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