Just noticed that a translated version of the Asu no Yoichi manga has been released, under the title Samurai Harem.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

Meanwhile in Japan, volume 10 is about to hit the street.

…in Japan. Not precisely safe for work…

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Every once in a while, I’d visit the old Radioactive Panda site and see if there was any word on Eric Johnson’s next comic. The answer was always no (in the form of deafening silence, unless you visited the forums), but he has now returned with an official update, revaling a new start date and the reason for his three-year absence: respectively, “August 2009” and “World of Warcraft”.

Yeah, I can see that.

The punchline in today’s Darths & Droids is painfully good. And the screencap works perfectly.

Stolen Pixels takes a very gentle look at fighting games. I’m pleased that the deep meaning of the dialogue was faithfully translated.

I’ve been reading Girl Genius since the first issue came out (on actual paper!), and it’s easily Phil Foglio’s best work. I knew he’d done a lot of design and plotting work before starting the comic (some of which can be seen in the very entertaining card game), but until yesterday, I hadn’t really appreciated how far it went.

I’d read the whole thing several times over the past few years, without ever realizing exactly what happened in this scene. Oh, my.

Looking at the covers of this two-volume manga series (1, 2), I’m forced to ask, “older than what, precisely?”.

And, yes, I’m quite certain it’s porn. I’ve seen samples of the mangaka’s work.

My latest order from Amazon Japan arrived today, and one of the things I threw in was the Miko Moe comic it recommended to me a while back. In case you missed that post, here’s the cover again:

The only way that this is not representative of the actual comic is that the girls are large-breasted and sexually aggressive. Our Hero is a teenage boy helping out at the shrine, and he gets some action in every chapter. It looks like the bluette is Miss Right, but at the moment she’s Miss Alittletootight. Fortunately, the other girls are, um, “filling in”.

[note that I’m not shocked that it’s porn; I was expecting it to at least be ecchi, and wouldn’t have complained if it had been a yuri-fest. I just have to wait until I get home tonight to really look it over.]