One Potato Two

I visit MangaBlog everyday.
Even on weekends when she is mostly too busy with her personal life (I'm assuming) to update.
Because I'm hoping that she was kind enough to post...and sometimes I get a treat.

Today was one of those days she updated on a weekend, and it was a HUGE treat.
She reviewed E'S #1 & #2.

MangaBlog reviews are one of the best.
Her amazing talent shows especially when summarizing a complicated series like E'S.
(Her review on KAMUI was superb too).

She picks up important details but is concise.
The review is just the right length...
Okay, I'm not going to get into detail about how great her writing is.
It's already known in the manga blogosphere.

But please please please read it if you haven't picked up E'S yet.

The injustice I do to E'S when I try explaining it on this blog is made up for.
Thank you, MangaBlog.

I like how she noticed the extras in the back.
(Volume 1 has a "Guide to Gald," and volume 2 has a pamphlet-type propaganda-like text to recruit psychics to join Ashurum).
They take a long time to do, perhaps maybe half of the time I spend translating the entire book.
And the graphics person, Keiran, would transform my ugly sketches into lovely lovely layouts.


Oh, I should work on planning out the extras in volume 5.

The other day I sent Dai (Sato)-san a love package.

Well, it just had Samurai Champloo calendars, shot glasses, and the FLCL DVDs.

When I told him about the Samurai Champloo calendars, he really wanted one (and another one for the director).
I think my graphic designer F did the designs?
I forgot.

I sent him the shot glasses just for the heck of it.
He doesn't drink, so he probably won't use it.
I told him that I use those shot glasses to hold paperclips.

And the FLCL I gave him because I wanted him to see it with dubs.
Since he really liked how Stephanie (Sheh) matched Eureka, I wanted to show him how most of the characters in FLCL were matched.
(My personal English voices are Kamon and Ninamori).


Anyway, he emailed me to thank me, and he told me that he is coming to the US again.
He will be at Anime Fest in Dallas, TX during the labor day weekend with Ergo Proxy director Murase-san.

So if anyone is going, please go see him.
Sato-san is very frank about the industry, and he loves talking to US fans.
(Well, most Japanese guests love to talk to US fans).