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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1013576" data-attributes="member: 151">Glad to  help.  Let's see:Juuni Kokki is a new anime I have yet to see, otherwise known as the 12 kingdoms.  Early reviews I've heard indicate that's it's very good, if not a tad formula.X - I'm assuming you mean the TV series.  Again, I've seen snippets but haven't actually seen it.  I know those who've read the manga, which the TV series is more closely based on.  It's a Studio Clamp production, which means pretty boys in the offing.  However, I'm told that if you get beyond the surface appearance, it's a very deep anime concerned with friends, lovers and the apocalypse.  Oh, and whether or not our fate is predestined.As for one of my personal favorites, the manga of Beserk is being brought over by Dark Horse comics, in digest format similar to the Lone Wolf and Cub compilations, or so I understand.  Which will, quite simply, KICK ASS.If you haven't read my earlier thread about the ending of the TV series, let me just warn you...IT IS NOT THE END OF THE SERIES.  NOT EVEN CLOSE.  THERE IS A LOT MORE STORY.Manga is now widely available in the US, mostly in comic shops for monthlies, and chain book stores for the collections.  They usually read right to left, are in English, and cover more diverse topics than you can imagine.In addition to the collections, you can get Raijin Magazine here in the US, which has just gone from weekly to monthly.  It is rerunnning a lot of great manga (and some not so great) from years ago and recently.  You can also get Shonen Jump, which is an american version of the Japanese comic, which is skewed at a slightly younger audience.  (Titles include Dragonball/DBZ, Yu-Gi-Oh, One Piece and so forth).</blockquote>

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