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Sequart Releases When Manga Came to America: Super-Hero Revisionism in Mai, the Psychic Girl

Mike Phillips — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:00:56 +0000

When Manga Came to America: Super-Hero Revisionism in Mai, the Psychic Girl" title="Sequart Releases When Manga Came to America: Super-Hero Revisionism in Mai, the Psychic Girl" style="float:left;" />Sequart Organization is proud to announce the release of When Manga Came to America: Super-Hero Revisionism in Mai, the Psychic Girl, by Julian Darius. The first manga widely available in English, Mai, the Psychic Girl — written… [more]

My Big Brother’s Secret Japanese Cartoons: How Anime Addicted Me to Serial Narratives

Victor Giannini — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 18:00:12 +0000

I’m ten years old, and you’re already dead. Your head explodes, and leather cringes while boots crush bone and dust swirls around a strange haired man in the desert. Buildings lay like corpses, luxury liners… [more]

Super-Powers in Mai, the Psychic Girl’s Final Act

Julian Darius — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Mai, the Psychic Girl’s Final Act" title="Super-Powers in Mai, the Psychic Girl’s Final Act" style="float:left;" />Continued from our introduction to Mai, the Psychic Girl and parts one and two of our discussion of how super-powers are depicted in the series. In the story’s truncated third and final act, Mai’s life has… [more]

Cowboy Bebop, Coolness, and Genre Mash-ups

Kevin Thurman — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 18:00:18 +0000

Cowboy Bebop, Coolness, and Genre Mash-ups" title="Cowboy Bebop, Coolness, and Genre Mash-ups" style="float:left;" />There is an endless number of reasons to love Cowboy Bebop. This kung-fu, detective, sci-fi, crime, honky-tonk tinged mashed-upped masterpiece is cooler than any of us. Not because it wears the clothing of those genres,… [more]

Revenge, Hypnotism, and Oedipus in Oldboy (2003), Part 2

Julian Darius — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 12:00:32 +0000

Oldboy (2003), Part 2" title="Revenge, Hypnotism, and Oedipus in Oldboy (2003), Part 2" style="float:left;" />Last time, we began examining the 2003 South Korean movie Oldboy, directed by Park Chan-wook and adapted from the 1996-1998 manga by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi. We just got to the movie’s big twist ending. So be warned:… [more]

My Body is a Cage: Evangelions, AT Fields, and Hedgehogs

Kevin Thurman — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 18:00:12 +0000

My body is a cage that keeps me From dancing with the one I love But my mind holds the key - My Body is a Cage, The Arcade Fire Talking about the soul is… [more]

Super-Powers in Mai, the Psychic Girl’s Second Act

Julian Darius — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:00:51 +0000

Mai, the Psychic Girl’s Second Act" title="Super-Powers in Mai, the Psychic Girl’s Second Act" style="float:left;" />Continued from our introduction to Mai, the Psychic Girl and part one of our discussion of how super-powers are depicted in the series. As the narrative shifts into its second half, in which the Wisdom… [more]

The Noise They Make: Akira and the Bosozoku

Kevin Thurman — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 18:00:56 +0000

Akira and the Bosozoku" title="The Noise They Make: Akira and the Bosozoku" style="float:left;" />Akira is an odd film. Some like to believe it a riddle that if you can just get a crowbar into, you might crack it open and spill it’s meaningful contents. And while it is… [more]

Revenge, Hypnotism, and Oedipus in Oldboy (2003)

Julian Darius — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:00:24 +0000

Oldboy (2003)" title="Revenge, Hypnotism, and Oedipus in Oldboy (2003)" style="float:left;" />The brilliant 2003 South Korean film Oldboy, directed by directed by Park Chan-wook, is a revenge story. As such, it has to negotiate this genre’s long history, which it manages to do rather successfully by simultaneously… [more]

On Oldboy

Harry Edmundson-Cornell — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:00:46 +0000

Oldboy" title="On Oldboy" style="float:left;" />Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy is a phenomenal film. A devastating meditation on vengeance initially disguised as a revenge thriller, Oldboy is disturbing, exhilarating, terrifying, and more. Chan-wook Park deftly juggles the tone of this film, all… [more]

Super-Powers in Mai, the Psychic Girl

Julian Darius — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:00:52 +0000

Mai, the Psychic Girl" title="Super-Powers in Mai, the Psychic Girl" style="float:left;" />Continued from our introduction of Mai, the Psychic Girl. Ryoichi Ikegami is one of manga’s most talented artists, and he’s certainly one of my own favorites. His cityscapes and vehicles are bafflingly realistic. And while… [more]

20th Century Boys Volume One

Harry Edmundson-Cornell — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:00:51 +0000

20th Century Boys Volume One" title="20th Century Boys Volume One" style="float:left;" />The last volume of Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys I read was volume 22. The series only lasts two more volumes – 21st Century Boys Volume One and Two. These articles cover my attempted reread… [more]

On Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys: Friends

Colin Smith — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 12:00:48 +0000

20th Century Boys: Friends" title="On Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys: Friends" style="float:left;" />When I first read Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys: Friends, I stopped after the initial six pages and put the book away. For they were so perfect in themselves, so wonderfully concise and clever and moving,… [more]

The Grandmasters

Harry Edmundson-Cornell — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 18:00:28 +0000

I’ve been planning a series of articles about the all-time greats of the medium for a while. I was planning to focus on living greats, but with Sequart doing this Manga Week it seemed like… [more]

On Mai, the Psychic Girl

Julian Darius — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:00:49 +0000

Mai, the Psychic Girl" title="On Mai, the Psychic Girl" style="float:left;" />In early 1987, Eclipse introduced American comics readers to manga with three translated series. The first, debuting one week before the other two, was Mai, the Psychic Girl. The following week, Eclipse debuted The Legend… [more]

It’s Manga Week on Sequart!

Julian Darius — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:00:35 +0000

In celebration of this week’s release of Spike Lee’s Oldboy, a remake of the 2003 South Korean film, in turn based on the Japanese manga, we’re running manga-related posts all this week on Sequart. Manga’s… [more]