Juniper Berries, vol. III

Does anyone remember who I am?

Recommended background music: "Last Train to Trancentral" by The KLF and "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2)" by DJ Shadow.

Does Juniper the Justified Ancient ring any bell? Right now I am feeling a little more ancient than back then, but not nearly as justified. Not on AnimeB, anyway.

A year and a half ago, I announced my plan to save "Juniper Berries III" by simplifying it. None of it ...

Updated 3 Jan 2014 at 11:03 pm by Katajainen

Tags: comics, nostalgy, raimu-iro senkitan, spice and wolf, takako shimura

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In front of me I have a piece of white paper saying,

青い花

with furigana added on top of the kanji: あお, はな.

The original title of one of my all-time favorite comic series. Clumsy attempts drawn with a dull pencil I had at hand. Very rarely in life have I hand-written anything in kana or kanji, and this is probably the first time ever I have employed furigana. What is the point of this?

I am going to put that note up on my kitchen wall. The ...

Tags: comics, japanese language, robin hobb, takako shimura

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Good news for fans of Takako Shimura!!

1. While I was busy elsewhere, a new scanlator called Houroumusume took over scanlating "Hōrō Musuko". She (or he; feminine and masculine pronouns are a pain for a Finn to begin with, but make even less sense in this very context) has done chapters 83 and 84, which are currently available on One Manga. I am looking forward to reading them.

2. According to the English-language Wikipedia, "Hōrō ...

Updated 19 Apr 2010 at 11:46 am by Katajainen

Tags: anime, comics, fantagraphics books, scanlations, takako shimura

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Many things have happened to me, but I am not feeling collected enough to write about them yet.

On the other hand, the blogs section is looking too Hinarei-ish at the moment. A juniper's gotta do what a juniper's gotta do, right? Let me write about what has not happened to me.

So, I have not read "Megatokyo". More specifically, I have not browsed any new pages of MT online since, whenever it was, last December? I did not quite believe I would be able to ration ...

Updated 13 Apr 2010 at 2:34 pm by Katajainen

Tags: comics, finland, hayao miyazaki, megatokyo, takako shimura

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