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June will see the first book of Ume Aoki’s feel good manga.

FOLLOWING THE MANGA licensing announcement by the Yen Press in December last year, I have been eagerly awaiting news of the release dates of Hidamari Sketch, which has been retitled as Sunshine Sketch for us Westerners. That distribution deal between Orbit and YP in October 2007, which means the latter’s range will be released in the UK as well, obviously arrived just at the right time!

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5cm is on the big screen in the UK for special showing.

WHILE WATCHING THE Blu-Ray rips of Makoto Shinkai’s 5 Centimetres per Second the other day (and crashing my computer multiple times in the process) I was thinking this is really really great, but wouldn’t it be nice to see it at the movies…

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President Maa is happy.

I AM EXTREMELY happy about this news. That is all.

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Yotsuba&! volume six disappears!

JUST WHEN I thought that ADV had, finally, got into its stride again with its Yotsuba&! manga releases, volume six, which originally seemed to be slated for a February 1st, 2008, release, has vanished.

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Keeping Shinkai in the Macs he is accustomed to.

WHILE I’VE NOT been posting much here recently, I’ve still been an avid consumer of all of the things that I’ve blogged about in the past, and by consumer I do mean actually spending money…

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