Tinman's Ranma Colorazation Project

This site: Tinman's Ranma Colorization Project has pages from the Manga that were colored. These are very nicely done. It's too bad that the site is no longer being updated.

moola

I've recently tried the games at moola.com. Moola is a pay to play site, meaning they pay you to play games. (You pay nothing) You start out with a penny they give you and play versus another person wagering your penny. Then if you win you get two pennies and can wager two pennies, etc. This continues, You can supposedly get millions of dollars but I really doubt it. Playing the games it will take awhile just to get ten dollars and the games are not very enjoyable.

Personally I've had little luck with the games only getting to the 8 cent level and I can't verify my account because I don't have a mobile phone (hence can't receive the text message) and I don't want to do the boosters since you have to pay for some of the offers or sign up for stuff I don't want to. Also only for people in the US and Canada.

If you want to sign up and try the games yourself (you can get $10.00 without verifying your account). Use the link below (supposedly it's by invitation only but invites are very easy to find on the net, the link is an invite).

http://www.moola.com:80/moopubs/b2b/exc/join.jsp?sid=4d5449744f4467334e7a493d-2

VIZ's Censoring of Manga

It annoys me that VIZ censors the manga they release.

In Ranma and Inuyasha both Ranma and Inuyasha use direct, rude, and occasionally profane language (Inuyasha more so than Ranma though Ranma does occasionally use very rude language). VIZ removed the profanity entirely from Ranma. (You didn't really think that Ryoga spanked Yoiko -Ranma in disguise - For saying "like FUN I'm having fun" did you.)

Some edits they've made to other manga:
-I's they put stars over a girls nipples - this in my opinion makes it worse than if they had shown the nipples.
-FMA Greed is chained to a cross as he is reunited with Hoho twin (father) and killed in the VIZ version they changed it to a slab of rock.
-Naruto they edit out some of the hand gestures, make Sakura's shorts longer, changed a swastika to an X
-Dragonball they removed nudity, changed a gun to a laser gun, etc.
-Pokemon they made Misty's clothing cover more area. See an example below.

Inspirations for Ranma ½ manga 2

Edvard Munch's painting The Cry (also called The Scream) inspired many scenes in the manga including the two below. It is used to depict angst or horror.

Scanners at book sales

I frequent library book sales several times a year. I went to one today and noticed that people are carrying around scanners. This isn't new the last several book sales I went to had people with scanners as well. What makes today's different is that the people with scanners out numbered the people who didn't have them.

I dislike scanners. These people are not buying the books to read only judging them on their monetary value. I buy books to read not to sell and because of these scanners and other book hoarders it is becoming increasingly more difficult to find good books at book sales. The hoarders without scanners are worse though for instance at a book sale three weeks ago a person grabbed up every single manga volume without even looking through them. Some of these people are incredibly rude grabbing up a lot of books off of the shelves then taking them to a corner, scanning them, then dropping the rejects on the floor in the corner. Others will shove you out of their way or get a friend to help block off an aisle so that you can't pursue it until they are finished.

While I'm criticizing them, I also understand why they do it. Some books could be sold for hundreds if not thousands of dollars. I don't mind that they buy the books to sell so much as them taking all the good books. If this continues I may stop going to library book sales. With volunteers and their friends cherry-picking, scanners, book hoarders, and the raising price of the books at book sales it seems that it soon won't be worth my time to go.

Pixy Misa

I was browsing the internet and came upon this picture of Pixy Misa. I haven't watched Pretty Sammy (Magical Project S) in a long time but the thing I remember liking most about the anime was Pixy Misa. Dark magical girls are cool. My clearest memory about the show is Pixy Misa singing Mahou Shojo the lyrics of which can be found here:

http://nayuki.eigenstate.org/pixymisa.html English Translation at bottom of the page.

I think the picture is from a doujinshi but don't know which. The signature kana in the bottom left corner is of Atchi who I think is a doujinshi artist.

Be a conscious consumer

If you click on the above image it will take you to a site in which they ask you to make a small change in your life. The small change will reduce your impact on the climate change (i.e. global warming). This months pledge is to wash clothes in cold water instead of hot water, this simple change will use less energy and therefor cause less of an impact on the environment as well as cost you less money (because your not paying to heat the water unnecessarily). While the pledge is only for the United States you can still cut back on the amount of hot water you use even if you don't live in the US.