Public Service Announcement
Hey! If you are following then thanks for following, if you are perusing then thanks for perusing. The blog is pretty much on hiatus at the moment. I was living in Japan for a number of years and almost in spite of myself I ended up learning a lot of Japanese. I also love comics, so I was delighted to discover that a somewhat unintentional consequence of learning Japanese that was that I could actually start to read manga in Japanese, and that gave me a huge motivational boost to keep studying. I started this blog as part of that; I was buying loads of used manga and this was a way to chart some kind of progress (perhaps).
However, last summer I left Japan and moved to the Netherlands. For me, this tumblr was connected to the actual physical manga I was buying in Japan. Everything I posted was scanned by me and 'translated' by me, and I didn't want to just reblog things or use scans (for no good reason really, it's not like I'm a particularly principled person, it just wasn't in the spirit of the blog). So, since dirt-cheap used Japanese manga isn't exactly growing on trees over here, since I don't own a scanner, and since I'm insanely busy all the time, I'm basically mothballing this place for now.
That said, I'm hopefully heading back to Japan at some point in the future and who knows, maybe I'll be able to start up posting again. I mean I sold most of my manga when I left, but I put a whole bunch in storage that I will be back for one day! Plus I think I do have a few more pages that I scanned and never posted hanging around my hard drive somewhere. Or maybe I'll just start using scans from the net...
Anyway, thanks for checking the blog out and I hope I'll be able to post again sooner rather than later.
