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Decorated trains

A bit of fun: Pink Tentacle's most recent entry features a set of pictures of trains decorated with images of anime and manga characters. The one of medama oyaji (目玉親父) on the Kitarō-train is my favourite.

Manga at the Children's University -pictures!

On 15/11 Let's Manga held a forty-minute class at the KULeuven's annual Children's University, on the topic of 'what you can learn about Japan from reading manga'. The audience consisted of some seventy-five very, very enthusiastic eight- to twelve-year-olds, and a marvelous time was had by all. Here's some snapshots of the class. More and bigger pictures to be found here at the Children's University main page (in Dutch).

New in the manga library

New in the manga library:

Dutch:

  • 20th Century Boys 9
  • Battle Angel Alita 4
  • Berserk 4

Japanese:

  • The complete Count Cain series by Yuki Kaori: 'God Child' 1-8 and the five prequels ('Kafka', 'The sign of the red ram' e.a), gothic fantasy

Glénat publications donates Dutch-language manga to lending library

Glénat Benelux publications has sent the manga library a copy of every Dutch-language manga in their catalog, and promises to donate a copy of every new manga volume they publish. Since Glénat's catalog includes 'One Piece', 'Say hello to Black Jack', 'Dragon Ball', '20th Century Boys' and many other great titles, we're very excited about this boost to the library and to the Japanese Studies section at the Catholic University of Leuven. Enjoy!

Manga lending library opens!

There's been a lot of interesting noise about disclosing the contents of closed research collections at the Faculty of Arts lately, so we're quite pleased to be setting a good example: Let's Manga's collection of manga and books on Japanese popular culture is now an open lending library. Enjoy.

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