(no subject)

CAUGHT ANOTHER ONE!


And I think I caught another one somewhere in this crunchyroll forum thread, but as there's over 24 pages already, I'm not up to looking through all of them to find it.

AWESOMETASTIC MANGA OF AWESOMENESS

BREAKING NEWS!! As of August 2011, YOU CAN BUY THIS MANGA IN ENGLISH (although only in North America, alas!)! It's a digital version at JManga. We've gotten plenty of enjoyment from these few scans over the past 3 years, so please consider letting JManga know that there's a market for this manga in English by buying it. Thank you!

--------------------------------------------------------

As I'm sure you all remember, a couple of weeks back, I posted about the awesometastic manga of awesomeness that I'd mailed to rachelmanija, which turned out to be a manga about ekiben otaku.

Ekiben = specialty bento you can get at train stations
Otaku = crazed fans

rachelmanija hoped for scans, and now I finally have them.



( Cut for LONG and FULL OF IMAGES )

So, guys: AWESOMETASTIC MANGA OF AWESOMENESS or what?

Chalk up another to WTF?! JAPAN

Via kyuuketsukiuri: there's a manga called either "Saint Young Men" or "The Saint Brothers," which can best be summed up as Jesus and Buddha rooming together in Tachikawa in the modern day.

It's not yaoi, and we're not going there. :D

rachelmanija! oyceter! And anyone else who likes bento!

chomiji tells us there's a ekiben photo pool on Flickr!

Lots of linkblogging today, because I took today off for working Saturday, woke up with a headache, and have been spending a lot of time sitting on the sofa with the laptop reading LJ while alternately drinking tea (for caffeine, withdrawal from which can be a migraine trigger), drinking water (dehydration also), and eating Corn Pops for breakfast (hunger also). Plus Advil. WHich seems to ahve reduced the pain considerably, so YAY it's NOT a migraine! :D

Bento dreams and stranger things

Naturally, after posting the ekiben bento manga scans last night, I dreamed of bento. My brain also pulled in elements of congoing, school anxiety dreams, and a 4-H competition* I was in back in 5th grade. It started when I was in some sort of class for cooking and for a final exam I had to construct a bento balanced between the four food groups. I'd managed to miss the deadline for turning it in, so in the hopes that I'd get at least a C for doing it, I was struggling to make a totally awesome bento to turn in a day late. The bit where it had to be nutritionally balanced was from the 4-H cooking competition I entered back in the day.

And then the dream moved on to some sort of convention I was selling art at, and my table was one of only, like, three in an enormous hall, and there was another one run by a couple of Indian guys - which continued the theme of the bento, since it involved curry - and I'd packed a bento to eat. Which was, of course, the bento from the class above.

I'm trying to remember exactly what was in it, but it's all fading now. It was in a container that was mre like a rounded pot than a box - sort of like this Hanshin Tigers Win bento from the ekiben photo pool on FLickr, only the pot wasn't a baseball. :)

It was layered vertically, and I'm not sure how the layers were kept from seeping into each other. The bottom layer had rice in one half and a curry in the other half. Then there was another layer, possibly entirely rice with some sort of flavor in it, and then a third layer of possibly another variety of curry, with a cup containing a small salad nestled into it.

Aaaaaaaand now I'm getting hungry.








* 4-H, for those who don't know, is a youth organization vaguely like the Girl and Boy Scouts that's sponsored by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) that is supposed to foster various good characteristics in young people by having them do various vaguely-agriculturally-related things. Other 4-H clubs got to do nifty things like skeet shooting, riding, raising rabbits and so on. Mine? Did cooking. Blah. I mean, I like cooking, but I could do that an my own. That year was the end of my career in the 4-H. Wikipedia page.