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...so I keep trying to do work today, but I'm currently on hold waiting for a process to finish before I can continue with what I'm currently doing. But this is good! Because it means I read ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
torachan's journal and discovered SOMETHING AWESOME.
You remember the Awesometastic Manga of Awesomeness? The manga all about this guy who travels Japan on a train with the purpose of eating ekiben, the special bento you can buy at train stations? You don't remember? Click the link and read up from the bottom in chronological order for the full effect; I'll wait.
Anyway ... you can get it in English now. It's a digital version, available at JManga.com, titled Ekiben Hitoritabi. Go, thou, and purchase! (We've got enough enjoyment out of just the scans I put up over the years that I think it's only fair that I, and whoever else feels this way, buy a copy to let them know that YES! there is a market for this manga here! I see so many hits on those images in my stats that I know they're linked hither and yon across the intartubes, hopefully at least a few of the people seeing them will go buy!)
ETA: apparently you can only access it in North America, alas for those of you not in NA. :(
torachan's journal and discovered SOMETHING AWESOME.You remember the Awesometastic Manga of Awesomeness? The manga all about this guy who travels Japan on a train with the purpose of eating ekiben, the special bento you can buy at train stations? You don't remember? Click the link and read up from the bottom in chronological order for the full effect; I'll wait.
Anyway ... you can get it in English now. It's a digital version, available at JManga.com, titled Ekiben Hitoritabi. Go, thou, and purchase! (We've got enough enjoyment out of just the scans I put up over the years that I think it's only fair that I, and whoever else feels this way, buy a copy to let them know that YES! there is a market for this manga here! I see so many hits on those images in my stats that I know they're linked hither and yon across the intartubes, hopefully at least a few of the people seeing them will go buy!)
ETA: apparently you can only access it in North America, alas for those of you not in NA. :(
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there goes my day thank you very much.
ETA: Prices on the page seem to be given in pounds (120p?) on the buttons, and I cannot click on them! Tears! Tears, I tell you!
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Your $10 a month -- and it *does* appear to be easy to unsubscribe, although you'll lose any unspent points if you do -- gets you 1000 points per month that you can use to buy manga. The full volume 1 of this cost 899 points. (You get 500 points extra this month as a special if you go for it, for a total of 1500 points). Plus some sort of monthly e-zine that I haven't looked at yet, so I'm not sure what it contains. If you stop the "subscription," you do keep access to anything you've bought.
ETA: You can also buy more points at any time if you have a subscription but not, alas, if you don't.
I looked at the manga available and saw a few that I'd want to read, so I decided to go for it to send a message that THIS manga has an audience. I also used a credit card that expires in February, so I won't be out a whole lot if I don't read much. And I'll unsubscribe earlier if it looks like there's not any more I want to read.
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Still, it's nice to see that they're offering quite a few niche titles and stuff that hasn't been released in English before.
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