Dragonball Z - Live action movie

Oh, good god! Why?

Manga Volume - lots of manga scanlations

Manga Volume is another you can read manga online site. They have a lot of manga scanlations online that you can also download. 

The interface is not as good sa Manga Fox, but you are getting free manga. What more do you want?

I know that I'm rambling. If you are still reading this - why? Go to the site now and read some manga. It will rot your brain - maybe.

Gekiga & Sanctuary

After listening to Geeknights, I decided to read Sanctuary on MangaFox. Sanctuary is supposed to be out of print, so all of you self-righteous types can stop cursing my soul to the fires of hell.

Anyway, Sanctuary is a story about two kids who want to change Japan for the better. Basically, one is going on the high road, while the other is going the easier way. I've only read chapter 8 of the series, so that's all the summary you will get from me.

Oh, okay. It's a political manga with lots of Yakuza action. There's nudity for the perverted nerds, though not that much, and only when the story calls for it.

As an aside, I have to say that I still listen to Geeknights even if I don't post on their forum. I'm one of the hundreds of lurkers in there. I just never posted on any forum before, nor will I ever post in the future.  

I also wonder about Gekiga (spelling?) and about Rym & Scott's Gekiga panel. Is there a transcript or audio recording of it out there, somewhere? I really want to listen to that panel. 

Cross Over - better than Slam Dunk?

Nope, it's not better than Slam Dunk. However, if you thirst for some basketball manga action, this series has enough to quench it.

Cross Over is a manga made by Kouji Seo. It's about a class A, Junior high with an ambition to join the strongest high school ball club. Along the way he was recruited by very good natured players from the weakest basketball team in Japan.

Which school do you think he'll pick? Answer me. All together now!

Regardless of which team the ace will choose, this manga is fairly run-of-the-mill. I'm just on chapter 18, but if I compare this one to Slam Dunk, it just won't stack up. That may be solely because the main character is not that lovable, and sometimes the fan service cheapens the story a bit.

All in all, the manga is a fun read with lots of action and laughs to while away the boredom of work during office hours. Though, only if you work from home, because some of the fan service may be NSFW.

Read it here.

Online Manga Scanlation site - Read manga online

If you want the hottest online manga scanlations you should check out One Manga. They have 669 manga scanlations available for your online, manga reading pleasure.

They cover every genre from shonen & shoujo to josie & seinen. They even have 238 complete manga scanlations.

Another good online manga site is Manga Fox. It has almost the same collection as One Manga but it also has some ecchi stuff. Everything can be read for free but the mature stuff needs registration, as it should.

Click on the links above to scan the manga directory of this site. If you really need to read a particular manga, it's probably listed in their directory.

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Edit 2: No virus. Links are up again.

Edit: I temporarily removed the link to OneManga because of possible malware infection to Windows users. I'm not sure about this and I'm not accusing anyone. Just be cautious if you're a Windows user.

DBZ mmorpg in 2008

According to Japanator - Anime Manga Community a Dragon Ball MMORPG will launch in 2008. Now I don't know how true this rumor is, but I'm certainly excited to see a DBZ online game. I won't play it, but I'm excited to see it.

My newest acquired comics and manga

I've had the pleasure lately of acquiring the full volume to Akira and Watchmen. I've read about 2 volumes of Akira (big thanks to Geekman for the copy) so far and I find it an interesting read, though not as revolutionary as everyone says it was. Maybe I'm not far enough into the story yet, but I'll definitely finish reading that.

As for Watchmen, I've heard a lot of comic geeks like me go on and on about this graphic novel. I bet I'll like it, hell, I like almost everything comics and manga. I don't have any idea about the story of Watchmen, I only heard geekgasms about it by fellow comic readers. I expect to be surprised and be left stunned with a gaping mouth, since this is one of the best work of Alan Moore. Alan Moore incidentally is one author that I've only heard good things about but has never really read any of his work. If I had unlimited resources, I would like to go buy all of his works just to familiarize myself with his genius.

Anyway, this summer will be busy for me because this is the time when we'll seriously move our business to fruition. I've been slowly developing a business plan to get people to invest, but every time I think of involving people the more I feel that doing this on our own will be a much better experience.

Nydia and I are excited to get this thing into motion that she's even considering taking the summer's off from law school just to help me. I'm excited as well, though I'm more nervous than anything else since I'll be putting a lot of my savings on the line in this venture. I guess that's another reason why this project is taking so long--I'm just making sure I'm not throwing money away.

Manga Viewer is dead

My post last October 20, 2005 about a Manga Viewer is a popular page that a lot of people are googling. I guess a lot of them who found this link are pissed but please don't blame me, it's not my fault that Manga Viewer is now dead. Yup, it's dead. Anyway, it's not the best site out there for manga so just click my manga links above to find alternative scanlation sites you can use.

You can also visit Stop Tazmo for all of your manga needs.

Download lots of manga scanlation

I don't remember if I ever featured Manga Download before, I'm too lazy to check my site since my connection is really dog slow. Anyway this site is awesome, just check out their selection of great manga scanlation. The site also looks like they have a lively community around it all wrapped up in a nice website.

Here's a list of manga scanlations they have available:

.hack//G.U.
090 Eko to Issho
100 Ways of an Exorcist
20th Century Boys
337 Byooshi
Abara
Acony
Addicted to Curry
Agharta updated
Ai Ren
Air Master
AirGear
Akane-chan Overdrive
Amakusa 1637
Angel Densetsu
Anti-Gravity Boy
Ao No Fuuin
Aoi Spice
Appare Jipangu
Arcana
Ares updated
Bad Company
Banya
Battle Royale 2
Believers
Bestia
Biomega updated
Black Lagoon
Blizzard Axel
Blood The last vampire
Blue Dragon
Blue Seed
Bokko
Boku no Futasu no Tsubasa
Bokurano
Bowling King
Boys 'N Girl
Bremen
Brothers
Chaosic Rune
Chikyuu Kanri-nin
Chizumi and Fujiomi
Chokotto Sister
Cross Game
D no Fuuin
Daa! Daa! Daa!
Dear Mine
Death Note
Demonic Detective Neuro Nougami
Detroit Metal City
Devilman
Digimon Adventures V-Tamer 01
Digimon D-Cyber
DNA²
Doraemon
EDENs BOwY
Elfen Lied
Evangel
Fate-Stay Night
Fire Candy
Freesia
Furi Kuri: FLCL
Fushigi Yuugi
Gakuen Alice
Gakuen Heaven
Gantz
Gekkoh
Girls Saurus
Girls Saurus DX updated
Godhand Teru
Golden Boy new
Good Morning Call
Goth
Gunbusters 2
H2
Haibane Renmei
Hajime no Ippo updated
Harukanaru Toki no Naka de
Heaven's Prison
Hells Angels
Hellsing: The Dawn updated
himiko-den
History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi
Hiyoko Brand
Homunculus
Hot blooded woman
Hot Milk
Houshin Engi
Inu Neko Jump
IO
Jinki
Jisatsu Circle (Suicide Club)
Journey To The End Of The Earth
K no Souretsu
Kaede Typhoon
Kami to Sengoku Seitokai
Kamichu
Katsu!
Kilico
Kimagure Orange Road
King of Thorns
Koi Kaze updated
Koi Koi 7
Koroshiya Ichi
Koudelka
Kurohime
Kurozuka
Leviathan
Lilim Kiss
Living Game
Maburaho
Magikano
Mahoraba
Mai-Otome updated
Majin Devil
Maken X
Maria
Melancholic Princess
Melty Blood
Merry and the Sheep
MPD Psycho
Mx0 updated
My Name Is Zushio
New Petshop of Horrors
Niji Iro Togarashi
No side
Open Sesame
Parallel
penguin brothers
Photon
Psychometrer Eiji
Ragnarok
Ringo
Rosario Vampire updated
Rough
Route 20
Ryuuroden
Saiunkoku Monogatari
Sakuratetsu Taiwahen
Salad Days
Santa
Seishun Shiteru Kai
Show Me the Money
Shugo Kyara
Sidooh
Skyhigh
Skyhigh: Karma
Sora Sora
Speed Grapher
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu
Team Medical Dragon
Tende Freeze
The Devil Ororon
The King Of Fighters Kyo
Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar
To-LOVE-Ru updated
Togari
Tokimeki Tonight
Tokyo Crazy Paradise
Touch
Ultimate!! Hentai Kamen
Vandread
VB Rose
Violinist of Hameln
White Dragon
Yawara
Yougen no Chi
Yuuto
Zero One
ZeroIn
Zetman
Zombie Hunter
Zombie Loan

Quite a large collection, huh? You need to register to download all the media listed here. Actually, if you donate you can get a lot more with their premium content.

Black Cat manga scanlation

I've been so late in my manga scanlation news that I almost overlooked the fact that the Black Cat manga scanlation is now finished. You can check out the complete scanlation at StopTazmo.

Train - He looks so gay but he'll kick your ass!

Online manga scanlation site and community

I've known Anime-Source for a long time now so I don't know why I posted it just now. Could be laziness or maybe I just forgot. Anime-Source has a great online selection of unlicensed manga scanlations like Pretty face, Kimagure Orange Road, Elfen Lied, Hajime no Ippo, Ichigo 100%, Koroshiya Ichi [Ichi the Killer] and a lot more.

They also have a great community forum and reviews of anime and manga. I believe they also have anime for download somewhere, but I'm not so sure.

Deadman manga

The Deadman manga was made by the author of Golden Boy but comparing these two creations are like night and day - while Golden Boy is a sex-comedy, Deadman is a perverse gothic tale about a mysterious vampire.

The art in this manga is highly-detailed and superb, a bit of departure from the cartoony style of Golden Boy. I can't say enough about the art of this comic--the style, the page layout, and the pacing all add to the strong story-telling of this title. The over-all style makes it easy to feel tension and terror from the situations in the story.

As usual this manga is for mature readers because of the disturbing visuals. Again that word - disturbing - but just read the damn thing and you'll see what I'm trying to say.

I'm also trying to review this title and the subsequent reviews with as little detail as possible because I want to avoid spoilers. I hate spoilers and I know that a lot of people hate this as well.

To get the Deadman scanlation just go here.

Saiyuki manga/anime

Saiyuki is a manga by Kazuya Minekura based on a famous Chinese novel entitled Journey to the West (Xi Yóu Jì). I don't know how much of the novel is identical with the manga and the anime but for sure it looks like a new adventure.

Saiyuki starts of with Genjo Sanzo talking to the three aspects of Buddha. The god then dispatches Sanzo along with Goku, Gojyo, and Hakkai to investigate why the demon population who used to co-exist with humans were suddenly going insane and killing people. So the four warriors journey West to get to the bottom of the strange phenomenon. Anyway, I'm not gonna go into full detail of the plot 'coz I found this great manga review site that can do all that better than I can.

All that I can say is that Saiyuki (both the manga and anime) is definitely worth your time and money. The characters are interesting and the art is great.

Here's a bit about the characters that might interest you: (1) Genjo Sanzo: A smoking, drinking, gun-toting monk leading the group. Incidentally, he's the only human in the group. (2) Son Goku: Yep, this is where Toriyama got his idea for Dragon Ball. In Saiyuki, Goku is the god of monkeys (I think he's unaware that he's a god) who's about 13 years old. He likes Sanzo-sama but he'll ditch him for food. (3) Cho-Hakkai: Legend has it that when you bathe in the blood of a hundred yukais (demons) you'll become a yukai yourself. Hakkai became a demon when he killed a clan of demons who raped his beloved. (4) Sha Gojyo: He's a half-yukai, half-human outcast with a big attitude but a huge heart.

By the way, the manga and anime don't have the same story. The manga's focus is on the Kame-Sama arc, while the anime goes straight to the plot where Sanzo's group goes against the group of the war god Homura. Both arcs have the same great art and action-packed stories that will appeal to both mature readers and kids alike, mature readers will love the philosophical undertones in this title while the kiddies won't be disappointed with the action.

Saiyuki has been licensed by Tokyopop but you can search for a scanlation torrent in Google. Note that the scanlation torrent is only up to volume 9, so get ready to be left hanging in the air if you are into scanlations.

Golden boy

This manga is great and is highly recommended for mature readers.

Oe Kintaro is a law school drop out at 25 years old, however, he has completed all the course work. He goes out as a student of the world, thirsty for knowledge about anything and everything. Kintaro just wanders around Japan looking for temporary jobs in a spur of the moment caprice. Along the way he meets people and completely change their lives before leaving them.

His adventures usually consist of hot women, nudity, and a lot of sexual escapades; but no matter what scrapes he gets into he gets himself out with his sunny attitude and aptitude for learning. He is a jack-of-all-trades but he masters them all.

Will he be able to save Japan - or the world? Maybe.

Another warning: This manga is definitely for adults only.

Manga scanlations

I'm not gonna discuss the quasi-legality or the morality of manga scanlations or fansubs because it has been done to death already. Simply put, my decision of not putting any links to scanlation for every manga that I will review here in the future is not about any other reason other than my preference.

That said, you can still search for scanlation links in the archives, or, for goodness sake, use either the search bar on the top of this blog or the one on the side bar to keep you from reloading my archived pages 10 times before you find the links you need. And yes, this really happened (you know who you are). I see one IP, the same freaking IP address, loading my page 10 times to search manually for Beck scanlation links. Spare yourselves, use the damn search tools.

Tutorial to Bastich's blog's search bars:

For the top search bar just use it like how you use Google [e.g. beck manga scanlation]. For the side bar Picosearch (a more comprehensive search of this site) please use one or two keywords to find a link or article you need [e.g. beck].

And that rounds up this post.

Sena is Eyeshield 21

That's the Devil Bat's American Football star running back. An awesome 4.2 second 40-yard dash earned him the notoriety in the open field. But life has not always been like this for Sena, at barely 5 feet tall, he was always being bullied by his classmates. He was just a lame gopher for the school's bigger students, and worst of all, he was always being defended by a girl. Poor Sena.

How did he become the bad ass Eyeshield 21, University of Notre Dame hero with the killer tackle? You have to read the manga, or watch the (much disliked) anime. I must say that this is the funniest sports themed manga since Slam Dunk. Well, not that I have a library of sports themed manga...

You can read Eyeshield 21 in Viz's monthly Shonen Jump.

Doraemon is the top cat

Astig! What can I say about Doraemon...I watched this anime since college and I will watch it again and again if local stations would replay it.

Doraemon is the blue cat on the picture. He is a cat from the future sent back by the great, great grandson of Nobita to guide the young Nobita in life. According to WIKI, Doraemon appeared in manga form since 1970 and it was turned into anime in 1973.

To make a long review short, Doraemon is a story about a typical elementary school boy, Nobita and all of his struggles as a boy. Most of the time the series is just some useless humorous show, but the stories were full of fantastic stuff that's heart warming and full of lessons about life, love and everything else under the sun.

Considering that Doraemon was really intended for young boys and girls, its popularity to older fans is a testament of its greatness and unique storytelling.

I give this series a 5 out of 5.

If you want a little preview of Doraemon, head to this site for a small collection of Doraemon scanlation.

Hikaru no Go

From Wikipedia:

Hikaru no Go (?????) is a
popular Japanese anime and manga coming of age story based
on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata . The production
was supervised by Yukari Umezawa ( 5-dan). The manga is largely
responsible for popularizing Go among the youth of Japan in recent years.

First released in Japan in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 1998, Hikaru no Go has achieved
tremendous success, spawning a popular Go fad of almost unprecedented
proportions. Twenty-three volumes of manga were published in Japan, comprising
189 chapters plus 11 "omake" (extra chapters). An anime series ran for 75 half
hour episodes, along with extra New Year's Specials in January 2003 and January
2004.

For a review of the series, check out my Nydia's blog. I can't review this coz I haven't had the chance to read it yet. If you can't get a copy of the manga, you can temporarily check out my scanlation links by using my Picosearch located on the right sidebar.

I"s manga--starring: a romantic pervert

Warning to kiddies: This series was released in Japan Weekly Shonen Jump, but it contains a lot of fan service and a little nudity.

I"s is a high school love story of a boy who just can't do anything right when he is with his crush.

Ichitaka Seto is your typical Japanese high schooler. He is in love with his school mate Iori for the longest time, but he was unable to make any romantic move on her, 'coz she is the most sought after girl in their school.


Hopeless romantic Ichitaka is very much in love with the girl, but instead of impressing her, he seems to fall into perverted situations that make any attempt at romance gravitate towards disaster.

It's not all comedy. Some scenes make you want to root for Ichitaka, while others can make you hate some of his blunderings. All in all, a very entertaining read.

Last note: I have no idea where my friend Geekman got this manga.

One Piece - My new fave

This is one of the most popular manga/anime in the world. The comic and cartoon is still on-going in Japan, a testament to it's popularity.


One Piece is a story of a boy, Luffy D. Monkey, and his ambition to become the King of all pirates. Along his quest he meets different people--a skilled swordsman/bounty hunter named Roronoa Zorro; Nami, a greedy thief who has a knack for navigation; Yusop, a great liar who has an affinity for inventing; Sanji, a bad ass warrior cook; Chopper, a sentient deer who is also a skilled physician; and Robin, former member of Baroque Works.


Together, the gang sets sail to unknown seas in Grand Line spelunking into high adventure in every turn.

On another note, the debates in the web between Naruto fans and One Piece fans are absurd. The two are both Shonen but everyone can enjoy both series without fighting which series is better.


Anyway, if you want to read the manga of One Piece, just use my search box to find manga scanlation links.

Go here and here for One Piece manga scanlation links.