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Before Tsurukoma becomes a geiko,she will perform a special dance: "Kurokami" (black hair). The background for and meaning of this dance is described here: The full dance is performed by maiko Chikaharu here:

It's been quite a while since I read it, in a language I'm not very good at, but I doubt that she ever voiced her opinion about it. Her family had the last word in the matter anyway, this was in the late 1800s in Japan. And the MC was told the story many years later ( at the end of the Meiji...

I hope our current love triangle won't turn out anywhere near the one from Natsume Sosekis most famous novel "Kokoro". If that happens I'll have to damn him as well. No suicides please.

No surprise that this manga got an award, France has always taken bande dessinée (comics) quite seriously, especially the more grown up series, so even less than hugely successful manga like this one (and Gabai, check that one out) have been translated to French and not to English. I don't care...

Thanks a lot, I'm really happy for the update. The manga is 75% done and you have put in some good work. Only a quarter left!

Page 37-38: Alfons Mucha is dead, but his work lives and keeps on inspiring new generations of artists.

This challenge is very much inspired by Jodorowsky/Moebius' The Incal *, where John Difool has to beat the galaxy's toughest warriors up a very similar spire for the right to mate with the Berg queen. This manga was made a few years after The Incal, the similarities are obvious. It's okay to be...

Thank you for picking up this little gem. Not many chapters left, so I trust that you can get it done, I really want to read it all the way to the end.

Chessboxing was invented by legendary French comic book creator Enki Bilal in his Nikopol Trilogy, before breaking through to the physical world . The Nikopol Trilogy and The Hunting Party (with Pierre Christin) are immortal graphic novel classics, and he's also made lots of other interesting...

It's far worse than that. 6 years ago were when Mangadex started up, we were over 60 chapters in then. Village Idiot had already quit the manga well before that, they did the first 50 or so chapters reasonably fast if I remember correctly (I have been reading this for a looong time). In the 6...

The calfs temperature would be worrying for a human, but cows have much higher body temps than humans. While humans have a body temp of 36-37 C (around 36 for me), cows normally have a body temp of 38-39 C. So the calf being just over 40 would be like a human measuring 38 C or just over. No big...

No surprise for the mother of course. Reminded me of this glorious story: Nietzsche-sensei knocks it out of the park.

Thanks a lot for the new chapters, as I said before I really like this manga! Saki's nightmare (rescue helicopter, dark masses (everything covered in mud?), agitated seagulls etc.) seems to be connected with the Tohoku earthquake and the tsunami that killed her parents. It must have been an...

If she in the 21st century needs the help of an omiai, she's probably not a Yamato nadeshiko. Maybe it's Lena the Hyena

We've had quite a bit of Norwegian in this manga, and as a noun, gift means poison in Norwegian as well. In adjective form, gift means "married" in Norwegian. Draw your own conclusions about that.

She gets a lot of help in telling them apart: They all have name tags in their ears. Their name may or may not be there, but their number is (and their owner,s number if they run away and turns up elsewhere).

True if you talk about mermaids whose bottom halfs are fish. Piet Hein wrote a grook (short aphoristic poem) about a mermaid who was the opposite: The Little Mermaid's Little Sister was also partly girl and cod though in a way which those who kissed her found odd. ...but which, well worth to...

Reminded me of "Asterix and the Vikings", where the viking chief was so tough that he ate oysters with the shell on.

Yes, although I haven't watched much sumo lately I've seen him fight a couple times. He's from a real sumo family; not only is his father Takatoriki, but his mother's father is a real legend: Taiho. Oho chose his rikona (ring name) to be close to the one his famous grandfather used: The...

I haven't really watched sumo all that much lately, but I like to watch a bit now and then. I have noticed that the wrestlers presented in this manga are more or less based on real life wrestlers. As an example, Saganohana in ch.5 is probably based on Yokozuna Takanohana. In this chapter there...