Something new to download

RRRideon DEEP DIGITAL Version You may have seen these images around the net over the past 2 months, as the artist was starting to hype the upcoming release of this doujinshi. On the chance that it might not be all about sex except for these two panels, I downloaded it today from http://eng.dlsite.com/

http://eng.dlsite.com/work/=/product_id/RE030204.html - is the exact link, though you will still need to verify that you want to proceed, etc. Please note there IS stuff at the site that will be hentai with a capital "H" ... I'm only pointing you towards this item and/or Tanuki's works which can be acquired from here also; use the search window as per "wrestling".

I am happy to say that the artist went with RR-style moves and action throughout, so, if you like these previews (taken from the free samples at the website), I can assure you that you will not suddenly find yourself with a lot of porn rather than wrestling action. 93 pages; PDF file format. Bravo, Yuriai-san!

The manga/anime connection

"But Plawres Sanshiro have not female wrestling, is only boy with his robot."

This comment was left awhile back, whilst we were talking about the never-produced "Wrestloid Baby". I had put forth the idea that maybe the other shows out in the market place made another show dealing with wrestling dolls unattractive to the Japanese networks. It always made we think about that weird way things work in Japan, at times.

It's true that, in the show based on the manga, Plawres only has the one episode were a female robot is shown taking part in a match (see above) ... vs the boy's male robot; a mixed match, never a female vs female match. Yet in the manga, there is a female robot that the lead characters control that fights both in mixed and F vs F matches.




Named Sakurahime, she plays a smaller roll in the stories, but is there, none-the-less. But, when the show was adapted for TV, she and her female foe (La Llorna) were completely left out.



Yet in other manga, let's take Air Gear as an example, the simple introduction of a character as wrestler is enough to set the animation department to work on an entire episode devoted to her, a match/chapter which never appeared in the manga at all.















Obviously, the time that the series were made, the target audience the producers are aiming for, the writers that move the story along ... all will play a roll in the inclusion/exclusion of content. It does make it hard to figure out what shows to watch, or manga to buy though ... I've gotten a lot of manga over the years on the idea that it would have something to add to my collection, only to find out that I had been misled by the TV show ... OK, fine, there is no wrestling in the Sailor Moon manga ... lesson learned.

Here's the deal ...

Just wanted to show you all an auction item that I didn't win recently, so you could get an idea of the way things are played in Japan.

The magazine this was in went for over $500 final price (57,000 yen) before the added shipping and commissions, had I won it. I had called it good at $400 ... here, it would have been lucky to get $25 on ebay, the highest price I've ever sold something for I've brought back. There-in lies my problem.

I had hoped to recoup a bit of cash by posting on this blog and having the 2000-plus members of my Yahoo group stop-by and generate hits for the blog, thus having ad-sense shoot a little cash my way (and it IS a little; in fact, with over 17,000 views over 3 months, my account is up to $28 ... they don't even pay you until $100 is reached); no cost to you, but I would at least get something out of my time, energy and money spent on getting these things together. As of today, there are 180 people stopping by ... at one point, there were 850 ... what other site is doing a page-by-page, hi-rez manga? I sure haven't found it, yet, people don't feel the blog is worth a daily click of a button ... if anybody has something better, please let me know ... the daily check-in at the other sites that never update ... is that really better?

Let's call it a grand experiment that didn't work out. I'll finish up "Mike" for those of you that are grabbing it, but to put more of my stuff out there is only going to hurt me when I get around to selling the actual manga/mags. In fact, with prices the way they are, I'll most likely take all my stuff back to Japan someday and have my contact sell them over there for me.

Anyway, with no real chit-chat here between members, etc, I think I'll call it a day with "Mike", not that I don't care about the few of you that are reading this, but ...