For those that thought I was dead ...

(re posted from what I said at my Yahoo group)

Japan's been pretty quite this year as far as new stuff in mainstream manga and/or anime goes (at least, as far as I know), though there's an adult mag that's been running a new piece drawn by artist Joji Manabe (see image; I grabbed 3 issues) ... but, like "Idol Wrestler"(different mag; on-going), I should think it will be published as a standalone at some point, so I've stopped the single issue shipping; not enough wrestling action to really make it worth while.

In the meantime, I've been gathering more CRAZY expensive rare stuff: "Lady Wrestler Beniko" ... the original Young Jump magazine issues from 25 years ago (1982/83). I've now got 20 of the 23 issues, dropping around $100 each ... Yep, $2000 ... what can I say ... once they arrive, I'm scanning the pages (around 400 in the 20 mags), removing age/printing flaws from the images, thus trying to get the images as clean as is reasonable (there's always more to do!) and saving the "restored" images. I'm sure there's a program out there that could do it for me without going blind staring at the screen for hours, but ...

Old; best I had until now

New; bigger and better

So ... busy, not dead

Oh, one thing that just came out: Issue 3 of the manga series from Super Sonic Satellites; available through Battle

https://www.catfight.co.jp/english/item.cgi?item=24214