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Author: Kazuo Koike
Manga-ka: Seisaku Kano
Publisher: Dark Horse
Rating: Mature (18+)
Released: May 2008
Synopsis: “Two slaves free themselves from a slave ship, one a Japanese man, the other an African American. After escaping they find themselves on the shore of Edo-era Japan, a society with a strong caste system, isolated from the world. How will the Japanese people perceive this giant black man, how will they survive? But first things first, how will they get these shackles off their feet?”
This was an interesting book to read because the general intent of the manga-ka was so apparent that it felt almost too forced. While attempting to show multiple cultures from a unique perspective, instead it felt like one layer of stereotype over another. While the story being written in the seventies does cause me to give it some more patience, the final result seems a little misinformed, and mostly overzealous in its execution, but still with presumably noble intentions.
Well, not exactly, but while doing some recent (and much needed) tidying up around here, I’ve also created a LiveJournal account specifically for my updates here at Kuriousity. I get a lot of hits from LJ, mostly from links and feeds from other sites who utilize LJ in this way, so with a good audience using the site, I thought it’d be a useful feature to get in on. So if you’re a LiveJournal user, and like following site updates through it, you can now use that handy little stripbutton on my side bar, or click right 
Eventually I’m going to run out of titles completely based on what day of the week it is. I’m only so creative on no hours of sleep! While I finish up some work on an incoming post on holiday shopping (complete with too many random colourful pictures of course), here’re some more Amazon-related finds which may or may not be new but were atleast of interest to me so I like to think satisitically must be of interest to atleast someone else out there! If you’re that person (or people?) then this post is for you :)
