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write stuff. New Smithson!  12th-Jul-2007 02:50 pm Yes! Here!
And, of course, there's always this week's installment of The
Chronicles of William Bazillion!  And a new Overlooked Manga
Festival. There's always a new Overlooked Manga Festival.
Longtime OMF readers have probably noticed that I have a
weakness for a certain type of manga. Namely, manga that are
batshit insane. When I read manga, I don't want to waste time
reading stuff that makes sense. I want manga that's going to
flip out and kill the whole town. Fortunately, Japan has a rich
cultural tradition of gloriously nutty manga, and many key
titles in manga history are equally brilliant and deranged.
Everything by Osamu Tezuka, for instance. And, on a somewhat
different note, this.  JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a long-
running cult hit in Japan. Appearing weekly from 1987 to this
very day, it's the second-longest-running manga in Shonen Jump
and the third or fourth most batshit insane, which