I tried looking it up, but I couldn't find anything. It's especially hard to look up especially if all I have to go off of is how it's phonetically spelled in the English alphabet.

I searched it in my English to Romaji(and vice versa) dictionary and nothing came up.

Maybe it doesn't mean anything. I know it's the name of Kiba's dog in Naruto, but that's it.

Bakuman 15 is Oooout. Read it here:


Ooo0oo0O00oh my gawd. This was a good chapter. I really liked it. I really like all the chapters, but whatever. The emailing scenes were good, even though I absolutely didn't expect the emails to have "lol"s and smilies. Much less formal than I thought and more like texts but whatever. And it looks like they actually have a good chance of winning, though I still don't think that they will.

Oh, and sorry about double posting, but I wanted to bump the thread.

Yes that's fine. For things that it is justified it is fine.

And yea I think that the scanlators might have edited it from what they would have in Japan to the LOL and the smilies.

I think that the cliffhangers are pretty good too! This manga is amazing...

Yeah. I usually tend to like slice of life and school mangas more than action mangas, because I feel like action and adventure is suited more to animation with epic music, and such. So this manga really take advantage of the possibilities of the genre and such. It truly is remarkable.

I'm a big fan of slice of life and school mangas too. The only manga I read that aren't those are Naruto and Bleach. Oh and I watched Code Geass and TTGL which were epic.

Aside from having a great story, this manga has a fantastic artist, and I even notice that I find myself admiring the page layouts, lol.

The story's a winner too. It makes you truly appreciate a mangaka.

Lol, were all praise for these guys. This manga keeps making me think that someone might do a spinoff of one of the manga that they create in it. Like how they made the show in Genshiken into a real show after Genshiken. Even the original authors could do that.

It's out and yet again there seems to be a lot of story to it.

That was a good chapter. great progression in the story. And I love the last page with the environmentalist joke.

Overall though, I'm not surprised they didn't get first. I wasn't expecting it to be an easy journey for them. The whole thinking-they-got-first but then not getting it was great though.

I think that there is nothing to really say about it...just waiting for that big breakthrough

What do you guys think about them going for a mainstream manga? I personally like it. Think about real life, the popular manga are the Naruto's and Bleach's.

Then again death note was a mega-hit that could've been a cult favorite, but it was so good that everyone loved it. So I have mixed feelings about them going mainstream.