Week ten: manga and the japanese comics tradition

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When i was a wee lad i had this 5 part manga book called "Zombie Powder". it was about a couple of bounty hunters acquiring a set number of rings that would render someone immortal but at some incredibly heavy price. It was honestly my gateway at some young age that lead into the beginning of my art drawing in a manga style for a while until i found my own way but that was really my introduction into that world. At first really i didn't have that much of a interest, i wasn't up to date with Naruto, i didn't own any of the death note books, nothing much but as i got older i really started appreciated the sheer abundance of  different stories that came from manga and anime and now im trying to keep up to date. One of them Blackjack and The Story of Buddha and with it the theology sheds light on a otherwise wonderful story.

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