Himu rejoices

[mojovonio]

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/Section/Shakespeare-The-Manga-Editions.id-310791.html
 

[TakingBackSunday]

[Himu]

lmao

[Eric P]

last year a company did some pretty good comic book versions of these with the full text.

can't be bothered to look them up, but the mangnafication of everything is just obnoxious

[Eric P]

my vagina may be showing, but i actually rather liked 10 Things

[Bloodwake]

I don't see Something Awful in the address bar... something's wrong with the world.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Unlike traditional manga, these books read front to back and left to right, the way you're used to reading.

wait, so this is targeted as people both insecure about reading Shakespeare and insecure about reading manga too?

[recursivelyenumerable]

I think comic book versions of plays are a good idea, actually.  Plays are (at least optionally) meant to be staged, so here's a way to put the staging right on the page.

[Human Snorenado]

Unlike traditional manga, these books read front to back and left to right, the way you're used to reading.

wait, so this is targeted as people both insecure about reading Shakespeare and insecure about reading manga too?

No, it means these are made in the west for westerners pretending to be Japanese.
I can't even begin to imagine how fucked up these would be if some Japanese company made them.

lolis and tentacles ahoy!

[recursivelyenumerable]

but wouldn't westerners pretending to be Japanese want to read right to le ... I should stop now, shouldn't I?

[Eric P]

I think comic book versions of plays are a good idea, actually.  Plays are (at least optionally) meant to be staged, so here's a way to put the staging right on the page.

that's why the american styled ones released last year work

[Tieno]

Somehow I read that as "Himu juices" and was all "ewww"

[Himu]

Somehow I read that as "Himu juices" and was all "ewww"

all over your face

[Van Cruncheon]

my vagina may be showing, but i actually rather liked 10 Things

hey i did too

[BlueTsunami]

Isn't there a Romeo and Juliet anime?

[Jansen]

Isn't there a Romeo and Juliet anime?

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7087

[Great Rumbler]

The fact that they made this a bullet point:

Text is greatly abridged, so reading these isn't tedious torture.

worries me.

It's a sad commentary on the state of literacy and education in this country. But I guess it's something that people are at least being exposed to Shakespeare.

[Himu]

Isn't there a Romeo and Juliet anime?

there's a count of monte cristo anime and it rules

[littlemathletics]

my vagina may be showing, but i actually rather liked 10 Things

Hell, I even thought She's The Man was okay, but maybe only cause I have an inexplicable crush on Amanda Byrnes dressed as a young boy.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

10 Things is good

[Beardo]

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/Section/Shakespeare-The-Manga-Editions.id-310791.html
 

Only if there is an Arabic edition.

[Guybrush Threepwood]

No Shenmue III?  :'(

[littlemathletics]

Thread title for that would be "Himu prematurely ejaculates"

[Don Flamenco]

if it reads left-to-right, doesn't that mean it's just a regular comic book/graphic novel?  I guess manga does better in the U.S. than I thought...

at first I was like "maybe this is amusing" then I saw it's for real and they're selling it.   :'(

[Raban]

Text is greatly abridged, so reading these isn't tedious torture.

Wow. Just...wow

[pilonv1]

10 things was good. haven't seen shes the man but amanda byrnes is hot even though she has the body of a pre-pubescant boy

[littlemathletics]

I don't understand this "even though" you talk of.

The Sailors once sang: "Small hips, no tits - girls who look like boys, they really are the shit".