• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Comment Policy
    • Disclosures & Disclaimers
  • Resources
    • Links, Essays & Articles
    • Fandomology!
    • CLAMP Directory
    • BlogRoll
  • Features & Columns
    • 3 Things Thursday
    • Adventures in the Key of Shoujo
    • Bit & Blips (game reviews)
    • BL BOOKRACK
    • Bookshelf Briefs
    • Bringing the Drama
    • Comic Conversion
    • Fanservice Friday
    • Going Digital
    • It Came From the Sinosphere
    • License This!
    • Magazine no Mori
    • My Week in Manga
    • OFF THE SHELF
    • Not By Manga Alone
    • PICK OF THE WEEK
    • Subtitles & Sensibility
    • Weekly Shonen Jump Recaps
  • Manga Moveable Feast
    • MMF Full Archive
    • Yun Kouga
    • CLAMP
    • Shojo Beat
    • Osamu Tezuka
    • Sailor Moon
    • Fruits Basket
    • Takehiko Inoue
    • Wild Adapter
    • One Piece
    • After School Nightmare
    • Karakuri Odette
    • Paradise Kiss
    • The Color Trilogy
    • To Terra…
    • Sexy Voice & Robo
  • Browse by Author
    • Sean Gaffney
    • Anna Neatrour
    • Michelle Smith
    • Katherine Dacey
    • MJ
    • Brigid Alverson
    • Travis Anderson
    • Phillip Anthony
    • Derek Bown
    • Jaci Dahlvang
    • Angela Eastman
    • Erica Friedman
    • Sara K.
    • Megan Purdy
    • Emily Snodgrass
    • Nancy Thistlethwaite
    • Eva Volin
    • David Welsh
  • MB Blogs
    • A Case Suitable For Treatment
    • Experiments in Manga
    • MangaBlog
    • The Manga Critic
    • Manga Report
    • Soliloquy in Blue
    • Manga Curmudgeon (archive)

Manga Bookshelf

Discussion, Resources, Roundtables, & Reviews

May 4, 2010 by MJ 8 Comments

NANA Project Special Edition!

The NANA Project takes on a special topic this month (or rather, last month a little bit late), following some internet brouhaha around pages that were removed from volume four of Viz’s edition of NANA.

Join Danielle Leigh, Michelle Smith, and me over at Comics Should Be Good as we hash out trademark law, fan entitlement, publisher negligence, translation, adaptation, the meaning of “censorship,” and the power of “love.” And don’t forget to flame us in comments.

We’ll return in June with discussion of volumes 11 & 12 of NANA. Meanwhile, check out our special edition here!

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Reddit
  • Tumblr
  • More
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest

Filed Under: NEWS Tagged With: censorship, nana, nana project

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Danielle Leigh says

    May 4, 2010 at 2:02 pm

    heh. I like your description of the project better than mine.

    (Also…flaming? I guess we’ll see…)

    Reply
    • Melinda Beasi says

      May 4, 2010 at 2:43 pm

      Hee, I hope it’s clear that my request for flames is tongue-in-cheek. I won’t be surprised if it happens, though. Have you ever waded through a a thread on the topic of manga censorship/adaptation/whatever? It’s ugly in there.

      Reply
      • Danielle Leigh says

        May 4, 2010 at 2:59 pm

        I mostly stick to “us” (i.e. sensible manga critics) but I’ve seen some crazy shit on the ANN forums. My god, some of those folks think anime exists like air or something…no one has to spend money to produce / distribute it, much less adapt it.

        Reply
  2. Travis says

    May 6, 2010 at 4:10 am

    Anything about Nana makes me so sad these days. Did you see that Yazawa Ai is out of hospital finally, but doesn’t know if she will ever go back to writing manga? ;_;

    Reply
    • Melinda Beasi says

      May 6, 2010 at 7:33 am

      Yeah, I’ve been kind of in denial over that. I keep hoping it was translated wrong. Heh.

      Reply
      • Travis says

        May 6, 2010 at 7:34 am

        I went to the website linked in the English article, but sadly it only had a blurb about the article, and if you wanted to read the whole thing, you had to buy the magazine. So I haven’t seen the actual article myself either…

        Reply
        • Melinda Beasi says

          May 6, 2010 at 7:35 am

          So my denial still holds up! Kind of. Hee. :)

          Reply

Trackbacks

  1. Tweets that mention NANA Project Special Edition! | Manga Bookshelf — Topsy.com says:
    May 5, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    […] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Melinda Beasi. Melinda Beasi said: New blog post: NANA Project Special Edition! http://bit.ly/cLJPnf […]

    Reply


Before leaving a comment at Manga Bookshelf, please read our Comment Policy.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

 | Log in
Copyright © 2010 Manga Bookshelf | Powered by WordPress & the Genesis Framework
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.