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IRC: a chat tool that allows rapid file sharing. Good source for scanlations
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Manga: the Japanese word for comic books and print cartoons, lit. trans. “whimsical pictures”
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Josei manga: manga aimed at older teenage girls and women, i.e. Tramps Like Us.
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Scanlation: scanned amateur translations of manga
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Seinen manga: manga aimed at older teenage boys and men, i.e. Akira
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Shōnen manga: manga aimed at boys, i.e. Dragon Ball Z
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Shōjo manga: manga aimed at girls, i.e. Mars
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Tankōbon: a compilation volume of a particular manga
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Yaoi manga: manga, usually aimed at female readers, featuring a homosexual male relationship
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Learn to use IRC! This can be a very intimidating tool to new users, but it’s also your link to a virtual ocean of free, unlicensed manga.
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Check out MTV’s online bookstore for good deals on manga tankōbon. (No, we don’t work for them. It really is a surprisingly good source.)
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Practice your patience. Most of the manga series being released in the United States are being released at the rate of a few volumes per year, even for series that have already finished in Japan. If you’re starting on a series like Hana Yori Dango, which should be fully translated by, oh, 2015 or so, you might be better off looking for scanlated versions of the later chapters. (Hell, with that amount of time you could probably just learn Japanese….)
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