> I'm pretty new to this whole manga business... I thought I'd be pretty
> satisfied with my 5 OAV's, but couldn't resist not reading the mangas,
> so I recently ordered 4 paperback editions of the mangas (sorta economic
> in a way... though I didn't expect the size to shrink).  Man, I didn't
> know what I was missing!  Some hilarious stuff in there.
> 
> Anyways, I have a question.  It seems to me that the Japanese version is
> all the way up to volume #13... (heh, this is from doing a search on
> eBay :) ), but from darkhorse's website, I see that they're only up to
> volume #7.  Is this true, or am I missing something here?  Have they
> always been behind like this?

Well, a) Dark Horse volumes are seven billion times smaller than the
Kodansha ones, 2) Dark Horse are way behind on not only translating the
comics but also on collecting their own translated ones in trades, and
d) Dark Horse did not do chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
13, 15 & 16.

> Second question:  I'm super hyped up about the upcoming movie... I hear
> it'll be out in Spring 2000, but what does that mean for those of living
> in the States?  Should we have to wait until it comes out on video, then
> wait more until it gets subtitled/dubbed?  Any chance it'll show on
> theaters?  (crossing fingers that maybe Princess Mononoke would play
> some sort of a part here...).  Anyone have a guess on the date of the
> release of the video in the States?

Not really answering your question sorry, but did Mononoke Hime ever
come out on the cinemas in the States? I remember all the hype the
magazines made about Disney's Miyazaki releases about three years ago,
but haven't really seen anything since. I'm presuming that Neil's script
is as yet unfinished? Great though he is, Neil was not called "Never
Ever Man"" by Chris Baccalo for nothing!

> Third question:  I've seen couple of polls on the web on everyone's
> favorite goddess, but has there been a poll on this ML on everyone's
> favorite goddess?  Or is there like a quasi-official, not contaminated
> with certain types of people who would vote 100 times for a certain
> goddess, THE voting poll on the web?  I'm just curious about the
> numbers...

I'm not going to answer this right now. I'm going to reead the rest of
my mail and see what everybody ELSE said, and then decide whether to
laugh myself silly or launch nucleur warheads. ^_-

Sam the man