Albert:
> I saw one of Viz's "Art of Ranma 1/2" books in the store yesterday.

    How much are they selling for?  I think I got my Memorial Book for
around $15.

> The contents appear to be a subset of what's in the Japanese edition
"Ranma
> 1/2 Memorial Book". It's got much of the color art, some of the two page
> charts, and the interview with Takahshi. I didn't have time to do a

    Well, I think the color art is the main part of that book.  The black
and white stuff is okay, but it's really not that good.

> detailed comparision, but it looked like most of the other black and white
> pages were missing: in particular the character profiles and the pages
with
> a complete index of manga story arcs.  I'm guessing that they skipped that
> stuff because (1) it contained lots of tiny Jpanese text mixed with tiny
> excerpts from the manga (2) they didn't want to deal with manga they had
> not translated yet.

    Kind of hard to give a reference arc and volume number when you're not
sure which one it will be in (if ever!).  :)

> For someone who doesn't have, and can't find the Memorial Book, it's not a
> bad deal, but since I've got the Memorial Book, I'm not in a hurry to buy
> it.

    Well, you really have to be able to read whatever language the Memorial
Book is published in order to make sense of the text pages.  So I don't
think it's a bad idea to get the English version if you can't another
language that features the Memorial Book.

Don
"MOMO stands for Multiple Observative Mimetic Organicus, which I don't think
is even a word, and it's also the name of the stupid girl in Project
Justice.  I don't think it's a coincidence."
Me, on Xenosaga.  The 3D Elly is really cute!