June 17, 2005
Additional fun you can have with manga tankubon
1.
If you have a Japanese tankoubon, try taking off the jacket!
Japanese manga tankoubon usually have a jacket on them and some of them have a different picture or even a comic strip exclusively drawn for tankoubon on the cover (under the jacket.)
2.
Occasionally you can find a manga character from the other manga series as a passer-by or somebody. Almost always it is drawn by the quoter to pay homage to the character.
In this site you can view the replicated scene and the original one from Lovely Complex vol.3. Upper one is in Ichigo Mashimaro vol.4 .
3.
Sometimes you find the same house, building or landscape in some different manga.
Those three houses in Sumomomomomomo, Tenjou Tenge and Shingetsutan Tsukihime look identical. It seems the artists referred the same material..
4.
It is well known that the artist of Eye Shield 21 revises some parts of his artworks when the manga comes into a tankoubon.
A fan compared some shots from Weekly Shonen Jump and the equivalent ones from the tankoubon.
On the other hand, some artists overlook and forget to revise something important, giving their characters something extra.
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