We Await Silent Jbor's Return

[pynchonoid]

--- The Great Quail <quail at libyrinth.com> wrote:

> Playboy Japan,


Despite the many comments in this forum seeking to
marginalize the magazine, Playboy Japan (a licensed
version of the 3-million circulation US magazine) is
published by one of Japan's largest publishers.  And,
judging from this list of titles, Pynchon is in good
company, who knows maybe he liked the idea of his
interview appearing in a major Japanese magazine that
nobody in the US would be likely to know anything
about  - clearly the case in this forum - published by
a company that also publishes all these fun manga, a
context not terribly different from the The Simpsons
episodes with which he appears to be having fun.
Another case of something rejected out of hand by
hidebound Pynchon cultists, which turns out to be
pretty interesting after all. Pynchon's interview
published in Japan by the same outfit that publishes
Zombie Powder.  Could be, who knows, maybe that's a
sort of ultimate Pynchonian comment of the whole
author-celebrity-vampire press thang....(Disclaimer:
  I got to know the Viz guys a little bit in San
Francisco back in the very early '90s, before the biz
blew up, a fun crew.)

from Wikipedia:

Shueisha is a major publisher in Japan, headquartered
in Tokyo. The company was founded in 1925 as the
entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese
publisher Shogakukan. The following year Shueisha
became a separate, independent company. Shueisha's
Jump Comics division is a large publisher of manga.

Shueisha later founded Hakusensha, which has gone on
to become another of Japan's most successful
publishers.

Homesha (ホーム社,
Hōmusha?) is one of the many imprints operated by
Shueisha.

Shueisha publishes the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine and
organizes the Tezuka Award in Japan. Shonen Jump,
begun in 1968, is the world's most popular and most
successful Japanese manga magazine. [citation needed]

Shueisha, along with Shogakukan, owns Viz Media, which
publishes manga from both companies in the United
States.

The name "Shueisha" comes from the phrase Eichi ga
tsudou (英知が集う,
loosely translated as "Assemble knowledge"). The
on-yomi of the kanji 集 is shū.
Contents
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    * 1 Manga magazines published by Shueisha
    * 2 Other magazines published by Shueisha
    * 3 Manga titles published by Jump Comics
    * 4 External links

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Manga magazines published by Shueisha

    * Akamaru Jump
    * Business Jump
    * Monthly Shonen Jump
    * Super Jump
    * Ultra Jump
    * V Jump
    * Weekly Shonen Jump
    * Young Jump

    * Chorus
    * Comic Gum
    * Cookie

    * Margaret
    * Bessatsu Margaret
    * DX Margaret
    * The Margaret

    * Ribon
    * Ribon Original

    * YOU (magazine)
    * Young YOU
    * Office YOU

    * Tokumori

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Other magazines published by Shueisha

    * Playboy
    * Non-No
    * Seventeen (Japanese magazine)

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Manga titles published by Jump Comics

    * Bouken Oh Beet (a.k.a. Beet the Vandel Buster)
    * Bleach
    * Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
    * Buso Renkin
    * Captain Tsubasa
    * City Hunter
    * Cowa!
    * Death Note
    * Den'ei Shōjo (Video Girl Ai)
    * Dragon Drive
    * Dr. Slump
    * Dragon Ball
    * Dragon Quest : Dai no Daibouken
    * DNA²
    * Elfen Lied
    * GUNNM (a.k.a. Battle Angel Alita)
    * Hikaru no Go
    * Hokuto no Ken (a.k.a. Fist of the North Star)
    * Hunter × Hunter
    * Ichigo 100%
    * I"s
    * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
    * Katekyo Hitman Reborn (Reborn!)
    * Kinnikuman (the toy line was released in North
America as M.U.S.C.L.E.)
    * Tatakae!! Ramenman (a spinoff of Kinnikuman)
    * Kinnikuman: Nisei (better known as Ultimate
Muscle in the U.S. or North America, Northern Europe,
Oceania, and some regions)
    * Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae
Hashutsujo (This Is the Police Box at the
'Katsushika-ku Kameari'-Park, nicknamed Kochikame)
    * Kuni ga Moeru
    * Legendz
    * Meiryo-tei Goto Seijuro
    * Nana
    * Naruto
    * One Piece
    * Onmyou Taisenki
    * Tennis no Ouji-Sama (a.k.a. Prince of Tennis)
    * Read or Die
    * Versailles no Bara (a.k.a. The Rose of
Versailles)
    * Rurouni Kenshin
    * Saint Seiya (a.k.a. Knights of the Zodiac)
    * Slam Dunk
    * Shaman King
    * Tenjho Tenge
    * Yu-Gi-Oh!
    * Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
    * Yu-Gi-Oh! R
    * YuYu Hakusho
    * Whistle!
    * Zombie Powder


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