Tom Spurgeon ran an interesting Five for Friday query this week: “Name Five Archival/Translation Projects That Aren’t Happening Right Now (As Far As You Know) That You’d Love To See.” There are lots of interesting projects in the responses, but there isn’t much in the way of comics from Japan, so I thought I’d try and open a manga-specific version of the conversation here.
My picks:
What are yours? (This isn’t a demand or anything, but I’d love for people to go with blind optimism instead of dwelling on the commercial realities that make such potential licenses doomed to failure.)
