Manga in Paris

Only this shop was filled with exoticism in this street.

I could see lots of manga, game softwares, and figures from outside of show window. Of course I sneaked into the shop:)

I was very surprised at a huge number of manga from floor to ceiling in the shop. And all was translated into French. It seemed that almost all the manga of Japanese main publisher (e.g.Shueisha, Shogakukan, Koudansha, Akita Shoten) were covered. Most popular manga at there was "Jump Comics". Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, To Love-Ru, Bleach, Death Note, etc. I prefer minor publishers manga to these though^^; I was happy that I could find out Narutaru, genshiken, ... and Übel Blatt(a little surprised).

Lots of figure in the shop. I could find some figures which I feel a little nostalgia. It seems that cool figure is popular than moe figure there. Unfortunately, I couldn't find out R18's^^;

The neighbor was also Manga shop. I confirmed four shops which is related to Japanese subculture in this street at all. And the one of those seemed to be a cosplay shop. Rue Keller - Keller Street is the OTAKU street?

This is my loot which I got there:) le Voyage de KURO - 棺担ぎのクロ One of my favorite Manga! I could get French version of it before getting my hands on English version^^
Anyway, I was very surprised at the good quality. I can't find the difference between Japanese original version and French version except for language. The quality of paper, color, and printing. All is excellent. And it is translated down to the smallest detail(e.g. inside of book cover!) into French. This is awesome:)

These adorable little girls are ニジュク and サンジュ. The origin of their names is 29 and 30 in Japanese. I was really interested in the translation of that into French. Vingt-Neuf et Trente? But contrary to my expectation, it was printed like this "NIJYUKU(29) and SANJYU(30)". That's a literal translation LOL

Ce manga est publié dans son sens de lecture originale, de droite à gauche. Ici, vous êtes donc a la fin.
This manga is published in its sense of original reading from right to left. This is therefore the last page.

Yes, I realized that almost all the manga in this shop can be read from right to left as original style of Japanese. I remember my first encounter with Japanese Manga translated into French more than 10years ago in southern France. The Manga was 仙術超攻殻ORION by Shiro-Masamune. Really nice hardback...except for one thing. It was reproduced as western style reading from left to right. That means all page is mirror-reversed printing. I had feeling of strangeness for it at that time.

So, I'm glad to meet such a lot of Manga that is re-created authentically into foreign language.