Monday, January 11, 2010

UPDATE Alcohollica: Metallica Doujinshi from 1989!!!

Dear Alcohollica fans:

It is with great regret that I must inform you that the creator of this mind-blowing comic has requested we take it down because:

"People says, Japanese is a culture of shame. Japanese feel ashamed when the actions are exposed to a lot of unexpected people."

For the time being, we will honor this request.

TSB is going to try to reason with this person, as these books are just too incredible to let rot. If an agreement cannot be reached, however, rest assured that one way or another you will not be deprived.

Here's to hoping that Tagosaku-san comes around for the fans, to remind us of a time when Metallica could still kill us all.

Please leave your protest/pleas to Tagosaku-san in the comments section.


While waiting for a friend to finish his vintage game mining at Nakano Broadway last weekend, I made the greatest chrono-archaeological find of our generation: a series of fan-made Metallica manga published from 1989 through 1991, still in it's original shrink wrap! Created by mysterious doujin artist Tagosaku and translated by TSB... after 20 years trapped under ice, I give you Alcohollica Issue 1!
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12 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 12, 2010 at 2:29 PM

    So grim, so true, so real--this is why doujinshi were invented!

    --Carl

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  2. Prof. GrewbeardJanuary 12, 2010 at 4:01 PM

    holy fucking wow...

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  3. voidmareJanuary 13, 2010 at 9:45 AM

    @ Carl: Yes!

    @Prof. Grewbeard: YES!!!

    Thanks guys!

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2010 at 3:27 AM

    Awesome! Keep it up with the translations of this seriously sideways stuff! It's much appreciated!!

    Cryo114

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  5. schultzzJanuary 15, 2010 at 11:22 AM

    Thanks for doing this. It's rare for me to find a doujinshi about anything that I am familiar with the original! And if you don't know the original you can't get the parody. so this is like a window into the whole subculture.

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 16, 2010 at 4:01 AM

    Tagosaku-san, please don't be ashamed of your great doujinshi "Alcohollica." When Yoshihisa Tagami's manga GREY was published in English in 1988, I read it while listening to "...And Justice For All" as my soundtrack. A friend of mine made made one of the first anime music videos by combining Gundam to "Orion." So I think it's very appropriate for a Japanese fan to do what they want with Metallica! ^_^

    Also, "Alcohollica" is great because we rarely get to see this type of doujinshi in English. Generally, the only doujinshi most U.S. fans ever get to see are those that parody popular anime, manga, video games, etc. But there are so many more interesting and diverse kinds of doujin out there, including, of course, doujin by music fans. Please be proud of work like "Alcohollica"!!

    --Carl

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 16, 2010 at 12:53 PM

    man, fuck that kid. put em up anyway. did he ask permission from metallica before drawing and selling their image? if you translated it wrong or you had metallica saying things like "fuck the emperor, he's a war criminal," then dude could say "take it down," but as it stands, he's being a big wiener about it. how'd he find out about it anyway?

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2010 at 6:45 AM

    UGHHH PUT IT BACK UP
    its beautiful ~

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  9. JunssiJuly 27, 2010 at 7:10 AM

    "...to remind us of a time when Metallica could still kill us all." Damn, I so hope these times would come back...

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  10. AnonymousAugust 26, 2010 at 5:20 AM

    that's great

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  11. AnonymousNovember 25, 2010 at 7:58 AM

    DAmn, so who got the links, I want to see it, no matter what they said.

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  12. voidmareNovember 25, 2010 at 8:44 AM

    @Anonymous: _check the link at the end of this post... http://tokyoscum.blogspot.com/2010/08/tsb-year-one.html

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