Comments on: Eagle: The 2008 Election Edition Volume 5 http://manga.jadedragononline.com/blog/2009/12/09/eagle-the-2008-election-edition-volume-5/ Manga News, Reviews and Commentary Mon, 20 May 2013 10:43:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: themooninautumn http://manga.jadedragononline.com/blog/2009/12/09/eagle-the-2008-election-edition-volume-5/#comment-1307 themooninautumn Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:11:32 +0000 http://manga.jadedragononline.com/?p=3217#comment-1307 I really enjoyed this series when it came out. Honestly, it made me think about politics and our political process more than any election ever had. I wasn’t learning mechanics; I was seeing them in action, seeing where they work and don’t work. Getting a look at our political process filtered through Kawaguchi’s lens was priceless.

I learned a lot (and remembered a lot I had forgotten since my last government class), and I was actually interested in politics again (even if they were only fictional politics). Maybe that layer of filtering allowed me to be more removed from the sort of hysteria you can’t avoid in a real election.

It was entertaining as all get out, too.

Here’s hoping Zipang will get licensed. (I dream . . .)

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