Kanji De Manga Volume 2: The Comic Book That Teaches You How To Read And Write Japanese! (Paperback)

by Glenn Kardy (Author), Chihiro Hattori (Author)

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Product Description
The second volume in an exciting new series from Manga University - using original comic artwork to teach readers how to identify and write the most common Japanese kanji ideographs - introduces 80 kanji that all Japanese school children are required to learn by the time they graduate from sixth grade. Each page features its own comic strip, kanji pronunciation guide, stroke order, and English explanations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Japanime Co. Ltd. (June 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 4921205035
• ISBN-13: 978-4921205034
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #296,536 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good books, but weird organization of the volumes, January 19, 2007

By	Kirt Senser "Self Educator" (Crofton, MD) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

While I do like these books, and I have found them to be useful in my and my families learning of kanji, they are organized in a completely non-sensical way. At the back of each book, they proclaim that they are useful in studying for the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficieny Test) exams. They are useful.. just not comprehensive.

For example, Volume 1, which has 80 kanji in it to learn, (despite what the paragraph at the back of the book says) is NOT the full list of kanji you would need to learn to pass the first level exam (JLPT4). The JLPT4 test requires 103 kanji at the current time, as well as like 700 vocab words, and basic grammar and listening skills. If you were to just study this book, and nothing else, you would surely fail.

At first I thought maybe the authors had just made an error and meant to say that the books were organized loosely based on the elementary school grade level. However, this is also not true. An example of this is ("hana") which is a grade level 1 kanji taught to first graders, but is in fact in Volume 2.

The only other glaring problem I've found with these books is the lack of any sort of English definition lookup or table of contents. While you can look the kanji up if you know the spelling in kana, being able to look it up in English would've been really nice. However, the books are cheap and fun and pretty easy to use.

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool book, January 18, 2007

By	C. Siegl Krause (Chicago) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Nice book for the price. Looked like a lot of information. My niece thought it was great!