I started reading Shonen Jump in 1986, when I first moved to Japan, and now, after all this time, they're starting to sell it here.

The weirdest thing is that it's in English, but you read it from right to left, like Japanese. The other night I stopped in a 7-11 here in Denver to get some junk food, and they were actually selling it on the magazine rack! I really felt strange when I saw it... some sort of culture shock or something. As if I had seen apple pie with squid and seaweed on top...

I thought about getting a copy, but it's $4.95... I did notice that the pages are all black and white though, rather than colored as in Japan. And the whole thing is only about 1/3 as thick as the Japanese ones...

Man, to see Japanese culture filter into America like this is just so strange — I can't even describe the feeling it evokes in me...