oh frabjous day! calloo! callay!

Announced at ComicCon--VIZ will be publishing both Urasawa's 20th Century Boys (welcome news, but not a surprise; fans have known they were planning to do this years ago, but published Monster first at Urasawa's request) and--hooray!--Pluto, Urasawa's suspenseful retelling of the Pluto arc from Tezuka's Astro Boy (I have hoped they would do this ever since I got a peek at some scans of Pluto a year or two back. As an act of faith, I have not gone looking for scanlations for either series. Spoil me and I'll kick your head in. Urasawa is a master of suspense! I like suspense. Don't un-suspend me).

I swear, I am so happy, I could vomit up flowers and butterflies.

Although it seems unlikely that anyone is going to license and publish older Urasawa works like Happy, Yawara, and Master Keaton, every step I can take towards my dream of completing an Urasawa dead-tree English language library is a good step.