Making manga that also gives vocab that could help you on SAT and ACT! Yeah you think I'm crapping you, I'm not. My boyfriend(I'm a girl in real life), let me borrow one that I thought looked good to see how they are trying to be helpful on the tests. The only reason I bring it up on this sub forum is due to the publisher, Tokyopop. I kinda didn't believe it until I had my hands on the book and read it, it's actually not too bad. The other one my boyfriend has is a WoW one which I want to look at too since it looks like it has slightly better art than the one I read, Van Von Hunter or was is Von Van Hunter, how they made the title is a bit odd to me. Other than the art, which at times seems a bit out of place. However the story to me is pretty good, and as the book puts it for type of book, it's a comedy and I tend to have a good time with those. So what's your thoughts of what kind of partnership that Kaplan and Tokyopop. Is it good, bad, or okay(as in can go either way), and why so? To me it's okay so far, until I see more things out of this, I don't have much say about the partnership. However I think it's kinda an interesting idea to try to slip in words that might not be very well known to some people. Though for me, a English Diff student, quite a bit of the words used I already knew so not so much a help but a help in seeing how they were used in sentences. Heck there were a few that even I didn't really know much about. Though when I found the word nefarious, I just couldn't help but laugh, I knew what the word was, so I found a third thing that I found helpful, other than the how to pronounce but also for me, I have a hard time spelling, so I might know quite a bit of vocabulary but I can't spell to match my knowledge. So it was pretty cool to see some words I knew and finally see the spelling for them.


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Hey!
I've seen that comic run in the Sunday paper.
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It didn't run long (Peach Fuzz either) but it seemes ok from what I read.
It does have more advanced kep words, along with their definition in the book.

That's cool. They've been doing various partnerships lately. Like a manga they are both printing or something *is confused about that subject*

I find it odd, but they are one of the best, and some good companies do need a push to get their products sold. Like CMX manga ^^

I don't think Tokyopop needs much sales help, although some of the American style comics might benefit from trying something like this. I think it's a good idea though, if it can make people actually remember the words they're seeing.

that sounds pretty cool
i've seen some really crappy SAT manga with really bad art and they don't seem like they help much, if at all. :?
but they're not a bad idea! :idea: