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Manga with technical vocabulary

#1
I'm not necessarily talking about just computer-related vocabulary.
But anything related to a profession(doctor,lawyer,musician,etc) also works.

Just wanted to recommend a manga called "Bloody Monday". Sort of a computer-hackerish meets Doomsday kind of setting.

Issues often have vocabulary lists (and definitions) for technical terms.

Some terms (all in katakana) listed in Volume 2:
sniffer
filtering
data packet
firewall
cache

You get the idea.

Does anyone recommend any manga with very technical language?
Even better if it tries to explain some of the terms.

Thanks.
Edited: 2009-08-13, 1:50 am
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#2
Will you take an anime? I apologize if you won't, but Battle Programmer Shirase is about a programmer (hacker).
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#3
I don't really see the point of computer stuff. It's all just katakana-ized English, not even waseieigo.

I find biology/medical terms interesting though. Stuff like 肝炎 (liver inflammation - hepatitis), 糖尿病 (sugary urine disease - diabetes), or 脳炎 (brain swelling - encephalitis) make it immediately evident what the words mean without prior exposure. Unless you know Latin, English isn't anywhere near as clear.

I don't read manga or watch anime regularly, so I can't recommend anything. I got my exposure from my japanese-nurse-ex-gf.
Edited: 2009-08-13, 2:10 am
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#4
The first few episodes of "Monster" had quite a lot of medical terminology. I assume the manga is the same.
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#5
Hokaben has some lawyer like terms. But that's not an anime as far as I know. It does come in manga form though.
Edited: 2009-08-13, 2:38 am
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#6
Bloody Monday has been turned into a really good drama. They were actually running linux! and they had code that did what it was supposed to like, if I remember correctly, the tcpdump source code trickled down the screen when he was going to sniff packets. I had a look at the manga, and it seemed like the computer stuff got a hollywood treatment of stupid message boxes and so on. I hope I'm wrong.
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#7
Have you thought about reading technical journals from Japan? It's not manga, but you will get a lot more vocabulary and much more in depth application perspective. However, it is particularly difficult.
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#8
The first Japanese drama I ever watched was the drama version of this. Yeah, I think you're right nonpoint, I remember seeing python code at some point =D
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#9
Planetes has space-related technical terms.
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