2014 is the year I made a concerted effort to read more manga in Japanese. I ended up reading a lot of oneshots from Extra Cheese!, Petite Princess, and The Margaret. Unfortunately I didn’t keep a list of what I read and what I thought of the oneshots. I’ll try to do better in 2015. I did a better job
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in 2014 I set out to read more manga in Japanese and explore more Josei. I explored some of the more traditional shoujo magazines from Shueisha, Kodansha, and Shogokugan. I started reading Betsuma, The Margaret, Friend, The Dessert, Betsucomi, and Betsucomi DX. I gave some josei magazines at chance, but ultimately found that Cocohana, Flowers, Feel, & Belove didn’t hold
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2014 Predictions! (2014 Results) For the most part, my predictions were bad, but it was fun giving it some thought. Here are my predictions along side with the results. As publishers grope to find create new fads and subgenres, I expect to see more experimental short series and oneshots. (Well… there was nothing as ambitious as Aya Kanno’s shoujo adaptation
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This will be a quick post because I didn’t read much licensed manga. More than half of what i bought is still sitting on my shelves. I’m not going to consider manga that I already read in Japanese because although I bought the manga out of duty, I didn’t read the manga again. This year wasn’t very exciting for me
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“Library Wars: Love & War” is on the cover of the February 2015 issue of Lala magazine. This issue includes the last chapter of the series, some of which I intend to spoil thoroughly. If you don’t want to be spoiled, stop here. You have been warned. The furoku is a weird Nyanko-sensei bottle cozy. I’m not sure why you
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Lovely Manga 