Title: Summer War’s Part 2Purchase: Amazon / Barnes & Noble “Summer Wars” Part 2 was a lot more fun than Part 1. My husband again criticized the series for not faithfully representing the IT profession, to which I reminded him again that no one wants to see a manga about real IT work and workers because they are BORING. Again
Read moreTitle: AnotherStory: Yukito AyatsujiArt: Hiro KiyoharaUS Publisher: Yen PressISBN: 978-0316245913Purchase: Amazon / Barnes & Noble First Impressions: I couldn’t get passed the first few episodes of the anime because it was too slow, but in manga form I can follow it. Wow… does nobody notice the mass psychosis? All right, I’m going to put aside the absurdity of this curse
Read moreThis seems like a pointless list for me to make because most of the unlicensed manga I love I make into Crimson Flower projects. So I thought I’d talk about some of those and a few titles that are on my radar. I’m limiting this list to shoujo and josei since the only non-shoujo/josei title I bought was “Kerberos in
Read moreHere’s the list the licensed manga from this year I read and I liked the most. This isn’t a best manga list. I feel in no way capable of making those kinds of judgements, nor do I read much of anything that experts would consider “best”. Actually, I was hard pressed to name any new licensed manga I really liked
Read moreLet’s talk about some of the trends we saw in shoujo manga this year! Admittedly my scope is limited since I don’t read the major shoujo magazine from Shueisha, Shogukukan, and Kodansha (Margaret, Sho-comi, Cookie, Cheese, Betsucomi, Ciao, Ribbon, The Dessert…etc…). Please feel free to inform about trends I didn’t catch in the comments section. Anyhow, here’s what I noticed
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