“Zig-Zag” and “Venus in Love” are two mediocre manga series written by Yuki Nakaji. “Zig-Zag”, which is still currently running in LaLa magazine, is about 3 male high school students whose lives seem to revolve around flowers. One of the guys Takaaki looks like a little girl and has a crush on his older cousin Marika. Takaaki’s roommate, the mysterious
Read moreOnly the first volume of this manga series was released in the US. I found volume 2, 3, and a bit of 4 while Lurking. This series is pretty good and I don’t really understand why it didn’t catch on in the US. The manga is the story of Akira and Momoi and their adventures while swapped in each other’s
Read moreApparently, there are a bunch of manga out there about 16 and 17 year old girls falling in love in with a teacher and having a relationship with that teacher. “Kiss” by Matsumoto Tomo is one such manga. There are 8 volumes to this series, but I could only find 5 online and I have volume 6 and 8 on
Read more“My Heavenly Hockey Club” is basically a clone of “Ouran Host Club.” Of course “Ouran” is better, but this has its own charm. In this version, dimwitted Hana Suzaki gets run over by equally dimwitted and outrageously rich Izumi Oda, denting Izumi’s car. Izumi blames Hana for the damage to his car and tells her to pay him back she
Read moreI’ve recently found an online store that sells manga magazines from Japan for a decent shipping rate. The store is called Akadot. Anyhow, so I bought bought LaLa and LaLa DX not knowing the difference (apparently the sellers I contacted didn’t know either). Anyhow, so here’s the difference that I can detect (without having translated anything): LaLa DX is a
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