I went to Bookoff and Kinokuniya in Costa Mesa California today. This Bookoff also sells a lot of stuff you’d find at a garage sale, but there is more manga than at the San Diego store. The Kinokuniya was in the Mitsuwa Marketplace. This Mitsuwa has a really nice food court and full sized grocery store. The Kinokuniya is small,
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Here are the manga I purchased the first half of January. I bought mostly shoujo titles with a sprinkling of josei and seinen. Going to the Kinokuniya MLK sale on Monday. I wonder what I’ll find…
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Title: Hana and Earth Volume 1 (Hana to Earth, 花と地球) Mangaka: Sanae Uno (宇野紗菜） Genre: It straddles the border between shoujo and josei, slice-of-life ISBN: 9784253198431 Purchase: Amazon JP / Yes Asia ($9.98 includes shipping to the US) Genre: It straddles the border of shoujo and josei Synopsis: Hana dreams of running her grandparents’ healing herb cafe and living an
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 more“Helter Skelter” by Kyoko OkazakiGeneral Impression: I was hesitant to purchase this title because I don’t like fashion/actor/idol manga. And given the cover, I didn’t feel like reading anything about a character with body dysmorphia. Yeah, yeah beauty is skin deep. I already know this. And the series started off exactly as I expected: the main character Liliko is a
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Lovely Manga 