Title: Alice in the Country of Hearts: The Clockmaker’s Story ISBN: 9781937867645 Purchase: Amazon US / Barnes and Noble Review — B-: For an Alice in the Country of XYZ follow on story, this is pretty good, but compared to other shoujo in general it’s quite middle of road. This story supposes that Alice falls in love with the Clockmaker
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Title: Futari no Renai Shoka (ふたりの恋愛書架） (“Their Love Bookshelf”) Mangaka: Yamazaki Kore (ヤマザキコレ） Publisher/ Publication: Houbunsha / Manga Time Kirara Forward ISBN: 9784832242616 Purchase: Amazon JP / YesAsia Synopsis: Kanako is a free spirited lonely women who lives in and runs a used bookstore, and Akio is a lonely young man who loves books. The two meet at a swap
Read moreI’ve decided to start writing reviews of the Japanese language manga I’ve been reading. I used to write synopsis years ago, but I received some complaints because readers could not read the content in English themselves either because the title was not licensed or scanlated. However, now I feel there are a significant number of readers who are learning Japanese
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
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