First of all, I hope everyone in the US had a tasty and safe Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was small here with just me, my husband, and Omari. We fried turkey legs and had all the usual sides — mashed potatoes, yams, southen style collards, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. Everything was insanely tasty. (I will admit to being proud of
Read moreTitle: PinkArtist: Kyoko OkazakiISBN: 978-1939130129Publisher: Vertical MATURE POST AHEAD First Impressions: Page 1 — Naked Girl Page 3 — Naked Girl Page 6 — And then this happens Uh-huh… another seinen manga that Vertical is trying to pass off as josei… I’ve have enough of this shit. I only got through chapter 8 before I had to put this trite
Read moreTitle: Ayako Artist/Author: Osamu Tezuka ISBN-10: 1935654780 First Impressions: Holy crap! This book is thick! It’s starts off as a super cool spy story with horrible artwork and then turns into some hillbilly incest train wreck of the likes of the worst reality television show. There is way too much incest in this manga… ugh… why???? The super spy
Read moreLots of good manga license announcements were made at Comic-Con in New York over the past two days. For a full listing of the announcements please go of Anime News Network: Vertical: Announcement 1/ Announcement 2Kodansha USA: Announcement 1/ Announcement 2/ Announcement 3VizYen Press This blog posting will only cover licensing announcements that matter to Crimson Flower Readers. Vertical: “Attack
Read moreTitle: Voice Over! Seiyu AcademyArtist/Author: Maki MinamiPublisher: Viz (Shoujo Beat)ISBN: 9781421559704 Purchase: Amazon / Barnes & Noble (Also Available Digitally) Initial Impressions:I approached this skeptically because I’m tired of reading “I wanna become an idol” manga. I only picked it up because Holanio and Sora from Tumblr seemed to be really excited about it. The first chapter was lackluster, but
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