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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in 2014 I set out to read more manga in Japanese and explore more Josei. I explored some of the more traditional shoujo magazines from Shueisha, Kodansha, and Shogokugan. I started reading Betsuma, The Margaret, Friend, The Dessert, Betsucomi, and Betsucomi DX. I gave some josei magazines at chance, but ultimately found that Cocohana, Flowers, Feel, & Belove didn’t hold
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2014 Predictions! (2014 Results) For the most part, my predictions were bad, but it was fun giving it some thought. Here are my predictions along side with the results. As publishers grope to find create new fads and subgenres, I expect to see more experimental short series and oneshots. (Well… there was nothing as ambitious as Aya Kanno’s shoujo adaptation
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This will be a quick post because I didn’t read much licensed manga. More than half of what i bought is still sitting on my shelves. I’m not going to consider manga that I already read in Japanese because although I bought the manga out of duty, I didn’t read the manga again. This year wasn’t very exciting for me
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Lovely Manga 