End of January 2015 Purchases
I bought these from Amazon US and Amazon JP. It takes a while for new books to come to Kinokuniya USA, so I paid the extra buck per volume to get these books now.
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Highlights from Petite Princess Issue 2/2015
Petite Princess is a bi-monthly publication that contains both series and oneshots. The content generally straddles the line between shoujo and josei, with a couple of very young skewing shoujos and usually 2 or 3 smutty selections. The stories are generally high school, college, and young office lady romances with no fantasy elements, except for the occasional talking animal. Petite
Read moreBookoff and Kinokuniya Sale Haul
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,
Read moreJanuary 2015 Purchases Part 1
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…
Read more2014 Unlicensed Shoujo Manga Retrospective and 2015 Predictions
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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