Ask Tangognat: Manga for boys who like Archie
Kiki writes: You helped before with manga for tweens, now I’m wondering what you can recommend manga-wise for boys who enjoy the Archie and Jughead comics/digests. They don’t necessarily want something Pokemon-ish, just humorous teen-age hijinks. This is a little tricky, because much of the teenage hijink manga that I can think of is probably [...]
Let Dai Volumes 1-3
Let Dai Volumes 1-3 by Sooyeon Won Jaehee is a normal schoolboy in Korea. When he hears a girl calling for help he runs to see what’s wrong. He sees a girl being attacked by a gang, and throws himself in the middle of the crowd, telling her to run away. Jaehee’s sacrifice ends up [...]
Butterflies, Flowers
Butterflies, Flowers Volume 1 by Yuki Yoshihara It can be rough if you are a female manga fan of a certain age. While reading shoujo romance about high school students does appeal to my inner 14 year old, my inner 23-29 year old remains unsatisfied since there are so few stories about women out of [...]
Itazura Na Kiss
Itazura Na Kiss Volume 1 by Kaoru Tada Itazura Na Kiss is an influential shoujo series. While some of the plot elements might seem cliched, that is because it was published in the 1990s and influenced many titles that came after it. I’m happy to see some old-fashioned shoujo get translated, so I selected this [...]
2009 Year in Reading
So this year I read 68 books and 219 manga and graphic novels. This is up a bit from last year’s totals. For books I tended to read a lot of easy mysteries, romances, and fantasy novels. I read through all of the Sookie Stackhouse books that are in paperback and I really enjoyed Kate [...]
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