Itazura Na Kiss Volume 2
Itazura Na Kiss Volume 2 by Kaoru Tada Ah, poor Kotoko! Will her pursuit of her idol Naoki ever get any encouragement?! One of things I was surprised by in this volume was how quickly the protagonists moved from high school to college. Most of the current shoujo manga that I’ve read uses high school [...]
The Key to the Kingdom 1-3
The Key to the Kingdom Volumes 1-3 by Kyoko Shitou CMX can always be counted on to license good fantasy titles. The Key to the Kingdom follows a fairly typical fantasy adventure quest, but the characters and background details in the world Shitou created captured my attention. I picked up all six volumes in this [...]
Mushishi Manga Movable Feast
I’m sitting this Manga Movable Feast out, because I don’t have my copies of Mushishi anymore. But I encourage you to drop by Comics Worth Reading for all the commentary on Mushishi. I don’t have much to contribute, but for posterity’s sake I’ll link to a couple short takes on Mushishi from the dark recesses [...]
Ristorante Paradiso
Ristorante Paradiso by Natsume Ono I’ve enjoyed reading Natsume Ono’s quirky samurai manga House of Five Leaves on the Sigikki site so I was curious to see what her series about bespectacled men working in an Italian restaurant would be like. I ended up having a mixed reaction. I very much enjoyed the slice of [...]
Over on Manga Views
New reviews added! Check out the recent posts for linky goodness for reviews for Black Butler, Skip Beat, Little Butterfly, Diamond Girl, and more! Thanks to Kate for doing some data entry recently! We still need people to add manga series and review links to the database, so drop me a line if you’re interested.
Mighty Marvel Poetry
There is almost too much poetry goodness in Bully’s round up of letters in verse to Marvel Comics. Click through for Juggernaut/Jabberwocky parodies and a Christmas poem featuring Nick Fury.
Karikuri Odette Volume 3
Karakuri Odette Volume 3 by Julietta Suzuki In the back of my mind when reading the first couple volumes of Karakuri Odette, an unexpectedly delightful manga about an android girl who wants to learn how to become human, I was wondering when Odette would become more preoccupied with romance. So far while there were hints [...]
New article on thebureauchiefs
I write about Melissa Marr’s YA urban fantasy series in Get Yer YA Out: Wicked Lovely. Click on over and take a look!
Bunny Drop
Bunny Drop Volume 1 By Yumi Unita I have to confess that I initially bought this manga mainly because I want to support publishers bringing out more josei titles in the US. I was not attracted to the premise of a bachelor unexpectedly becoming a father. I don’t think that there’s necessarily anything extra cute [...]
Butterflies, Flowers Volume 2
Butterflies, Flowers Volume 2 by Yuki Yoshihara I really like this series. I thought the first volume was fun but volume two spends more time exploring the budding relationship of “lady” turned office worker Choko and servant turned sadistic boss Masayuki. At work Choko sees Masayuki calmly reject the advances of other women. But when [...]
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