October 19th, 2008 at 11:00 am » Comments (1)

High School Debut #5 by by Kazune Kawahara (amazon) High School Debut continues to put an interesting spin on conventional shoujo plot elements thanks to the humorous ways the characters interact ...more »

October 11th, 2008 at 11:18 pm » Comments (4)

Sugar Princess: Skating to Win Volume 1 by Hisaya Nakajo (amazon) Hana Kimi remains my favorite series about a girl dressing up as a boy to get closer to her object ...more »

September 25th, 2005 at 8:14 pm » Comments (0)

Ultra Maniac (amazon) Ultra Maniac focuses on the friendship between two girls in junior high - Ayu is concerned with maintaining her cool image and Nina who is a new ...more »

September 22nd, 2005 at 6:49 pm » Comments (45)

Meru Puri (amazon) I think I'm rapidly reaching a saturation point with all the shojo manga that I've been reading. After rediscovering manga and anime around 3 years ago, ...more »

September 11th, 2005 at 8:48 pm » Comments (8)

The Devil Does Exist (amazon) I got this volume from Dave, in one of his periodic giveaways that inspired my recent manga giveaway. I was struck with a weird sense of ...more »

June 2nd, 2005 at 10:43 pm » Comments (0)

I managed to snag an advance copy of the first volume of Doubt and I enjoyed it, so I was looking forward to the next episode in the saga of ...more »

April 24th, 2005 at 7:15 pm » Comments (5)

Long have I resisted the siren call of Tramps Like Us. I even watched the 10 episode live action drama series to postpone my inevitable purchase of the manga. But ...more »

March 13th, 2005 at 11:04 pm » Comments (0)

I've always liked Kare Kano, but I haven't been reading many of the recent spin-off stories about Arima and Miyazawa's classmates with the enthusiasm I had for the earlier volumes. ...more »

December 2nd, 2004 at 11:59 pm » Comments (1)

I'm a sucker for magical girl shoujo manga, recently I've read the first volumes of From Far Away (Kanata Kara) and Queen's Knight (Amazon), both of which feature heroines who ...more »