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Review: OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB
But if we're talking about school-centric shojo manga, then we have to talk about one of the best-known titles from the 2000s, one I have somehow not properly reviewed until now.OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST...
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Review: THE FAILURE AT GOD SCHOOL
Let's take a look at some modern shojo school stories, starting with this recent title.THE FAILURE AT GOD SCHOOL (Kami-sama Gakko no Ochikobore), based on the light novels by Natsu Hyuuga and character...
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Review: ALICE THE 101ST
Of course, there are plenty of shojo titles about schools (and music schools in particular), but few of them are as messy as this one.ALICE THE 101ST (101 Hitome no Alice), by Chigusa Kawai. First...
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Review: NEGIMA! MAGISTER NEGI MAGI
It's back to school time here at The Manga Test Drive! God knows there were plenty of magic school harem manga to pick from in the 2000s, and while today's title is not strictly a magical school...
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Review: ALL PURPOSE CULTURAL CAT GIRL NUKU NUKU
This is a manga release I suspect most of you didn't even know existed. As we'll see, maybe there's a good reason for that.ALL PURPOSE CULTURAL CAT GIRL NUKU NUKU (Banno Bunka Nekomusume), by Yuzo...
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Review: THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH
It's time for yet another Old School Month here at the Manga Test Drive, and we're digging deep into the Dark Horse library to dig up a forgotten story from one of manga's most legendary creators.THE...
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Review: FRUITS BASKET ANOTHER
Let's wrap things up with the modern sequel to one of shojo manga's most beloved series.FRUITS BASKET ANOTHER (Furutsu Basuketto Anaza), by Natsuki Takaya. First published in 2015 and first published...
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Review: GRAVITATION EX
It's time to return to one of the landmarks in millennial BL and see how its sequel fares.GRAVITATION EX, by Maki Murakami. First published in 2004 and first published in North America in...
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Review: THE ANCIENT MAGUS' BRIDE: JACK FLASH AND THE FAERIE CASE FILES
Both the summer movie season and the summer anime season is loaded with sequels, so it's as good as a time as any for us to cover some more manga sequels, prequels, and spinoffs, starting with a...
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Review: THE ECCENTRIC DOCTOR OF THE MOON FLOWER KINGDOM
It was inevitable that the success of The Apothecary Diaries would spawn imitators. Those imitators can be enjoyable in their own right, but this book can't help but make me wish I was just reading...
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Review: SAKURA'S DEDICATION
April showers are bringing us a month of manga with flowery titles. It's also the season for sakura blossoms, so naturally we should start with a schoolroom romance featuring a Sakura.SAKURA'S...
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Review: VAMPIRE DORMITORY
Don't think that I'm going to leave the ladies out of this month, though. There's a long tradition of girls posing as boys in shojo manga and this...is not the best example of that.VAMPIRE DORMITORY...
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Review: YUBISAKI MILK TEA
Puberty is a time when a lot of people (be they real or fictional) explore their gender presentation. This particular manga is not the best representation of it, though.YUBISAKI MILK TEA (Yubisaki...
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Review: THIGH HIGH: REIWA HANAMARU ACADEMY
This month we'll be looking at some the ways that manga plays with flipping sexes and genders. Since March is also the time for the start of the new school year in Japan, this series seems doubly...
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Review: HAPPY CRAPPY LIFE
It takes a lot of talent to write a BL comedy about two messy dudes trying to fix their respective lives and make it work, and this manga is the proof of just such a talent.HAPPY CRAPPY LIFE (Happi...
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Review: PETER GRILL AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S TIME
It's so hard (pun not intended) to find a good sex comedy manga, and crap like this isn't helping things.PETER GRILL AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S TIME (Pita Guriru to Kenja no Jikan), by Daisuke Hiyama....
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Review: TO SIR, WITHOUT LOVE: I'M DIVORCING YOU
February means another round of Bad Romance manga here at the Manga Test Drive, and it's only fitting to start with a romance that begins with a demand for divorce.TO SIR, WITHOUT LOVE: I'M DIVORCING...
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Review: GATE KEEPERS
Of course, for every successful sci-fi manga there are far more that fail to find an audience outside of Japan and this is just one of them.GATE KEEPERS (Geto Kipazu), based on an original story by...
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Review: SUIHELIBE!
This one is a decidedly more lighthearted take on sci-fi, dug up from the dregs of the CMX library.SUIHELIBE! (Suieribe!), by Naomi Azuma. First published in 2006 and first published in North America...
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Review: PLANETES
This month we're reviewing science-fiction manga, and you'd be hard-pressed to find one that's more "hard" sci-fi than this one.PLANETES (Puranetesu), by Makoto Yurikuma. First published in 1999 and...
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