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Merry Month of Manga Review: LOVE AT FOURTEEN
I've been focusing so much on Viz and a handful of old publishers that I've been neglecting some of the other, modern publishers who are putting out shoujo, starting with the behemoth that is Yen...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: GRAND GUIGNOL ORCHESTRA
Can you believe that it's been five years and I still haven't covered a single Kaori Yuki manga? That's kind of remarkable considering she's got just as many works in print here as someone like Arina...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: YUKARISM
Most isekai-style shoujo stories are about girls getting sucked into alternate fantasy worlds. Far less common are ones about time-travel, and rarer still are ones about guys. This might be the only...
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Merry Month of Manga: SHUGO CHARA!
I can't let this month pass without covering at least one magical girl series. After all, shoujo as a whole in the US got its start thanks to the likes of Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura. That...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: PEACH HEAVEN
Kodansha has been a licensing spree lately, adding all sorts of digital-only shoujo titles to their collection. I figured that since I had enjoyed the josei titles they had picked up so much, surely I...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: THE EMPTY EMPIRE
Once again, we're looking at another oddball shoujo title from CMX. This one is a bit more divisive for me. In some ways, it's much better than Two Flowers For the Dragon, but it's worse in some...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: KIMI NI TODOKE
After all the drama I've had to read this month, it's nice to come back to a simple shoujo story. The sort of story that's just about a girl and a boy and a chronic lack of communication.KIMI NI...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: TENSHI JA NAI!!
Last month I ranted about how awful Maria Holic is. What I didn't know at the time is that there was another variation on the same idea that was done more in a shoujo vein, and that it was just as...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: ABSOLUTE BOYFRIEND
I'm beginning to think that the taste of Yuu Watase fans is not to be trusted. They still believe Fushigi Yuugi is a classic and today's selection is one of her worst. I've made my thoughts plain on...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: SHINOBI LIFE
How do you combine family drama, ninjas, time travel and romance in a way that isn't completely ridiculous? Well, I don't know if today's selection is the perfect way to do so, but it's certainly a...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: ANDROMEDA STORIES
Well, at long last we reach the end of the month. After all of these books, I want to end things on a high note. As such, I decided to go back to the early days of shoujo itself for something...
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Review: FUJOSHI RUMI
With con season in full swing, it's time to once again take a look at manga that are all about fandom, otaku-dom, and all things nerdy. Of course, these days the focus is less on the traditional male...
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Review: POPO CAN
With E3 having come and gone, it feels appropriate to look at a manga about games. Alas, like a bad E3 trailer this one promises one thing and offers something else (and something worse) entirely.POPO...
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Review: GENSHIKEN SECOND SEASON
Well well well...look who flaked out last month?Yeah, thanks to a lot of real-world projects and general household stuff, I was not able to finish up last month's theme month. That just means I have...
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Review: GUNDAM WING: EPISODE ZERO
Normally I would be saving this for a future Gundam-themed month, but I'm currently just shy of the midway point of Gundam Wing thanks to a groupwatch with some of the Wave Motion Cannon boys and I'm...
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Review: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF NAGATO YUKI-CHAN
A decade ago, the Haruhi Suzumiya franchise was the biggest thing around. Not surprisingly, its popularity led to a number of spinoffs getting licensed with today's selection being the most recent....
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Review: ATTACK ON TITAN: NO REGRETS
It's not shocking that there would be a flood of spinoffs in the wake of Attack on Titan's massive success. It's not shocking that one of those spinoffs would be about Levi, the fangirl favorite of...
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Review: HUNTER X HUNTER
It's August, which means it's time for yet another Old-School Month! This time we're going to kick things off with an old-school Shonen Jump favorite that somehow is still running, even today!HUNTER X...
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Review: 3 X 3 EYES
Of course, Hunter x Hunter is still quite well-known for an old-school shonen series. Today's review covers something that's quite a bit more obscure these days.3 X 3 EYES (Sazan Aizu), by Yuzo...
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Review: TOWER OF THE FUTURE
Of course, I can't let an Old School Month pass without some old shoujo, and there's no better source for mostly forgotten 90s shoujo than good ol' CMX. Alas, they can't all be gems like Swan and...
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