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Review: STRAWBERRY PANIC
They say that April showers bring May flowers, but in the case of this month it's bringing forth nothing but lilies. That's right, it's finally time for an entire month of yuri manga! To kick things...
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Review: MARIA HOLIC
Until today, I wondered to myself "why hasn't anyone made a yuri harem series? It could be fun, or at least a different take on a very tired genre."Then I read today's offering, and it not only manage...
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Review: KISS & WHITE LILY FOR MY DEAREST GIRL
I'll likely be talking about this again in December, but we're getting a bounty of yuri titles this year unlike anything manga readers have seen previously. It's not just that Seven Seas is picking up...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: NANA
Five years.Can you believe it? It's been five years since I first put together this humble little BlogSpot to start putting up reviews. It was meant to just be a hobby, a way to pass the time on my...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: TWO FLOWERS FOR THE DRAGON
Now we're going from one of the classics of shoujo to one of my favorite sub-sub-sub categories: weird shoujo series from CMX! They picked up all sorts of weird little gems during their brief time...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: JULINE
Tokyopop famously made their fortunes on the back of shoujo manga back when they were still Mixx (...or sometimes Chix Comix. It took them a while to settle on Tokyopop). Of course, for every Sailor...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: STEPPING ON ROSES
Normally I don't bring too much of the real world into this blog but anyone who followed the news today knows that today was a bad day...a terrible, no-good, infuriating sort of day. So I'm going to...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: KAMISAMA KISS
These days, shoujo heroines falling in love with gods/yokai/etc. are all the rage. I think it's time to look back at the series that most recently popularized the idea.KAMISAMA KISS (Kamisama...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: CANTARELLA
It's rare to find historical shoujo that isn't about a romance, but leave it to Go!Comi to deliver one of the better ones I've ever found.CANTARELLA (Kantarera), by You Higuri. First published in 2001...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: THE EARL AND THE FAIRY
If my love of The Ancient Magus' Bride didn't give it away, I have a particular fondness for shoujo series that get particularly whimsical with their fantasy settings. That's what drew me to today's...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: DAWN OF THE ARCANA
You know, there are plenty of manga about princesses out there, but there aren't many out there like today's selection, where the role of a princess is less fanciful and romantic and more political and...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: THE DEVIL WITHIN
I can't believe that I found ANOTHER shoujo manga with a shota complex. How the hell does this keep happening?THE DEVIL WITHIN (Tenshi no Naka ni Akuma Ari), by Ryo Takagi. First published in 2003...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: BEHIND THE SCENES!!
I've always been fond of Ouran High School Host Club. The anime was the first one I ever watched (...at least, the first I watched knowing it was anime) and the manga remains my favorite of all...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: LIFE
I feel like making this part of a Merry Month of Manga is a little weird because today's review deals with some very serious and sad material. Those triggered by talk of self-harm should take heed...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: KISS OF THE ROSE PRINCESS
So you know how I mentioned a couple of days ago how Ouran ruined me for reverse harem manga forever? Well, that's only partially true. It's true that most of them can't compare to the humor and...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: MY LITTLE MONSTER
Since Robico is getting another work licensed here (albeit digitally), it's a good time to look back at her previous shoujo series.MY LITTLE MONSTER (Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun), by Robico. First...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: HARUKA: BEYOND THE STREAM OF TIME
What happens when you take a derivative otome game from the PS1 and try to turn it into a manga? You get a really incoherent mess, if this thing is any indication.HARUKA: BEYOND THE STREAM OF TIME...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: KODOCHA
It's time to take some of my older readers down nostalgia lane with one of the many 90s shoujo series Tokyopop picked up in their glory days.KODOCHA: SANA'S STAGE (Kodomo no Omocha, "Child's Toy"), by...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: STROBE EDGE
I've made it obvious some of the things I don't like in shoujo. I don't like abusive relationships, I don't like romances with little kids, and I don't like crappy art. Something else that's less...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: BOUND BEAUTY
Go!Comi had a particular fondness for Mick Takeuchi. Who is she? No one but people who pick up out-of-print shoujo release like me remembers, but the folks at Go!Comi were so fond of her that they...
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