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Futari no Himitsu, by MORO OrieTitle: Futari no Himitsu Author: MORO Orie ISBN# 978-4-06-364319-0 Kodansha Comics, 2011 I was kind of hypnotized by the eyes of the girl on this cover into buying it. Look at those yes, all big and blue and unblinking. @_@ I was also attracted by the title. Their Secret? Ooh, I like secrets! There is [...]
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Romance
Hakushaku-sama wa Yokujou suru, by AMANE Yuko»
Title: Hakushaku-sama wa Yokujou suru Author: AMANE Yuko ISBN# 978-4-09-133477-0 Flower Comics, 2010 It wasn’t really the cover that convinced me to buy this book, though it certainly is very cute and very different from a typical shoujo manga. It’s the fact that it is set in England that intrigued me. I have been reading [...]
Smutty Romance
Daite Daite Daite Darling, by SAKAI Miwa»
Title: Daite Daite Daite Darling Author: SAKAI Miwa ISBN# 4-592-18101-8 Hana to Yume Comics 2001, 2004 Once again, I return to one of my favorite authors, SAKAI Miwa. I eventually want to talk about all of her works here, even though most of them aren’t technically shoujo but instead fall into the josei category, meaning [...]
Teacher-Student
line, by TSUKISHIMA Sango»
Title: line Author: TSUKISHIMA Sango ISBN# 978-4-08-846663-7 Margaret Comics, 2011 After a bit of a break, I’m back! With more teacher-student manga, even! Hurray! I picked this one up entirely based on the cover, which makes it fairly obvious that there is some teacher-student fun going on here. That class attendance book is a dead [...]
Crossdressing
Kimi no Neiro, by FUKUSHIMA Haruka»
Title: Kimi no Neiro (Your Melody) Author: FUKUSHIMA Haruka ISBN# 978-4-06-364291-9 Kodansha Comics, 2010 Along with teacher-student manga, one of my other favorite shoujo manga plot devices is cross-dressing. This is the first volume of a series that looks like it will prove to be highly entertaining as it progresses. The storyline involves some gender [...]
Fantasy
Tsuugaku Densha, by TSUKUSHIMA Sango and Miyu»
Title: Tsuugaku Densha Author: TSUKUSHIMA Sango ISBN# 978-4-08-846549-4 Margaret Comics, 2010 I generally don’t buy manga volumes or manga magazines that have pictures of models/actors/real-people on the cover. I’m not sure why, but they usually annoy me. There are lots of random manga out there with photos of whoever the current popular idol singers are. [...]
Drama
A Drunken Dream, by HAGIO Moto»
Title: A Drunken Dream and Other Stories Author: HAGIO Moto (with interview and article by Matt Thorn) ISBN# 978-4-592-18590-1 Fantagraphics, 2010 As you may know from viewing my section on 70′s and 80′s shoujo manga, I am a big fan of classic shoujo works. I love all shoujo, really, and find it fascinating to learn [...]
