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Miijhal posted:Plus, if it does well enough, it might mean actually seeing some more non-otakubait yuri series get brought over. Huh, I might have to give that a look, since they already have Girl Friends that one would make two non terrible yuri type series they've done. The Black Stones posted:I have it on order and I should be getting it very soon. If no one says anything by then I can post something. ANN reviewed it already and never mentioned any problems with them either. Cool that's more or less what I was curious about, I'm just always worried that some company will do some bizarre thing and I'll end up buying it without knowing about it. I.e. Sawako is now known as Sally! And it's set in Kansas for some reason! Soundtrack is redone and now exclusively features the musical styling of Yanni! Ok, well that's a bit of an exaggeration, but I'm glad to hear that it is, in fact, a good release and is worth the purchase.
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Miijhal posted:So, Poor Poor Lips volume 1, a yuri 4koma series, was just added to JManga. The character designs are pretty off-putting (mainly, Nako looks like a little kid), and its title makes it sound like a bad porno, but it's surprisingly not creepy in execution and actually pretty good. Pretty good? This poo poo is hilarious. I havn't laughed this much in a long time.
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Feb 9, 2012 16:55
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This is the  Jellyfish Princess Valentines Day cards, available in much larger sizes by following the link here. As silly as they are, I like that Funimation is at least doing something fun to promote the show, it deserves all the exposure it can get.
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This is pretty cool: Wandering Son Manga Joins U.S. Librarians' Rainbow List quote:The Rainbow Project, a task force made up of the Social Responsibilities Round Table and the Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Queer Round Table of the American Library Association released its 2012 Rainbow List last month. The list included Takako Shimura's Wandering Son volume 1 from Fantagraphics Books.
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Feb 12, 2012 04:17
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Check out this sick tumbler of old shoujo/josei manga I got linked to. http://fehyesvintagemanga.tumblr.com/  So cool 
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Miijhal posted:So, Poor Poor Lips volume 1, a yuri 4koma series, was just added to JManga. The character designs are pretty off-putting (mainly, Nako looks like a little kid), and its title makes it sound like a bad porno, but it's surprisingly not creepy in execution and actually pretty good. I wish it wasn't a digital release only. Maybe it will get a book release too (like Girl Friends is, though that is from a different company). But, welp, more yuri being licensed is nice so I don't have to deal with Konokuniya racking up the prices when I buy them on special order from Japan. I only paid like $8 each for the first 3 volumes for GFs. A years later, I ended up paying $15 for the last two volumes. And they are all only ¥600! 
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Erica Friedman basically said that she went the digital route because the market for the published books isn't big enough, especially when yuri is a niche genre in a medium where a significant number of the 'fans' refuse to pay money for products. Here's her explanation here. On a related note, Love My Life is also going to be added to Jmanga. coathat posted:I CAN SEE FOREVER Miijhal fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Feb 13, 2012 |
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Feb 13, 2012 02:37
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Well, I'll guess I'll by buying Poor Poor Lips on JManga then. If a book comes out down the road, then I'll pick it up as well.
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Miijhal posted:So, Poor Poor Lips volume 1, a yuri 4koma series, was just added to JManga. The character designs are pretty off-putting (mainly, Nako looks like a little kid), and its title makes it sound like a bad porno, but it's surprisingly not creepy in execution and actually pretty good. Just wanted to say that I started to read this pretty much purely based on your recommendation and I'm glad I did! I'd seen it before but thought it might be sketchy so I didn't really look at it. Instead it turned out to be really cute and funny. 
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New Kimi ni Todoke
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Feb 17, 2012 08:26
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Mura posted:New Kimi ni Todoke
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Nate RFB posted:Kazehaya's actions at the end there are a bit strange...is it merely disappointment/frustration at not being more physically intimate with Sawako ever since their interrupted kiss? I thought much of it was just that he wants to spend more time alone with her, and maybe that is the case and he just doesn't feel like bringing it up. Hopefully he does though, since letting that fester can't be good. I think the problem is that Kazehaya has been worried about taking it too fast, especially since he promised Sawa-Dad and Kaze-dad that they would take it slow and date like kids. After the kiss incident, he was freaking out that he "nearly lost control," so I think it's an issue with him on keeping that promise to the parents, and also respecting Sawako and not forcing her to follow his pace. If I had to guess, this is probably going to have to be resolved with some help from Yano, although for this arc, she might have her hands full with Pin and Kent, who have joined forces and created a pretty terrible love triangle.
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Mura posted:That's pretty much my read on it too. He needs to get over it though because his spiral of indecision and self-doubt is already starting to hurt Sawako, and I really hope he can get his poo poo straightened out quickly. Not that it's always that easy to escape from emotional traps like that in real life either, but it's kind of frustrating to watch.
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a kitten posted:That's pretty much my read on it too. He needs to get over it though because his spiral of indecision and self-doubt is already starting to hurt Sawako, and I really hope he can get his poo poo straightened out quickly. Not that it's always that easy to escape from emotional traps like that in real life either, but it's kind of frustrating to watch. Well, part of the problem is that both of them are completely new at this. Despite Kazehaya being incredibly popular with the girls, there's no evidence that he ever actually dated anyone before. It's even worse for Sawako, since even just the concept of people talking to her like a human is a relatively new thing for her. They're both kinda stuck dealing with all of this for the very first time, and neither of them have any idea what to do.
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Sawako was amazing this chapter. Really in top form. On the yuri front I just read Unchanging Days by Aki Eda. It's a great little story only 4 chapters long though.
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That was a pretty cute little story, not too original I suppose but that's alright, I still have a fondness for that type of story even if I saw the ending coming from practically the first page. You gotta be careful though, too much of it will rot your brain and you'll start seeing it everywhere...like in Bodacious Space Pirates, for example. 
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If I ever get tired of light and fluffy yuri then that's the day I'll die.
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a kitten posted:You gotta be careful though, too much of it will rot your brain and you'll start seeing it everywhere...like in Bodacious Space Pirates, for example. Aww man, I wasn't even thinking about that and now that's going to be in the back of my mind everytime I watch that (awesome) anime. Thanks a lot, jerk. 
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Blame Erica Friedman, she started it.  I just found out that Matt Thorne, the guy who is currently translating Wandering Son for Fantagraphics, did three quarters of the translation that I have for Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. No wonder it's so good.
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a kitten posted:That was a pretty cute little story, not too original I suppose but that's alright, I still have a fondness for that type of story even if I saw the ending coming from practically the first page. You gotta be careful though, too much of it will rot your brain and you'll start seeing it everywhere...like in Bodacious Space Pirates, for example. The Light Novels of Bodacious Space Pirates actually had a lesbian couple, so I kind of get the feeling they were gunning for that. Also, some yuri recommendations, since we're still on the topic: Anything by Fujieda Miyabi, but especially Ame-Iro Kouchakan Kandan. Everything he does is ridiculously light and fluffy. Great pick-me-up works. Honey & Honey isn't really a yuri series in the traditional sense, but it's a neat and funny little look into Japanese LGBT life. Hopefully it'll be fully translated at some point, so the sequels can get worked on. Kimochi-no-Katachi is a fairly short series, but it's also a fantastic read. It has a lizard who is the best character. Pieta is one of my personal favorites. It has the style of one of those older yuri dramas, but avoids the whole 'EVERYONE DIES AT THE END' thing that was prevalent in them. It's basically a lesbian soap-opera. The art style is pretty great, too, though the two main characters can be hard to tell apart. Lastly, Takemiya Jin is shaping up to be the next Takako Shimura. Seriously, her works are great, and you should read them.
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New Oresama Teacher http://www.mangafox.com/manga/oresama_teacher/v13/c072/1.html I love this series. Mafuyu might be my all time favorite shoujo lead.
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New Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun It's a nice little tie-up of a few arcs, and plants the seeds for a couple others.
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 Where-is-the-new-Aoi-Hana-Chapter.gif Kimi Koi Limit was rather good, looks like the last chapter just came out. At least it looks like a last chapter, with all the thank you's and extra stuff at the end of it. Honey and Honey is indeed pretty great, I had no idea there was more of it than is up on Mangafox, hopefully it'll get worked on by someone sometime. Prism turned out to be a cute series too, I keep thinking that I'm done with the whole genre, but I keep learning about just enough great little series to keep me reading, ah well. I've read and really enjoyed Fragments of Love by Takemiya Jin, I'm sometimes lazy about looking to see if authors have done more series, I'll have to check out any other of her works that I can find. Mangoscans version of Kimi ni Todoke just came out, if you prefer their translation you can now read it. KnT (65)Why are you pushing her hand away, you are going to make everyone cry. 
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Mura posted:New Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun I loved how Mitty apparently just up and left during the middle Haru and Micchan's brawl. There was a new chapter of Suki desu Suzuki-kun!!. I wish that there was more of it translated.
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I've been hiding from this thread to make sure I don't spoil myself on KnT, but I was browsing release dates at an online bookstore and noticed that the first volume of Golden Time's manga edition is coming out soon. Has it been scanlated yet? The fourth volume of the novel series is about to be released, and the stuff I've read so far has been really good. It's by the same author as Toradora, if anyone remembers that.
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I'd almost forgotten about Golden Time, overall I actually really loved Toradora so I'm definitely looking forward to reading that. Definitely haven't heard about any scans or Jmanga releases or anything like that though, now at least I'll be on the lookout for it.
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Man, I just finished reading Annarasumanara and I'm finding it hard to find the right words to do justice to how great it is. It's a story about a mysterious magician and a poor girl who is supporting her sister. It's also just incredibly beautiful. 
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I just finished reading Kodomo no Omocha and instead of being a super illegal crossover series like the name implies it was awesome. Very funny and touching. It's a shame that it's impossible to find the anime.
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Kodocha has a very special place in my heart. Extremely heartfelt, yet quite insane in a good way at times. It was one of the first series I got on VHS fansub. Unfortunately it never was finished by whichever group was doing it at the time, although you could (and I did) pony up for the HK bootlegs. It's too bad FUNi was so screwed with regard to their own releases (mostly due to the whole licensing fiasco with the opening song). I bought the discs they put out and would have gladly continued to do so for the second half had they finished. Some enterprising individual should re-fansub it all. I actually prefer the anime in many ways, mostly because I just think it's a lot funnier. The manga's ending is superior, though. Mostly because it actually ends.
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Yeah from what I watched or the anime was it awesome. Sana and her mom are so cool!
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Oh drat. Kodomo no Omacha was on my to-watch list from like 10 years ago, but I completely forgot about it until now. Thanks guys! I have to track it down!
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I love the Kodocha anime, but yeah, there was no real ending and the NYC (I think) filler was not as good as the rest. I believe Kodocha is the only manga series I own in its entirety, my copies are sadly aged and I'm pretty sure it's out of print now. There's a one-shot floating around (I can't remember if translated or not) that takes place ~10 years after the end of the manga. In it Sana and Akito are together/married and I think they live in LA. He's a massage therapist and she is I think a news anchor. The conflict of the manga is Sana gets pregnant and Akito freaks out since his mom died in childbirth. It's a crossover with one of Obana's other works somehow.
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Aoi Hana: 37 Shimura's artwork is back to being in top form this chapter, I mean look at these faces:  She also seems to be sharing some concepts between this and Wandering Son in both of their recent chapters there's a character that wants to use the leads as research subjects for something they're writing. As for the ending of the chapter:what a crazy huge mix of emotions put into those pages. Akira spontaneously kissing Fumi was amazing, followed up by the next few pages with her question and some of the words from the play that Pon wrote all combine to make a really good portrait of young love: confusion, tenderness, hope, fear, and desire all rolled into one. The track they seem to be on right now could either be the best thing for them, or the worst. Actually, since they're still young and considering how first loves tend to go, it's probably both at the same time.
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Volume 9 of Seiyuu Ka came out today. http://www.mangafox.com/manga/seiyuu_ka/v09/c047/1.html Cute little series not super great but I like it. Switch Girl chapter 36 too. http://www.mangafox.com/manga/switch_girl/v06/c036/1.html Ohh yeah Kamisama Hajimemashita 64 landed too http://www.mangafox.com/manga/kamisama_hajimemashita/v11/c064/1.html Pretty good haul of B level shoujo. coathat fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Mar 12, 2012 |
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Found a cool one Taiyou no Ie. It's touching but not overly dramatic funny and cute. But of course it only has 7 chapters translated. I'm such a moron for reading stuff when there is so little of it out.
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coathat posted:Found a cool one Taiyou no Ie. It's touching but not overly dramatic funny and cute. But of course it only has 7 chapters translated. I'm such a moron for reading stuff when there is so little of it out. Wow, that was really good. Thanks for the link.
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arisu posted:Wow, that was really good. Thanks for the link. No problem. I was really surprised by how good it was hopefully the group keeps releasing at a decent pace. New Oresama Teacher!!! http://www.mangareader.net/oresama-teacher/74 Just a backstory chapter but still pretty good, and now we're now only 4 chapters behind the Japanese release.
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What (completed/finished) anime/manga is like Kimi ni Todoke, Lovely Complex or Kare Kano? It seems most shoujo series have unlikable characters, stupid premises or are not finished. 
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gmq posted:What (completed/finished) anime/manga is like Kimi ni Todoke, Lovely Complex or Kare Kano? Not really like any of the above, but if you're looking for a superb shoujo romance manga that's completed, look no further than Please Save My Earth.
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