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[Manga & Anime News] The April Agenda
We’ve already entered a new month and April ’17 looks like it has some very exciting things waiting for us – some new beginnings that might bring a sparkle to our eyes in best old-school shoujo manga...
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[Manga Review] More Than Family: Yajirobē by Yamakawa Aiji
One of the most horrible things that can happen to a young child is to lose its mother. This is exactly what happened to 5-year old Haru. Now, 10 years later, Haru looks back on her life with Seiji,...
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[Manga Review] My Voice Is A Lighthouse – Fukuyama RyÅko’s Fukumenkei Noise...
As a young girl, Arisugawa Nino used to sing with Yuzu, the boy living in the house next to her family’s, which gave her strength and comfort when her parents were fighting. Yuzu moves away one day but...
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[Artist Profile/Manga Review] Remembering Yoshino Sakumi
Today marks the first anniversary of mangaka Yoshino Sakumi’s death on April 20, 2016. The sad news came as a tremendous shock to many of us as it was so sudden and unexpected. Yoshino Sakumi, born in...
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[Manga Review] After the Curse: Takaya Natsuki’s Fruits Basket another
If you were a manga reader around the time the world moved into the current millenium, you probably remember the birth of an unforgettable shÅjo manga mega hit series featuring a lonely girl meeting a...
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[Manga Review] Of Peaches & Hedgehogs: NakajÅ Hisaya returns with Momomomotto!
Our last review discussed the return of a widely loved Hana to Yume series featuring a clan and a curse forcing them to transform into animals when touched or stressed. Today this theme gets turned on...
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[Magazine Info] Mdn August 2017 featuring cross-dressing girls and women in...
Japanese design & graphic magazine MdN is running a special feature on girls and women disguising themselves as or dressing as boys/men in their upcoming August 2017 issue out July 6th. Under the...
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[Manga Review] Who’s got your back? Ushiro no Hikaruko-chan by Ishikawa Emi
In the past few years, the big three manga magazines for elementary school girls have been spicing up their usual mix of romantic comedies, school dramas, idol and magical girl manga with a...
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[Manga Review] Beware the Witch Boy: Komori YÅko’s Kokage-kun wa Majo
From mid-2015 to late 2016, a strange candy-coloured jewel sparkled brightly in Shueishaâ€s Gekkan YOU, a monthly josei manga magazine which has a target demographic from youngish female office workers...
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[Review] Contemporary Classics: Shimanami Tasogare, Machida-kun no Sekai and...
It’s time for a special kind of retrospective of the year 2018. In the past 12 months, three of my favourite manga series of the past decade ended – titles that, to me, could be called instant...
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