Skip Beat Volume 27

March 21, 2012
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Skip Beat Volume 27 by Yoshiki Nakamura I feel that the latest volume of Skip Beat can usually be summed up as “Skip Beat – still great!” In many shoujo series around the 27th volume we’ve seen some plot recycling, the introduction of a sudden fiance or evil male model, or random fights that...

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PR: Josei and Romance manga promotion on Jmanga.com

March 16, 2012
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When Jmanga was announced, one of the things I was hoping for from the online manga company was more josei manga, since it does seem to struggle a bit sales-wise in print format. So it is nice to see that Jmanga is featuring josei and romance titles in a promotion. They’ve been adding some...

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Dawn of the Arcana Volume 3

March 16, 2012
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Dawn of the Arcana Volume 3 by Rei Toma I feel like with the third volume things really started to come together nicely in this manga series. The first two volumes were promising, but the third one really has a nice mix of romance, politics, magic, and danger. Nakaba and Caesar start to warm...

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Otomen Volume 12

March 15, 2012
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I’ve been on the fence about Otomen a bit, because while I think it is funny and very well-executed, I wonder if the series tends to drag on a little bit too much. At a certain point we know that in every volume Asuka is going to be threatened with exposure over his love...

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Oresama Teacher Volume 7

March 13, 2012
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Oresama Teacher Volume 7 by Izumi Tsubaki This was another entertaining volume of Oresama Teacher. I was happy that in the first chapter we finally got some solid information about Takakomi’s mysterious past and the reasons why he changed from a delinquent to a teacher. It turns out that his grandfather used to be...

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A Bride’s Story Volume 2 by Kaoru Mori

March 12, 2012
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Well, the first volume of this series had the meticulously researched slice of life stories that I expected from the author of Emma, but the second volume gives the reader a surprising amount of action. Amir is starting to get more settled into her new life as a married woman in the village. She...

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House of Five Leaves Volumes 4-6 by Natsume Ono

March 5, 2012
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It probably is a function of my personal timing in reading this series, but I feel as though the first three volumes centered around establishing the tone and characters in this slice of life series about a group of improbable criminals in the Edo era and the next three volumes things actually start happening,...

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Princess Knight Volume 2

February 27, 2012
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I think reading the first volume of Princess Knight prompted me to enjoy the second volume more, because I was primed to enjoy all the insane plot developments, and I was no longer expecting Princess Sapphire’s gender issues to be dealt with in a serious way. Instead I opened the book expecting to find...

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Princess Knight Volume 1

February 22, 2012
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It is the Tezuka Manga Moveable Feast week! Fortunately I have been hoarding the two volumes of Tezuka’s Princess Knight for just such an occasion. We live in fortunate times, with so many Tezuka manga translated in English, and Vertical has certainly taken on the bulk of the work to produce so many influential...

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Story of Saiunkoku Volume 6

February 21, 2012
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I’m always happy to see a new volume of this series, which features one of the most sympathetic heroines of shoujo manga. Here we see that while Shurei might pass her civil service exams, her troubles are just beginning. This volume picks up in the middle of a gang fight in a brothel, as...

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