Behind the premise of High School Girls, Volume 9 runs a strong feeling of nostalgia for the bygone days of youth. “Time Stopped at Age Seventeen” screams one header prominently, which immediately causes me to cringe with a feeling of horror crawling up my spine. It wasn’t that my high school years were bad – […]
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Yuri Manga: High School Girls, Volume 8 (English)
Once again, it is my great pleasure to welcome Guest reviewer Sean Gaffney! Dr Master has just put out Volume 8 of High School Girls, and it’s pretty much more of the same wackiness. If, like me, you read this to look at Towa Oshima’s wonderful facial expressions, you won’t be disappointed. Eriko, in particular, […]
High School Girls Manga, Volume 7
First of all, thank you very much to everyone who sent their good wishes for our continued health. ^_^ I’m mostly okay, the wife is going to the doctor’s in about an hour. Secondly, my deepest appreciation and thanks go out to everyone who sent me something from my Wish List. I will absolutely be […]
Jyoshi Kousei – High School Girls Anime
This anime is based on the manga series Jyoshi Kousei (High School Girls in English), which I reviewed in August 2005. For the first two episodes, at least, the anime has followed two manga chapters closely – but not the first two, and in a way that is putting off some manga fans. As with […]
Jyoshi Kousei – High School Girls Manga
Jyoshi Kousei, aka High School Girls, is billed as a realistic depiction of life in an all-girl’s school in Japan. The author makes a point of commenting when things that seem especially bizarre actually happened to her. All I can say is, thank heaven I was a coed public school student. (Actually, I think that […]
