Students of literature or art often find themselves reading analysis of an author’s work long past the author’s own lifetime, whether it be Edgar Allen Poe or Murasaki Shikibu. Manga and anime studies are not that old and, as a result, when one begins to study manga and anime in earnest, one sometimes encounters an […]
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The Little Series that Could: Asagao to Kase-san
1.Introduction When Pure Yuri Anthology Hirari magazine, Volume 2 hit shelves in summer 2010, it didn’t have any big names in Yuri in the table of contents. (Hakamada Mera did not join the roster until Volume 3, and Morinaga Milk would follow in 2012.) Many of the names who joined in subsequent volumes had not […]
Roid, Volume 1 (ロイド)
In Volume 1 of Roid (ロイド), by Shiroshi, we meet Futagami Yui, a genius android developer, dedicated member of her school robotic club. Due to an attack by a malfunctioning android when she was young, Yui uses a wheelchair. She and her kouhai in the club, serious, glasses-wearing, Kazumiya Reina who is a talented AI architect, […]
Rakuen Le Paradis Magazine, Volume 27 (楽園 Le Paradis)
Rakuen Le Paradis, Volume 27 (楽園 Le Paradis) is a banner issue for Yuri fans. We have 5 “Girls Love” (publisher’s term) stories by 5 different artists, several of them popular mainstream josei manga artists. Nakamura Asamiko continues “Mejirobana no Saku,” (メジロバナの咲く), in which odball Ruby confronts school star Steph, trying to get her involved […]
Tokyo Journal: Hell on Otome Road
Our last full day had arrived in Tokyo and we knew exactly where we were spending it. Sunshine-dori is a busy pedestrian-only street that runs along a shopping district full of clothing, shoes, pharmacies, general goods stores, restaurants, pachinko parlors and game arcades, and includes stores like Uniqlo and Tokyu Hands along the path. It […]
