30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 21: I’m Not Gay, But…
Hi everyone! I’ve returned to the 30 Day Yaoi Challenge as promised! Only slightly late because yesterday I spent the time I meant to be blogging on dealing with back pain instead. (I am having...
View Article30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 22: A Case of the Blahs
Yeah, I kind of purposefully forgot to post yesterday. I needed too. I was just too spaced out. I can’t say this next manga did anything to inspire my inner writer… Love Circumstances by Aco Oumi This...
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30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 23: A Cock of Peerless Beauty
Yeah, you read that blog title right. Thank goodness for this crack. I was starting to get really, really bored. I’ve Seen It All volumes 1 & 2 by Shoko Takaku Chihiro is a doctor specializing in...
View Article30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 24: Love Makes Everything Creepy
Yeah, I’m being reaaaaaaaaal bad about finishing up this challenge, but I have a legit excuse: I was working my part-time job and house-sitting for 4 days. The house-sitting included dog-sitting, so I...
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Kaori Yuki MMF: I Think I’ll Stick to the Victorian Goth Manga
Another Manga Movable Feast is rolling by this week and it’s about another mangaka (Kaori Yuki) whose seminal work I haven’t read in its entirety. Luckily, this time I’m prepared! I just happen to have...
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30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 25: Kizuna volume 4
Y’know, I should just stop making promises about when this yaoi challenge is going to wrap up. But, I do expect to have more time to read manga this upcoming week, so maybe it’ll happen sooner that I...
View Article5 Reasons Why Anime Expo 2013 Was Good For Manga
So, for a while I’ve found anime cons to be a little depressing as a huge manga nerd. Very few manga panels, very few manga sellers in the dealers’ hall and a lot of publishers had relatively negative...
View ArticleDepression and the Common Freelance Manga Editor
To most readers, I’m sure this blog seems like it’s half-dead. I haven’t posted since July and the last time I was able to post frequently was April. Before that, it was sometime in 2012. There is a...
View ArticleHetalia’s Version of History: What Does It Offer Readers?
Full disclaimer: I work for TOKYOPOP as an editor, and I have worked on every print volume of Hetalia thus far. But I do enjoy Hetalia as a manga fan, and as a history nerd, and so this post is written...
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Debate: Does the “Artist Tax” Negate Pirating?
Recently, my best friend came to visit me for a week and -as is tradition whenever we see each other- we marathoned a show together. This time we settled on watching Princess Jellyfish, one of my...
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