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[meganbmoore]

Rightstuf.com currently has all Viz manga 33# off, and DVDs 40% off. Now moving the volumes I have of Love*Com, Beauty Pop, Monkey High, Mixed Vegetables, Captive Hearts and Time Stranger Kyoko to the top of the pile. Sale lasts until 2/16.   I'm somewhat curious about B.O.D.Y., Otomen and Oishinbo, as well as Inubaka, but I'm not sure I can handle adding many more series to what I'm already getting, esp. with those that I have volumes of but haven't read yet..

Meanwhile, half of ep 13 of Dae Jang Geum is almost literally nothing but cooking. This show makes me ridiculously hungry. And makes me wish there was a Korean place around here. (Well, theres one fast food place, but it's usually out of my way, and when it isn't, I'm usually not near there around time to get lunch.)

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[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

FWIW, I loved both Otomen and Oishinbo.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Oishinbo I think I might just grab anyway. Otomen only has one volume out right now, right? It's easier for me to justify getting into new shoujo series because they're generally shorter than shounen series, but I think I'm still at about my current limit.

[swanjun.livejournal.com]

Yeah, just one vol. of Otomen now.

In an attempt to weaken your resolve, I show you the cover of volume 3 (http://www.simonsays.com/assets/isbn/1421524724/BC_1421524724.jpg). Is it not awesome?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Look, it's not like I have a lot of resolve here anyway...

[swanjun.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. :)

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

That is, in fact, quite awesome.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Oishinbo is a special flower because it's the kind of obsessively insane story we don't usually see licensed over here. It's definitely worth the price of admission.

Otomen is just plain cracktacular fun. It looks like there's only 6 volumes of it so far in Japan so definitely not a huge, ongoing thing. I wasn't sure what I was going to think of it, but the first volume absolutely won me over.

On a completely different note...I managed to acquire copies of Mixed Vegetables 2 and 3. Have you read the first volume? Is it one worth picking up and trying?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I have vols 1-2 of Mixed Vegetables waiting for me. I know rachelmanija and oyceter like it.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I may tell my friend not to worry about getting me a copy, and just go ahead and pick it up, then. I need to talk to her about manga and stuff anyway and Katuscon isn't going to be the place to do it. We'll all be too busy.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I just read the first 2 volumes. Cute and enjoyable. Possibly enjoyable beyond its actual quality.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting me know, I'll make more of an effort to get the first volume, then.

[mistaria.livejournal.com]

Where did you read Otomen? o.o!

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

I have a copy of volume 1, it's available in stores.

[mistaria.livejournal.com]

Aa, for some reason I took your comment to mean you'd read all of what's available in Japan. :p Silly me.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Nope, just volume one. I got the number of volumes listed upthread from Anime News Network.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

WHY MUST THEY DO THIS TO ME?!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

HEY! At least you have a library that has manga! Mine has about 20 volumes of various things, almost no 2 from the same series.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

OMG, that is horrible, ;_;


On the plus side, I think it's cool that they sell subscriptions to Shojo Beat/Shonen Jump in this sale! Of course, I already get Shojo Beat, :D

[badtzphoto.livejournal.com]

20th Century Boys also looks promising from the reviews I've read.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Inubaka, as I've mentioned before, is just incredibly fluffy. It's a great comfort read for me because while there are some slightly more tense stories (will a beloved lost dog be found? will a girl with massive self-esteem issues find the courage to break away from her exploitive, controlling boyfriend?), most of the stories have much lower stakes (will an untrained puppy be able to perform for a commercial? will an overweight bulldog's new diet work?), and after reading several volumes you grow very confident that the endings will always be happy and hopeful.

Suguri is a bit more dim-witted-and-sunny than I'd generally prefer in a heroine, but it doesn't bug me here the way it might in a romantic shoujo because she's also very determined and hard-working, and the story is mainly about her working to be a more competent and independent adult, rather than which guy is going to end up with her because perky dimwits are irresistible. While there are some hints of romantic attraction between various characters, romance absolutely is not the main focus of the story: 11 volumes in to a 16-volume series, nothing has ever progressed beyond "oh yeah, X has a little crush on Y...now back to the dogs".

Honestly, I think the biggest deciding factor on whether or not you pick this one up should be how much you like dogs, because they're really that central to all of the characters' lives. If you dislike them or are at best indifferent to them, page after page after page of characters going on about GOGGIES R SRS BIZNESS interspersed with endless panels of cute puppies will probably not have a lot of appeal. OTOH, if you're sufficiently dog-crazy that your inner critical reader tends to get shut down by squee every time there's a particularly cute page of puppies, you should buy this yesterday.

[artillie.livejournal.com]

Half of me thinks that you'll hate Beauty Pop, but the other half is remembering the beautician heroine who wears ratty clothes and a baseball cap and out-beauticians the hero on a regular basis. On the other hand, there's the three sterotypical bishounen that mostly it focuses on that bored me to death during the five or so volumes that I mooched off my friend. It's so-so.

[mistaria.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish I had money right now. o_o

I want to read Otomen too... I wish it was on One Manga. I'm only allowing myself to buy three series at this time since otherwise I get a little crazy and since I'm in uni I have no income.

[rhap-chan.livejournal.com]

I adore Love*Com and admit a certain attachment to Beauty Pop. XD The rest of it, idk.