Moribito, Kuroko, Ella, and The Girl and Fairyland.

[badtzphoto]

A day late and still no manga reading!

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  1. Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit: Episodes 1 - 12- rewatch

Comments

[lyschan]

Ahhh, you always post about the new Hakusensha releases before I see them, no matter how often I check in the days leading up to it! Hahaha. Other than the last volume of Orange Chocolate, I don't see anything I need to get (three will be out in English eventually). Maybe Strange Dragon, since I like that author. The last title on the list (31 I Dream or something?) is by Tanemura Arina, so I bet Shojo Beat will license it at some point.

I made a recent Kino order too: still working my way through the pile! I read Yona and Shirayuki first :D First two volumes of Last Game will be up... next?

I think the writer of the article you linked has just found her own taste to be changing; I doubt it's actually the quality of shoujo manga as a whole going stale (there will always be the few great classics of old, and heaps of less substantial new works that one who is familiar with shoujo will either love for their sameness or tire of for the same reasons). It could be her tastes are just growing away from the English-language manga market if that's what she keeps up with: I don't think Japan will ever run out of shoujo manga that fascinate me, but my interest in Viz and other publishers' sparse selection is diminishing. I'm importing much more these days. But there are a few new shoujo series I'm excited for (MLM and Say I Love You, as well as My Love Story! from Viz (written by HS Debut author, with a different artist) and possibly Black Rose Alice).

[badtzphoto]

oh, I totally forgot about My Love Story!. Thanks for reminding me. I totally look forward to it. I'm on the fence about Say I love you. I will borrow from library first, though.
Oh, what did you get from Kino :)?
Yeah, I guess the blog title is a bit misleading. I don't think my taste has changed, I'm just not interested in Zombies and Black Bird as much. I'm glad Viz released their out of print classics digitally. From Hakusensah list, I'll get Otogimoyou Ayanishiki Futatabi 4 (she's the author of From Far Away my favorite) and Strange Dragon 1. The 3 out in English, Orange Chocolate and Ouji to Majou to Himegimi to I'll get the French one.
" I don't think Japan will ever run out of shoujo manga that fascinate me"
I agree, I'm getting more and more in Japanese.

eta: "First two volumes of Last Game will be up... next?"
I hope you like it.