Reading this, I actually forget this is supposed to be a time travel series unless it comes up. And then I wish we were getting some glimpses of the present and the consequences of the first volume. But then there are crossdressing spy antics and I don't care.

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The second volumes in two shoujo manhwa series that I really shouldn’t like as much as I do, given that both have plots that center around the heroine desperately chasing after a guy who isn’t interested. And yet, I do. Despite staring sternly at Yen Press for what seems to be a certain limitedness in shoujo licensing choices at times.

13th Boy is ( Read more... )

Ji-Hae has been obsessively in love with her classmate, Seung-Hyu, for a year and a half. This crush seems to be almost exclusively based on his looks. Not only because he doesn’t have much of anything to offer in the way of personality, but also because it’s the only part of him that she talks about. Seung-Hyu is icy, sour, and openly disgusted ( Read more... )