It's nternational Blog Against Racism Week. For more details, go to the ibarw or refer to the explanatory post. IBARW has motivated me to finish writing up some old posts ( Read more... )

When reviewing volumes 9 - 11 of Claymore, oyceter wrote about shounen bodies:

"I also want to formulate some sort of thesis about monstrous bodies and strength in shounen: how strength is directly tied to monstrosity, particularly in the villains, but how even heroic strength is frequently tied in with bodily abuse or breaking down your body to build ( Read more... )

A while ago, I read worldserpent's post listing all the anime/manga series with female protagonists s/he liked. It was in reaction to mistful's post on some reasons why people find it hard to like female characters, and on some of the comments to the post. Reading the latter post made me puzzled over some of the reasons mistful brought up, and like going around pointing out ( Read more... )

I decided to post a list of my 10 favorite female manga characters, because I keep hearing stuff about how female characters in animanga are somehow lacking, or not interesting. I've never had trouble finding interesting female characters in anime/manga. This could be because my first exposure to anime and manga made a lasting impression on me. My ( Read more... )

So, I've seen around LJ that people have been posting a list of manga series they're currently reading. I figured I'd also do that.

( I started using a spreadsheet to keep track of the manga series I'm reading. )

I got my internet back a couple of days ago. I have emails I have to reply to. I'm not even going to try to catch up on my f-list, except for skipping randomly and reading bits and pieces. So please link me to any of the posts you wrote that you want me to see, or anything that happened in fandom ( Read more... )

I recently got into manga, so read Frederik L. Schodt's Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics. The book, while dated since it was published in 1988, was still a nice overview of the history of manga, the different types of manga, and of the industry. It also includes excerpts from classical, formerly groundbreaking manga. It also explained ( Read more... )