Good morning! Today’s discussion will be about shoujo manga. You should start with two posts, Melinda Beasi’s commentary on Twilight and the plight of the female fan and Christopher Mautner’s review of Moto Hagio’s A Drunken Dream and Other Stories, and then go on to the further commentary by David Welsh on the question of whether shoujo manga (and works by women, for women in general) doesn’t get the respect it should, and Melinda Beasi’s tangent, in which she points out that Fruits Basket and Boys Over Flowers actually have very little in common. UPDATE: I added some thoughts of my own at Robot 6.
Sean Gaffney takes a quick look at next week’s new manga, and Lori Henderson mines this week’s list for all-ages comics and manga.
Ed Sizemore and Erica Friedman talk moe on the latest Manga Out Loud podcast.
Daniel BT spots some bloopers in Dark Horse’s samurai manga at Sunday Comics Debt.
Manga University digs out a 2004 interview with the late anime director (and manga-ka) Satoshi Kon.
Reviews
Kate Dacey on Black Blizzard (The Manga Critic)
Jones on Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha (Let’s you and him fight)
Danica Davidson on vols. 5-8 of Death Note (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Snow Wildsmith on How to Seduce a Vampire (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Snow Wildsmith on Isle of Forbidden Love (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Chris Zimmerman on vol. 3 of Laon (The Comic Book Bin)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 2 of Library Wars: Love and War (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Emily on Nobara no Hanayome (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
Danica Davidson on vol. 2 of One Fine Day (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Chris Zimmerman on vol. 3 of One Fine Day (The Comic Book Bin)
Kristin on vol. 16 of Reborn! (Comic Attack)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 4 of Rin-ne (I Reads You)
Lori Henderson on Swallowing the Earth (Comics Village)
I thought the shojo manga and respect thing was interesting. Btw, you need to fix the first link (I had to copy, paste and edit the link)
Yup, I had an extra http in there. Thanks!