Recent posts tagged shojo
2012
For The Girls (And The Boys, Too) Dept.
Let's see some live-action anime projects in the West that are shojo stories.
Paradise Kiss, Part One (Ai Yazawa)
What makes a story that's nominally a romance into something a little deeper and more insightful? The idea that the characters want to be more than overgrown children, for one.
2010
A Drunken Dream and Other Stories (Moto Hagio)
My most common lament about anime, manga and Japanese popular culture generally has been the language barrier. I’ve tried to learn Japanese but I was only able to make so much headway, and with my spare time at an even...
Glass Mask Set 1
Maya Kitajima would love nothing more than to be someone else. At the opening of Glass Mask, though, her options for escape are quite limited. She works in the same Chinese restaurant where her mother slaves away, lives with her...
2008
Andromeda Stories Graphic Novel 3
Back when I read the first volume of Andromeda Stories I noted that any series that begins with the creation of the universe probably has no small amount of ambition in mind. The second volumefollowed suit and raised the bar...
