Skip and Loafer is not a shoujo series.
Period.
Just because you want it to be, doesn’t mean it is.
It’s a high school romcom seinen. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. It’s just not a shoujo.
We can’t keep having these conversations 😑
This ain’t it.
It’s lost the charm of the gaming aspect, which is important to the story, and the title takes up way too much of the cover.
I hope they fix it before printing. Or I hope the spine looks better than the cover 😬
It fucks me up to think about this because I remember that the reason i even wanted to read Sand Chronicles was because of how often the Shojo Beat magazine advertised it :/
The fact that I’ve had job opportunities taken away from me, received less pay, and been sexually harassed to the point of leaving places of employment.
Please- just let me have my media to enjoy at the end of the day. It’s the least you could do.
@saltaria2
The one on the right is the first SB magazine I ever owned. I LOVED the interview with Ashihara sensei and the deep dive into SC's symbolism.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (MDZS): The Manhua volume 1 arrived today! 😆 So excited! It’s so gorgeous! Metallic gold title on the front and spine and entirely in glossy color pages! ❤️
@gomanga
Thank you! 🫶
So apparently there’s 24 shoujosei series that have over 20 million copies circulated in manga format.
Only 10 got English print translations. 2 got digital only (1 of which is Chihayafuru).
Also: Boys Over Flowers has more copies in circulation than Berserk.
We’re unfortunately not swooning over the covers.
It’s a hard spot to be in- excited to have the series finally in our hands, yet the integrity of the original cover design completely disregarded. 😕
Could this be love? 😍 We’re swooning over the cover MY LOVE STORY WITH YAMADA-KUN AT LV999 Volume 4, available later this year!
Don’t forget to pick up Volume 1 of Mashiro’s award-winning manga on May 14th! Preorder here:
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Age-Gap Romance "Nijuu to Seijuu" vol 1 by Soragami Sei
A 20 year old woman finally gets a new colleague at her company department she's asked to train. A 26 year old guy who is popular with everyone. But with her, he's teasing & showing his manly side.
(Twenty and the Beast)
I love that the author of 7th Time Loop is reaching out to ALL fans of the series! The fact that she’s posting and replying in multiple languages is just so amazing! Lets you know she’s passionate about her work and just as excited as we are of the success of it internationally❤️
The fact that it’s basically 3 volumes of Red River for $13.88 currently is absolutely hilarious to me 😂
Those poor scalpers. It was fun for you guys while it lasted! 🤣
@manga_nostalgic
It’s the double standard for me. There are also shonen series that have toxic male characters and problematic tropes aimed at boys but no one wants to talk about that 🙄
Tokyo Babylon ❤️ CLAMP Premium Collection from
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So excited to finally have this! I’ve been dying to grab more CLAMP series that I never got a chance to years ago! Gorgeous cover 😍 just absolutely iconic art style and fashion sense. Stunning!
Automatic “No” from me. I know we want to believe demographics shouldn’t matter but the fact that RK is technically a shonen is the reason it is the only “shoujo” on the Shonen Jump app.
Ten Count is gonna end up being Ice Adolescence.
“Yeah we’re gonna make it” saying it for years. Gives us a key visual to get us excited. Then work on other more important projects… like season 2 of Girlfriend, Girlfriend (I’m looking at YOU SynergySP 👀)
From what I can tell, the American Extra magazine ran from 1998-2004 and featured and/or advertised these now oop shojo series. So unless you knew about the magazine and/or series by randomly picking it up at the time, how would you know about these series? 1/🧵
I loved Cinderella Closet 🥰 definitely went in a different direction than I thought, which was a nice twist. Gonna be interesting to see how this story progresses. I absolutely love Hikaru. They’re definitely my favorite character in this so far.
Just thinking about how Aya Kanno had not 1 but 2 series under Shojo Beat with male main characters. Blank Slate could easily be mistaken for a shonen and Otomen broke traditional gender norms/roles.
Why did they put Requiem of the Rose King under the regular Viz license?
I think a lot of you guys making fun of the oop topic are missing the point- it’s not about the fact that the series will no longer be reprinted, it’s the context of the multiple exchanges between a SB rep and their customers.
I’m dying 🤣 this is not a joke.
Talking about anime I’ve watched together with my husband.
Husband: “I like Fruits Basket more than Chainsaw Man. It has deeper and more like-able characters”
Me: “I’m telling Twitter!” 🤣
The difference between a $70 “rare” manga and an almost $1,300 set of a mostly oop series is the difference between a good paycheck one week where you can splurge and your $1,300 monthly rent/mortgage.
It happened. I became the old and weird anime fan. Went to a family member’s kid’s birthday. Saw a high schooler (?) wearing a Demon Slayer shirt.
Me: “oh! Demon Slayer! I love that anime!”
Person: “okay” *walks away giving their friend a look and starts laughing
🥲 damn.
📈| "Tendou-ke Monogatari" Vol. 14 ranked at
#28
in the Oricon Manga Chart with 14k copies sold in 7 days
Historical Unhinged-Romance about a strong altruistic girl who gets involved in an ambitious family conflict over who should be the new leader.
Let’s be honest. We knew this was going to happen. The lack of media literacy is apparent. People assuming at surface level that Hananoi is a toxic ML when , in fact, he’s a hopeless romantic who believes in doing everything he can to make his partner smile.
Cuckoos Three from
@yenpress
and by
@CassandraJP
&
@Mosskat_Studios
❤️
These two are so cute together 🥹 I loved Jacob and Murray’s relationship. Despite it’s darker themes dealing with mental health, it was such a great story. I thoroughly enjoyed it! 🫶
Also- I finally binged Our Sunny Days last night and WOW!! So adorable 🥹 absolutely loved it! Highly recommend if you want a super sweet and wholesome yet spicy bl. I’m gonna have to go back and read their previous work- Unromantic Romance.
Put the lights back up. I kinda wanna add more 🤔 still trying to find wire cutters so I can finally add the rest of the Sakura blossoms… need more batteries too for the lights 😅
It’s a work in progress 🥴
My Happy Marriage volume 3 ❤️
Written by
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Art by
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I love this series so much! 🥰 Seems like it’s getting into another arc where we delve deeper into the unknown about Miyo’s maternal family. Love that Miyo and Kiyoka are getting closer too 🤭
@SquareEnixBooks
Day 2 of reading Kamisama Kiss.
Got through the first 5 volumes yesterday and I just love this series so much 🥰 can’t wait to get past where the anime left off. Anyone know what volume that is?