Posted in Comedy, M-, tagged miura-noriko, shojo on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Title: Ritan (Return)
Author: MIURA, Noriko
My Evaluation: B (Very Good)
This is basically a comedy about a dead boy whose body was hit by a truck but whose soul took over a body of a girl in a temporary coma. As you may know, this kind of situation is not unusual in manga, but as you may [...]
Posted in Comedy, Historical (Japan), Y-, tagged manga, shojo, yamamoto-naomi on April 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Title: Nante Sutekini Japanesuku (How Wonderfully Japanesque!)
Authors: HIMURO, Saeko (original novel). YAMAMOTO, Naomi (comicalization).
Data: First Published in 198x by Hakusensha. Now available in Hakusensha Bunko series.
My Evaluation: A (Excellent)
The leading character of this romantic comedy with some detective story flavor is a princess in the Heian era (794-1191 AD), when the Japanese aristocratic culture was [...]
Posted in Comedy, H-, Modern/Contemporary, tagged hikawa-kyoko, manga, shojo on December 9, 2004 | 5 Comments »
TITLE: Onnanoko wa Yoyu (Girls Need To Be Self-Composed) and its seaquels
AUTHOR: Hikawa, Kyoko
Note: This work takes a form of trilogy with its two sequels, “Otokonoko mo Yoyu(Boys Also Need To Be Self-Composed)” and “Mata Ashita(See You Tomorrow)”. Here I treat them as one work of art all together.
WHY GOOD: The story seems to be [...]
