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Pick of the Week: A Smorgasbord of Manga

MICHELLE: I'm pretty intrigued by The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish, but am gonna choose the fifth and final Marmalade Boy release because I still love this series…

Manga Bookshelf

Mellow

Another year, another ecchi OVA about cross-dressing from Knack. This time it's 1993's Mellow , which is based on a manga by Kasahara Rin th...

Collectr's Blog

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Anime OVAs You Missed - Handsome Girl (1992)

From 1988 - 1992 A manga ran 9 volumes by the name of Handsome na Kanojo, translating to handsome girlfriend.. often shortened to handsome girl. Hagiwara mio. 15 year…

animebackwhen

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Pick of the Week: Friendship and Monsters

MICHELLE: Anything by the author of My Love Story!! automatically receives my endorsement, so it's The Secret of Friendship for me this week! SEAN: I'm very tempted by…

Manga Bookshelf

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Reader’s Corner: Boss Bride, Enough with This Slow Life, and Marmalade Boy

We feature some classic romance titles this week (My Little Monster, Marmalade Boy) to join more modern ones in The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, which we’ll…

Beneath the Tangles

Marmalade Boy: Collector’s Edition, Vol. 1

One of shojo manga’s most time-honored plot lines goes something like this: a young girl’s life is turned upside down when her mother or father remarries someone with…

Manga Bookshelf

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Pick of the Week: Classic and Modern

MICHELLE: Part of me really wants to pick Marmalade Boy here, as it's one of the first manga I ever read and I have tremendous nostalgic feelings about…

Manga Bookshelf

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Weekly Round-Up, 26 October – 1 November 2022: Marmalade Boy, Abuse in School Sports, and KADOKAWA Buys Anime News Network

AniFem Round-Up Romantic Killer – Episode 1 The clunky focus on the importance of making babies suuuuucks. Chainsaw Man’s beautiful depiction of platonic relationships At the heart of…

Anime Feminist

Nana Toshi Monogatari

Here's another project that BlueFixer asked Orphan to redo: the two-part sci-fi OVA Nana Toshi Monogatari: Hokkyokukai Sensen ( A Tale of S...

Collectr's Blog

Haruka Naru Toki no Naka de 2

Haruka Naru Toki no Naka de ( In a Distant Time ) is an otome game franchise developed by Ruby Party. It spans at least a dozen…

Collectr's Blog

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Futari wa Pretty Cure Episode 4: Interstellar

Episode four of Futari wa Pretty Cure was directed and storyboarded by Akinori Yabe and written by Higashi Shimizu. This was the first Pretty Cure episode worked on…

Dual Aurora Wave!

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My Love Mix-Up! GN 1

This book, despite only really focusing on four characters, has enough love geometry to put Marmalade Boy to shame.

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Futari wa Pretty Cure Episode 3: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It

Episode three of Futari wa Precure was written by Yumi Kageyama.  Although this was the first episode of Precure that she worked on, she has many writing credits…

Dual Aurora Wave!

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My 5 Valentine Side Line Pairs

I completely forgot its’ cash grab and mushy day tomorrow. . . this month is going too fast. Got me thinking for this year? What about those pairs…

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Futari wa Pretty Cure Episode Two: Citizen Honoka

The second episode of Futari wa Precure aired on February 8, 2004. The script was written by Ryo Kawasaki, who also wrote the previous episode, and it was…

Dual Aurora Wave!

Gallery Of Marmalade – #The 25AniCheer

We’re not related but we can fall in love since our parents switched partners? Is the chaos of 90s shojo angst: Marmalade Boy. 

LitaKinoAnimeCorner

Name That Light Novel With A Dumbass Title!

    My god I’m actually doing a response to a tag challenge, because my backlog makes me want to cry how much there is that I might…

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Happily ever after for everyone! – beta couples in shojo manga

One of the most common elements of shojo romantic-comedies is the presence of beta couples. Beta couples are secondary romantic relationships, which often serve as a contrast to…

Shojo Corner

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The 18th (and Final) Day of Christmas - Resolutions for 2008

I'd like to hear a song put to the Eighteen Days of Christmas, especially with a random smorgasboard of themes like this. Unfortunately, lik...

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