A Drunken Dream and Other Stories
The 1970s marked a turning point in the development of shojo manga, as the first time in the medium’s history that a significant number of…
Manga Critic
Peepo Choo, Vol. 1
When I was fifteen and in the throes of my mope-rock obsession, I fantasized a lot about England, home to my favorite bands. I imagined…
The Name of the Flower, Vols. 1-4
Given the sheer number of nineteenth-century Brit-lit tropes that appear in The Name of the Flower — neglected gardens, orphans struck dumb by tragedy, brooding…
5 Underrated Shojo Manga
Earlier in the week, I sang the praises of Kaze Hikaru, my all-time favorite shojo manga (and one of my all-time favorite manga, period). Today…
My Favorite Shojo Manga: Kaze Hikaru
In Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics, author Paul Gravett argues that female mangaka from Riyoko Ikeda to CLAMP have often used “the fluidity of…