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The Manga Review, 5/6/22

When it comes to manga commentary, I freely admit that I’m more of a reader than a listener. Mangasplaining, however, is helping change my mind about manga podcasts. Every week, Deb Aoki, David Brothers, Christopher Butcher, and Chip Zdarsky analyze manga old and new, from classic titles such as AKIRA to fan favorites such as Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku. The Mangasplainers are frequently joined by industry professionals for interesting conversations about translating, publishing, and creating manga; among their most recent guests were Jamila Rowser, founder of Black Josei Press, and Ken Niimura, a Spanish-Japanese artist best known for his work on I Kill Giants. Complementing the podcast is MSX: Mangasplaining Extra, a weekly newsletter written by Deb, Christopher, and Andrew Woodrow-Butcher that focuses on their newest venture: translating and publishing manga for North American readers.

NEWS AND FEATURES

Deb Aoki offers an in-depth look at the North American manga market. Though global supply issues have made it more difficult to bring readers their favorite series in print, manga sales reached a record high in 2021. As VIZ Media’s Kevin Hamric observes, “Manga is no longer a niche category. It is now a mainstream/mass category.” [Publisher’s Weekly]

Free Comic Book Day is tomorrow! Several manga publishers will have kid- and teen-friendly titles, from VIZ’s Pokémon Journeys to Tokyopop’s Guardian of Fukushima, a graphic novel about Naoto Matsumura, a farmer who defied government orders by returning to Fukushima to save his animals. [Free Comic Book Day]

Cat lovers take note: Daisuke Igarashi just launched a new series called Kamakura Bakeneko Kurabu, which translates roughly to Kamakura Monster Cat Club. [Anime News Network]

On Wednesday, Seven Seas unveiled four new manga licenses: Gap Papa: Daddy at Work and at Home, The Knight Blooms Behind Castle Walls, My Sister The Cat, and No Longer Human… In Another World, “a dark comedy starring a famous historical writer who would honestly rather die than live out an isekai fantasy.” [Seven Seas]

Tezuka Productions recently launched an English-language Twitter feed. [Twitter]

Megan Thee Stallion has impeccable taste in anime. [Black Girl Nerds]

If you plan to be in Tokyo next March, why not check out the Spy x Family musical, which will have its premier at the Imperial Theater? [Otaku USA]

Wondering what’s new at your local comic book store? Bill Curtis just posted a complete list of May’s manga and light novel releases. [Yatta-Tachi]

In the latest episode of Shojo & Tell, Ashley and guest Olive St. Sauver discuss the first six volumes of Suu Morishita’s Shortcake Cake. [Shojo & Tell]

Good news for yuri manga fans: Erica Friedman’s By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga is now available for pre-order. Her book is the first of its kind in English, offering a thoughtful, wide-ranging exploration of “the key creators, tropes, concepts, symbols and titles of the first 100 years of the Yuri genre.” [Okazu]

Sam Sattin chats with Masha Zhdanova about his latest project: a reboot of Osamu Tezuka’s Unico. “Unico in particular I found to be a fascinating character who is often misunderstood,” Sattin observes. “Unico was created for children, but like many of Tezuka’s child-oriented fables, the character’s story is complex, emotional, and chock full of meaning… In it, I see an amazing story that could simultaneously serve a new generation of readers and honor Osamu Tezuka’s work.” [Women Write About Comics]

Jeff Trexler, the Interim Director of CBLDF, sounds a cautionary note about Free Comic Book Day, noting that retailers need to be vigilant about which books they give away, and to whom. “The new comic’s code is an algorithm,” Trexler observes. “What people are trying to do is not simply the fact that they’re trying to get retailers arrested or school teachers arrested or librarians arrested. They recognize in the age of Twitter, you don’t have to do that. All you have to do is get them shamed or banned. You can mass swarm a retailer and report them to Facebook or Twitter for selling pornography.” [ICv2]

REVIEWS

Congratulations to Megan D., who celebrates the tenth anniversary of The Manga Test Drive this week! You can help her mark this milestone by checking out her recent reviews of Dick Fight Island (NSFW, as you might imagine), Hinadori Girl, Wanted, and Peepo Choo. Over at Book Dragon, Terry Hong posts a review of Gengoroh Tagame’s Our Colors, “another poignant, empowering, gay-centered narrative… translated by queer manga expert Anne Ishii.”

Ace of the Diamond, Vols. 1-7 (Krystallina, Daiyamanga)

Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You, Vols. 1-2 (Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network)

Blackguard, Vol. 1 (Demelza, Anime UK News)

Blue Period, Vol. 6 (Sarah, Anime UK News)

Boys Run the Riot, Vol. 1 (James Hepplewhite, Bleeding Cool)

The Case Files of Jeweler Richard, Vol. 1 (Al, Al’s Manga Blog)

The Case Files of Jeweler Richard, Vols. 1-2 (Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network)

The Dragon Knight’s Beloved, Vol. 1 (Kaley Connell, Yatta-Tachi)

Goodbye, Eri (Ari Tantimedh, Bleeding Cool)

The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!, Vol. 2 (Demelza, Anime UK News)

High School Prodigies Have It Easy, Even in Another World!, Vol. 1 (Megan D. The Manga Test Drive)

How De We Relationship?, Vol. 5 (King Baby Duck, The Boston Bastard Brigade)

I Belong to the Baddest Girl at School, Vol. 3 (Demelza, Anime UK News)

I Want to Be a Wall, Vol. 1 (Christian Markle, Honey’s Anime)

In Another World with My Smartphone, Vol. 5 (Josh Piedra, The Outerhaven)

Karakuri Odette, Vol. 3 (Thomas Zoth, The Fandom Post)

Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible!, Vol. 1 (Eric Alex Cline, AiPT!)

Lady Snowblood, Vol. 1 (SKJAM, SKJAM! Reviews)

Love After World Domination, Vol. 2 (Justin, The OASG)

Lovesick Ellie, Vol. 1 (Demelza, Anime UK News)

A Man and His Cat, Vol. 5 (Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network)

Mizuno and Chayama (Christian Markle, Honey’s Anime)

My Brain Is Different: Stories of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders (Danica Davidson, Otaku USA)

My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions, Vol. 2 (King Baby Duck, The Boston Bastard Brigade)

My Love Mix-Up!, Vols. 2-3 (Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network)

Nighttime for Just Us Two, Vol. 1 (King Baby Duck, The Boston Bastard Brigade)

Orochi: The Perfect Edition (Renee Scott, Good Comics for Kids)

Our Kingdom, Vol. 1 (Library Girl, A Library Girl’s Familiar Diversions)

Our Kingdom, Vol. 2 (Library Girl, A Library Girl’s Familiar Diversions)

Phantom Tales of the Night, Vol. 1 (Helen, The OASG)

Queen’s Quality, Vol. 14 (Josh Piedra, The Outerhaven)

Rent-a-Girlfriend, Vols. 10-11 (Demelza, Anime UK News)

Rurouni Kenshin: Three-in-One Omnibus, Vol. 1 (Library Girl, A Library Girl’s Familiar Diversions)

The Royal Tutor, Vol. 16 (Krystallina, The OASG)

Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts, Vol. 15 (Krystallina, The OASG)

Sasaki and Miyano, Vol. 5 (Eric Alex Cline, AiPT!)

By: Katherine Dacey

#Anime #News #Manga Bookshelf

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hauntedheroines · 2 years

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“I knew from the second you brought me down here that you had no intention of letting me live. So here is the deal, Liz...”

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#The Blacklist #Keen2 #TV Show #Elizabeth x Tom #Christopher x Masha #End game #Villain x Heroine #Bonding undercover #In Love With The Mark #Used to be lovers #Keen2: Gifs #Tom Keen #Elizabeth Keen

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#ur my favourite ANGEL byE #pls hmu when ur less busy and i'm less busy so we can plot more ok incl with babe reddington #ilu #<3 partner in russian crime #masha x christopher x gennadiy supremacy #fierceminded #― ᴀᴋᴀ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴜᴍʙ ʜᴇʀʙɪᴠᴏʀᴇ . out of character .

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Lady Gaga, glamour and gossip: what went on at Paris Fashion Week?

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Lady Gaga, glamour and gossip: what went on at Paris Fashion Week?

As models, celebrities, designers and journalists from around the world jetted to Paris for its women’s fashion week, they must have had a bumpy landing: the atmosphere was thick with controversy, news of takeovers, and anticipation at new directorial debuts. The proverbial runway was covered in marbles, and everyone was getting their opera glasses out of their Prada handbags to get a good look at who would fall first.

September is the January in fashion, as Candy Pratts Price drawls at the beginning of The September Issue, the documentary tracking the production of American Vogue’s 2007 September edition. The fashion elite trek from New York to London to Milan and, finally, to Paris, all in a month, to view the women’s collections of the most revered designers.

Milan Fashion Week came to a close on Monday, September 24th, just as Paris opened its arrondissements to the well-heeled droves. Donatella Versace waited until Tuesday – perhaps in the hope that most fashion purists would already be in France – to announce that the Italian fashion house would be taken over by none other than Michael Kors.

The fashion world was almost universally aghast at the news of Michael Kors’ takeover of Versace, which is revered as one of the world’s finest independent luxury fashion houses

The fashion world was almost universally aghast at the news. (Think the panicked scenes in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie when Kate Moss gets pushed into the Thames.) Why? The house of Versace is a family brand, created by Donatella’s brother Gianni, and passed on to her after his assassination, in 1997. It is revered as one of the world’s finest independent luxury fashion houses – the operative word being “independent”.

Huge European conglomerates like LVMH have been hoovering up independent brands, and die-hard fans of Versace see this as a potential corruption of their vision. LVMH alone owns Dior, Celine, Givenchy, Fendi and Marc Jacobs, among others. Apparently aiming for similar domination, Michael Kors last year acquired Jimmy Choo and now will bring the three brands – Kors, Choo, and Versace – under the name Capri Holdings. Kors’ business model in the US is based around saturating the market with fragrances and product partnerships, at price points that are within reach of the average consumer.

This seems like the antithesis of the refined opulence of Versace. It remains to be seen whether the 100 new Versace stores Kors plans to open will dilute the house’s identity, but fashion fanatics on social media certainly seem to think so.

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Paris Fashion Week: the Saint Laurent show was set beneath the lights of the Eiffel Tower. Photograph: François Guillot/AFP/Getty

Walking on water

On Tuesday night fashionistas assembled around a magnificent watery dais laid spectacularly beneath the lights of the Eiffel Tower. A striking row of bone-white illuminated palm trees fringed the pool. As the crowd squinted sceptically at the mirrory runway, everyone had the same question, one that was quickly answered: yes, the models were going to walk on water. The Saint Laurent show was the perfect dramatic backdrop for Tuesday’s gossip to sink in – just as the models’ heels sent ripples across the glassy surface, so too did ripples of the takeover news reverberate around the show.

Saint Laurent featured starry, luxurious designs that nodded to the house’s history. But if one theme in the week’s displays was even stronger than history, it was identity. Gender politics were at the forefront of the conversation.

Paris Fashion Week: from the Alexander McQueen spring-summer 2019 ready-to-wear collection. Photograph: François Guillot/AFP/Getty

Paris Fashion Week: from Masha Ma’s spring-summer 2019 women’s collection. Photograph: Christophe Petit Tesson/EPA

Paris Fashion Week: the Maison Margiela show. Photograph: Thierry Chesnot/Getty

Blurring gender boundaries

Alexander McQueen, Masha Ma, Louis Vuitton and Leonard Paris all explored the notion of women as warriors and explorers.

Masha Ma took contemporary inspiration from Natalie Portman’s Netflix film Annihilation, in which a group of women venture into an alternate dimension to save the world, to give a feminist edge to her exploration of Chinese aesthetics and politics. The result was a collection dominated by shimmery greens, evoking the jungle and military camouflage. McQueen’s body-armour-esque floral designs also conveyed a warrior woman’s journey, this time around the wilds of England. Ditto Louis Vuitton, but the journey was into outer space. Givenchy and Maison Margiela also engaged with gender, but their interests were in overturning it. Margiela had its first co-ed runway, blending men’s, women’s and nonbinary fashion seamlessly into one genderless celebration. Givenchy also mingled male and female models rendered indistinguishable with cropped hair and androgynous structured suits.

Paris Fashion Week: Lady Gaga debuted the Slimane x Celine bag. Photograph: Pierre Suu/GC/Getty

Paris Fashion Week: the Celine spring-summer 2019 ready-to-wear show. Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty

Directorial debut

Gender also played into another of the week’s major controversies: Hedi Slimane’s first women’s show as director of Celine. The designer took the reins in January of this year, having previously been creative director of Dior and Saint Laurent. It was he who dropped the Yves and razed the accent from what had been Céline. Many would argue that razing is Slimane’s modus operandi – that he cares little for brand legacy and is happy to leave the earth scorched as long as he can build his own castle on the ashes.

His Celine show was hotly debated in those terms, with many critics angry that he had discarded the feminine point of view in order to align more closely with his own legacy as a men’s designer. (He is best known for revolutionising menswear in his time at Dior Homme.) Lady Gaga seemed pretty happy, though, sitting in the front row. It was she who debuted the first Slimane x Celine bag in front of the Mona Lisa last month.

Paris Fashion Week: Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner model creations from Off-White collection. Photograph: François Guillot/AFP/Getty

Paris Fashion Week: backstage at the Off-White show. Photograph: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty

Streetwear/couture clash

The other most-talked-about director of the week was Virgil Abloh, who has been the hottest name in fashion this past year. At men’s fashion week in Paris earlier this year, he made his debut as men’s director of Louis Vuitton. His own label, Off-White, had its track-and-field-themed show, in which famous athletes paraded in yellow neon, this women’s week. The star-studded affair featured Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner and Kaia Gerber, and continued Abloh’s brand of high-fashion street and athleisure wear. Indeed, much of the week could have been viewed through the lens of the streetwear/couture conflict. As Dean Mayo Davies argued for Dazed, Slimane’s show at Celine was a riposte to “streetwear’s stranglehold” on high fashion.

Paris Fashion Week: Kaia Gerber models a Chanel outfit at the Grand Palais. Photograph: Stephane Mahe/Getty

Paris Fashion Week: at Louis Vuitton’s Louvre show. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

Chanel by the sea

Other highlights of the week included the Chanel show, where barefoot models frolicked on the sand in Le Grand Palais, wearing surprisingly bombastic and fun designs, all bearing brazenly large CHA-NEL lettering.

If Chanel took you to the seaside, Shiatzy Chen took you down the rabbit hole. Think Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland but in “the fantasy world of the East”.

The Balenciaga show invited you into virtual reality in an LED tunnel. Its stiff, futuristic tailoring combined with colourfully exploded Comic Sans type was as if the MSN generation entered the world of The Matrix.

Sci-fi didn’t stop there: the Louis Vuitton show closed the week in the Louvre courtyard, teleporting everyone to Mars with its space-travel theme.

Phew! That’s quite enough trekking – until men’s fashion week, in January, when the heels will wear trenches from Palais de Tokyo to Grand Palais all over again.

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hauntedheroines · 3 years

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Problematic Ships Map

Most of my ships and how they connect. I’ve tried to begin with the first ships I had and how their tropes shaped my taste.

For instance, Wuthering Heights made me notice I loved childhood friends or lovers torn apart.

Hades and Persephone was not personally a first for me, but historically it was the beginning of an common archetype, which is a cruel, possibly supernatural male figure trapping a young maiden into a world of darkness and wonder.

Unfortunately I could not display all the possible connections because there would be too many arrows. For instance, Narkik started a war like every other roaring rampage of romance ship.

Just assume the closer the ships are in branch, the most likely they are to be similar. If you want to know about an specific ship and recommendations of other ships based on it, I’ll gladly answer to you in box ;)

Some things might not make sense as to why does Spuffy comes from Dolores/MiB when the former was not a case of ex-lovers. That’s because sometimes the child-branch doesn’t relate to the main trope from it’s parent, but the dynamic of one ship reminds me strongly of the other because of aspects not mentioned.

Meaning of some tropes is here.

Find the tag for your ship here.

Hope this helps you all find new ships.

See ya! <3

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