I heard that about Nephilim. Sad! Manga still brings the crack like nothing, absolutely nothing else in this world, even Alan Moore, but the evil darkside of the crackiness of manga is that sometimes, the crack is boring and stupid. Poorly executed weirdness doesn't have much of an impact on people who spend all their time reading brilliant weirdness.
Thank you for the recs! I have not read Love*Com, but I've heard mainly good things.
You know, I think a couple of the reasons I've come to like fashion manga are that A) it's mostly been josei, and I like josei, and B) perhaps related to the josei thing--the fashion manga I've read is also career manga, that is, it's female characters pursuing actual careers, and caring about them. You see bits of that from time to time in more fantasy-oriented titles, but I at least haven't gotten to read or see all that many titles where a woman is on an actual real career track, and that career is among her primary life goals. I dig Nana for the same reason--Hachi's all flighty and seems to be turning out to be seriously domestic (and I respect the seriousness she brings to it!), but you also have Nana O. and Reira, whose careers are as or more important to them than their romantic entanglements. I love it like fire.
I'm going to have to go examine my bookcase and inventory the women's career options outlined therein, now...dammit, what a segue.
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on 2009-05-17 06:17 am (UTC)Thank you for the recs! I have not read Love*Com, but I've heard mainly good things.
You know, I think a couple of the reasons I've come to like fashion manga are that A) it's mostly been josei, and I like josei, and B) perhaps related to the josei thing--the fashion manga I've read is also career manga, that is, it's female characters pursuing actual careers, and caring about them. You see bits of that from time to time in more fantasy-oriented titles, but I at least haven't gotten to read or see all that many titles where a woman is on an actual real career track, and that career is among her primary life goals. I dig Nana for the same reason--Hachi's all flighty and seems to be turning out to be seriously domestic (and I respect the seriousness she brings to it!), but you also have Nana O. and Reira, whose careers are as or more important to them than their romantic entanglements. I love it like fire.
I'm going to have to go examine my bookcase and inventory the women's career options outlined therein, now...dammit, what a segue.