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On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:58:35 GMT,paranormalized, wrote
> elsie wrote:
> > "Dave Baranyi" <david_baranyi@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1156887803.786984.243010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Andrew Hollingbury wrote:
> > snip
> >>> Yamato Nadesico Shichihenge - the manga is licensed as "The Wallflower";
> >>> I'm enjoying the recent boom in shoujo stories targetted at a slightly
> >>> older audience, but this comedy about a bunch of bishounen who try to
> >>> reform an ugly girl they have to live with doesn't overly inspire me.
> >>>
> >> Shoujo comedy is a "rare bird" - I'll be interested to see what it is
> >> like.
> >>
> > I've been following the manga for this one. It's not so much that the girl
> > is ugly but that she's an anti-social goth who learned English from slasher
> > films and whose best friends are an anatomical dummy and a skeleton. The
> > guys are very bishie and have been coerced by their landlady, her aunt,
> > into
> > pulling a Queer Eye type makeover on the scary goth chick. The bishies
> > include Kyohei, the beautiful punk; Ranmaru who dates older women;
> > Takenaga,
> > who's pretty sensible; and Yukinojo, the scaredy cat. The premise is fun
> > and
> > some of the episodes in the manga are pretty interesting, but the story
> > doesn't actually seem to be going anywhere. I hope that the anime writers
> > keep it from being quite so episodic. At this point, it seems like a
> > high-concept sitcom.
> >
> > laurie
> >
>
> Ahhhh. Shoujo comedy. Why must you tempt me so? I can't afford you
> yet, either in time or money, but you seem so close, yet so far away...
>
> Jonathan Fisher
I am reading Wallflower(non-sequentially) by borrowing from the
SF Public Library, Nodame Cantablie(sequentially) by reserving specific
volumes in order. Requires no cash, reservations can be done by internet
and pickup generates up to 22 blocks of exercise.
The manga series I was reading and collecting before Nodame was
translated will likely use all my available funds indefinitely so
this is the route I will be taking, making use of public resources
to keep up with at least a few of the newer serialised releases.
later
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Ningen banji Human beings do
Samazama no Every single kind
Baka a suru Of stupid thing
--- 117th edition of Haifu Yanagidaru published in 1832
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