Sorry for the extreme amount of blogging today, but Matt Thorn has penned a new essay on manga, and since intelligent views on manga are pretty rare- mostly there is company hype and reviews that consist solely of 'bishie bishie bishie!" and 'it was SOOOOOOOO coooool!", maybe there will be some well written apologetics that tie an entire series together. I think us manga fans have to try a bit harder,eh?

Also, finally someone tells people what shoujo manga are and are not. I get sick and tired of people calling Maison Ikkoku shoujo, because apparently men just can't read a romance story unless the protagonist is falling into someone's clevage all the time.