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Wednesday Evening Shojo Beat Round-up

I started off my day with a discussion with fellow bloggers from Manga Xanadu and Heart of Manga!

Anna from Tokyojupiter was prompted to write a response post about a Shojo Beat title she doesn’t really care for, Honey Hunt, saying “In Honey Hunt, Aihara has managed to write a story where I found myself not caring about any of the characters. With Hot Gimmick, I still cared about whom Hatsumi ended up with, not so with Yura. All of Yura’s choices seemed equally awful to me, especially since none of them were really concerned about her as a person, but what she represented and what she could do for them.”

There’s a review of A Devil and Her Love Song on Good Comics for Kids from Lori, “A Devil and Her Love Song pairs up two tropes of shojo manga, the new girl who tries hard to make friends and the girl who’s sharp-tongued and difficult to get along with, and does so surprisingly well.”

Also, check out Manga Critic’s take on volume 4 of A Devil and Her Love Song!

Lori reviews Wanted Volume 1 at Manga Xanadu for Talk Like a Pirate day!

Experiments in Manga explores the melancholic Sand Chronicles.

Organization ASG explores Skip Beat Volume 3.

I reviewed the first four volumes of Gentlemen’s Alliance +

That’s it for Wednesday!!!

By Anna N

Anna Neatrour is a librarian with too much manga in her house. She started blogging at TangognaT in 2003 about libraries, books, manga, and comics. She created Manga Report to focus only on manga reviews in 2010. Anna is a member of the writing collective known as The Bureau Chiefs, authors of FakeAPStylebook and the book Write More Good. Anna contributed the Bringing the Drama column to Manga Bookshelf before joining the team in Nov 2012. When not reading, Anna can be found knitting or wrangling small children.

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