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thepurplewombat · 1 year ago

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The only bookstore chain in my country that stocks any danmei at all has them under Manga. Tbh I prefer that to the time I found erha under YA, although I did suggest to them that they might want to put danmei under queer lit or even romance or something.

Was walking around Barnes and Noble today and noticed they had Heartstopper stocked in the YA section which is ok cool but then I went to the other side of the store and saw they had scum villain in MANGA???? I know we've bitched about "manga" becoming a catch all term for any east asian book in categorizing but like. ONE OF THESE IS ACTUALLY A COMIC AND ITS DEFINITELY NOT SCUM VILLAIN

#Obviously sticking danmei under Manga isn't IDEAL #But I've definitely seen worse #And the covers of esp erha do not help #If people don't know what they are they are very easy to mistake for YA #I do prefer that the danmei all stay together tho - on reddit one person was suggesting that they should be shelved under their subgenre #And then you'd have to check every shelf incase you missed one?#Ew #I was amused last time to see they had tgcf wrapped up #But not erha #Omg the scandalous smooches!

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