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A Bride’s Story 83 - Flavor Flower Town: Read Online / DDL

We’re back to the Persian palace, with the husband who still doesn’t have a name. He’s ready to party, though, and he’s not taking no for an answer. He’s very polite with everyone, but compared to Ali and Niklovski’s reception he actually seems pretty jazzed to see Henry, guess they hit it off last time. It’s good he has a friend :)

Speaking of new friends, it’s fun to see the women learn about each other’s lifestyles. For all that they seem to live worlds apart, they find quite a bit of common ground. It’s not explicitly flagged that Talas dips into another language for some of her lines, but based on the context and how she suddenly starts speaking very haltingly, I made an inference. There is some level of mutual intelligibility regardless, so their language or dialects seem to be similar enough to talk together.

Probably too much to ask they come unveiled, but I wonder if Henry can convince them to take a group picture?

[tempo-takoyaki]

The inherent homoerotism in showing off your hair to your partner. (Vaguely inspired by chapter 81 of Otoyome Gatari)

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[cafeleningrad]

The anon is frustrated because shoujo manga, a genre more or less equivalent to YA, tends to feature much more complex and nuanced storytelling. For every middle school romantic comedy there's something sparkling with imagination, and the very best series have outstanding artistic and intellectual value not only among manga but literature as a whole. In general, Japanese works seem much more cerebral, while American works seem to celebrate antiintellectualism.

Good morning, Anon :) Are you summarizing the reason I got into anime/manga as teen? Because during my teen times the staff at the local bookshop or librar recommeded me stale love story after stale lovestory. After reading halfway through I had to give the books back out of frustration but when reading Kodomo no Omocha, Inuyasha, or Otoyome Gatari, I noticed how good romances can actually be if the characters matter.

More or less, yes. Following the frame I set up in a previous ask of YA as marketing label directed at teen readers, Shoujo and Shounen would fit into the category right away (although it’s a more a marketing label and has no age limit for readers ;).) As I specifically talked about the romantasy formula targeting girls, Shoujo approximates it even more.

Yes, I agree on the target audience equivalency, mangas/animes having a much better track record of writing engaging stories. There may be many issues with the manga/anime community however it’s noticable how many guys in there are not ashamed even outright positive to talk about their interests in shoujo story. I mean, where else can you say “I haven’t watched [famous romcom] yet” and the next ten replies by guys are “OMG, YOU have to watch [famous romcom], it’s perfect and so cute, the main character is so adorable! You’re missing out on something great!” (yeah, it’s about Toradora ;) Or cheer on a female lead without any fanservice in the story like Yona of the Dawn? How so? Not because the stories are tailored to main audiences as well, shoujo is in it’s commonly saccharine style, heavily romantic and heavily emotion driven tone falling into a category often associated with highly feminine style. No, the stories are perhaps very feminine yet appealing in writing. The reason I personally can stand 98% of romance stories  because I think romance is the hardest genre to nail down well. In theory the concept in simple: The writer creates two characters then entering a (romantic) dynamic getting the reader intrigued to read about. But that requires at least appealing characters who work in interesting ways together. And following that thought, yes, Shoujo is genre in a medium much more capable in writing characters who’re appealing to audiences. I don’t think shoujo stories are necessarily more clever in plot (Ouran High School Host Club reaches for it’s plot, Yona of the Dawn’s only creativity in fantasy-romance story lies in having it set in medieval Korean setting which is rare in Japanese manga - don’t get me wrong, I love YoD, Ijsut want to make a point) however I don’t believe plots need to be outlandishly clever in concept BUT the writing needs to be genuine and good in craft. A competent story telling leads the reader logically through a story, stories invested to be earnest are so much more memorable than one serving as reader insert fantasy. Let me put it like this: In theory Nana could be any slice-of-life, coming-of-age-story, Violet’s motivation in Violet Evergarden seems rather simplistic yet the strenghts of these stories are a sincere approach to investigate emotions behind decisions, the characters being significant as people with wishes, insecurities, thoughts and growth rather than replacing an entire personality by a cool gimmick and a quippy oneliner every other character around them could’ve said. To branch out: Shounen could fall easily into the trap of “person with cool power who says entertaining oneliners”, however many titles care to give their characters downfalls and hurdles caused by themselves as people.

This is where the hook of shoujo writing comes in. When it comes to entertainement categories terms like “cerebral” seem a bit out of place for the specific teenage-audience entertainment niche (not that stories for a tee audience can’t be intelligent but m understanding of the word made me immediately think of Death Note xD) although I believe to understand your choice of word

Note: About the general mention about Japanese media vs. Western media in matters of anti-intellectualism, I half agree but I get the sentiment. There’re enough anime I wish I haven’t watched their first three episodes, too many releases of the 349th idol show, enough US shows, movies and books I genuinely like, the recent trend of smaller and Indie-movie US-productions are downright capable to good, and the Isekai genre in it’s current state can please fade out as soon as possible as it’s not even repetitive but as lazy as the MCU formula as well as sexist. As mentioned in another message, Anime/mange are just another form of media like books, shows, podcasts etc. although heavily marked by elements from the country in which they’re produced. STILL I still agree with you on broad terms because the current state and yet too many of big productions are... bad. Well, I was the person writing a three page essay why I passionately hated Disney’s latest animated feature... Okay, to be more clear at the current state US movie landscape (except for only very few productions) is in tired shambles. Loaded and ever only investing in well known franchise titles is as secure as it’s self cannibalistic. No innovation in the stories since none needs to invent anything as brands are enough to ensure at least lukewarm criticism and at least enough income to cover production cost. Currently the landscape is over-saturated with big brand franchise titles or linked to big movie titles from good days past, all working with the same success formula. Maybe more people begin to nag on the MCU however there’re enough fan discussions as well as revenue for every new MCU related show and movie even if they’re quality in writing and editing decreases. Help, any movie made by big corporations wouldn’t have earned half as much money or critiques if the movies were made by other studios, because the brands on the movies alone work a massive amount of good will without effort. Every show or movie not linked to franchises is something, something super hero but any kind of concept twist imaginable (In that regard Isekai is the equivalent to the superhero genre :P). The only contemporary good take I saw was the Boys because it goes into the criticism of superheroes as “Übermesch-fantasy, mass production of the US-exceptionalism-narrative, celebrity culture - all other variations of superhero story can be mildly entertaining yet fall flat as they’ve nothing to talk about but their genre and desperately trying hard to be “not like other superhero stories”. Not only superhero stories, also all those following a style of better sucessful titles on masse.These stories are like chewing gum. They may sell with new, even outlandish flavours, in the end the the taste vaporizes rapidly and you chew on something leaving a stale taste in your mouth. But now, a safe formula still sells safely and with success because it ultimately doesn’t challenge anything. Anything disrupting the peace of security is a threat - such interruptions can be named as anything controversial. It doesn’t even have to be deep. No matter if you liked the last Jedi, none can deny Rian Johnson wanted to try something new. The dsruption form Star Wars fan viewing habits was massive. Even more controversial would be choice or conflicts which are ambiguous in result or fronts - just see how GoT cannbalized itself by thinking Martin wrote a story about good vs. evil, in the end dumbing down a story about opportunism, hunger for power into “dragon lady evil because ... Leni Rifenstahl shots I guess??” (and let’s not talk about the stupid takes within the fandom about perceived villainy...). Within an industry milking the same old cashcow, none currently none would dare disrupt the landscape with bold takes or thoughts - ambiguity, challenging questions are the most risky thing to do, possibly.

[maayalohawaii]

I wanted to see these beautiful wooden crafts pillars since I read the comic of ''Otoyome Gatari'' by Kaoru Mori. . #乙嫁語り の聖地巡礼かのごとくひとり興奮していた #ブハラ の街。 主人公の二人の住む村はこの辺りがモデルだそうです。 . 1巻のなかでこの柱や木の彫刻の話が出てくるんだけど、こちらの建築は石の上に柱を建て、その上にまた彫刻された肘木を重ね、屋根を作る。 バランス命だよなぁ… ちなみに石と木の間の接着にはらくだの毛が使われてたりします🐫 . #travelingram #travelphotography #viaje #maayalohawaii #centralasia #igtravel #goprohero5black #goproのある生活 #ひとり旅 #uzbekistan #visituzbekistan #ウズベキスタン (Bolo Haus) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2x8g03A5HF/?igshid=u9wuuneggxfk

[uomangaclub-blog]

This Week’s Reading

This week we’re reading the first volume of A Bride’s Story (Otoyome-Gatari) by Kaoru Mori.

Summary (from animenewsnetwork): “Set along the Silk Road that connected Asia with the Mediterranean world, including North Africa and Europe, in the 19th century. The story of Amir, a woman skilled in archery and horsemanship, sent to marry Karluk, a boy from another village who is 8 years younger than her. But all is not well, as her village decides to take her back... “

[otakunews01]

El Manga Hibiki: Shousetsuka ni Naru Houhou gana los premios Manga Taisho 2017.

La serie de Mitsuharu Yanamoto encabeza otras 12 nominaciones. 

El comité ejecutivo de los d��cimos premios Manga Taisho anunció durante su ceremonia de premiación el martes que el Manga Hibiki: Shousetsuka ni Naru Houhou de Mitsuharu Yanamoto ganó los premios de este año. 

En la historia, un manuscrito de novela se envía en un concurso de novatos, pero que no cumple con las condiciones y se tira a la basura. Aún así, un editor llamado Hanai lo recoge por casualidad y cree que es una novela revolucionaria. El nombre del autor es Hibiki Akui, pero no hay una dirección de contacto en la presentación. Mientras tanto, Hibiki -una estudiante de 15 años de edad- se une al club de literatura de su escuela, sin saber que Hanai está tratando de seguir su rastro. 

Yanamoto lanzó el Manga en la revista Big Comic Superior de Shogakukan en agosto del 2014. Shogakukan puso a la venta el quinto tomo recopilatorio del Manga en diciembre, y lanzará el sexto tomo el 12 de abril. 

Previos ganadores del Manga Taisho incluyen: 

2016 - Golden Kamui de Satoru Noda

2015 - Kakukaku Shikajika de Akiko Higashimura

2014 - Otoyome-Gatari por Kaoru Mori

2013 - Umimachi Diary de Akimi Yoshida

2012 - Gin no Saji de Hiromu Arakawa

2011 - Sangatsu no Lion de Chika Umino

2010 - Thermae Romae de Mari Yamazaki

2009 - Chihayafuru de Yuki Suetsugu

2008 - Gaku - Minna no Yama de Shinichi Ishizuka

A diferencia de muchos otros premios de Manga que son elegidos por los editores de las editoriales de Manga ellos mismos, el comité de nominaciones del Manga Taisho está compuesto principalmente por empleados de librerías que están a cargo de las secciones de Manga en sus respectivas tiendas. (El nombre oficial de español de los premios es el "Gran Premio de Manga”). Los premios también se limitan a obras publicadas el año pasado con ocho o menos tomos para promover obras relativamente recientes. Los 13 nominado de este año por el comité son los siguientes:

Hibiki: Shousetsuka ni Naru Houhou de Mitsuharu Yanamoto con 67 puntos

Kin no Kuni Mizu no Kuni de Nao Iwamoto con 64 puntos

Dungeon Meshi de Ryouko Kui con 63 puntos

Aoashi  de Yuugo Kobayashi y Naohiko Ueno con 60 puntos

Nami yo Kiite Kure de Hiroaki Samura con 48 puntos

Yakusoku no Neverland de Kaiu Shirai y Posuka Demizu con 43 puntos

Golden Gold  de Seita Horio con 42 puntos

Fire Punch de Tatsuki Fujimoto con 37 puntos

Hi Score Girl de Rensuke Oshikiri con 33 puntos

Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san de Souichirou Yamamoto con 30 puntos

Watashi no Shounen de Hitomi Takano con 20 puntos

Tokyo Tarareba Musume de Akiko Higashimura con 18 puntos

Kuutei Dragons de Taku Kuwabara con 9 puntos 

[mooncalfandpeony]

I personally love manga because of that aforementioned variety. What if I don't want to read about superheroes and complicated back stories involving other superheroes?

With manga, I can find characters from all different sorts of backgrounds, with different styles and pacing to match.

I can read about fantasy worlds, sci-fi worlds, company offices, schools, farms, ice skating rinks, battle fields etc. I'm not say a lot of manga don't have issues with overused tropes, but if you dig deeper you can pretty much find something small and obscure that doesn't.

Growing up, I felt a connection to Nodame and Chiaki from Nodame Cantabile, and was obsessed with Kamisama Hajimemashite. Manga like Mushishi and Otoyome Gatari have such beautiful and timeless stories and I constantly rewatched Princess Jellyfish. There's a lot of manga I read that were 3 or 4 volumes at the most-but they didn't feel like they needed more than that-The gods tell lies by Kaori Ozaki is only one volume but the story is no less complex for it.

I suppose it all depends on preference. I think some people probably love American comics because you are invested and attached to these characters-there's almost a comfort there, as if you are continuing to run into old friends. I, too, love having fanfiction and fan art available to continue to rekindle my love for certain characters, but I absolutely prefer having more new stories, worlds, art styles and characters to meet and fall in love with😊

not to start anything but i take issue with that post that’s like “manga is easier to get into than American comics because there’s less backstory baggage” and like i can understand that to a degree but in my experience it’s been more like:

comic character reappears after 400 issues: editor’s note explaining who they are and an explanation in-story as to who they are and what their deal is

manga character reappears after 400 issues: lmao hope you were writing all this shit down dumbass

[comicadventurescast]

34. Minicomics with Kat Tuesday

Happy New Year! We invited artist Kat Tuesday to help us ring in 2019 with style, and by style we mean minicomics. Kat's audio is pretty rough, but the minicomic knowledge she drops is smooooth.

  Other things we talk about:

Oyasumi Punpun by Asano Inio

Otoyome Gatari (Bride's Story) by Mori Kaoru

What Doesn’t Work by M Stenbæk

Never Satisfied by Taylor Robin

Saint for Rent by Ru Zu

Ran and the Gray World v1 by Aki Irie

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Quimby's

Sharkman by Leo Mancini

CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo)

Chicago Zine Fest

Paper Mills Have The Power….To Finally Increase Prices

Paper Chase: Unexpected Price Increases Hit Pulp Market

Kitty's Guide to Chicago Coffee by Patrick Cheng

Low Light: Late Night Special by Tristan Wright

Can You Make the Dog Sexier? by Kelly Leigh Miller and Alex Sloves

Look at my Cute Cub by Lucy Kinsley

Viewotron issue 2 (Mom) by Sam Sharpe

Rachel Bard’s mini-minis

Pancakes by Kat Leyh

Radishes by Carolyn Nowak

One Drink by Bruce Worden

An Army of Lovers Will Be Beaten by Bernie McGovern

Baby Fat and K.M. & R.P. & MCMLXXI (1971) by M. Dean

Making Minicomics by Jessica Abel

  Find us online at:

twitter.com/thecomiccast

twitter.com/widewildblue (Melissa)

twitter.com/AndrewDLarkin (Andrew)

And check out our Ko-fi!

  Questions or comments? Email us at comicadventurescast@gmail.com.

  Comic Adventures is a project of Let’s Make Comics, a Chicago-based comics collective, and produced by Andrew Larkin and Melissa Sayen. Our theme song is Adventure Music! by Munchybobo.

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WhatBest Recommends – Manga Taishoo Winners 2014

WhatBest Recommends – Manga Taishoo Winners 2014

Manga Taishoo is an annual Japanese manga award, started in 2008, limited to series with eight or less released volumes. The main goal of Manga Taishoo is to promote and award newer and relative unknown titles. The committee is composed of staff members from bookstores and each individually votes for their top 5 favorites for the year.

Past winners of the award were:

-        Gaku: Minna no Yama,…

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A Bride’s Story 82: Read Online / DDL

Another story from the road. Here we get to see yet again another look at a facet of Talas I really like; She’s intelligent, and curious, even though she knows so little of the wider world, and even (mostly) follows along with Smith’s technobabble. It’s nice to see how often he’s impressed with her, and is happy to indulge her curiosity as well. I think they’ve also grown a little warmer, and a little less guarded with each other.

If the preview’s to be believed, we’ll be arriving back at Shirin and Anis’s home next month!

[brightsips]

「乙嫁語りいろいろ詰め」/「さとうとしお」の漫画 [pixiv]

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Get that money: Otoyomegatari 81 - Read Online / DDL

Some more fun with all our friends back home. We may be back to some new story developments next chapter.

I originally went with Kamola’s name as Camora, but I’ve discovered it probably comes from Kamol, a word meaning perfect or flawless. Going through three languages can be tricky when you don’t know one of them!

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A Bride’s Story 79 - Shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen: Read Online / DDL

We’re back! Took a while as the series had a few months off, then I had to wait to get the files. Short one with Karluk’s sister and brother-in-law.

It’s nice to see a little more of their relationship, since they’re usually in the background. We’ve seen them snapping at eachother before, so it’s interesting to watch that play out and how they deal with their tempers. Looks like they still love eachother at the end of the day, though.

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A Bride’s Story 80: Sure is Boring Around Here - Read Online / DDL

Yeah, not a whole lot to say on this one. We learn Amir and Azel have a favorite pastime in common. Next time maybe we’ll see how our other precious children spend their down time, hopefully several pages of Ali napping and some Pariya goodness.

This chapter is technically titled “former part” which implies there will probably only be a latter part, but I’ve been burned on this by an unexpected “middle part” before.

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OwO what’s this? It’s A Bride’s Story, chapter 78: Read Online / DDL

It’s a short one from December. Mori is taking January off, and Otoyomegatari will return in the Feburary issue of Harta.

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Otoyomegatari 63: Home Chemistry - Read Online / DDL

There have been a couple scenes where Smith can be seen translating for Ali in previous chapters, I thought that was a cool background detail that finally gets pointed out. It also reminded me that I fudged the wording a few chapters back when Ali appears to respond directly to Mr Hawkins (when he yells at him about the fragile plates), but they of course do not speak each other’s language. Oops!

By the way, Niklovski also seems to speak English, at least to Smith and Hawkins.

I absolutely cannot get enough of Hawkins putting Smith on blast, this guy is fun to write for. Also enjoyed the hint of annoyance we see from Talas. Looking forward to when they hit the road as a chance to see more facets of her character.