Aaaand yet more titles!

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lnhammer has periodically been dropping by my previous Dreamwidth entries with lists of titles and summarizing various of the series, if you're interested. :D


And now for more!


Shinigami Ghost Game
She is My Spirit Boy
Welcome to Occult Babylon
Please Save My Funky King <- Adventure and intrigue in the Tokyo underground indie funk scene.
Eternal Night Clock *
Lovely Ballroom Dagger <- A Regency! Intrigue and waltzes!
She is My Marshmallow
Hot Secret Castle <- Revolutionary Girl Utena doujinshi.
Welcome to Team Clover <- Female baseball team manga.
December Coffee Memories <- a.k.a. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
Blossom in Autumn
Daughter of Sisters
Harajuku Girl Tale
Fluffy Knight Boutique
Legendary Pirate from Hell
Heaven's Ribboned Dagger
Magical Mysterious Tomorrow
Mask Magical Debutante <- Demure debutante by day, dashing international spy by night!


** Inspired by the Clock of the Long Now, mixed with the Corpus Clock and its Chronophage.

Comments

[lnhammer]

December Coffee Memories is TOTALLY a YKK story. Dunno whether a fic or doujinshi, but something. And I'd pay to read it.

She Is My Marshmellow scares me -- it sounds like big-breasted yuri hentai, and that never works.

Welcome to Team Clover is, yes, a female baseball team manga -- specifically a AU genderswap Cross Game doujinshi.

Daughter of Sisters is about a teenage girl raised by a lesbian couple, trying to come to terms with both their sexuality and her own, while keeping her parents a secret. Gradually she learns that her two closest friends are also in the closet about aspects of their lives. Not written by Ebine Yamaji, alas, as she'd do a faboo job of it.

Come to think of it, that'd be a pretty good premise for a YA novel ...

---L.

[lnhammer]

Heaven's Ribboned Dagger is a vaguely Chinese-inspired fantasy with court politics. Kinda cute, but not as good as Saiunkoku Monogatari or Pahanjip, so you can probably skip it.

---L.

[lnhammer]

Eternal Night Clock surprised me -- I was expecting something on gothic overload, like Kaori Yuki. Instead the art was clear and sharp, with delicate lines. And somehow, despite the clean, airy layouts, mangaka manages to convey the darkness of the vampires' lives. The story is nothing original -- high school girl, bishies in the building at night, yadda yadda. But the way that vampirism is equated not with sex (a la Vampire Knight) but desire in all its myriad forms is original -- though the symbolism of the clock tower where heroine first meets the vamps never really comes together. Highly recommended.

(I should stop now, shouldn't I.)

---L.

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(Don't let me stop you! I'm enjoying the hell out of this! And have an evil desire to set up a site that's nothing but reviews of nonexistent manga and anime. XD)

[lnhammer]

She is My Spirit Boy is ... odd, in the way that quiet series based on Japanese folklore can get. I would have guessed from the content and art style that it's josei, but no, it ran in Bessatsu Friend on an irregular schedule. I'm pretty sure I'm missing a lot of what's going on, due to having not been raised in the lore, but it's still prettily creepy. As for the title, yes, there is some gender ambiguity going on, insofar as we never do find out (unless I missed it) which kind of bishie the ghost is. Heck, I'm not entirely certain it is a ghost and not a youkai. Recommended for fans of Ntasume Yuujinchou and Hyakkiyakou Shou, despite the scans of, ah, let's be charitable and say uneven quality.

---L.

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"Harajuku Girl Tale" -- what, that's like totally coherent and stuff. Fail! hahahaha :D