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Something I forgot to mention last week that I was just reminded of. One day after work last week, I dropped by Borders to skim the manga shelves and see if anything I was reading was out. There were four of us there poking through the manga. All female. The other three were young and slim and very tall and fashionable and looked exactly like manga heroines and would most likely never be caught dead setting foot in a comic shop. The vignette was sort of spoiled when the boyfriend of one of them wandered over, put his arm around her neck and said "Oh this is that MANG-ga stuff. It's all, like, Chinese art" and steered her off in the direction of the sports section, but she was looking at a manga intently enough that I think she'll be back.

That's all rather pointless, except that I had a very nice moment of "This is the market." I'm usually the only one looking at the shelves when I'm there - I'm usually too late to see the kids from th neighboring school, or I'm there at lunch - and it's nice to fianlly see it.

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Crossposting from my DeviantArt journal.

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