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It's all ParaKiss all the time in this week's Off the Shelf! - Welcome to another edition of Off the Shelf with Melinda & Michelle! As always, I'm joined by Soliloquy in Blue‘s Michelle Smith. Once again, the Manga Moveable Feast is upon us, this month focusing on Ai Yazawa's short josei series, Paradise Kiss (see Michelle's introductory post here). As has become our habit (if, in fact, twice... 

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Manhwa Monday: Welcome, Hana!

Welcome to another Manhwa Monday! Today, I’m very pleased to introduce a new contributor to Manhwa Bookshelf, Hana Lee. Hana will be providing reviews of untranslated Korean manhwa as well as manhwa news from Korea. She’s begun today with An introduction to Korean webcomics, where she discusses Korean webcomics as a whole–their scope and origins–and provides short reviews for two popular comics as well. It’s a wonderful post that you all must take a look at.

Speaking of origins, here’s a short bio for Hana that will soon appear on our “About” page:

Hana Lee is a biology graduate student living in California. By day, she experiments with yeast; by night, she spends her time knitting and eating good food. She is also a longtime fan of anime and manga, as well as an avid reader of books. Hana is proud to call herself Korean-American and maintains her fluency in Korean by watching K-dramas, reading manhwa Read more…

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Fumi Yoshinaga Week Wrap-up

It’s been a wonderful week here at Manga Bookshelf. As we wrap up our week-long look at Fumi Yoshinaga, I’d like to extend another round of thanks to Michelle Smith, Danielle Leigh, Eva Volin, Robin Brenner, and David Welsh for joining me in celebrating one of our favorite mangaka.

After kicking things off with my favorite of her series, Flower of Life, I though it appropriate to end things yesterday on a similarly beloved note with Antique Bakery. There are few short series I have loved as much as either of these, and it’s a great pleasure to talk about them here, in the company of both long-time Yoshinaga fans and potential new ones.

A full archive of the week can be found by searching the tag, “fumi yoshinaga.”

Alternatively, here’s a full list of the week’s festivities: Read more…

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Roundtable: Gerard & Jacques

Fumi Yoshinaga’s Gerard & Jacques is a two-volume boys’ love manga that tells the story of Jacques, a young aristocrat swept into a new, terrifying world following the death of his father, and Gerard, the unlikely man who eventually becomes his new family.

Published in English by BLU Manga (Tokyopop’s BL imprint) Gerard & Jacques was recommended highly to me when I first began reading yaoi, but I’ll admit I had some difficulty with it my first time around, due to some specific content in the manga’s opening chapter which kept me from enjoying it at all at the time.

When I began to make plans for this special week of Yoshinaga, I decided to give Gerard & Jacques another try. I was also interested to hear what some of my favorite critics (and BL fans) thought of the work, so I invited a few of them along for the ride. Read more…


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Off the Shelf: ParaChara!

It's all ParaKiss all the time in this week's Off the Shelf! - Welcome to another edition of Off the Shelf with Melinda & Michelle! As always, I'm joined... 

July 28, 2010 | Continue »

MANGA REVIEWS

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Antique Bakery, Vols. 1-4

As I begin this article, I find myself struck by the impossibility of saying anything about Antique Bakery that hasn't already been said. Undoubtedly... 

July 24, 2010 | Continue »

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Ooku, Vols. 1-3

In this alternate history of Edo-period Japan, an incurable disease has wiped out much of the nation's male population, leaving women to take up traditional... 

July 22, 2010 | Continue »

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Garden Dreams

Garden Dreams tells the story of Farhad, a young boy orphaned by the Crusades, who is rescued from the desert by Saud, one of his own people who has lost... 

July 20, 2010 | Continue »

MANHWA REVIEWS

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Magical JxR, Vol. 1

Jay and Aru are young wizards, ready to graduate from wizarding school. To fulfill their final graduation test, they must make a contract to help a human... 

July 4, 2010 | Continue »

BL BOOKRACK

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BL Bookrack: Yoshinaga Special

Welcome to the first edition of BL Bookrack, a new, monthly feature co-written with Soliloquy in Blue's Michelle Smith. Once a month, in place of our weekly... 

July 21, 2010 | Continue »

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