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About Melinda
Melinda Beasi writes about manga, manhwa, and other East Asian-influenced comics here at Manga Bookshelf, at PopCultureShock’s Manga Recon, and at CBR’s Comics Should Be Good, where you can find her periodic review column, Tokidoki Daylight as well as The NANA Project, a collaborative project with Danielle Leigh and Michelle Smith. She’s also been spotted as a guest writer at Comics Worth Reading and About.com. Find an index of her reviews here!
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About Guest Reviewers
| Deanna Gauthier is a hardworking Library Assistant and aspiring writer with two cats. She is an avid music lover and finds that the best way to destress is to sing along with her iPod, Toto, at the top of her lungs (while no one else is around). She has found her true passion in life is manga and is doing her best to work it into every aspect of her work and personal life. Her family and friends have been heard to joke from time to time about the need for an intervention. Besides manga, Deanna enjoys baseball, roller derby, concerts, and movies (all of which have taken a backseat to manga lately). |
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Latest Review: In this volume, Risa and Otani’s relationship is once again under attack. To Risa’s horror, her own grandfather has hired a woman to seduce Otani and break them up. Even worse, Otani believes the sob story he’s been given by the beautiful, buxom Hitomi and accuses Risa of lying to him about her grandfather’s scheme. When the truth comes out will it matter who was wrong and who was right now that a jealous and conniving … |
Read all of Deanna’s posts here!
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| Megan M. is a customer service representative for an evil credit card company who lives in Texas. She would be a single English major living alone with a cat if her apartment complex allowed pets, and has compensated for the lack of a cat with far too many books. She has read so much that it has turned her brain and her shelves are overflowing with romance novels, fantasy novels, mystery novels, american comics, and, of course, manga. If one looks closely, one may spot the rare volume of Serious Literature valiantly gasping for air, struggling to survive in the sea of popular fiction. Her fictional preferences for women with weapons and attractive, often roguish, male accessories were firmly established at a very young age due to early exposure to Star Wars and Willow. |
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Latest Review: A newcomer to the small hamlet town of Hinamizawa, Keiichi Maebara makes friends quickly among the students at his new school. He also learns that the town has a history of grisly murders occurring on the night of the local Cotton Drifting. What’s more, some of his new friends seem to be intimately (and tragically) involved in the town’s gruesome history. Based on a popular murder mystery game, Higurashi: When They Cry depicts … |
Read all of Megan’s posts here!
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| Lorena Nava Ruggero is a professional writer and editor in Southern California. She loves nothing more than reading manga with her French bulldog, Rocky, at her side. When she’s not writing reviews or reading manga, she enjoys cooking, hiking and watching movies, including anime. Each year since high school, she has saved up all her nickels and dimes to head to San Diego Comic-Con International, where she immerses herself in all things “nerd” for an all-too-glorious four and a half days. In addition to writing for Manga Bookshelf, she also contributes to MangaCast and writes daily reviews for her own blog, i heart manga. |
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Latest Review: Love triangles abound in this slapstick-happy manga that mixes comedy with a wistful thoughtfulness that can only be indulged in while attending college. Tiny Hagu gets a bad case of the hiccups and the men in her life try to help her, but only Takemoto’s trick stops the hiccups. A parallel is then drawn to another relationship when Mayama helps Rika with her own case of the hiccups … |
Read all of Lorena’s posts here!
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