Anna: For our first Bringing the Drama feature we picked the romantic comedy You’re Beautiful, so for our next column we decided to vary genres a bit and discuss a more action-oriented series very loosely based on a manga, City Hunter. City Hunter is the story of a boy named Lee Yoon Sung who is [...]
About Nancy Thistlethwaite
Nancy Thistlethwaite is an editor who works on many popular shoujo manga series in North America. She has written feature articles and interviewed mangaka for the shoujo manga readership. After meeting her, Arina Tanemura made Nancy into a character in her Zettai Kakusei Tenshi Mistress ☆ Fortune manga. Nancy is currently learning the art of amigurumi and has various crocheted “bear bee” bits scattered across her living room floor. You can contact Nancy on twitter @nthistlethwaite.
Bringing the Drama: You’re Beautiful
February 13, 2012 by 10 Comments
ANNA: To start out this new feature on Manga Bookshelf, I thought that You’re Beautiful would be the ideal show to discuss, because I think it would be a good first series for anyone to try who isn’t familiar with Korean dramas. There are plenty of plot points in You’re Beautiful that manga fans can [...]
Guest Review: Itazura na Kiss, Vol. 1
March 28, 2010 by 1 Comment
High school student Kotoko Aihara has admired Naoki Irie from afar after hearing him make an exceptional high school entrance speech two years ago. Her dream has been to get out of Class F (the class for underperformers) and into Class A—the same class as the school genius Naoki. However, as academics aren’t Kotoko’s strong point, she instead writes him a letter to tell him how she feels. Naoki flat-out rejects her letter offering in front of the entire school, saying he doesn’t like stupid women. Later that night after a mild earthquake destroys her new home, she and her father end up moving into the Irie household.
