MELINDA: Hello, hello! MICHELLE: Is it me you’re looking for? MELINDA: Heh. Yes. Though now I’m a little embarrassed about it. MICHELLE: I had the sheet music to “Say You, Say Me,” if that makes you feel any better. MELINDA: It does, it does. So. What have you been reading this week? MICHELLE: Well, as [...]
Off the Shelf with Melinda & Michelle
Off the Shelf: Second volumes & others
May 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
MICHELLE: Hey, Melinda? What did the fish say when he ran into the wall? MELINDA: I don’t know, Michelle, what did the fish say when he ran into the wall? MICHELLE: “Dam.” MELINDA: Okay, that time I actually laughed. MICHELLE: Yay! Victory at last! Anyhoo, I believe it’s your turn to go first in talking [...]
Off the Shelf: BL GL Bookrack
April 28, 2012 by 7 Comments
MELINDA: Welcome back to Off the Shelf! We’re doing something a bit different with the column this week. Usually, somewhere around this time, we’d be preparing our monthly BL Bookrack column, featuring reviews of a handful of new BL titles. This month, we decide to switch things up a bit, and take on a few [...]
Off the Shelf: Moon Child
March 31, 2012 by 15 Comments
MELINDA: “There is this fish.” That’s the sentence that first comes to mind when trying to describe Reiko Shimzu’s Moon Child, the subject of this week’s Off the Shelf. I hear it in my head, a la the Boy from Jones & Schmidt’s The Fantasticks. “There is this fish.” Let me see if I can [...]
Off the Shelf: A bit of a mess?
March 8, 2012 by 11 Comments
MICHELLE: Hey, Melinda! What did 0 say to 8? MELINDA: I don’t know, what did 0 say to 8? MICHELLE: Nice belt! MELINDA: Buh dum dum *chick* MICHELLE: Now that the obligatory bad joke is out of the way… read any good manga this week? MELINDA: Well, yes… though not exclusively. I started the week [...]
Off the Shelf: GTO, Twilight, Soulless
March 1, 2012 by 8 Comments
MELINDA: Well, hello there, my friend! MICHELLE: For some reason I am inclined to respond to that with, “‘Allo, poppet!” MELINDA: Well. That’s interesting indeed. I’ll admit I’m not quite sure how to respond to that. Perhaps, instead, I’ll change the subject. Read any good manga this week? MICHELLE: I did. Kind of unexpectedly good, [...]
Off the Shelf: Princess Knight
February 23, 2012 by 12 Comments
MICHELLE: As we occasionally do when the Manga Moveable Feast rolls around, Melinda and I have opted to dedicate this week’s Off the Shelf column to the topic at hand, which this month is the works of Osamu Tezuka. Specifically for our case, we’re going to be talking about Princess Knight, Tezuka’s shoujo manga about [...]
Off the Shelf: Shoujo staples & other stories
February 2, 2012 by 16 Comments
MELINDA: Well, hi. MICHELLE: Howdy! MELINDA: It’s been a while since we did a regular column. I’m not sure what to say. MICHELLE: Yeah, I was looking back at those today. Our last two columns have seen us both talking about the same series, and fairly epic ones at that! Oh no! Will our regular [...]
Off the Shelf: No Longer Human
January 27, 2012 by 10 Comments
MICHELLE: This month’s Manga Moveable Feast, currently in progress, is devoted to the works of Usamaru Furuya, prompting Melinda and me to devote this week’s column to the most recent of his series to see publication in English, No Longer Human. Based on a book by Osamu Dazai that’s described as “a decadent novelist’s autobiographical [...]
