Earlier this week at PopCultureShock, the ladies of the Manga Recon team (along with guest reviewer Danielle Leigh) took on several of DMP's new Harlequin manga in a two-part column, "Hurray for Harlequin!" First, a confession: I never got into Harlequin romances. For some reason they just never clicked with me. I would even go so far as to say that I actively disliked them the few times I tried to pick them up. As a teen, I was more interested in supernatural or fantasy-tinged romance from the likes of Mary Stewart or Andre Norton, or those generic teen romances with titles I can't remember and cheesy plot lines I will never forget. No, really. There was one, for instance, about a high school girl who gets roped into tutoring this guy who nobody likes because (though he is totally dreamy) he's a terrible student and rude to everyone. As it turns out, he's actually legally deaf and has been hiding it from everybody, including his dad who thinks he has a problem with earwax buildup. Our heroine, of course, figures it out, helps him cope, and winds up with a totally dreamy boyfriend as a reward.