Hi Denizens,

02/02/2010 09:16 AM Fujoshi Rumi That date is when I read the story.

Japanese title is "Mousou Shojo Otaku Kei"
aka "Kiss Him, Not Me"
Author Natsumi Konjoh
Publisher: (in the USA) Media Blasters, Anime Works ,under
license from Futabashi Publisher Co, Ltd,Tokyo
Price:US $11.99/Can $13.99

I hope there are more than the first 3 volumes that I see on the
shelf at the manga shop at Webster and Geary in San Francisco.

I find this High School, comedy-romance very entertaining and
amusing.
We have bishonen boys, a fujoshi named Rumi, a second fujoshi
and a senior fujoshi a doujin artist, the elder sister of one of the pretty boys. We have doujinshi, and plenty of doujin with a comic book
conventions and boys and girls working in costume. Tsundere more
broadly drawn than Kusakabe in Genshiken.

The art I find more acceptable than the moe blobs seen
in other popular books. More individuality of the characters
and more clearly delineated features though the bishonen
seem to depend more on differentiation by complexion and
hair color.

The author fills the pages with references to older anime
and manga, with 4 or 5 pages of footnotes to these at the end
of volume 2, and 6 pages in volume 1. This is an education in
itself in Modern Visual Culture, fujoshi culture that is,

I think it is a total gas. Volume 3 will be in my hands
on Wednesday.

bliss notes: Those were the days my friends, when i had
money to spend. The final volume was not released in
the USA but was available eventually online.

Keep reading...


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