Tag Archives: Basara

My Personal Top Ten Manga

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Daniella Orihuela-Gruber

This post actually got started on the Ladies in Comic Book Stores tumblr, where a reader asked me for my top ten manga.  I wrote out this huge post, complete with links to the Amazon listings, other suggestions, reasons why … Continue reading →

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Dicussion: OOP Manga Collecting Habits

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Daniella Orihuela-Gruber

  This glorious stack of books  you see in the picture above is not my t0-read list (which is about three times this size) and not my oh-no-I-bought-two-copies-of-this-manga list. It is my random-out-of-print manga list. Except for Gatcha Gacha and … Continue reading →

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Tales From Out of Print: Basara

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Daniella Orihuela-Gruber

I first got into Basara by Yumi Tamura years ago. I bought the first volume and then didn’t buy the second volume until a number of years afterward. I couldn’t tell you why I stopped reading Basara for so long, … Continue reading →

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A Shoujo Sunday-What Are Your Favorite Cliches?

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Daniella Orihuela-Gruber

All About Manga asks, What are you favorite cliches from shoujo manga? Continue reading →

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Why not be gender-neutral? Publishers and gender-genres

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Daniella Orihuela-Gruber

All About Comics talks about how manga publishers in both Japan and elsewhere tend to push titles into gender-genres and how U.S. publishers could market many titles as gender neutral instead. Continue reading →

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