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This post written by Clarissa Emma
by Kaoru Mori
Emma is a generally well-researched, charming story about the life of a maid in Victorian England. She’s different from other maids because she knows how to read (and she likes to). Naturally, there is cross-class romance–she falls in love with a wealthy young man!–and lots of details about the daily life of of the period. It’s surprisingly funny in parts, too. We first saw advertisements for this during our honeymoon in Japan, and I never thought it would be released in the US, but now it has been. Despite the frilly dresses and the theme of romance, when this series was published in Japan, it ran in a magazine aimed at men. (Japan is really different sometimes.)
This is not related to the Jane Austen novel Emma.
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This post written by Clarissa Nana
by Yazawa Ai
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Two young women with the same name (one ordinary, slightly ditzy country girl and one rebellious aspiring rock star) encounter love, sex, and heartbreak in Tokyo. It’s been a huge hit in Japan, already resulting an animated TV series, two live-action films, video games, and a tribute album with major Japanese pop stars. This series has striking, stylized art.
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This post written by Clarissa What’s Michael?
by Makoto Kobayashi
Early volumes may be out of print, but each volume stands alone. This is one of the few American-comic-strip-like, purely comedic manga to be translated into English. It’s well-translated and hysterically funny series, examining the lives of housecats and making fun of both cats and humans. You might like it if you like really strange comedy–it’s a lot weirder than Garfield, and being Japanese, doesn’t feel the need for a punchline at the end of a joke. Sometimes weird things (like cats dancing to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”) just kind of happen, and then stop happening, and then the story is over.
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This post written by Clint Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
by Hayao Miyazaki
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This is a story about Nausicaä, a young woman in a post-apocalyptic future, one thousand years after the Seven Days of Fire destroyed the old world. Humans live in small kingdoms scattered around the Sea of Corruption, a forest of giant mushrooms and huge insects that is slowly taking over the globe. Whatever you may think about manga (Japanese comics), this series is epic. It’s packed full of ideas, has very detailed illustrations, and has a memorable main character.
Watch out, though. There are several different printings of the series. They contain exactly the same story, but one is in four volumes, one is seven volumes, and one is in ten volumes. They are shaped differently, so this shouldn’t cause too much confusion.
You can look it up on Wikipedia.
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