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Hot Libre news, plus naval-gazing manga!

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Gia has the hot news tip of the day: an editor from the Japanese publisher Libre says that plans are under way to release the Finder series in English. Click the link for backstory plus some speculation.
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5th anniversary manga giveaway

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I’m coming up on my 5th (!) year of blogging, so I’m going to give away some manga to a lucky reader. In the past I’ve offered up chances to win individual volumes of manga, but I don’t have the time to do that…

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Fun Home Protest in Utah

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Some students at the University of Utah are frightened by autobiographical graphic novels, as shown in this story where they compare Fun Home to pornography. There’s even a protest group with an online petition, I…

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Your & My Secret

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Your and My Secret Volume 1 by Ai Morinaga (amazon)
Your & My Secret is the craziest gender-bending manga I have ever read. Granted, I have not investigated the genre throughly, but it seems like it would be very…

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The Legend of Chun Hyang

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The Legend of Chun Hyang by Clamp (amazon)
I tend to enjoy most Clamp manga, but one thing that’s frustrating is the amount of unfinished series that they’ve put out. This book was so fun to read, I wish that the…

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Joining When Fangirls Attack

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I’ve been sending in links to When Fangirls Attack for a little while, and I’m now on board officially. Thanks very much to Ragnell and Kalinara for the invitation to join their blog! I’m going to be focusing on…