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slickwataris
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There seems to be a lot of guy on guy comics, are there any girl on girl manga?
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quincyarcher
 Posts: 164 Location: Age of Paranoia |
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Well, not really. While guy/guy has a big following in Japan, it's harder to find girl/girl. Riyoko Ikeda's works touch on it a bit. MariMite is probably the strongest current title that supports it. In the states there's Between the Sheets and a small chapter in Confedential Confessions. Onisama e also has a touch of girl/girl feeling. Then there's Pieta, Paros no Ken, Anata to Scandal, Hana no Asuka-gumi, Boku no Shotaiken, Shutter Love, Kaguya Hime, Love Vibes, and Maka-Maka. Shiroi Heya no Futari is something of the girl/girl version of Kaze to Ki no Uta. Utena touches on it briefly(and Saito's later First Girl has a few touchy scenes between the lead girl and another woman). The Yuri Shimai and Yuri Tengoku magazines feature stories of girl/girl love. Also RG Veda, Sailor Moon, Sailor V, X, Magic Knight Rayearth, Miyuki-chan in Wonderland, Card Captor Sakura, Clover, and Angel/Dust have yuri-ish moments. But, in general, unless you look into hentai(which I feel reticent to mention in conjunction with girl/girl, because most guy/guy isn't considered hentai) or doujinshi, there's not a whole lot. |
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slickwataris
Posts: 1334 Location: Carol Stream, Illinois |
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Yeah, I figured girl/girl would mostly touch on hentai. I have been thinking about reading Miyuki-chan for a while. I remember I was flipping through it once and there was this really funny line (that I forgot). There's also a little in Bleach too.
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quincyarcher
Posts: 164 Location: Age of Paranoia |
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Yeah, it's harder to really get too deep into girl/girl without getting some of the weirdness that happens in stuff like La Blue Girl and its like. Ah, the Bleach touches are cute. Though, Orihime's just so sweet I don't know how many girls can't resist the urge to turn lesbian for her(Integra from Hellsing, too  ).
Miyuki-chan in Wonderland isn't exactly the deepest story(and it's hard to attribute it to Clamp with a straight face), but it's a lot of fun, even if it's random and delightfully perverse. |
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Bethachu
 Posts: 10 Location: LA-LA land |
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Does anyone besides me worry that with the explicitly sexual or violent content in some of the manga in mainstream bookstores (I know items are supposed to be shrinkwrapped, but invariably there's at least one copy where somone's taken the plastic off), some parent is eventually going to go whacko after seeing what his kid is looking at and ruin it for rest of us? I mean, it's all lumped together regardless of content, and there are so many parents who still believe that if there's a "cartoon image" on something, then it's for kids. Not to mention the number of kids left alone to read DBZ while their parents shop. I'm just afraid some kid is going to be caught with yaoi, yuri, or something like Berserk and there'll be some kind of stink about it.
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quincyarcher
Posts: 164 Location: Age of Paranoia |
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Half of me worries about it and part of me isn't that worried. From my experience, most of the kids in the store have had to face an allegation from parents or teachers that manga is porn at some time. Those parents that really care tend to read the backs of the books before buying anything(but that hasn't stopped concerned fathers from buying Fake) and those parents that don't check have very slick kids(yes, there are ten year olds reading Mayu Shinjo, they just know the value of shopping with older siblings and hiding their books).
Part of me is also a little agitated. I had to wait a week before I could convince the clerk I was old enough to purchase Golden Cain, but that same clerk didn't say a thing when I purchased the Sleeping Beauty trilogy(which rates perhaps twenty times more disturbing and full of questionable sexual content). |
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Bethachu
Posts: 10 Location: LA-LA land |
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I'm kind of pleased/surprised that they cared enough to stop you from buying Golden Cain. I'm half tempted to see if I can get someone under 18 to try to pick it up and one of my retailers to see if they get stopped. I mean, I'm sorry it was an inconvenience for you, but I'm glad to hear that the content is being taken seriously at the store level. That definitely helps put my mind at ease that some parent isn't going to get the stuff banned any time soon (fingers crossed).
As for other types of literature, I suppose it's up to the publisher to flag other types a books if there's a need to do so. Personally, I would make everything available to everybody. But, there are just too many sexually repressed people running around... Last edited by Bethachu on Thu Feb 24, 2005 8:15 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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quincyarcher
Posts: 164 Location: Age of Paranoia |
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True, it is nice to know they care. Even if I was legal.
 But the killer was when the person who sold me Golden Cain had actually read the Sleeping Beauty series(said volume two was his favorite) and didn't make any mention of age-appropriate-ness. That's just something that dogs me.
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