Today I Learned that there exists a manga category called “seinen manga” …this is the manga equivalent of the dumb boy book. Material intended for young males ages 18-30. Violence and exploitative to women. I won’t say that all of seinen manga is like that, but if you’re put off because a story is particularly violent and the women seem really cool with pleasing men, then that could be seinen manga.
I was reading volume 1 of Gunsmith Cats. When I first encountered the name Gunsmith Cats, I thought it was about alien humanoid felines with guns. No, it’s set in the near-past Chicago. I don’t know if there are any cats in this manga. And there seems to be confusion regarding the protagonist’s name: It’s either RALLY or LARRY. Considering that it’s a girl, most people assume that it’s not Larry. Continue reading “TIL Seinen Manga”
Today at long last was the day Chris Colfer had his signing at Vromans. I had been looking forward to this for a while (for an indeterminate period of time longer than a week). Much praise to the Vromans staff. I took a picture from the line. It’s an awful picture; blurry and his head is obstructed. Ah well it wasn’t important.
“Some mysteries are too dangerous to leave alone…”