Miscellaneous things make a post

[oyceter]

1. I am lazy and do not feel like writing things up, even though I am super behind on sequential art posts. On the plus side, Bride of the Water God is out to volume 5 here, which really beats waiting another EIGHT MONTHS for Dark Horse to release v. 3 in the US. Also, I have copies of Umino Chica's new manga, Yoshinaga Fumi's new food manga, a Mizushiro Setona series I have never read, and more Nan Kongyuu books! Also also, I have found another manhua I like! This one is called Fried Chicken Princess (Ji Pai Gong Chu) and is all about a girl who starts a club to appreciate fried chicken (the Taiwan kind, like fried chicken steaks, heavily seasoned)! What other unlicensed stuff should I be keeping an eye out for here?


2. Who is going to Wiscon? Does anyone have panel ideas? I want to suggest another one on shoujo manga but I cannot think of one outside of something like "Shounen Bodies: Women's and girls' bodies in shounen manga" which is clearly not on shoujo. Also, I probably have not read enough shounen to be a good contributor.


3. Dunkin' Donuts is now in Taiwan, and they are copying Mister Donuts' round mochi-esque donuts! I would be annoyed, except this means I can get my tasty round mochi-esque donuts at more places now.


4. I cannot find the old place that sold egg cakes, but the new one nearby is just as good. Yay!

Comments

[oyceter]

Eeeee you are going! I will make you eat with me and talk to me (um, if you are willing of course)!

Oooooh, I like the crossover idea. I think the one I know best is Gundam Wing (mecha, but with woobie bishounen that inspired a huge female fandom). I wonder if talking about marketed-as-shoujo-but-published-as-shounen/seinen series would work too? Like Umino Chica's latest series and CLAMP's Tsubasa/xxxHolic (which is always shelved as shounen in Taiwan) and Emma (shelved in seinen/shoujo in Japan and Taiwan, probably aimed toward a shoujo audience in the US) and etc.

Hrm. I wonder if the anime industry in the US would do well to market the crossover anime, especially given the large female demographic interested in manga. Or if the old "anime is porn and violence" thing still has a foothold in the industry or among execs or something.