Comments on: "It has witches, magic and French words."

By: wangston

wangston — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:06:00 +0000

in english, i suppose that’s true. only the most diehard otaku would make a point of stretching out the vowel.

and the same thing happens in reverse when the word ‘anime’ is printed with an accent over the final e, to hint that it’s not a silent e…

By: Alex Mauer

Alex Mauer — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:43:00 +0000

Except removing the macron doesn’t change the pronunciation (“lose the long vowel”) The macron just tells the reader that it’s a long vowel. I doubt anyone would pronounce “yoko” as [IPA] “jɒkoʊ” (or likewise shojo or budokai) even without the macron.

By: Sarah Pin

Sarah Pin — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:41:00 +0000

That is, in fact, the premise, but it’s a fairly subversive series – Anno has a very cynical view of romance. There’s a funny “seduction battle” between Chocolat and a witch boy. Shaenon Garrity has a good review of the series here:

http://shaenon.livejournal.com/39858.html

By: benher

benher — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Olympics chief rings in the games, Duh!
Are you a two percenter? Duh!
Early iPhone mockups show Sony influence, Duh!

This works with a surprising amount of Boing Boing post titles.

By: Frank Diekman

Frank Diekman — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 08:18:00 +0000

‘Duh!’ ought to be used in more BB posts.

By: Terry Sunderland

Terry Sunderland — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 06:57:00 +0000

Moyoco Anno is not just any shoujo manga writer – she’s seriously good, and writes manga in multiple genres. Her Hataraki Man is one of my favourites. Time for me to read Sugar Sugar Rune – thanks, Salem!

By: AsteriskCGY

AsteriskCGY — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 05:07:00 +0000

OH snap I remember reading this on and off back in high school. Can’t remember what happened in it. Time to find out again.

By: Sekino

Sekino — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 01:52:00 +0000

I’ve been more into seinen and gekiga for the past 10 years, but even I sorta want to check this out… Good job Salem!

By: tudza

tudza — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:58:00 +0000

Is it roo neigh or rune like a letter in a runic alphabet? Hard to guess since it comes after an English word.

Wait, found a Japanese cover and it’s written ru n so it does sound like rune.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:08:00 +0000

Is that a dare?

By: malindrome

malindrome — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:49:00 +0000

The section that blew my mind at the local B&N is “Teen Paranormal Romance”. Undoubtedly an artifact of the Twilight boom, but still … How many paranormal romance stories can a person read?

By: Rachel Banzhaf

Rachel Banzhaf — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:47:00 +0000

It’s accurate, but the concept is expanded as the story continues on. One important factor: For a witch to “collect” a boy’s affection, he loses that affection (essentially resets to zero). There’s different values for “aw she’s cute” through love and even strong friendship, but there’s a question of whether it’s worth sacrificing the relationship just to cash in.

Later on the competition takes a back seat to a full fledged magical war.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:27:00 +0000

i don’t agree that boingboing is a personal blog.

Your agreement in superfluous. This is a personal blog.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:24:00 +0000

Now that puberty starts at 5, the age brackets have changed.

By: novium

novium — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:16:00 +0000

Really? The further I get into my 20s, the more fervently glad I am not to be a teenager. Anyone who wants to revisit their teen years must not remember them terribly well.

By: novium

novium — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:16:00 +0000

Really? The further I get into my 20s, the more fervently glad I am not to be a teenager. Anyone who wants to revisit their teen years must not remember them terribly well.

By: Shay Guy

Shay Guy — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:12:00 +0000

If you think traveling through a door on the dark side of the moon to a place where people can fly, do magic, and eat clouds that taste like cotton candy

…If I think it what?

By: wangston

wangston — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:08:00 +0000

it seems like the most popular/well known japanese words in english lose their long vowels.

i have a friend who is married to a japanese woman named yoko.

he’s an anime nerd, and she once made fun of the cover of dragonball z budokai for omitting the long o in budokai.

i pointed out that yoko also has a long o :) maybe it’s the beatle’s fault that it’s never spelled that way in english…

By: wangston

wangston — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:02:00 +0000

i don’t agree that boingboing is a personal blog. the audience here is enormous! i think that the size of boingboing’s audience ethically compels it to put some effort into editing it’s posts for accuracy, etc.

i don’t think my comment “rips apart” the authors. the specific phrase i used was “kind of disappointing”, and my intent was constructive.

if a stranger being “kind of disappointed” about a small part of something you made “rips you apart”, then you should probably avoid sharing your work in public (however, i would be surprised if either author felt this way!)

By: Patrick Jonke

Patrick Jonke — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:41:00 +0000

I looked at this series to see if it might be a worthy successor to Zita, but was totally put off by the description on Amazon. Is it correct?

“Outspoken Chocolat and shy Vanilla are best friends, but only one of them can be Queen of the Magic World. To determine who deserves the title, they must go to the Human World and enter a strange competition. Whoever attracts the most human boys . . . claims victory!”

By: tyger11

tyger11 — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:56:00 +0000

I figured manga had hit the mainstream in America when I noticed a whole section devoted to it in the local Barnes & Nobles stores. I see kids sitting down in those aisles all the time reading them.

By: disillusion

disillusion — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:34:00 +0000

While I don’t wanna bash this particular series, the name always throws me off when I’m trying to remember Sugar: A Little Snow Fairy. Shame the manga for that one didn’t get released in america, but the anime did http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1018

Also, another manga/anime I’d suggest (both versions are in English, if you can find em) would be Tokyo Mew Mew. It also falls under a similar genre to this one, though it might not be to everyone’s tastes (what is?).

By: dculberson

dculberson — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:15:00 +0000

????

“Editor with a background in Japanese media??” You are aware that this is a personal blog, right? How would you feel if someone ripped apart something by you or your daughter on your blog?

By: Jorpho

Jorpho — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:48:00 +0000

Ah, this is the one whose anime adaptation has a theme song cribbed from “Poupée de cire, poupée de son”. So, that’s kind of nifty?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUJdPEUgA28

By: fsharp4565

fsharp4565 — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:24:00 +0000

Single greatest BoingBoing post ever? Duh!

By: ninechars

ninechars — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:11:00 +0000

I watched the anime for, uh, research purposes. You may want to explain to this kid that collecting boys’ hearts by use of magical cosmetics is only one possible way to navigate the bildung …

I guess it’s not so bad since the premise is that the tomboyish Chocola has to find her own path in contrast with her girly friend Vanilla. But it’s still all about gaining currency, basically, by appealing to boys (and sometimes girls).

By: Eddie Perkins

Eddie Perkins — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:40:00 +0000

Happy to have helped. Just thought it might be some new manga subset I hadn’t heard of yet. Just for the heck of it I’ll point out that it’s correctly written shoujo or shōjo. But, doesn’t really matter, I guess. Often words are changed when borrowed from other languages and ‘shojo,’ without the long ‘o,’ seems to have become the American English word for girls comics from Japan or an art style often found in them.

By: Tim H

Tim H — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:34:00 +0000

Are we back on that Golden Boughs thing?

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:29:00 +0000

Everybody from age 0-100 wants to be teen age. Get over it.

By: pl1x

pl1x — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:28:00 +0000

And after shoujo is josei: (comics for women)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josei_manga

Which Moyoco Anno’s ‘Happy Mania’ is a good example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Mania