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When I think of my evolving relationship with Korean pop culture, I think I will remember 2019 fondly as the year I committed myself to Korean webtoons. Webtoons are online-first original comics optimized for mobile consumption. (There's an interesting article that came out earlier this year contrasting webtoons to Japan's print-first manga culture.) A number [...]
So, I'm not crazy. I was re-watching きみはペット (incidentally, one of my favorite Japanese dramas) and I confirmed a long-standing suspicion. A lot of Japanese people pronounce すみません as すいません. For years I've thought my brain was somehow not computing the み sound correctly until I actually saw it spelled with い in a manga I was reading. The [...]
So I just finished reading season 1 of Cheese in the Trap, which is kind of a big accomplishment for me because I tend to drop webtoons pretty quickly. That, or I forget to check an update/ author goes on hiatus and it drops off my radar forever. I like this one. I have no idea [...]
@chanamuu tell me what you think about it and BLOGGGG — 지니 (@nocturnal_seoul) January 9, 2016 Okay, so I am BLOGGGG-ing about Cheese in the Trap. Only the webtoon, though, not the drama. (I'm feeling meh about dramas these days. I'm almost finished with 마을 아치아라의 비밀 - a drama that is seriously making me question [...]
Okay, so imagine you're in Japan. For lovers of Japanese fiction/non-fiction, there's Kinokuniya. For lovers of manga, light novels, and anime merch, there's Animate. And then, my friends, there is a store for those of us who like all of the above but are on a budget. That's Mandarake. Mandarake (まんだらけ) is a multi-story anime/manga media store found in [...]
Look at what I have not been reading these days. *squeals* 桜蘭高校ホスト部 (Ouran High School Host Club) is one of my ALL-TIME favorite animes and mangas ever. It's cute, funny, endearing, and not to mention the art is gorgeous. (It's also the only anime I've ever watched both English-subbed and English-dubbed - and the dubbing is very impressive!) Now shoujo [...]
