read more graphic novels

Though I will keep reading graphic novels. I managed to reach the goal of reading 100 graphic novels in a year.

I’ve been waiting for this one for a while and it has been worth the wait. A series of interlocking stories about a group of teens who share the same high school and loose circle of friends and then share the same sexually transmitted disease which transmutes their bodies in new, fantastic and horrific ways. Part horror, part love story with frantic, obsessive loves, gory and sensual. Wonderful.

to put in number 1 just yet, so here is what I have really enjoyed so far (despite the numbers, this is not in any particular order):

• Fruits Basket
• Boys over Flowers
• Red River
• Mars
• Strangers in Paradise
• 30 days of night
• Hot Gimmick
• Fushigi Yugi (and Genbu Kaiden, so far)
• Safe Area Goradze
• Basara
• Age of Bronze

I consider these my “cold dead hands” books, meaning you will pry them from my cold, dead hands.

Sports shojo, with a heroine who can only keep her mind on volleyball. She is so desperate to play that she leaves her family, who want her to concentrate on the family business, and becomes the dorm mother to the male volleyball team at her school. Same manga-ka as The Devil Does Exist.

I was intrigued enough by the story: two teens are attracted to one another but their parents decide to get married, making them brother and sister. I did like the artwork, but was a little creeped out by how YOUNG they looked in certain frames.

some of the graphic novels (all manga, mainly shojo) I have finished with on Bookcrossing. I am going to hold on to them for one week and then release them…If you want them, go to my bookshelf, edmontonmara, and see if anything interests you in the “available” section. Then follow the instructions and contact me on bookcrossing. Yes, I will mail them.

Short series about the romantic triangles of five teens. I liked Hot Gimmick better, which was far more polished.

2nd manhwa with a guyish girl and her pretty boy rival which might blossom into romantic attraction.

Makoto can become an actor and leave behind his obligations to his family’s dojo if he can successfully live as a woman for the rest of his high school career…and if no one discovers that he is a guy. He’s outed almost immediately by his drama club friend, Ito, who is always being mistaken for a guy. Cute, for people into the manga gender-twisters, like She Got Game and Hana Kimi.

Fairy tale manga; cute but I don’t think that I will keep reading. Suitable for a princess.