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   Ralph Wade Phillips to Rastus   
   Re: Manga for an older reader   
   26 Sep 05 20:22:26   
   
   From: ralphp@techie.com   
      
   Howdy!   
      
   "Rastus"  wrote in message   
   news:dh851v$ktm$1@bunyip2.cc.uq.edu.au...   
   > >        I'd also recommend checking out anything by Ken Akamatsu (Love   
   > > Hina)   
   > > or CLAMP (Chobits), manga first (the manga almost always is better than   
   > > the   
   > > anime - and that's not an insult to the anime, now!)   
   >   
   > Just remember that CLAMP have roots in Yaoi and even some of the non Yaoi   
   > titles tend to have guy/guy angst issues.   
      
           Also they have a lot of yuri if you look for it (Bondage Queen,   
   anyone?)   
      
           I always liked one description I read of the anime "Miyuki in   
   Wonderland"- "Miyuki falls into a lesbian convetion.  They all take drugs   
   and then it gets REALLY weird"  B)   
      
   >   
   > The mainstream ones like Chobits, Tsubasa, xxxHolic are all pretty fine   
   > though, just keep in mind that with Clamp, the deeper you dig then the   
   more   
   > it become a factor.   
      
           Not for all of them, although there's some in a lot of them -   
   witness some of the inter-reactions in Tsubasa, or in Tokyo Babylon, for   
   instance.   
      
           Then you've got the suppressed yuri in Card Captor Sakura B)  Or   
   barely suppressed yuri.   
      
           But eh.  Story lines are still interesting.   
      
           RwP   
      
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