From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
      Att the SFPL library yesterday I found on   
     on the third floor in the teen section a new to me   
   manga "Flower of Youth".  I read the first volume   
   and then later in the day went back and got the   
   other two volumes and have finished it.   
        This is nominated for some awards I believe   
   the author already won at least one with   
   The Moon and Sandals. Created by Fumi Yoshinaga   
   and published by Digital Manga Publishing.  The   
   characters look like boys love or yaoi but   
      heterosexuality is the big item second to   
   Friendship.   
      
        Where as in Genshiken we had a university manga   
   club here we have a High School manga club in a   
   high school with uniforms and an accrual of talent to   
   the manga club with the arrival of hero after missing   
   a year and a month to an illness.  He makes friends   
   and experiences the pangs and pain of adolescent life.   
        Fights with his new best friend and makes up.  He   
   also mourns the passing of a hospital friend. But we   
   have teachers too adulterous and student loving.   
   Culture fests and parties, studying together and   
   in the case of the most otaku like of the characters   
   pursuing anime and manga with inhuman passion.   
   Oh yes and parents absent but not families for the   
   sympathetic characters.   
        Slice of life idealised of course but in the gentlest   
   way.  Each volume at $12.95   
      
   	I will read these one more time before I decide   
   to pursue their acquisition.  May have to get the   
   Moon and Sandals if the Library doesn't have them.   
      
   	Read on!   
   	bliss   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)