From: kenmlin@aol.com   
      
   "Bobbie Sellers"  wrote in message news:n3glvj$gtq$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   Hi Kio Shimoku fans,   
      
   We are really lucky, both of the above are online   
   presently.   
      
   In Genshiken Hato and Yajimacchi talk about their   
   feelings.  Next chapter Madarame and Sue will be together   
   which is a very staid pace but...   
      
   In Spotted Flower perhaps Madarame and possibly Hato   
   spend a lot of time talking about husband wife relationships   
   of possibly Madarame.  Then we get treated to further exposition   
   of possibly Yajima and could be Hato relationship.   
      
   Not so staid but like quick cuts from the whole comic   
   it could be part of.   
      
   Oh well it is Kio Shimoku so the slices of life are cut   
   with a very fine pen.   
      
   You are all grown−ups so I expect you can use the   
   online facilities to find the Shimoku.   
      
   Happy Holidaze, students of Genshiken.   
      
   bliss   
      
   >>>>>>>>>>>>   
      
   I just acquired volume 10 and 11 of the series.  Volume 10 is the beginning   
   of the second series.   
      
   Not having read any of the previous chapters, I am guessing that bunch of   
   students from the club graduated as first episode had to do with recruiting   
   new members from the incoming freshmen.   
      
   A new character, Hato, is a boy who dresses up like a girl only while at the   
   club.  (He changes into the girl's outfit on campus after his classes are   
   over.)  He later was given permission to get dressed at an apartment of an   
   alumni who lives nearby.  Here's where the story gets convoluted.  Everyone   
   knows that Hato is not into men but all the men think of him as a pretty   
   girl.   
      
   It's definitely not a situation that you come across very often even in gay   
   and cross-dresser friendly San Francisco and I wonder what exactly is   
   acceptable in Japanese society.  In Volume 11 the club goes to a comic-book   
   convention and Hato, still dressed as a girl, lines up in front of men's   
   room for his turn to twinkle.  And few pages before that, he was glad that a   
   woman at a stand couldn't tell that he's cross-dressing.   
      
   I also thought that the obese new member was a man until 100 pages into the   
   book because they were all going by their last names and just how she was   
   drawn.   
      
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