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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
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        Hi readers and typers.   
      
            Just finished watching the anime version of   
          KURAGEHIME Manga   
    Kurage Hime; Princess Jellyfish   
   Released:           2008   
   Author &  Artist Higashimura Akiko   
   Genre(s): Comedy, Gender Bender, Josei, Romance, Slice Of Life   
      
   Kurashita Tsukimi is a "kurage (jelly fish) otaku" girl   
   who wants to be an illustrator. She comes to Tokyo and   
   starts to live in a girls-only apartment, Amamizukan.   
   One day she meets a fashionable lady, who saves a jelly   
   fish. But she turns out to be a man in drag.   
   Nominated for the 3rd Manga Taisho Award (2010) and won the 34th   
   Annual Kodansha Manga Award in the Shojo category.   
      
        Considering that the manga took a lot more time to cover   
   the same ground this is an excellent romcom with a touch   
   of gender transgression.   
        The illustrator becomes a fashion designer with the   
   encouragement of the TV boyfriend who is into fashion   
   from the get-go.   
      
        The anime version is definitely lighter than the manga   
   where a lot more exploration of motives is done in the   
   course of the manga,   
        I really enjoyed the manga which is the work of   
   Higashimura Akiko (pseudonym of the artist/artist).   
   I thought it was pretty good and read a lot of the   
   story before I was distracted by another of her works:   
      
   KAKUKAKU SHIKAJIKA Manga かくかくしかじか   
   Released:     Author & Artist     Genre(s):   
   2011         Higashimura Akiko    Josei, School Life   
      
   This is an autobiography of the mangaka-author, whose real name   
   is Akiko Hayashi, which begins while she's in her third   
   year of high school.   
        I won't point to Higashimura as a epitome of mangaka but she   
   is very very good.  Her earlier work may not be as interesting   
   as she was aiming at a younger market.   
      
        The Kakukaku Shikajika really is aimed at more mature   
   readers as it recounts the relations between her first real   
   art teacher and herself over a couple of decades as well   
   as her struggle to become a mangaka.   
      
        Last week this was offered as a special via TSRI and for   
   less than $20.00 I decided I could afford to buy the anime   
   and support the art of Higashimura.  It would have been   
   worth a lot more but I don't have a lot of money to throw   
   around due to the expense of dental work this year.   
      
        bliss   
      
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