A new chapter of Ai-Esu, or Hourou Musuko, or Tyrant. Any one would do, really.
Or, wait. Y'know what would be even better right now? If With the Light 8 were released earlier than September, YEN PRESS.
Putting that aside, I'd also like an explanation for this line, said to me by one of my mother's friends:
"Well, [daughter's name] likes anime too, and she's into clothes."
Seriously, what does one have to do with the other? Is this some new thing that no one told me about? Are anime fans not allowed to have any other interest besides anime? I mean, sure, I don't care about my clothes. As long as I'm wearing some and they match and fit I really couldn't care less about them. But that has nothing to do with my interest in anime and manga.
I was really too surprised at that statement to say anything at the time. It was like that time I heard this:
"There are different types?"
Now, that one might be confusing out of context, so I will explain. We (me, my friend, my mother, and my mother's friend and her niece) were on our way home from Animinitime, the anime convention we attended back in April. (Fun fact: the friend of my mother's that came with us is the sister of the woman who told me the statement above about liking anime and clothes. Also, her daughter is the niece that came with us.)
We stopped at Dairy Queen to eat, and... I don't really remember how it came about, but we were suddenly on the topic of Vampire Knight, a manga that the niece liked and cosplayed as. I was talking to my mother's friend and I told her that I'd never read Vampire Knight because I wasn't into that kind of manga. And by 'that kind of manga' I meant shojou vampire romance. Then she just looked at me and asked my that question above.
She just sounded so surprised that I couldn't say anything other than "... well, yeah."
I mean it just baffled me. Of course there are different types of manga! What, are there really people out there who think that all manga are the same? For me, that's the same as thinking that all books are the same, ot that all movies and TV shows are the same.
I mean... man what a stupid question!
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Thanks for filling us in on why Fruits Basket has the title it does. I either didn't know that or forgot.
How long have you been reading manga? I've only been reading it for a year. I still haven't watched any anime, because I almost never watch TV. I definitely wouldn't have known that there were different kinds of manga before a year ago. I didn't even really know what manga was until I started reading it. I think manga suffers from a stigma because it's in a graphic format. Everyone just assumes it's a comic book.
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