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[owlectomy]

I did in fact ride on the subway and read Ooku! Which I liked even better once I realized it was Yoshimune's story and not Mizuno's; I liked Mizuno, but Yoshimune is awesome, and if the premise of the manga is that 90% of the men are dead... I don't necessarily want to just read about the men.

I've been aware of Yoshinaga Fumi for a long time but I've never actually read one of her manga before. Her linework is just incredible. I want to stare at it and stare at it.

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[owlectomy]

I found that the pacing started to pick up about halfway through the first volume. That may be because the Japanese started out being really a slog, and got to be less of a slog as I got used to it, but also, I think, because finally enough of the background has been set up to get on with the story.

[starlady]

So right before where I stopped, then. *g*

Well, as soon as I finish these last chapters of The Anime Machine… (Shut up about Saitou Tamaki and his psychoanalytic patriarchal bullshit already, Tom, argh.)