CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

I've always preferred romantic anime and manga, but when I found an issue of the female-oriented counterpart of Shonen Jump at Barnes and Noble with the words "BOYS OH BOYS" on the cover...

Well, I am and always will be a heterosexual, but I'm also not much of a risk-taker. I'd be way too embarrassed to buy that issue in public...

Anyway, is the mag any good?

It's good if you prefer romantic anime and manga.

Oh.....you do.

Problum solved.

Just test read it and see if there are any good series in there.
I only personally enjoy two shojo titles:

Honey and Clover as well as Fruits Basket.

Just pay some girl 10$ to go in there and buy it for you giving her the extra 2....unless it costs more.

I like Please Save My Earth, which is a shojo title as well. And I'm as heterosexual as you can get!

http://www.shojobeat.com/

I have myself the first issue, but a few titles are way to hetrosexual.

Well, I don't read the actual magazine myself, but if you're up for a good, romantic, and relatively clean series that's published by Shoujo Beat, then I'll have to reccommend Full Moon wo Sagashite. Also, I hear Aishiteruze Baby is good, although I can't vouch for its cleanliness, as I've never read it myself.

Um, my main reservation is that it's so girly and feminine. But if you like that stuff, go ahead.

As an avid shojo fan I was once very pleased to hear of this upcoming magazine, but I have to say I've been sorely disappointed. I've read reviews of all the series, and frankly if they aren't lacking in plot or art they are certainly lacking in modesty. My advice? Save your money and buy Full Moon. If you must have the series showcased, wait til they come out in GN and then you are only buying the series that you know you approve of, without any nasty suprises.

...Wow, you really do tell everyone to buy Full Moon, doncha? Lol, j/k.

You could always read it in the store or read some of the titles offered by the magazine in the store. THEN you can go and hire a girl to buy it for you.

rocklobster wrote:I like Please Save My Earth, which is a shojo title as well. And I'm as heterosexual as you can get!

If you like that, then there are people who are more hetrosexual.



Nah.....man, I'm just messin' with ya.

I prefer Shonen Jump over Shojo Beat, but I doubt that bears an relevance to the topic at hand.

PSME is even considered...?

Out of the magazine I ahve to recommend Baby and Me and Kaze Hikaru (jsut gotta love the Shinsengumi) and FullMoon and Ultra Maniac.

Trackball wrote:I've always preferred romantic anime and manga, but when I found an issue of the female-oriented counterpart of Shonen Jump at Barnes and Noble with the words "BOYS OH BOYS" on the cover...

Well, I am and always will be a heterosexual, but I'm also not much of a risk-taker. I'd be way too embarrassed to buy that issue in public...

Anyway, is the mag any good?

Personally, I think you're better off just buying volumes of manga, because, frankly, a lot of the manga that's published in that anthology is somewhat risque and just not something that I consider an "edifying read." For that reason, I just buy the volumes I like and avoid what I don't, rather than buy the magazine and get a couple chapters I approve of and more than a few that I don't.

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Sounds like the Japanese version of Cosmo Girl or Seventeen or
whatever for manga.

Sounds like the Japanese version of Cosmo Girl or Seventeen or
whatever for manga.

I think it's closer to Ribon--which is an actual manga magazine in Japan. All we need is furoku and colored pages!

I also like Full Moon. Good stuff there. By the way, Fruits Basket isn't a Shoujo Beat title (I wish it was, then it'd be cheaper).

A SB title I've been wondering about is Ouran High School Host Club. I've seen several episodes of the anime and it is absolutely hilarious. I was just wondering if anyone's read the manga and if it's any good.

ShiroiHikari wrote:A SB title I've been wondering about is Ouran High School Host Club. I've seen several episodes of the anime and it is absolutely hilarious. I was just wondering if anyone's read the manga and if it's any good.

You should get in touch with Myrrhlynn. She's read most of it, I understand. However, I hear that the anime follows very closely with the manga, and I like the anime's style better. I've chosen to just watch the anime instead of read the manga, so-- you know what I would do.

I bought one issue and I liked it!

I looooove the girliness ^.^


P.S I don't advice you buy it...I mean it's only four more bucks for an actual manga. You could check it out just read it quickly at B&N or something, its informative but not that grand.

Ashley wrote:I think it's closer to Ribon--which is an actual manga magazine in Japan. All we need is furoku and colored pages!

Sounds about right

Shonen Jump= Jump

Shojobeat= Ribon

I looked through one copy the last time I was at Barnes & Nobles and the only thing I saw that was questionable was an ad for an Yaoi magazine.

I looked at the mag when it first came out...to find in disgust that there is tooo much yuckiness in it, like the premise of Absolute Boyfriend. I would not buy it, myself. Maybe Kaze Hikaru...

I'm just happy cause it brought over Count Cain.

I'm just happy cause it brought over Count Cain.

{Sushi}-san

And Vampire Knight looks pretty cool.