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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Highschool Girls 2 by Akiko Morishima Creator / Akiko Morishima. Akiko Morishima is a Girls' Love mangaka who specializes in realistic stories about romances between adult working women. Her works include Hanjuku Joshi , 20-Year-Old Girl × 30-Year-Old Maiden , and The Conditions For Paradise. She also provided the character designs for Yuri Kuma Arashi , as well as the art for its manga adaptation. Akiko's works provide examples of: Berserk Button: In "Angelic Girl", Nana does not like Kei mentioning she's been with men, or whatever knowledge she's gained from those experiences. Christmas Cake: Most of Morishima's protagonists are women in their late 20s and 30s, adult women who are professionals when they encounter their love interests, despite Girls' Love authors usually having Schoolgirl Lesbians as protagonists. For example, Keiko from 20- Year-Old Girl × 30-Year-Old Maiden angsts about this, especially once she starts dating Emi, a cute girl ten years her junior, whose youthful beauty makes Keiko even more aware of her age. Fortunately, Emi doesn't seem to mind. Highschool Girls 2 by Akiko Morishima. The online manga website JManga announced on Thursday via newsletter that it is adding three new volumes of manga next week, including the previously-announced Hanjuku-Joshi manga by Akiko Morishima . Hanjuku-Joshi is a two-volume adult yuri series. The story follows Yae, a girl who has a complex about how feminine she is, and the boyish and energetic Chitose whom she meets after transferring schools. The manga ran in Ichijinsha 's Comic Yuri Hime magazine, with each volume being published in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Highschool Girls 2 by Akiko Morishima. In Volume 1, we met Kureha, a girl who hates bears and Ginko, a girl who is positive she is a bear. In Volume 2, we met Lulu who is is love with Ginko because of a childhood promise. We learned that Ginko and Kureha are in love, but that there is a secret that lay between them that is killing Ginko. Today we’re looking at Volume 3 of Yuri Bear Storm , the English language edition of Yuri manga adaptation of Yurikuma Arashi , by Ikuhara Kunihiko, with art by Morishima Akiko, In other Ikuhara stories, we’ve seen reality fractured into small pieces to be put back together, different realities layered on top of one another and here we have the entire narrative completely disassociated from its own reality. There are no bears and everyone is a bear. Leia is dead or missing, but she’s alive and can be found. Lulu’s brother is dead, but he’s alive and standing right there, Sumika is a bear witch, but actually she’s just a kind person. And Kureha and Ginko are fated not to destroy each other. In the end, we learn what that Ginko’s secret is, that it is untrue, that the real secret is that Ginko and Kureha are the inheritors of a love triangle between their mothers and Yuriika, everyone who we thought was dead is alive and we all end up happily ever after. Art – 8 Story – 7 Characters – 8 I cannot be the only one who would like a story about Leia, Yuriika and Kale in that Estonia Bear preserve. Yuri – 8 Service – 3. I’ve read this twice, watched it three times and it still basically makes no sense at all. ^_^ Which is perfectly okay. I raise a glass to everyone at Tokyopop who worked on this, because there was no real way to make it make sense, which complicates things like translation and editing considerably! That said, Tokyopop, can you please confirm final covers on your solicits? It looks weird with all your listings saying “cover not final” for eternity. Share this: Yuri Manga: Conditions of Paradise (English) It was 2008 when I had the delicious pleasure of reviewing Rakuen no Jouken in Japanese. Imagine my delight now, 12 years later, to be able to speak about an English language volume of it with you! I am beside myself with joy for English-reading fans of Yuri that you are finally able to enjoy Conditions of Paradise by Akiko Morishima. This volume contains short-arc and one-shot stories previously published in Comic Yuri Hime , (which was Yuri Hime magazine at the time) with an unpublished additional story, by one of the foundational creators of the modern Yuri genre. The first arc follows two adult women who are completely opposite, but who find commonality in their love. The second arc is about a younger adult woman and the older woman she falls for…and how an age gap doesn’t have to make a difference at all. An unlikely couple finds strength in one another, a high school girl finds her first love. A historical drama tells the adventurous tale of a beautiful tragic, love. In this variety of shorts, we get to explore all kinds of love women have for one another. Reading this book is like taking a deep breath and finally, after a long day, being able to relax. Morishima-sensei explores the inner lives of women, taking time even in the one-shots to learn what experiences, dreams and fears make up their lives. There’s more in-depth character development in any one of these short stories than there is in chapters of other people’s work ( semelparous , I’m looking at you…). It’s a treasure. This book also marks the first work wholly by Morishima-sensei in English! If you have been reading Yuri Bear Storm , you’re familiar with her art. Here, you can enjoy a tall, cool sip of excellent Yuri storytelling alongside her distinctive artistic style. Fans of cute and/or moe art will find that here they are served here without any loss to the individuality or identity of the character. Cute and pink-cheeked they may be, but there are no fetuses in frilly dresses here, nor are the characters interchangeable stereotypes. As always, the book has been handled beautifully by Seven Seas. Elina Ishikawa-Curran’s translation and Asha Baron’s adaptation reads as smooth as silk. Great job on this book. It was worth the wait. Art – 9 Story – variable, 8 Characters – an almost universally likeable 9 Yuri – 9 Service – 4. If you’re looking for a book to take the edge off the harsh realities of the world that doesn’t ask you to set aside sense or sensibility, take a look at Conditions of Paradise . Thanks very much to Seven Seas for a review copy! It’s magnificent. Share this: Yuri Manga: Yuri Bear Storm, Volume 2 (English) We met Kureha, a human surrounded by bears, and Gingko, the bear princess with whom she falls in love in Volume 1. In Volume 2 of Yuri Bear Storm , what is already a confusing story, takes on extra layers of obfuscation as Lulu, another bear in love with Gingko, shows up. The three of them end up living together, and we begin to learn that Gingko and Kureha are linked by a long list of connections, not the least of which is that their mothers, and Yurika, the school principal, were apparently lovers in the past. While every piece of the plot is presented as a “Once upon a time” fairytale, none of those pieces seem to fit together, quite, although they clearly belong to the same puzzle. By the end of volume 2, we can see that Gingko and Kureha are bound by fate, but how, exactly and what that fate is, are seen from two sides of a one-way mirror. Each girl knows the other is there, but they can’t quite see…. And added to the equation is the appearance of Bear Witch Sumika, (Kureha’s lover from the anime.) She appears to know something about Kureha that the girl doesn’t know about herself. What that is, we might learn, but equally, we might not, in this Ikuhara Kunihiko story, stamped all over with the seal of a lily, but frequently without plot threads that connect. I really love this manga for Morishima Akiko’s art, and the cognitive dissonance between her cherubic characters and the significant psychological (and, occasionally, physical) violence of the story. These are the cutest bears disemboweling humans you’ll ever see. Translator Katie McLendon does heroic work making this story make as sense as it possibly can, while the entire Tokyopop team does a fine job of giving this book the feel and finish it deserves. Art – 8 Story – 7 Characters – 8 We get more Yurika! Yuri – 8 Service – 5. For an adorable fairytale about multiple three-person relationships, death, destruction loss and love, Yuri Bear Storm is a pretty amazing (if not “good”) story. Share this: Otona no Hattatsu Shougai Kamoshirenai!? Manga / おとなの発達障害かもしれない! ? In 2017, Morishima Akiko-sensei published a comic essay in which she speaks at length about living with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Otona no Hattatsu Shougai Kamoshirenai!? (おとなの発達障害かもしれない! ?), which translates to something like, “Is it possibly an adult development disorder!?” is a comic essay which her details her struggles working, her diagnosis, drug treatment – even family history. It’s an unprecedented look at extremely personal issues, and exactly the kind of thing that makes for a powerful and compelling comic essay. (It’s exactly the kind of thing East Press is putting out now – My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness is probably their best-selling book so far, but they’ve been really digging in and publishing a lot of these personal confidentials about topics we don’t talk about – depression, AHDH, sexuality, gender, abuse, and the like.) In this volume, we begin with Morishima-sensei’s description of concentration issues, energy highs and lows and other behaviors symptomatic of ADHD.

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