I really like romance, and there’s not much in modern fict that captures the silly fluttery-heart feeling I get from classic 1930s-40s Hollywood romantic comedies and love stories.
The past couple years though, I’ve tumbled into manga and manhua again after pretty much sticking to western comics for ages. In particular the yuri (girls love) sub-genre. A few well done same sex romance comics really capture that same daydreamy fun I get from films like “Sabrina” “It Happened One Night” “Design for Living” or “Some Like It Hot”. With the benefits of lgbtqa+ inclusion and an absence of most retrograde racism and sexism found in those old stories.
A couple of my favorites have been:
“Bloom Into You”
“Crescent Moon & Doughnuts”
“Accept My Fist of Love” and
“Still Sick”.
All of these are available in manga form, getting US translations, but only “Bloom Into You” has an anime adaption so far (and that doesn’t look like it’ll ever get completed).
When the Supernatural finale happened one of my mutuals on Twitter posted something about “a guy and his femme-coded car flying straight into heaven while the gays roast in super-hell”.
But since I was never into Supernatural, and since the mutual & I were both Transformers fans, I wasted a lot of time checking all the TF news sites, wondering what Hasbro had done to Arcee.
Meanwhile, me reading the first paragraph as an anime fan my mind went “straight” to Revolutionary Girl. Utena.
Hello everyone! For those whose who saw my previous post, I’m currently running a personal shopper/Japanese goods online store. I’ve been getting quite a few orders after I posted last time! I’d like to thank everyone of you who liked, reblogged, and commented on that post.
So I used to do giveaways on this account when I went to Japan for my internships (couple of years ago). It was fun for my followers and brought some attention to my Tumblr.
With my store, although I’ve been getting orders, I’d like to increase it’s popularity through followers because it creates a sense of trust and safety between me and my clients. So I got an idea to do a giveaway after I got some orders for … “Their Story” by Tanjiu!!
This is the JAPANESE VERSION.
HOW TO JOIN:
Anyone that purchases “Their Story” from me will be automatically entered to win another popular YURI manga + you can follow my instagram www.instagram.com/japantcgstore for an EXTRAentry.
FOR OTHERS:
I know not everyone can afford to buy things overseas, etc. So if you follow my instagram www.instagram.com/japantcgstore you can also have a chance to win a yuri manga or a copy of Their Story!
For people that are NOT interested in yuri manga, you can also win another series such as Kimetsu no Yaiba, Jujutsu Kaisen, BL, etc.
DRAW:
The draw will be on March 31st, 2022 (Japan Time). I will only pick people through INSTAGRAM. The winner will be tagged and DMed for shipping information!
Thank you so much for everyone’s support. I hope this little project can become big so that everyone can experience a little bit of Japan.
HOLY FUCK HAVE YOU GUYS SEEN THIS. IT’S SO CUTE. credits: bilibili.com/video/av28447600 It’s not a real show, unfortunately. It’s a ‘Their Story’ fanmade music video :)
