Manga is not something I read a lot of; the last thing I bought was a collection of shōjo about 15 years ago. But the stories sound fun.

introduced the female population of her school to it through Fruits Basket series.

and currently feeding their addiction with:

be interested to hear what Belochka's thinks of Love Sickness.

thinking of having a monthly Book Group online/Plurk and Inworldz. This would make a great choice. for the first month

if Belochka would be up for that?

That sounds a great idea, I'd very much be up for that. And I'll definitely be glad to pass on thoughts about the stories.

And Manga Shakespeare! I wish I'd been able to read those at school.

not done any more about this yet but wonders what Belochka thinks of Love Sickness?

still thinking of buying it...

Ohh, I'm sorry Mermet, I meant to reply! I did read it and enjoy it, although the stories are perhaps a little lighter on story line than,

say, Rumiko Takahashi or Keiko Nishi in the shojo style. What I liked about it was the more romantic, and for this artist, cute style.

There's some sex scenes with the traditional seme/ume relationships, but it was much more romantic than I expected. The best story,

for me, was one called Disappearing into dew, which is in a sort of fairytale, mythical, style about the love between a demon and human.

Oh, and it's the first publication I've read in the native manga, left to right, reading format.

I enjoyed reading it overall, it's a light read but a fun one and can be quite touching. And it has cute little fox spirit drawings.