As someone with a crippling fear of the ocean (or any large body of deep water) I appreciate that PSA at the beginning.

i was _not_ excepting that mafuyu lalalala jumpscare SDFFKSKAJALD loved this deep dive colleen! lala has housed some of my all time favourite manga, both past and present, so it’s wonderful to see them highlighted here!

The skits get me every time 😂 Thanks for the PSA Also I’ve read/watch a lot of Lala’s titles 🤔 but I’ve never heard of them. Thanks for the info!

Your anthology videos are some of my favorites! I'm always curious about what series are in the magazine, and I find it really interesting to learn the history of the anthology as well! The skit at the beginning of the video is your best yet, in particular I like how you used it to show off different camera angle techniques!

I love the anthology videos ! Always comes with good reccs ! Will try the tendo family manga since I enjoy toxic family manga lol

The part about how hard it is to find LaLa's English licensed titles is SO TRUE!! I was lucky enough to find all my Land of the Blindfolded volumes local for a decent price, they're my prized possessions. I've got a couple more titles I'm trying to track down, but unless you want to dish out $$$ to scalpers it seems almost IMPOSSIBLE 😖

I love your anthology videos ❤ I really need to get more LaLa titles. I think I might be able to find some in German or French. I recently catalogued my whole collection in a google sheet and sadly only 2 of 81 titles (80% of them shoujo/josei) are from LaLa. KareKano and Snow White 😭 I do have a grainy fansub version of Star of Cottonland. I knew it was a shoujo but didn't know it was from LaLa as well. Truly a great magazine! Thank you for showing us more of it!

Thank you so much for making this video! I love learning about the different magazines, and all the history of shoujo! It's really so cool!

11:30 This is why you don't mess with Colleen. She has the POWER!

I do like your anthology videos a lot, because it's like get into the history of shoujosei, which I always found interesting while mixing with some recs as well that there is variety of genres, we just have to research a little to try to find more. A lots from Lala and Lala DX I have read as well, some of these you mentioned I recognize as well and some didn't know, that I might take a look

....that PSA opening is giving me 80s flashbacks.

Another banger of a video you're one of my favorite channels ❤ Also the skits just keep getting better and better

Thanks for this video, I'm off to add a bunch more manga to my tbr

I had to keep pausing the video to write all the titles down, my tbr has just gotten so much longer 😅 Thanks for the video! Your channel is so helpful for non-experts on the genre

Yes! That intro sketch

I've super enjoyed your channel since I found it! Thank you for shining a much needed light on shoujo. I've followed some of your recommendations and they've been great! Currently obsessed with Snow White with the Red Hair/Akagami no Shirayuki-hime and I look forward to your videos. Thanks Colleen! :D

I love your channel and I love your content! I'm from Brazil, and I find it very difficult to find Japanese content creators who provide information as rich and detailed as you do. Thank you for being so informative and for continuing to create content about Japanese anime/manga media. I learn a lot from you!

I love your videos focusing on specific magazines!!

i love your videos! i love so much that i get SO HAPPY that you're having sponsers!!! LOVE FROM BRAZIL!

I’m so glad you mentioned Kawaii Hito! It’s one of my favorites!

"For funny!" got me

I love Last Game, cried at the end :') And Mizutama Honey Boy! Lala has such good series

I really love Tendou ke monogatari, really hope it gets an anime sometime.

This video just reminded me to go read last game again. I love it too much

This was a well done video as usual Colleen.

Thank you for the incredible work that you do for the shoujo community! Love your anthology videos

Broke: "Despite their long, illustrious history of publishing famous Shoujo manga, Hakusensha also publishes Berzerk, one of their only Shonens." Woke: "Berzerk is a Shoujo."

Honestly this videos are a help to find new stuff, I would like to see your take on a video to a shonen manga, and can we talk about how is such a hard thing to find a Lala magazine on bookoff 😂

Thank u Colleen, very epic 👍

i think this is the only video on yt thats talking about LaLa in depth

Wonderful video thanks so much for sharing this video i really enjoyed it. I'll check out this Magazine and give it a read.😁

Another banger by colleen!!! thank you for another wonderful video

I just bought a Lala magazine volume 1 with Yuki, Kaname, and Zero on the cover! It's the anime of my childhood, which I realized was problematic after years, hahaha, but that's it.

Kamisama kiss, fruits basket, Yona of the dawn are one of my favorite anime and manga 😊

I hope you’ll cover Hana to Yume next! (This is not just because I want to hear about Skip Beat from a Japanese prospective but it sure is a large reason)

Love these videos! Would love to see Hana to Yume next possibly ❤

That given jump scare took me out

Excellent

another banger video with banger recs and that cottonland manga looks cute and really interesting

Oh man, have you watched the Library Wars anime?! I haven't read the manga yet, but watched the anime to itch the scratch until I get my hands on the manga. It...wasn't all that great. 😅😅 Definitely deserved better!!! I need to read the manga so I can compare. And YAS! Natsume!!!! (And the anime is getting another season! Eeeep!) Can I read Japanese? No. Do I want a Lala magazine with Natsume or Snow White covers? YES. 😁🥰🥰

Also lala had Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time such a good one but rare to find in the states

i love your personality

I'm new here. Not only do I appreciate the information and recommendations, chickens are my favourite animal, so the rooster painting and figure are delightful.

I didn’t know so many series I like are from Lala. I’m actually planning on getting the French version of Mizutama Honey Boy on my next book buying spree. My excuse is that it’ll help me practice my French 😂

thanks for all the recommandations of good, good shojo manga

I think 40mins is the perfect video length. Not every video essay has to be one hour plus. Engaging from beginning to end :)

I love this series of videos. Such a fun watch/listen. Especially when I'm going through a burnout with anime/manga.

First, I wanted to say- why are you like this? Second, I wanted to say this video has the best intro you've ever done- or at least, my favourite. And third, I wanted to say dont ever stop being like this.

i love your videos on mangazines!

I'm not even a shoujo reader but I really like your videos , great skits! (And hair)🤣❤️

Wow, so many interesting titles! I didn't know Last Game was published in Lala, didn't even know it was shoujo!

This was such an amazing video!! I know very very little about Japanese shoujo magazines and super appreciate your deep dive into LaLa Magazine! I definitely learned a lot and hope we get some of the series you mentioned in English as well!

this video is so amazing I NEED a video about mars now omgg

Love your content (comment made to drive up engagement)

New Colleen video my beloved ❤❤

Shirayuki is getting an art exhibition?!? Do you k ow the dates? Maybe this year?

Great video! Your manga magazine vids are super interesting. Have you considered doing a video on Dessert? I think they're the current big thing in the English shoujo-sphere (probably helps that the magazine manages to get consistent licenses 🙃) and they have two anime adaptations on the way.

Thanks so much for this

The intro to this video LMAOOOOOO

I love natsume yuujinchou/natsumes book of friends so much!!! It's my all time favourite and can recommend it to everyone. It's so good 😭😭😭 Also the fandom is so wholesome and chill

I looove your anthology videos, I found a few more titles to add to my tbr!

I actually heard about this magazine from the Maid Sama afterwords. Maid Sama was published by Carlsen here in Germany. Mizutama Honey boy is actually available in Europe. In German. From Kaze Manga before they fused with Crunchyroll. Maybe I should read it after all. And one interesting thing you might not know Colleen, is that Tokyopop is not bankrupt. At least I think they aren't. They just became German. Yona of the Dawn and Snow White with the red hair are being published by Tokyopop here in Germany. When I was younger I got my dad to buy Rocking heaven for me. A series from Mayu Sakai published by Tokyopop. Two of my favorite Tokyopop series are Buddy Go and Ouji to Watashi wo Akiramenai. I believe that is the title. I was trying to look into Sparkly Lion boy and got the second one instead. Buddy Go is a fun story about dancing and the idol undustry. It even got an OVA. And if you are wondering why Tokyopop is German now, I have no idea. I didn't know that they used to be American. Btw, Ouran was also published by Carlsen but is very much out of stock. Because it's so old. I am snorting copium and hopium right now for a bundled rerelease just like Fruits Basket. I'd love it if they brought back more older titles. America should do that too actually. It is working great here in Deutschland.

hi izuru tokoro no tenshi is so beautiful, i love it and wish it was fully translated 😢 (it has a partial scanlation)

oh the things I would do for an english translation of mari to shingo 😭

Coleen and her comedy reminds me of Miisha Paullin and her work. Miisha is a Producer on "The Jimmy Dore Show" - which is worth checking out. Colleen even has the same smile (these are all complements btw)

Another heater! Fingers crossed for Shio no Machi to get licensed I need it in my life please 🤞

Nooooooo I didn't know Ryuuou no Kagehime was ending....I was looking forward to it someday getting translated...I really hope this end was planned and not because the manga wasn't popular enough ;; But some copium, AnS was supposed to end with Tanbarun arc so...MAYBE! Maybe! maybe...! theres hope ;; Anyway! I loved the video, I've always wanted to know more about LaLa so this was great! Also that interview with the Hakusensha president was really interesting, based president. Thanks again!

I love magazine videosss

If you liked Honeyboy you would definitely like Otomen.

"...despite the fact that European settings just aren't much of my thing." I'm sorry, I burst out laughing at the irony of this being said in a video with an EU manga shipping sponsorship -- that's so funny (in a cute way!) to me lol. But more seriously, this was a nice comprehensive overlook at the magazine, so thank you for all the information! Also, as someone whose only exposure to Cipher was indeed that OVA, I have to give it props of SOME kind, because when you started describing the manga itself, I definitely had a, "Wait, is this the manga for that weird OVA I saw once? It SOUNDS like it might be..." moment mere seconds before you confirmed that it was. I guess the OVA managed to convey.... something that stuck in my psyche as definitively identifiable all this time later, so there is that.

This has been a very insightful video. Since I really don't know older shojo manga minus the really popular one. Also man CMX manga brings back so many memories. Also Library Wars is amazing and should be discussed more. Since I feel like no one reads it

ouran in thumbnail my beloved

That bob do be bobbin

OMG. YOU DID NOT WITH THE MAFUYU LALAS!!! 💀😂😂😂

I don't even really know if i like Tendou Family or not. The main character has a really sad life and backstory (literally nobody deserves her 😭) but then the ml is like so mean but also not really? I dropped it a while ago bc I wasn't seeing much romance development 😔

Great video as always!! What is that Natsume’s print behind you?!?! I’m always dying to find Natsume’s merch

Tendou ke monogatari, kawaii hito,

If you or anyone want to know why cipher anime adaptation was kind of weird I would recommend Kyoto videos or KaiserBeamz take on it.

Can you do Sho-comi, Nakayoshi, and Betsucomi, please? Thank you!!!🥰💖💖💖

Bulletproof shipping?! Wait?! Is that for reals? Someone tell me if that's real or not. If that's the case. I'd buy the manga just for the box.

Cmx vs Tokyopop: Which one is worse?

I didn't get a notification 🥲

im late but yippy new video

did you ever review or do a deep dive of the shoujo manga magazine called smile???

🎉🎉🎉

Not the Titan skit! If only you could get a millionaire to pay you $250k/vid.

Quick question, have you shared a list of the manga you own anywhere? It would be great for some inspiration 😊

Hana to Yume dive next? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

16:33 💀😭

Ugh, I'm so sad I can't get into Tendou-ke Monogatari, I've read 27 chapter and haven't felt anything from it... I wanted to love this manga so much because the premise is so good and FL has very interesting motivations and personality, but still there is just something wrong with the pacing and the style of storytelling that prevents me from having "badum" moments...

Why did she run like that 😭

the orcas will prevail.

i can’t believe titles i love are from lala 🥹 thanks for teaching me something new colleen! awesome job on your videos ✌🏻 also i totally didn’t forget about the sketch 😭 i really wanted to see how you’d call back to that