This Shoujo Magazine Deserves Better

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This Shoujo Magazine Deserves Better

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Colleen's Manga Recs

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@bookgal4539 Жыл бұрын

Pls do more shoujo manga magazine videos they are so intriguing and eye opening for new manga recommendations ❤

@chyandinii Жыл бұрын

Nakayoshi please!!

@shelbymckinney8888 Жыл бұрын

All I can say is that this magazine is worthy of a video. Especially as a Rose of Versailles fan. Also, God shoujo art is so pretty!

@angelsdoexist Жыл бұрын

I wish we could get more of these in english so many of these looked interesting

@ColleensMangaRecs Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@evers33n Жыл бұрын

Kind of unrelated, but today I found the first volume of Red River and the first four volumes of From Far Away at my local used bookstore! I got them for 21 dollars in total. This was the same bookstore where I found the first volume of Mars! I hope next time I go there, I can find Kodocha and Lovely Complex, my two most desired OOP manga.

@evers33n Жыл бұрын

@doing my best here Yeah it took like a year of going to this particular store to find reasonably priced OOP manga. Just keep looking, no matter how hard it is, and you’ll find some eventually!

@starxmon Жыл бұрын

honestly i'd take a course on shoujosei manga history if colleen was teaching it

@mandisaw Жыл бұрын

I was only expecting the storied history of Margaret, but the current/recent titles were a nice bonus! I think the issues with Margaret stem from a mix of business/mgmt - failing to retain & nurture talent once they get popular - and editorial - failing to cultivate a mix of titles for changing audience tastes. I'm sure there's a juicy story involved with that exodus of manga-ka. While having your titles in diff magazines to match the content/genre isn't unusual, jumping publishers is very rare. Manga-ka from the traditional path, not via web/self-publishing, tend to be super loyal to their editors, and the publisher who they debuted with.

@demilembias2527 Жыл бұрын

do you think any of it could have to do with the fact that manga is just less gendered now than it was in the heyday of shoujo magazines and therefore most series that are extremely popular among women run in traditionally "shounen" magazines? like, series like Moebana, Akanebanashi, and Ruridragon are the kinds of things that would have been in shoujo magazines 20 years ago, but they're all in Jump or Jump plus now.

@mandisaw Жыл бұрын

@@demilembias2527 Manga isn't really less gendered though, certainly not as compared to 20yrs ago. Shonen & seinen series have had a mixed-gender fanbase for a very long time, across both crowdpleaser action-adventure serials (Yuu Yuu Hakusho ran in Jump in '90-94) and slice-of-life romances (Maison Ikkoku ran in a seinen mag from '80-87). I think readers ultimately just want to read different stories than what Margaret is currently publishing. Maybe they want slice-of-life romance with a twist, or older/younger protagonists, etc. and other pubs/magazines are providing those stories, while Margaret is stuck in a specific pattern.

@mandisaw Жыл бұрын

@@demilembias2527 Or you're right about shonen & seinen mags "poaching" authors/stories that might have otherwise been relegated to the shojo "ghetto". Shonen mags pay better, I suspect, so mangaka may be submitting their manuscripts there instead. There's a business aspect to all this that we just don't have a good lens into.

@xXVickerdXx Жыл бұрын

I've been reading pink to habanero and I'm really liking it so far! Mugi is so dumb I absolutely love her

@ColleensMangaRecs Жыл бұрын

Mugi is so dumb I love her

@mahoupanda2639 Жыл бұрын

We need a boys over flowers reprint or collectors edition, it was my first Korean drama and for a while there I was really Lee Minho pilled 😂 also the theme song is forever ingrained in my brain

@maxaroni39 Жыл бұрын

This was a really fun video! I always enjoy hearing about different manga magazines and the series that they publish, and it seems like Margaret has a lot of series with potential! Is there any chance you might make these types of videos into a series, talking about different shojo magazines?

@ColleensMangaRecs Жыл бұрын

I'm definitely open to it and would love talking about others too

@sebastianc1110 Жыл бұрын

@@ColleensMangaRecs I would be down for a series about manga magazines.

@Mira_Jane Жыл бұрын

YESSSSS!! THE DAYTIME SHOOTING STAR ENDING WAS THE BEST!

@StarLord66X 10 ай бұрын

I was wondering what that random CMX manga my middle school had stashed behind a shelf. It was Swan and I didn't know it was a classic. This was a another insightful video and would like more magazine history videos

@xXVickerdXx Жыл бұрын

Oh no, I'm so early I can't scroll through the comments 😂

@kolaiontan Жыл бұрын

Amazing video as usual! I love this. I learn so much from you. I want Futari de Koi wo Suru Riyuu localised so bad. I'm turning 30 this year and it's one of the more interesting recent high school series. I think age has made me lean largely towards other types of series. Also a huge fan of Tiger and Dragon, fingers crossed for localisation of loads of Margaret series.

@smudge8882 Жыл бұрын

You and editor Colleen are hilarious 🤣

@ColleensMangaRecs Жыл бұрын

currently in talks with the editor to pay them 😔

@smudge8882 Жыл бұрын

@@ColleensMangaRecs 🤣

@iwakunrock Жыл бұрын

I love editor Colleen. I hope we see more of her.

@devanshsinghrawat47 Жыл бұрын

Its good to see that there are still some youtubers left who are covering shoujo manga, Clamp is my favourite shoujo manga artist group( really like XXXholic and tsubasa reservoir)

@chirale 5 ай бұрын

5:46 I just yesterday watched the Aim for the Ace! movie with my family, a DVD forgotten in a corner for over 10 years. I was not familiar with Margaret magazine and found a wealth of quality information here. Greetings from Italy.

@nozomisouffle Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised I never heard about the magazine, despite knowing about Oniisama e... and Versailles no Bara. I'll blame it on LaLa bc they released the trinity that made me join the animanga world (Maid-sama, Vampire Knight, Ouran)

@Juan-me9cx 6 ай бұрын

for f sake this kind of videos are a pleasure to watch .

@beckyginger3432 Жыл бұрын

That opening sketch 😂😂😂 🎉Margaret 🎉

@CursedCatTruffa Жыл бұрын

I never imagined a rundown about a magazine would be so much fun and let me with some new "to read" manga to my list! I hope we see more videos about shojo magazines, it's really interesting to see the progression across the years and getting new manga to look forward to read!

@Holly_Berry Жыл бұрын

Really great video! Love the flower background in the B-roll!

@ColleensMangaRecs Жыл бұрын

Had to make it pretty 💕💕

@ducky19991 Жыл бұрын

Why can’t we get serialized manga magazines in English?! 😭 unless we do and I’m missing something. I would love that 🥲

@pig3292 Жыл бұрын

We used to back in the day 😢 I miss them so much

@Aondeug Жыл бұрын

Margaret's never been my biggest thing outside of like. Marimite and Ikeda's stuff, Berubara and Claudine especially. So I wasn't aware it had fallen to such low numbers. It's kind of wild to hear since I'm used to thinking of Margaret as like...The royalty of shoujo manga magazines. Here's hoping it does well this year.

@takaw_yaki Жыл бұрын

really wish more of Ayumi Komura's works would get published in english :(

@albgres181 Жыл бұрын

I loved Chihiro's work so much that I'm about to buy all 12 volumes of Futakoi (which I've already read twice) on CDJapan, with it being my first Japanese manga. So far I only have Spanish manga (from where I'm from) and just a few LNs in English. BTW IM SO EXCITED FOR CHIHIRO-SAMA'S NEW SERIES And really nice video!! I'm so glad I'm a shojo/romance fan

@ColleensMangaRecs Жыл бұрын

Her new series looks so good! I love her artwork though so really anything they put out I'll eat it up haha

@nicolaerrico4031 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video! I just need this but with Feel Young magazine and their new dark horse Aki Mochida. PLEASE 🥺

@ColleensMangaRecs Жыл бұрын

Was definitely going to do one on another magazine sometime soon!

@mekhalaiyengar5726 Жыл бұрын

I like how much research you put into the videos you make it feels very insightful! Also loved Editor Colleen!!

@josefd1997 Жыл бұрын

“There’s Something about Margaret” would’ve been a sick video title ngl (Great video as always)

@josefd1997 Жыл бұрын

Probably too long a video title tho 😅

@BJGreene 11 ай бұрын

I would love to be published in Margaret as an artist😊 i love the magazine

@topangarabbit Жыл бұрын

Love this video!! I subscribed to Margaret through Kinokuniya after watching! I'm long time watcher and lurker, but wanted to comment to boost the algorithm!

@KawaiiStars 7 ай бұрын

i loved swan, being a ballet lover and former dancer myself

@TheClamatoJuice Жыл бұрын

Like that you're actually talking about the classics in this video 🙏 I'm all about 60s-80s shojo. Incidentally if anyone is interested in Swan it's currently being scanlated.

@TheClamatoJuice Жыл бұрын

Oh the history section ended basically as soon as I wrote this comment lol. Well it was nice while it lasted.

@Whistflight Жыл бұрын

Margaret was my favorite manga magazine growing up. A lot of series I've held on to for literally decades now came from it. Kare made love km had a grip on me! But, as I got older, I drifted away. I loved hearing about the current state of the magazine and current titles. It inspired me to pick up Pink to Habanero, which has been really delightful. Thanks for the recommendation! I hope you cover some other magazines as well.

@victoriouswreath494 Жыл бұрын

I would love a series about different shojo magazine deepdives. Especially with more editing sass. 😂

@Partylegs666 Жыл бұрын

I so want Pink to Habanero to get an English release! We love a girlfailure ♥ I also just scored the first 24 volumes of Boys Over Flowers for $12 each at my local used book store - too good to pass up! Plus Mars 1 and Full Moon 1 for $5 each. I've been told the seller's coming in with more stuff to resell in a couple weeks' time, absolutely losing my mind thinking about what other 2000s series may come in next time.

@lu6754 Жыл бұрын

Super interesting video, and edited (meta-edited?) so charmingly! It makes me want to get more familiar with manga magazines in general

@LLOROMANNICLOVR Жыл бұрын

Kusaka Aki my goat. She gave me the same feeling i had when i first discovered Yamamori Mika in middle school. I'd pray for any of her series in eng but i immediately picked up Hayaku Shitai Futari from Kinokuniya and will probably be buying her newest too

@ColleensMangaRecs Жыл бұрын

Same here!! I wish I could get my hands on the latest magazine too because the color spread for the new series is GORGEOUS.

@nushrathumaira2257 Жыл бұрын

1. No matter how many criticisms are there for boys over flowers, for me it will be always be a legend who started the tropes in shoujo manga. 2. A sign of affection is Suu Morishita’s best work as everyone will probably agree. It changed my perception then as mangaka, who I thought was better in drawing but not in story. 3. Hayaku shitai Futari made me expect so much that the last few volumes felt very stale somehow. Nonetheless liked that. 4. I wish more people would talk about devil and her love song, many seems to have forgotten this. It’s a pretty good story, unique at least. Her other works nanoka no kare is full of drama too, unusual. I am heavily invested with her recent “200 m saki no netsu” , i wish it got English release. 5. Miniamaru kareshi and futari de koi wo suru riyuu deserve to be in the top high school romance in the recent years. PS : please bring back editor colleen in the future too😂

@katarinaclaes96 Жыл бұрын

I'll have to check out this Magazine and give it a read. Sounds very cool and interesting.😁

@Blackberryfae Жыл бұрын

I've read so many of these manga, wow.

@ColleensMangaRecs Жыл бұрын

#margaretsweep

@notationmusical Жыл бұрын

Great video. I hope to catch up reading Ryoko Ikeda's work.

@Gobonastick Жыл бұрын

love these videos, very well made im gonna start reading shoujo soon

@leslieelizabeth3024 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video ! I know you're all about manga, but it would have been nice if you mentioned the Margret OVA's~. They were ssoooo cute, but I know the quality they are in (if you know where to find them) is less than desirable 😅

@DarlingOfficially Жыл бұрын

❤ wow the things you learn 😱 thank you 🙏🏽

@anacseq Жыл бұрын

thanks for the video! love your content!

@ShadowKidxDevilGirl Жыл бұрын

Really interesting video! (I haven't watched it to the end, yet but I will) Love your takes and videos so much c: I have been a bit curious about what your thoughts are on the series Dengeki Daisy? I fell head over heels for the art, story and the humour! Thank you for posting, keep the good videos coming, I can't wait to get more information or recommendations

@emmaparker5509 Жыл бұрын

I really hope that Margret can save itself. Hopefully they inject some variety in their titles.

@CC-mx3dd Жыл бұрын

Continue to love how informative your videos are I want to buy so many new things because of you which is both a blessing but also my poor bank account hahaha 😂

@Manga_Swag Жыл бұрын

Ii keep seeing those big blue books on everybody book shelve I have to check it out

@ColleensMangaRecs Жыл бұрын

It's Twinkle Stars!

@Manga_Swag Жыл бұрын

@@ColleensMangaRecs thanks just took screenshot so I can remember the name

@margaretarmstrong8041 Жыл бұрын

Ohhh so a magazine that bears my name and published Hana Yori Dango in which the main female lead was born on 28.12.1995 (literally my birthday!)!?? OKAY!! I see! It’s fate then ❤🎉

@mandisaw Жыл бұрын

Also, you didn't mention MariMite! Always wished we'd get the LNs for Maria-sama is Watching, but I heard the manga was an ok introduction in that format.

@Aondeug Жыл бұрын

The manga was nice I thought! While the anime reigns king in my mind because it's the form of it I've experienced it most in, the manga was my introduction to Llilian's. So I have a lot of nostalgia for it. I'm sad we don't have the LNs, but there are fan translations of at least most of the books. I'm not sure if they're still being actively translated, but you can read a decent chunk of them. A video on Marimite would be neat, honestly, since the series was extremely influential and to this day is getting referenced in things like Yuri is my Job. But unless you were like very clued into yuri fandom, chances are as an English speaker it's something you've never heard of. It's one of the big things I bring up when explaining the history of why yuri and neo-S are shaped how they are, the other big thing being Yoshiya Nobuko's stories.

@aliciaz6224 Жыл бұрын

oh, I honestly didn't know MarMite had a manga! I was only aware of the anime and LN. I'll have to look into it

@mandisaw Жыл бұрын

@@Aondeug Haven't looked in yrs, but when I did, I think the fan translation was kind of spotty, mostly focused on continuing plotlines from the anime. I've really reveled in the fact that we even get official LNs now, and still hold hope that we can get some of these older titles, like MariMite, Saiunkoku, and of course, Twelve Kingdoms. If they can bring over Gundam, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, even stuff like Devil is a Part-timer, and all the otome-isekai novels, there's still hope LOL

@mandisaw Жыл бұрын

@@Aondeug As for video suggestions & MariMite - IMO the shift from communal-anime viewing (clubs, cons, friends, etc) to individuals streaming, and the seasonal-anime churn has had a crazy effect on 1-cour shows like shojo/josei adaptations. Those nearly always benefited from word-of-mouth, and ppl catching those after the fact, or later in their run. Like 12 Kingdoms, Ouran, Fruits Basket, Yona, even MariMite, all gained most of their popularity long after the first run. I spent my first couple yrs in college spreading the "good word" of Escaflowne, lending out my tapes, and making copies. And when I ran a club for adults in the 00s, we did a mix of continuing shows, plus couple eps of stuff that members brought in. Lots of folks said they got introduced to series they wouldn't have seen/known about that way. MAL and KZfaqrs are really great at discussing what's already popular, but aren't great at discoverability of series that get less air. It's one of the cool things I like about @Colleen's channel tbh

@Aondeug Жыл бұрын

@@aliciaz6224 There's a live action film adaptation of I believe the first arc too! I don't remember much about it since I only watched it the one time years back.