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Backstage Prince Vol 1

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While looking through my old manga I discovered that Shojo Beat has some of their manga in pink. For anyone who may want to read the material in pink without relying on edits like mine, this is a good place to look! I hope you all enjoy this lovely day!

Backstage Prince

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Abuse in Shoujo by the Numbers: Week 8

Geek Girl Con Report

Last weekend, I attended my final convention of the year: Geek Girl Con. I imagine quite a few of you know of it mainly from the controversy earlier this year when several board members publicly and dramatically quit, but in reality it’s a lovely, small-but-growing convention in Seattle that focuses not on any specific fandom but on creating a space for inclusivity, diversity, and intersectionality in a variety of geeky spaces. This year, they included more anime-related programming than they have in the past, including my panel!

Paneling at Geek Girl Con was an exceptionally pleasant experience. With 30-minute turnover between panel rooms, I had more than enough time to set up my laggy Chromebook and make sure the sound and picture would work, and every volunteer I dealt with was kind, pleasant, and helpful. I was a little annoyed that they categorized my panel as 18+ – I prefer to do it as all ages so that the target audience of the media I use can attend – but the enthusiasm of the volunteers more than made up for it. Since I was the last panel in that room, one of them even added a sign to the ten- and five-minute warning cards: “But it doesn’t matter!” and allowed me to go long. When a man started talking to me aggressively about Etotama, of all things, afterwards, they handled the situation beautifully, giving me an excuse to separate from him, getting him to leave the room by telling him they needed to clean up, and then making sure he had left before escorting me out of the room to the bottom floor of the convention center.

The audience this time around was small, which wasn’t too terribly surprising. Geek Girl Con has never had a ton of anime representation, and the fandom seems to be more focused on US properties, especially comics, Disney movies, and so on. However, they were as great an audience as anyone could ask for: polite, responsive, and engaged. The panel went probably the smoothest it has, with no major hiccups or interruptions, and because of the small audience, the Q&A session at the end (made possible because I was allowed to run long) ended up being discussion-driven rather than a simple back-and-forth between me and the audience. A couple of them asked questions that I hope to address in this space in future weeks!

I really love Geek Girl Con, and I wish I’d had the energy to spend more time there this year. If you were there, let me know in the comments!

This Week: Black Bird vol. 8 Boys Over Flowers vol. 6 Dawn of the Arcana vol. 3 Demon Love Spell vol. 2 Backstage Prince vol. 1

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I've been sitting on a vein of these old Shojo Beat magazines. We did the first two I found and my count is now eight from random points across its run. This is currently the earliest one I have. November 2006. So this would be a little after I let my subscription to the first year of the magazine lapse. Sophomore year of high school in full swing and that was definitely my peak for trying to go with the flow and have a "normal" teen life. Some raucous parties out in country wheat fields and the year I really remember friends like, catching a ride home from school with me to do some silly backyard shenanigan.November 06 sounds like right about the time we started our standing Monday night "study group" that was really getting together to watch Wrestling and cook up ideas to get a viral video on this new Youtube thing.

I like this one is early enough it has an MSRP on the label! $6 for an issue or a $35/yr subscription. For reference, in 2006 that'd be a pretty pricey magazine but not crazy. Still, I could probably get two mainstream ones like Cosmopolitan for around that price at a newsstand. And a tankbon being ~$10 has been pretty static since then. I really liked Eiichiro Oda's recent interview where he talked about the sorta "kid math" and when it feels like a good deal to get a manga magazine. It's interesting to think a bit about how that gets skewed when it's a more luxury import niche here. For $6 I can get a sampler of seven series plus articles or for $10 a few more chapters all of the same series. In Japan even more recently that gap and both prices are a lot smaller. The difference of about 300 vs 500 Yen. At least from what I saw. So you're definitely looking at a higher relative barrier to entry plus at that point a couple extra bucks means less...I get why these struggled.

Here's the line-up, still mostly the same as the initial issue but there have been some changes. Backstage Prince is a pretty new addition and won't be around for long, but is one of the few series to have its full run in the magazine. Gave us Akari, the girl on the cover in a cute gingham look. Vampire Knight is here which replaced the early 90s Godchild as your designated goth aesthetic. That one would stick around til the final issue along with Crimson Hero which was the sole manga to go the full distance in Shojo Beat.

Not a whole lot of ads or anything that just screamed 2006 to me, but I did get a kick out of the tips on how to get a guy. Number 10 is such a copout, I wanna know more about how to get sent to a magical world.

Did have a pretty cool interview with a Japanese musician who was relevant at the time. This song crept its way onto some game soundtracks like FIFA. Good tie-in with the manga preview for this issue. Punch! Which was about a girl who grew up in a martial arts family, had a pushy scion of the dojo declaring he's her fiance and scaring any guy she takes an interest in, then a street brawler she falls for. Seems cool. Reminds me a bit of Air Master around the same time. Gymnast girl who got really big at puberty transitions into street fights. Yes. Fun little setup, wonder if the rest of the series is any good.

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