On Wed, 1 Nov 1995 pauldoi@iastate.edu wrote:

>   It certainly does NOT mean me!  On my last trip to Chicago's Yaohan 
> (about 6 hr from here), I picked up a copy of AMS color manga #3, a
> Japanese gun magazine (appropriately entitled "GUN"), and a copy of
> Ribbon.  The lady at the counter bagged the whole works without comment,
> but I did get some VERY strange looks from some of the other customers,
> especially the college student behind me in line.  O.K., so I like
> reading gun magazines and little girls manga; you have a problem with
> that?

 ...You know, in Japan (at least in Tokyo) you see many people reading 
manga, but I've never seen a grown-man reading a "Sho-jo Manga" 
(translated as "little/young girls manga"). But then again, I've noticed 
that people who's really into manga (including older man and women) tend 
to show some interest in these things. My guess is, there's just too many 
mangas being published here, at a cheap price, so maybe that's why we 
don't pay much attention to shojo manga. (I guess it's different NOW in the 
States huh?)

>   Perhaps I need to get out more often...

 I think so too. Also, try reading other Japanese comic-books and 
comic-magazinese (Manga). You might run into some new interesting stuff.

					Kenji Shimizu