#fairy cube

Anime spotlight is cool. It makes sense for a magazine like this to run an occasional spotlight on Shojo 101. Hey look! It's Mitsuki from Full Moon wo Sagashite! That was one of those "in the moment" hits that ran from 2004-2005. Anime fandom's just getting to a point with broadband and BitTorrent you can keep up with seasonal releases. For something popular like Naruto you'd have a fansub of the new episode in about 48 hours...it was beautiful. But Full Moon didn't have a lot of staying power, it's kinda sad. And the anime is a pretty sad one too. Shojo Beat had it on the expanded imprint, so didn't run in the magazine but they put out the volumes and anime with the SB label.

The list of classic shojo series is great too. That's about what I'd expect on an anime forum a few years before this list. And uh...peep that prediction for a big shojo hit to rival Fruits Basket on pages that mention the upcoming Ouran High School Host Club anime debut. And even if she meant and actually new banger shojo on the horizon as in not localizing a known success in Japan she'd still be right because of Yona of the Dawn.

Fairy Cube was the preview manga chapter this week. The author's previous work, Godchild was serialized in the magazine early but replaced with Vampire Knight that fit the Twilight craze better. Kids at the time would want you to know Godchild was old school, early 90s goth and the latter is new emo trash (that'd go on to be what kids today thought was cool about the time).