Comments on: Girls on Top

By: Sarah Wolfie

Sarah Wolfie — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:54:51 +0000

WTF, you would call me a whore, I suspect. Those things can happen for complicated reasons, really, and I’m speaking from personal experience.

Anyway, I liked what I’ve seen of Girlfriend. The initial impression I got of it just being all about sex sort of had me putting off reading it, but the motivations they have are what makes it interesting.

By: iao

iao — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:47:05 +0000

oh gosh. girlfriend just keeps getting better and better. Nomad you tease! There’s a deeper meaning behind all this? Well I’ll pretend not to have heard and I shall patiently wait until you and the rest of the amazing people working on this project get to that point. I wonder if your forum is going to come back online someday. I miss it, even though I ‘ve been quite busy myself lately.

By: Nomad Soul

Nomad Soul — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:33:55 +0000

Yeah, great to see you back, myran-san. Hope the server will be here to stay.

By: Sakuya

Sakuya — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:45:28 +0000

Thank you, myran-san!! ^o^

By: myran-san

myran-san — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:02:45 +0000

Manga http back and updated with the latest stuff

By: Huff

Huff — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 03:00:14 +0000

Huh…so it’s basically edu-manga. I could see myself looking into it, but it’s disapointing to hear it isn’t one of his “f!@# your mind” series. The Tezuka’s have had some odd picks in the past, so I guess I shouldn’t be suprised.
But I agree about the charm of Hanashippanashi being the brief and whimsical nature of the stories. While I’d love to see some longer, deeper and more epic stories like he has in Witches, it would take away alot of the mystery.

By: Nomad Soul

Nomad Soul — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:56:29 +0000

I think “Hanashippanashi”’s primary forte is its incredible wealth of ideas. Each story presents a unique premise and execution. It’d certainly be interesting to see the author explore a few of those ideas further, yet I can’t help but think that doing so would rob the stories of a part of their magic. It’s one of those series whose sum is bigger than its parts–a work that conveys deep respect and admiration for nature and the world around us.

@WTF: LOL, thanks for the free advertising! You’re right, though. Here at Kotonoha, we like our girls slutty and perverted. If you can’t deal with that, I suggest you look elsewhere.

By: WTF

WTF — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:02:55 +0000

What the hell, people? How can you like Girlfriend? Each and every story contains the most vile, disgusting whore imaginable. Geh… you people are sick.

By: stephen

stephen — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:42:58 +0000

It’s almost like a primer on agricultural life in rural Japan (Ohmori specifically). Every chapter deals with or describes the way to cultivate/scavenge some kind of vegetable, or cook a certain type of food. It’s interesting as a snapshot of a very different lifestyle but there is only the barest, barest backbone of a story involved, and you can’t taste any of the food or crops (of which the vast majority is unfamiliar, at least to me). So it’s hard for me to recommend other than as a curiosity, really.

By: Huff

Huff — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:25:33 +0000

“And it’s at least better than Little Forest. ”
Really? I was kind of hyped up about that because of the recent Tezuka nod. Can you elaborate?