Category: manga
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Anime That Students Will Like But Also Won’t Make Your Principal Faint If They Walk In: Top Picks from Current Popular Series
Before I jump in, let me be straight with you: you should watch any piece of media you’re going to show before you show it. Every school, every district, every region has varying levels of what’s acceptable to be shown to students. What flies in my Brooklyn high school library would probably not have been […]
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Recommended Reading for the Femme School Librarian Who Just Doesn’t Get the Manga Hype
“Manga is sexist. The way it treats women is horrible!” “I just can’t get into it. It’s only for teenage boys.” “It all looks the same.” “It’s fine for the kids, but I can’t stand it!” Listen, listen. You’ve been reading the wrong stuff. Do you think I sit here, in my precious free time, […]
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Series Review: Kitchen Princess
Title: Kitchen Princess キッチンのお姫さま Mangaka: Kobayashi Miyuki 小林深雪 and Andō Natsumi 安藤 なつみ US Publisher: Kodansha USA Status: Complete. Level: Secondary. May also work for some upper elementary students. How Essential Is It?: Nice to Have Curricular Connections?: My school has a culinary program, and students have used the recipes in this manga for projects! […]
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Manga and Anime Featuring Food
This is a list of manga which you may want to consider when selecting specifically with food, cooking, and eating in mind. These aren’t formal reviews, but I’ll link to a formal review when and if I do them. This new format is to get you acquainted with multiple titles at once. Food Wars!: Shokugeki […]
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Japanese Food in Anime and Manga and Reaching Students
[F]ood and its portrayals in Japanese media can help students build a more positive relationship with the fuel we put in our body, deepen student enjoyment of these media, and even provide opportunities for personal enrichment and career opportunities.
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Series Review: Flying Witch
Title: Flying Witch (ふらいんぐうぃっち) Mangaka: Chihiro Ishizuka いしずかちひろ US Publisher: Kodansha USA Status: Ongoing. Level: Elementary and up! How Essential Is It?: Nice to Have Curricular Connections?: N/A Reader’s Advisory Tags: Slice of Life, Humor, Magic, Fantasy. Anime: Crunchyroll. Content Warnings: None. Last night I made fiddlehead fern tempura, and it occurred to me that […]
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Series Review: Fruits Basket
Title: Fruits Basket フルーツバスケット Mangaka: Natsuki Takaya 高屋 奈月 US Publisher: Formerly TokyoPop, now Yen Press Status: Complete. Level: Middle School, High School How Essential Is It?: Must Have Curricular Connections?: N/A Reader’s Advisory Tags: Grief, abuse. Anime: 2001: Funimation, Hulu. 2019: Funimation, Crunchyroll. Content Warnings: Discussions of mental and physical abuse. Fruits Basket, commonly […]
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Series Review: Food Wars!
Title: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma 食戟のソーマ Mangaka: Yūto Tsukuda 附田 祐斗 US Publisher: Viz Media Status: Ongoing Level: High School How Essential Is It?: Purchase if You Need to Burn Money Curricular Connections?: N/A Reader’s Advisory Tags: partial nudity, sexual content Anime: Crunchyroll. Content Warnings: This series contains explicit scenes of people reacting with […]
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Series Review: The Ancient Magus’ Bride
Title: The Ancient Magus’ Bride / 魔法使いの嫁 Mahō Tsukai no Yome Mangaka: Kore Yamazaki ヤマザキ コレ US Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment Status: Ongoing Level: Middle School, High School How Essential Is It?: Nice to Have Curricular Connections?: N/A Reader’s Advisory Tags: depression, suicide, abuse, substance abuse Anime: Crunchyroll. Content Warnings: Frequent discussion of character suicide, […]
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