Quotes of January 2013, part 3

Sean Gaffney on Missions of Love: "Yes, finding out about love is all right as long as there’s no actual emotion involved. So now that she knows Shigure is a jerk, she can feel free to emotionally blackmail him."

Shaenon Garrity on Swan: "Recently, the movie Black Swan reminded us that ballet is a giant sucking hole of horror, physical torment, and insanity, a truth the 1970s manga classic Swan knows all too well."

Lori Henderson on mature manga: "Tokyopop short forays into josei manga such as Suppli, and the whole Viz Signature line with includes both josei and seinen manga such as Dorohedoro and Ooku: The Inner Chamber have been great for us readers who want mature to mean something more than sexually graphic."

Ash on Worst: "I love Hana Tsukishima, Worst's protagonist. He's seriously the nicest, most endearing guy that will ever beat the shit out of someone else."

Anna N on Faith: "joins us as we ponder the answers to the pressing questions raised by this drama such as:

• Are grommets historically accurate? Can they also be sexy?
• How hard would you clutch your handbag if you were stranded in the past?
• Will you forever be suspicious of people wearing dangling earrings?"

Margaret O'Connell on Sugar Sugar Rune: "This is the fantasy-with-stealth-social-commentary tale of two ten-year-old best friends from the witch dimension who must travel to our world and compete to become the next queen of the Magic World by collecting as many human hearts as possible. Gender-related cultural differences between the two realms come into play when brash, self-confident Chocolat, whom all the boys in the witch dimension find irresistible, unexpectedly discovers that human boys are put off by her assertive behavior and prefer her demure, introverted friend Vanilla, whom both girls had previously assumed was unlikely to have much of a chance at the crown."