{"id":7,"date":"2018-03-05T21:35:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mangamavencom.wordpress.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2018-03-05T21:35:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:35:04","slug":"the-journey-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/05\/the-journey-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction: Who I Am and Why I'm Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

This website has been a long time coming, honestly. \u00a0I\u2019ve been reading manga since childhood, I\u2019ve written reviews for other sites, and now I am the manga buyer and manager at a comic book store in Boston. \u00a0As part of my duties, I often advise a couple groups of comics retailers on their manga buying, and I keep feeling like I want to be able to dispense that advice on a somewhat \u00a0larger scale.<\/span>
\nI can\u2019t claim that I know all there is to know about manga, but I am confident in the knowledge that I have, and I know it is specialized enough to be of use to others. \u00a0So at least in part, I hope that my reviews and ramblings are helpful for retailers, but also to publishers and consumers.<\/span>
\nBeyond that, I just really love manga. \u00a0I am deeply interested in its history and its production, both within and outside of Japan. \u00a0I was lucky enough to be a young teenager in the early aughts, so my pop cultural experience was very much embroiled in the Cool Japan zeitgeist. \u00a0Basically, I never had a chance!<\/span>
\nSo what will you see here? \u00a0My reviews will mostly skew toward less-popular titles, partially because I like and read a broad and strange array of manga, and partially because a series like <\/span>One Piece<\/span><\/i> will never need my help getting sales. \u00a0I will also focus a lot on work by women, because again, the men don\u2019t need my help. \u00a0In terms of genre, you can expect a little bit of everything, save perhaps hardcore hentai (though I will review adult works). \u00a0The manga will be a mix of old and new works, because there will always be a soft spot in my heart for anything that came out while I was a teen — and besides, there\u2019s some good vintage work out there!<\/span>
\nOutside of the reviews, I will try to pop by with interesting little manga-related tidbits from my life, or my opinions on current goings-on in the manga and anime world. \u00a0I may also occasionally bring up non-manga graphic novels and maybe even some prose fiction or non-fiction that I think is relevant to manga in some way. My intention is for this site, like all projects, to grow and change as I do, and as I gain more readers who want certain content.<\/span>
\nSo thank you all for being here, and for starting on me with this adventure!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This website has been a long time coming, honestly. \u00a0I\u2019ve been reading manga since childhood, I\u2019ve written reviews for other sites, and now I am the manga buyer and manager at a comic book store in Boston. \u00a0As part of my duties, I often advise a couple groups of comics retailers on their manga buying, … Continue reading An Introduction: Who I Am and Why I'm Here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21,130,163],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-anime","tag-introduction","tag-manga"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}