Finally a well-known site reviews From Far Away

[estara]

I did my best (http://www.bookish.net/2006/07/12/189/ ), but since I blog so rarely and mainly for friends it's not really a way for people to discover the manga. But ジェーン(Jān) at Dear Author.com did a lot of great manga reviews there (although it's a romance review site) and I hounded her to get it (she realised she already knew and liked the mangaka and bought the series right away) on her Basara review (http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/01/15/review-manga-review-epic-adventure-and-romance-basara/ ) and now she finally wrote a review of Kanata Kara here:

http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/03/03/review-manga-romance-with-a-capital-r-from-far-away-by-kyoko-hikawa/

So, all my shoujo-manga liking mutual friends who don't read my real blog: read it and see if you like an articulate person's view on it ^^. All 14 volumes are still available, but it wasn't a huge hit - no other of her manga has been licensed in the US or Germany so far.

Comments

[sho-sunaga.livejournal.com]

Oh I love her stuff! Her drawing as well as stle could be described as typical old style Shojo Manga, but her stories are great and I actually have everthing she published. Her latest Otogizoshi is in line with Kanatakara and I really wish you get a chance to read it..

[estara.livejournal.com]

Actually I am reading Otogizoshi as it comes out (veeeeeeeeery slowly) in scanlations at Ivyscan, and I got Miriam and Chizumi & Fujiomi the same way from a now derelic scanlation site.

I just wish for more licenses... *sigh* I'm so envious of you!