Go Enjoy Some Manga in Print

A random jaunt to derelict early-mid-2010s blogospheres landed me on a discourse about shoujo manga's cluttered appearance, where the blogger hurled profanities at the works he claimed to hate before confessing that he did like some shoujo manga because these didn't look like other shoujo manga. A couple paragraphs of self-hatred because he just couldn't stop reading a title he said was trash in all aspects. Below it, his readers piled onto the bashings and accused him of treachery when he professed his begrudged approval of some titles, that he just couldn't drop reading. Some other people called him a misogynist while he tried his best to claim he was only a purveyor of quality, and look he did say some titles were good (when they didn't try to look like other shoujo manga!). It was equal part hilarious and sad, too childish to take offense of. I sincerely wish the blogger the best. Perhaps now he could enjoy all manners of styles without attributing them to a false sense of taste,…