Comments on: xxxHolic Roundtable: Calling a Spade a Spade

By: Did someone say xxxHolic? | Manga Bookshelf

Did someone say xxxHolic? | Manga Bookshelf — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:33:35 +0000

[...] were in comments, particularly those between Noah and Ng Suat Tong (most to be found here and here), which quickly turned to discussion of comics criticism as a whole and the state of manga [...]

By: Noah Berlatsky

Noah Berlatsky — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:36:22 +0000

Holy crap — you wrote a book about Clamp. Congrats! I’m looking forward to getting that….

By: Shaenon

Shaenon — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:07:42 +0000

I’m with you, Kristy. xxxHolic lost my interest in the later volumes as the central story arc started to drag (and really, whoever cared about Watanuki’s girlfriend in the first place?), but I love the early volumes and the art is sublime. But I wrote a damn book about CLAMP, obviously I’m biased.

By: Melinda Beasi

Melinda Beasi — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:46:08 +0000

Suat, yes, xxxHolic is published in Young Magazine. A single glance should pretty well clarify the demographic. Heh. CLAMP has actually written for most every demographic, including shonen (Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Angelic Layer), shojo (Cardcaptor Sakura, Tokyo Babylon) and seinen (xxxHolic, Chobits, Kobato) and within those, there is some variation as well. For instance, CCS was published in Nakayoshi, which is for elementary and middle-school girls, while Tokyo Babylon was published in Wings, which is for young women from about 16-20.

By: Standards and practices « The Manga Curmudgeon

Standards and practices « The Manga Curmudgeon — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:59:20 +0000

[...] about critical standards that has blossomed in the comments of various posts. I quoted Ng Suat Tong yesterday, and I’ll do so [...]

By: Great Graphic Novels for Teens—and everyone else « MangaBlog

Great Graphic Novels for Teens—and everyone else « MangaBlog — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:03:15 +0000

[...] The xxxHoLiC roundtable continues at The Hooded Utilitarian, with contributions from Ng Suat Tong (who also posts some pictures), Richard Cook, and Noah Berlatsky. Other reviews of [...]

By: Tucker Stone

Tucker Stone — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:07:00 +0000

Hey, I said “sounds like”. That’s Equivocation 101, plenty of wiggle room to fix my take on it after the roundtable tells me what to think.

By: Ng Suat Tong

Ng Suat Tong — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:31:30 +0000

Tucker: I don’t know if CLAMP/xxxHolic is for girls but I do believe it was published in a seinen magazine (for young men).

By: Noah Berlatsky

Noah Berlatsky — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:05:27 +0000

“Clamp sounds like it’s for girls.”

Your critical acumen is as blinding as ever.

Which leads me to ask, inevitably and querulously — are you and Marty ever going to finish your best albums of the year list? How can I move on to 2010 if I don’t know the best music of 2009?

By: Tucker Stone

Tucker Stone — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:59:42 +0000

Man, Spooks is a metric ton of good times. I’ve watched those Adam Carter head butt and Matthew McFayden “Fuck you harry” scenes about 300 times in the past two years.

Clamp sounds like it’s for girls.