Go, Read: Roundtable On Shojo Beat
I greatly enjoyed this roundtable of opinion-makers at School Library Journal on the recent demise of Viz's Shojo Beat. There was a surprisingly wide range of opinions here, from readers in the targeted age group who took it personally to one person who basically says she's fine with it if this means they can get back to providing her more material with which to work on the boy readers she's targeting. I think the tone's important, too, because this just seems like a bad, generally depressing thing that cannot be spun in a positive direction.
