Little Cry Baby (泣き虫なリトル, Nakimushi na Little) is a Japanese manga anthology written and illustrated by Keiko Kinoshita. It is licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing, which released the manga on 27 June 2007.[1]
| Little Cry Baby | |
| 泣き虫なリトル (Nakimushi na Little) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Yaoi |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Keiko Kinoshita |
| Published by | Taiyo Tosho |
| English publisher | |
| Published | February 2, 2004 |
Reception
editLeroy Douresseaux, writing for Comic Book Bin, described the manga as "non-graphic", noting the stories were tied together by featuring boys and young men who "cry at the simplest things". He preferred the short story "Raika".[2] Patricia Beard, writing for Mania Entertainment, found the "whispy, linear style" of Kinoshita's artwork made her feel as if she was witnessing the emotions changing, not just as still pictures on a page, and enjoyed the writing of the short stories.[3] Katherine Farmar, writing for Comics Village, found the BL stories in the anthology had a "very effective atmosphere of wistful yearning", but found "Raika" "creepy". Farmar also noted the "sketchiness" of the artwork, feeling this lent the characters an air of being "as reluctant to stake out a permanent place on the page as to make a definite declaration of love."[4]
References
edit- ^ "Juné Manga - Little Cry Baby". Archived from the original on 2009-05-31. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
- ^ "Keiko Kinoshita's Little Cry Baby (Boys' Love)".
- ^ "Little Crybaby Vol. #01 - Mania.com". Archived from the original on 2009-06-01. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
- ^ "Comics Village - Little Cry Baby". www.comicsvillage.com. Archived from the original on 2009-04-09.
External links
edit- Little Cry Baby (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia