“Gacha”: A Homophonic Pair of Manga

April 16, 2008 in Manga by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 1 comment

I got the pulp copy of RightStuf’s Spring 2008 catalog in the mail today and found an odd coincidence: two different manga with homophonic names: Gacha Gacha and Gatcha Gacha. The former is a shonen title dealing with a girl’s multiple personalities with an ecchi bent (the story arc shown above, “Next Revolution”, involves a boy who swaps gender whenever he sneezes due to a VR game malfunction!) while the latter is a shoujo romantic comedy with a love square and hints of shoujo-ai. Thankfully the Wikipedia pages for both series offer links to the other (shonen to shoujo and vice-versa) in case you were off by a letter. Still hard to discern between the two if you only hear the titles, though.

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  1. usagijen’s avatar

    usagijen on April 17, 2008 at 1:05 am

    yes, these two are confusing indeed xD I really think the publishers should’ve changed the name of either one of them, to avoid confusion ^^;;;

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