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Should Manga Sections Be Near Children’s Books in Stores?

December 11, 2007 in Commentary, Manga, News by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 4 comments

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=6_JiWN9MzFM[/youtube]

There was a story on ANN a couple days ago about a mother who was shocked to the Shoujo Beat manga “Absolute Boyfriend” in the children’s section where her 11-year-old was browsing at a Books-A-Million in Lexington, SC. There was a link to the actual news story from the CBS affliate WLTX so I decided to grab the video report and upload it. Books-A-Million Vice President Jeff Skipper said that the store would relocate the manga section to another area of the store after they looked at the “proximity” of the two departments. (Absolute Boyfriend is rated Older Teen on its page on Viz’s website.)
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