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EGL Archive: May 2003

May 1, 2003


Ok, so lets start at the name of this entry first of all. "Kawaii male EGL."  Honestly I had a hard time even deciphering this post, if you haven't noticed, pretty much everyone back from the old school EGL days was an absoluse kawaii UwU weeb nya~!!!11 I hate that I was apart of this, but oh well, here I am documenting our past, the good, the bad, the illegible, and the obnoxious. Anyways, per usual at this point, the link didn't work. I use to be into manga back in the day, though I hadn't heard of this particular manga, Matantei Loki Ragnarok, before, so I decided to look it up for myself.

So after looking through a few images, I can definitely see the historical influences in the character design, especially the male characters, though I wouldn't necessarily call them male EGL or whatever. but, I must remind myself that this was 2003, fashion sources were very limited, and we took what we could get back then. Apparently it's about the God Loki being banished to the mortal world, and opening a detective agency? The art is cute for sure, and I ran with some serious weebs in high school and middle school so I'm surprised I've never come across it. Have any of you seen this manga before? If so, how did you like it?

May 6, 2003
A few days later another user posted asking for manga with EGL and lolita fashion featured. The following mangas were recomended:
Alichino, Paradise Kiss, Chobits, Count Cain, Angel Sanctuary, Card Captor Sakura, Othello, Kamikaze Kaito Jean and God Child.
Maybe One day I'll do a full list of my Lolitaesque manga recommendations, but for now I want to give Othello a shout out since it was mentioned in this particular post. The main character Yaya is a VK band cosplayer, dressing up in Gothic Lolita outfits with her friends on the weekends on the famous Harajuku Bridge. While lolita fashion is a side plot of the story, it is still nice to see, and the story itself is great. I highly recommend reading it if you can!

May 31, 2003
And with the end of the month comes one of the biggest and most important posts as of yet...


The very first brand to offer shipping outside of Japan, without the use of a shitty overpriced shopping service, directly from them to you, Metamorphose temps de fille has discovered the internet.

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  1. LibertadMay 4, 2020 at 1:23 PM

    I gasped at the end because I remember that PERFECTLY, it was just a HUGE thing that Meta started to sell overseas!

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    1. Candice BearMay 16, 2020 at 3:11 PM

      Same!! I remember being young and fawning over all the beautiful releases and reading each pieces (english!) description. I also remember being so excited when Angelic Pretty FINALLY launched their international shopping site! It sucked that we didn't get every release that the jp site got, but I was happy to have a relatively simple way to buy from them. I was so disappointed when they shut that shop down though and now forces us to use Tenso rather than shipping directly. It really put me off of buying from AP honestly, though I am still eternally grateful to Meta for setting the standard, and honestly they are still one of the best in shopping and customer service today!

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