Kate (The Manga Critic) Dacey picks up on the resonances between Iou Kuroda’s Sexy Voice and Robo and Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy:
“Fitzhugh helped usher in an era of young adult fiction featuring tough, psychologically complex heroines who weren’t always likable, characters like the plain, frizzy-haired Meg Murray of A Wrinkle in Time or the smart, prickly Galadriel Hopkins of The Great Gilly Hopkins. Yet Harriet remains in her own special class. Unlike Meg or Gilly, she isn’t the heroine of an inter-dimensional sci-fi epic or a gritty, realistic drama; she’s the heroine of her own story, a self-mythologizing character who inhabits a highly romanticized version of the adult world.”
And check here for a running list of entries to this edition of the Manga Moveable Feast.
