No Time for Boys, Page 1

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The title "No Time for Boys" appears in decorative script against a faded clock background.

By Rachel Nabors SubcultureOfOne.com

PANEL 1

Inside a diner, three women sit at a booth chatting while Rachel sits alone at a separate table reading a book.

WOMAN 1: "You're going out with that hottie from the lake?"

WOMAN 2: "Uh-huh! He's taking me to dinner at the winery."

WOMAN 3: "I wish my boyfriend was so romantic."

PANEL 2

The women turn to address Rachel, who is wearing a black sweater and looks uncomfortable.

WOMAN 1: "What about you, Rachel?"

WOMAN 1: "What are you doing this weekend?"

RACHEL: "I'll probably hunt down Photoshop tutorials online and finish watching the rest of Princess Tutu."

PANEL 3

Close-up of two women looking judgmentally at Rachel.

WOMAN 2: "Fiddling with computers and watching anime?"

WOMAN 3: "Why don't you get a boyfriend?"

When I lived on the mountain, home-schooled, I spent the last year of my education learning the fine points of Photoshop and Illustrator as well as honing my HTML skills. I considered my HTML skills secondary to my Photoshop skills, but it turned out HTML is where I found my career. I studied a lot. It paid off. I had no social life, though, which I regret a bit. I’m still socially awkward. But I didn’t waste any time at least.

Princess Tutu is an awesome anime you should watch if you love fairytales, crows, ballet, Tchaikovsky and other classical composers, Utena or *Madoka *or any story where a girl has the power to write her own destiny. It starts off as a snuggly “magical girl” story but quickly evolves into a drama. If you were a fairytale princess who could save her prince, you would do it, right? But what if it meant you were destined to die in the process? This was the first anime I watched that did not end the way I thought it would.

Comments (Archived)

  1. Luka

    I couldn’t help but notice that the roman numeral 4 is represented by IIII, and not IV, like most people know it as now. Was that just a subtle thing you threw in there?

  2. James

    Shout-out for Princess Tutu!

  3. Ing. Luis Rojas

    I’m not the only one in this world :’) … Cheers Rachel! ^^

  4. Kilo

    all i gots to say is WOOT for teh anime!!!! lol im big on Tutu Sailor moon and card captors!!!