It's at time like this that I regret not knowing mangas a bit more.
And then I remember that some walking encyclopedia will come and explain the joke, and I feel relieved, so go on, person from the future, and do your thing, and explain that joke.

The Rose of Versailles and Barefoot Gen are both classic manga titles from the 70s. Showing her age, perhaps? That's the only thing I can think of off the top of my head.

Remi's into the classics apparently. Just not into the forerunner of action Shonen.

I think the joke is more that having any manga at all in a school library is ludicrous, and Meiling's suggestion is meant to show her naivete, lack of knowledge, or whatever, but then Remilia goes and allows her favorite mangas instead.

When she read them, they were not classics yet...

HisRotundity said:
I think the joke is more that having any manga at all in a school library is ludicrous

*fondly remembers going into the college library and spending hours in the comics/graphic novels and manga sections*

Pretty sure many libraries these days do have (admittedly small) manga and comic book sections, though that may be an American convention and not too common in Japan.