Shounen

Kill Me Kiss Me by Lee Young You

This manhwa started out good and became crappy in the second volume. The events in volume 1 is irrelevant to the rest. I was even excited to get copies of volumes 2-5 only to be disappointed. I was already disappointed when I started with volume 2, but I still read everything until the end because of the PRETTY BOYS FAN CLUB! XD That fan club is irrelevant to the storyline too, but it’s in the story because Que-Min, the protagonist from volume 2-onwards, is a member of the group. The other members highly rely on her because she’s a girlfriend of one of the boys they have their eyes on. The fan club isn’t just about adoring boys… They’re also into BL! They pair their dreamy boys, write news or gossip about them, and take pictures of them. My school would be fun if our life was like that. XD

Korean manhwa art look all the same to me. There are always gangsters in the stories too. Is that very common in (South) Korea?



Yotsubato Vol. 1-5 by Azuyama Kiyohiko

This is the reason why I started reading Yotsubato. Yotsuba-chan’s the cutest! She’s now my favorite character in the manga series. Next would be Jumbo-san who, I believe, got his name for being tall. My third favorite character would be Yotsuba’s dad. If Yanda makes more appearances, he could beat Yotsuba’s dad’s place. Yotsubato is a humorous manga that beats Azumanga Daioh, imo. They should have done an anime for this too. Even a 12-episode long anime is fine with me.
Yotsuba’s facial expressions are just awesome. Most of the time she looks like Gash from Konjiki no Gash Bell!!. Her being clueless on a lot of things make this manga hilarious. There are a few touching moments anyway, so this isn’t something that will get you braindead. XD She also speaks of words that is unexpected of a kid like when she said, “Freakin’ adults!”
I saved a lot of images from this manga to turn into icons _someday_. ^_^; I hope I could get time soon.

Ouke no Monshou by Hosokawa Chieko

When I read the the first and second pages of the first volume, I told myself I would just finish the chapter. The English was confusing. But I still went ahead because the storyline suddenly got interesting! The color arts got me hooked too. The story is about 17-year old Carol who’s studying archeology in Cairo. Her father is a millionaire who funds excavations to find secret tombs and other related wonders. One day, her dad’s excavation team were able to find the tomb of a pharaoh who ruled 3000 years ago. The Pharaoh’s name is Memphis/Menfuisu. They looked around his tomb without noticing that tomb thieves infiltrated. They took the mummified pharaoh and other valuable things. Suddenly, Asis, Memphis’ sister, wakes up to search for her missing brother’s body. Things get weird for Carol and her family. Asis stayed with them while she searched for her brother. Carol offered help. They didn’t know that Asis is a danger to them. Even though Carol had been nice to her, she was still angry for her and her family for disturbing their sleep and taking her brother away. She took Carol with her to 3000 years ago to turn her into a slave. Things didn’t go that way for her though. Memphis/Menfuisu has fallen in love with Carol.

In chapter 30, the latest chapter I’ve read, Carol marries Memphis. Asis won’t let go of this quietly. She still believes that being siblings, they should wed each other to protect the royal family. Memphis is against this. He believes it is wrong and, since has has fallen in love with Carol, marrying Carol was the right decision. Some princes have come from other countries to see who has taken the heart of the pharaoh. They got more curious because the Egyptians have hailed her as the Goddess of the Nile.



Horny Animals by BehindMoon
Another hentai manga. All the characters are girls, but they have penises. Their penises are based on different animals. Example, one girl had the penis of a dolphin and the other of a cat. They’re actually a pair in this hentai manga. I’m not sure if those penises are true. I don’t care. I only find them weird. Especially that dolphin penis.


History’s Strongest Disciple Kenichi

XDDD Apachai’s my fave character in this manga! He’s too funny! XDDD Everybody’s funny! Kensei Ma, the perverted bald man whose martial art is kung-fu, is actually a BISHOUNEN! WHOA! Hahahahah~ Kenichi totaly lost and is shocked about it. I’ve started downloading the anime. My boyfriend got interested when I told him about this.

In the last chapter I’ve read (that is chapter 60 — already in volume 7), Miu starred in a Romeo and Juliet stage play in their school. She was invited due to the lack of members. Many had quit because of bullies. Tanimoto, the president/head of the acting org or whatever they call it, asked Kenichi to be a bodyguard while he and Miu rehearsed for the play. He was able to drive away those idiots, but it seems other things happened to them. The students suddenly feared Kenichi. Well, kind of. In the last part of this chapter, Tanimoto isn’t what he seems to be — the quiet, but awesome actor — he’s one of Ragnarok’s Eight Fists.

I want to make reviews/rants on some manga I’ve read, but I have so much to do… I want to accomplish a lot of things this summer vacation. Stuff I’ve read:
Hands Off My Girl
Misshitsu
Free Soul
Anata wo Mamoritakute
Soul Eater Ch. 7

Hands Off My Girl and Free Soul are yuri. You may download them from Lililicious’ site. Free Soul is a nice read although those who prefer to read yuri with humor might not like this one. It’s about a girl who runs away from home because her mother objects to her being a lesbian. Misshitsu and Anata wo Mamoritakute are yaoi. The latter is done by Masara Minase, so I recommend you guys to read it. XD Soul Eater Ch. 7 is about Black*Star and Tsubaki’s fight with Masamune. He’s Tsubaki’s brother. A little of Black*Star’s past was also mentioned. This chapter isn’t too amusing compared with the previous. Black*Star doesn’t seem as cool as before either. I want more KID! XDDD

This chapter is the following installment of the fight between Sephira and Creed. I’m always amazed with ladies who kick-ass like Lara Croft or the girl in Tokkô, but Sephira is quite different. I guess she fights too “calmly.” I want to see her really kicking Creed’s butt. She’s too easy on him. But if she’s the # 1 in the Cronos group, then she must be reallllllllllly great and powerful. Can’t she just kill Creed in one shot?

The story now focuses on Misaki, Haru, the detective, and Mitsuru. Mitsuru’s really out of his mind although I don’t like what happened to him after his encounter with Yuo. It’s not even clear what his true intentions are. He might have joined Yuo. In volume 7, Yuo got captured by the police. How and why? The police doesn’t or never believes in the supernatural. Based on the detective’s statement, they’re speculating him of the suicides or murders. The possibility of him getting punished is little to none.

I thought the series ends at volume 7. >_> Damn. I must get the rest. So far, I like what I’ve read. Misaki looks younger by the volume Souichiro hardly does anything good for them except being a driver and knight-in-shining-armor wannabe. XD;

Hallucination — Freaky chapter. Looks like Mitsuru’s relation to Ai is due to Misaki. He wanted to protect her because he didn’t want to see Misaki sad. Two girls committed suicide. The younger sister and sister-in-law of Mitsuru. He only found out about it after receiving a weird text message from YUO. Ai also received a message from him, but referred about the waste of chance on dying on the train. Souichiro asked someone else to investigate this new case. I wonder if the person who claims to be a police and asked Ai to do necromancy is the one. He’s really scary. He even beat up Mitsuru for meddling in.

Ghost on a Bridge — I may be wrong. The police who I thought might be the temporary necromancy for the agency isn’t the police. The person’s name is Funakoshi. He’s small; wears a cape and a helmet designed with buttons, and a mask. You can only see one of his eyes. The problem wasn’t solved properly and they didn’t do much. In the end, Funakoshi told their dept. head that they’re not good partners. Souichiro was then asked to go on a business trip and get Misaki back.

Fog — The third chapter is the continuation of this volume’s first chapter. Souichiro searches for Misaki with the help of Ai and, unexpectedly and unfortunately (for Misaki), Mitsuru.

Volume 3’s not as good as the previous volumes. More of Misaki’s encounters with the paranormal. Souichiro is still hilarious. I wonder when we’ll get to see more of him in his kick-ass mode. One of Misaki’s clients was his father. I can’t believe that she’s still underage. One of the chapters in this volume had a short background story of Misaki back in high school. She was naive and not wild as she is already. She was quiet, she loved to read, and was in love with her sempai. It could have worked out if her “sempai” wasn’t a chicken. *bleh*

I didn’t take too much image cuts since there aren’t much good stuff.

There are 3 chapters in this volume. Each having different stories. The first chapter, Orgasmus, is about Shimamura Kouji, a bachelor in his 30s, who hung himself after having an enema play with Misaki. The police interrogated her, so they could clear their doubts about her. This is one of my fave chapters in this manga. The newbie investigator could hardly write as Misaki described in detail how they started the enema play til how she found him hanging. The others who were collecting evidences were all shocked; they could barely move. XD

Daydream, the second chapter in Volume 2, is about a big lot (full of trees; like a forest) that is going to be turned into a golf course. They had the life preservation department to inspect it because there are news of having lots of suicides or dead bodies buried there. It is known to be haunted. When Misaki and Souichiro visited, Misaki found a dead girl who just committed suicide there. The dead girl told Misaki to run away from the place. Misaki did so and found that Souichiro had attracted some spirits of the dead girls there. It seems that every guy who visits the place gets possessed.

The third and last chapter in volume 2 — Dumb Ghost — is about Ai. She was in the previous volume. It seems she had started seeing ghosts after the incident. She almost died when a male ghost tried to take her with him and jump to a passing train. The first who tried to save her was Mitsuru and then Misaki. Mitsuru, btw, is Misaki’s stalker. Mitsuru seem to be following Ai this time rather than Misaki. The question is WHY.

I’ve heard about this manga before, but I never bothered to read the manga. Since a certain someone wanted me to download this, I went ahead and, out of curiousity (sp?), I started reading it. The manga seems to be under horror, suspense, and mystery. It’s about Saiki who’s a Necromancer. She sees things that people normally don’t.

The first volume has 2 looooong chapters. The second chapter doesn’t seem to have a definite closure because I think that the girl linked to the situation would be hanging around Saiki. Not as scary and gross as MPD Psycho, the manga is still worth giving a shot. I’m curious as to how Saiki got her powers. I’m not into protagonists who act like angels or saints and give lessons about life, but Saiki works in an S&M Club. She finds that job the easiest for her even though she doesn’t like the job. She may have done that “giving-lessons-about-life” thing, but she’s kinda evil in a way. She doesn’t really like the necromancy job; she barely cares about other people. The only thing that made her do the job is the dough. XD

It got a bit dramatic somewhere in those chapters with a slight appearance of Saya. I wanted to see something that the Black Cat would do to escape the doctor’s Tao; probably to show how brilliant/powerful he is. Though, that would be corny too, right? Anyways, Janus appears in chapter 166, so I’m happy. *does happy dance*

It must be exciting to edit Gantz. The SFX seem hard to be edit and there are only action; all the editors need to do are rotate, resize, crop, and adjust level. >_> I wish shoujo or yaoi is as easy as that. Gantz is becoming a bore. I like the action, but I hate to see the civilians affected by the stupid probably-dead-humans vs aliens fight. Only chapter 207’s the most exciting chapter out of these 6.

a looooong chapter -_- I thought this was yaoi because mfy scanlated it. I read it and I got almost bored. I’ll prolly read more of this when I don’t have anything else to read. Hopefully it gets better.

So I read volumes 9-16 and a few chapters of volume 17 straight last week. When I got to school, I kept yawning. My eyes hurt real bad. I want to make a thorough review of every volume, but I already forgot what happened in each. So I’ll just share my thoughts on this manga on a whole. In the last few chapters, the sweepers have finally reached Creed’s mansion, but only Sven, a woman whose name I’m forgetting atm, Train, and li’l princess are alive. The Time Guardians are also in the island where the mansion is. I don’t know what kind of drama the mangaka has for them. They’re too slow! I’m itching to see I fight. Since she’s I, she’s gotta be the strongest. @_@ I’ve posted the manga covers above. My cover favorites are volumes 10 and 14. In volume 10, that’s young Train. I can’t believe he got small and was able to return back to normal quick. It usually takes a lot of volumes before a protagonist finds the solution to such problem. :X The mangaka isn’t very “cliche” on this matter. Then in volume 14, li’l princess is pretty as ever. Train’s not a kid anymore though he looks like it here.
I’m still waiting for the few volumes left to be scanlated.

Oh, and another thing, Creed is SO gay. *roflmao*

I just complained about the mystery of the death of Train’s parents and it was suddenly explained in the first chapter of this volume *sweatdrop* There is more of Janus in this volume, so that makes me happy. I’m also rooting for Cerberus’ win against the Apostles of the Stars. It’s the first time I’ve seen that the good guys look HOTTER than the bad guys. Isn’t it usually the other way around? XD The Apostles of the Stars are weird save for Sheldon and Kyoko.

The synopsis of Black Cat based on Wikipedia (should have included this in the previous post):

The Time Guardians are controlled by a shadowy parent organisation named Chronos. All of the members of the Time Guardians carry specially-constructed weapons made from a metal named Orihalcon. Train was the thirteenth member, and wields a gun made from Orihalcon. He appears like a cat, and disappears like a cat, and has never failed a job: he is known as “Black Cat”, the thirteenth, an ominous man who delivers bad luck.

Train left the organization due to the influence of a female sweeper named Minatsuki Saya. Train, who had never felt emotions since childhood, was inspired by the carefree way Saya lived her life. Unfortunately, Train’s former comrade, Creed Diskenth, became jealous of Saya because she was changing the fearsome Black Cat into a “normal” man. So when Train was out, he killed Saya.

Casting aside his Black Cat persona, Train travels around the world with his partner Sven Vollfied. On the way they meet Eve, a girl with mysterious abilities.

I must fix how the blockquotes should look like.

I’ve been hearing things about Black Cat some time ago. I downloaded about 11 volumes, but never bothered to read it til the other night. *blames yoru* She was talking about VII or XIII, I think, in #blast. I got curious and read the first volume. I’m now on volume 7. The storyline isn’t thrilling. Some events are predictable and there aren’t much cliffhangers. Every chracter looks cool. The mangaka seems to lack some fashion sense though. Sorry, it’s just that Train has the funniest black coat I’ve ever seen.



Are those donuts or uber big buttons? XD

Janus (aka VII) is a pervy HOTTIE. :9 Who wouldn’t mind meeting someone like him? He resembles Train though because of their hair and their eyes when they have that killing intent, but he’s a lot better than him. Rinslet is so lucky to have him as her bodyguard. Some cuts of Mr. Janus ♥



This manga is slow-paced. Mostly it’s about the sweeping job of Train and Sven. Is it still a long way before Train finds out who killed his parents? When will the Time Guardians take action against Creed? Ahh, I want to see I fight!

I’m not _that_ addicted yet. I haven’t done any FMA-themed layouts nor am I already using a FMA wallpaper (though the latter doesn’t sound too bad hehe~). Ed and Al, with Winry and the Xing guys, are going back to Central City. A lot has been going on in Central City while the kids were away and Col. Lt. Mustang is a part of it. I’m glad he’s sticking his ass into trouble just to know the truth behind Hughes death. He wasn’t much of a character in the anime. In this case, we see more of Mustang as he meddles in the affairs of the brothers and the death of Hughes. I wonder what Fuhrer has in mind for them. It’s hard to believe that these big people are behind the mess. Also, WHO’S PRIDE!? That’s another character I’d like to see soon. In the anime, Pride’s Fuhrer and Wrath’s the kid who has Ed’s limbs. I don’t want to say that the producers semi-butchered the manga. They created very simplistic plot compared to the manga. I’m happy most of the good characters are safe. BUT WHY NOT SAVE HUGHES!? *cries* Yeah, i still haven’t gotten over him. Well, another thing to be excited about is Ed and Al’s FATHER’S appearance. He _is_ evil. Den hates him. Kinda lame to put it, isn’t it?

I bet the guy behind this (the “father” of the Homunculus gang) aren’t Ed and Al’s father. Just a hunch because he seems to cruel. Greed was kinda cool, but he just had to kill him. Everything not included in the anime probably starts in this volume. There are new characters from the “Shin” country. They’re like “Chinese” people; they’re after the Philosopher’s Stone as well. Their reason for wanting it is to gain immortality.

There’s one character I want removed from this series — SCAR. I dislike him a lot. Everytime the chapter is about him, I wanna skip it to the next chapter.

Volume 7 ends with King Bradley and Greed fighting; the latter as losing though. We also find out that King Bradley is a Homunculus. I was hoping it was made up in the anime, but it is true albeit different. It seems they went too soft on the anime as there are more action scenes in the manga. They probably didn’t want young watchers to be traumatized or influenced. There are lots of good stuff in the manga. Ed’s real cute when he was young. He may even look younger than Alphonse. I forgot which volume it was that focused on when they learned alchemy and then transmuted their mother. The fair trade is too cruel. As they say, if you go against a rule, you should get what you deserve. Ed’s intelligence is way astonishing for a kid. Alphonse is too, but since Ed’s older, he’s doesn’t understand things as fast as his older brother. King Bradley is frequently making appearances. That means a lot, lot of trouble for the brothers.

Matsuda almost gave me a fudgin’ heart attack. Sneaking into Yotsuba corporation without letting the rest of the team now is highly, highly dangerous! It’s also bad for the readers. Err, maybe only for me. *sweatdrop* He did a good job acting though, but going up to the 19th floor without getting noticed by the security is enough reason for him to get killed. So Kira’s one of the 8 Yotsuba dudes as to chapter 42. Matsuda did a good job fooling his death, but will Kira believe that? Then again, he seemed to believe that his name is Taro Matsui. He doesn’t have the “eyes” yet. Whatever they call that. I’m still hoping Raito will become Kira again. It will be exciting because he’s cuffed up with L. Haha~ I wanna see how he’ll pull off being Kira.