Comics

I've recently started reading a lot of mangas. So I shall note that which I liked and what it is briefly about.

Needless to say,

1. Ouran High School Host Club, this is still ongoing and is my motivator to want to learn Japanese.

2. Meru Puri, this is by Hino Matsuri.
All high school freshman Airi Hoshina ever wanted was to someday live in a cozy home with a loving husband, and find joy in the little things in life. As a result, she makes it her daily mission to get to school on time because school legend has it that the longer one's non-tardy streak is, the better boyfriend one will find. But just when her daily routine is working like clockwork, an occurrence of fairytale proportions threatens to disrupt her grand plan. Basically it's about this magical world that exists in another realm. Art is pretty good, she's the mangaka for Vampire Knight, I'll read that once it's actually completed.

3. Potemayo.
Story is pretty random and have very little to do with each other. It's about this cute little mascot, that a guy could carry around on his head. It's like random comic strips. It's pretty short, but cute.

4. Tokyo Crazy Paradise
Took a bit to finish this. It's unlike Ouran, where it's long but you stick to it like glue. If you don't keep going at it, you lose interest in reading this, because... well, I don't know. It's about this girl who dresses up like a guy who becomes her classmate's bodyguard to repay her debt. Her classmate is a yakuza's boss. Eventually they fell in love with one another.

5. Mind Game
Art is pretty much like Sailormoon's mangaka Naoko Takeuchi... This is a short story (about 9 chapters) about a girl's first love. Basically lovey dovey and innocent. Puppy love larrrr... hahaha

6. Asa mo, Hiru mo, Yoru mo

This is kinda short, about 9 chapters.
Shinobu is a typical high school girl...with an atypical hatred of boys. Long ago, she was horribly abused by one and hasn't been able to tolerate being near them since. Now Yokomizo has appeared before her--a boy who looks exactly like the one who tormented her in the past. He's the last guy she wants to have around, but then he confesses his love to her!?

The art is nice, story plot kinda familiar. Basically is afraid of guys yadda yadda.

7. Tenjou no Kajitsu
Art is nice. 4 Chapters but quite long. As in, around.. 40-50 pages for 1 chapter. Tomita Yuri hated boys since she was little, seeing them as devils who taunt and tease her. When the all-girls Kinka academy decides to merge with the all-boys Ginka academy, her ‘heaven’ is once again threatened by the devils from hell, men. Not only that, but as a member of the student council, she now has to work alongside the male student council of Ginka academy. Will Yuri’s ‘heaven’ be overrun by the male devils from hell?

The girl, Tomita Yuri is kinda cute. Haha. Basically innocent like love I guess. lol.

8. Meine Liebe by Izawa Rei
Art is so and so. Boys are pretty good looking except for dark areas around the eyes. I don't know... it's weird, makes them look like evil monsters. I mean like Gaara in Naruto. lol.

Erika Klause, who has been separated from her brother when she was little, decided to enter Rosenstolz Academy (in Germany), where she was sure to see him. But what she encounters at first day of school is the five Strahl (King scholars) candidates.
Basically it's about this elite school and her constant wish for finding her half brother. And again, the fan girls of the 5 guys. Slightly like Ouran; elite school and all but there's where the similarities end... but it tends to get a bit monotonous, and grand. Too much grandeur. No comedy at all.

9. Kare First Love by Miyasaka Kaho

Coy and self-conscious high school student Karin Karino never paid much attention to boys until she met Kiriya, a popular student from a nearby boys' school. Karin and Kiriya embark on a romantic journey despite Karin's classmate Yuka's best efforts to sabotage their relationship, but Karin soon learns that living happily ever after isn't on the curriculum when she becomes Kiriya's center of attention, as well as embittered Yuka's bull's-eye on her dartboard of hate.

Hmm, basically this is like a lovey dovey first love kinda comic la. School life, innocent love, shy shy kinds. Ehehehe, it is kinda cute la. Definitely chick flit. Nerdy, shy girl with outgoing handsome boy ehehehehee *drool* In the end, they live happily ever after la. Sien o. So nice. Different from reality. Quite long, about 57 chapters.

10. Otokomae Beads Club

Have you ever seen a "very manly girl"? The heroine in this story, Oikawa Ibuki is just that type of girl. To find her true soul mate, after transferring school, Ibuki was determined to act like a gentle lady. Yet on her first day of transfer, due to her righteous sense she went to save a small dog, and at the time she was seen by the suspicious "crow messenger"! Is Ibuki's whole image ruined!? And who is this mysterious "crow messenger"!?

It's kinda short, about 3 chapters and 1 extra and 1 side story. It's ok ok only la. Too short to make an impact I guess. It started out amusing. Towards the end, ok la. Aih.

Last edited : 2.45pm 15th July 2009