Shoujo Manga rants

OMG, the trailer to the upcoming Gokusen movie looks so freaking good. I mean, I am not really talking about the plot, since it's always the same anyway: problem class, troubled kids and Yankumi's shitty fighting skills. Buuuut this will be sooooo good (hopefully)!! Kamenashi Kazuya will be back to play a teacher this time and many of the old students from the last 3 seasons will be back too. The budget they had must have been insanely high because some of the actors who played students back then became pretty popular actors (i.e. Oguri Shun, Hayami Mokomichi, Koike Teppei...), plus they'll have 5 Johnny's Jimusho guys in it too. Akanishi Jin and MatsuJun won't be appearing though. In Akinishi's case, producers probably just wanted to avoid the cat fights between him and Kamenashi, I guess. I mean, it can't be because he has been too busy in the showbusiness lately...
I really hoped MatsuJun would be in it though. I mean everyone was waiting for him to reappear in a cameo role since season 2. He was the only student with the possible romantic connection to Yankumi but in the end, nothing happened.
Also to my pleasure, as you can see in the trailer, there will be Sawamura Ikki in the movie, who is one of the most charming men in Japanese entertainment industrie :))

If you read Japanese, you can visit the Gokusen movie wiki or the Official HP for cast and infos.

No real updates, as usual just a few announcments. I really want to, but for me posting means scanning and analyzing and I just dont have the time. Being a member of the working society now kinda sucks.... >_<

1. Boku no Hatsukoi kimi ni sasagu will be made into a movie sceduled to be in theaters in Japan from Oct. 24th 2009. I am happy to hear this because Boku no hatsukoi... is one of the best Manga I've ever read. Its really really good. It's this great, beautiful and at the same time tragic love story about two kids who love each other so much, but can't be together because they know that he is going to die soon. It ended last year and it was really such a great read. I don't see how they'll be able to squeeze the whole plot into 90 movie minutes, but we'll see. A couple of years ago, they made Boku no Imoto ni koi suru, another Aoki Kotomi Manga, into a movie and apparently it was pretty successful. If I remember correctly, they casted MatsuJun and I believe Eikura Nana into it, but I've never seen it because the Manga was just gross... >_<
Talking about the cast, it was announced that Mayu will be played by Inoue Mao (who played Tsukushi in Hana Yori Dango) and Takuma will be played by Okada Masaki (who played Sekime in the Hana Kimi drama).

2. Skip Beat was made into a game and released last week. It's only available for PS2 (for now??) and what I can say from looking at the HP, the character design looks sooooo good. It's so much better than in the Anime. It makes me want to play this game so much: http://5pb.jp/games/skipbeat/index.html

By the way, I haven't been posting about Skip Beat at all, but that's basically because the plot hasn't been very interesting lately (talking about the Box-R storyline, the newest chapters are getting fun again :)) Skip Beat really has it's ups and downs. There have been (few) times when I found myself only skipping (hehe! ^_~) through a chapter, but then suddenly, the plot gets incredibly good and I read it ten times in a row. That's why I always name Skip Beat as my favourite Manga of all times. It will always be my numer 1. Well, I'm sure I'll have lots to blog about again soon :)

3. Our beloved Kimi ni Todoke will be made into a DS game! Apparently since the Manga is on hiatus, with the upcoming Anime and all, the fans will have enough Kimi ni Todoke to spend their time until Shiina Karuho will be able to continue the Manga. The game is scheduled to be released "in 2009" whatever this means. I think it will come out at the end of summer and the Manga will be continued at the beginning of 2010.
The news about the game were announced in the newest issue of Betsuma. If you get to have a look at Betsuma, there are also first pictures of the games and this one looks nice too. I am looking forward to it and I believe the game has the potential to be good, but at the same time I am a little nervous because it could also be a fail like the Hana Yori Dango game (I mean seriously, what were they thinking....)
I just think it's great Kimi ni Todoke gets so much love. I now remember someone in the comments was saying a while back that a Kimi ni Todoke drama would be fun to watch. I still don't know if I could picture them making a Kimi ni Todoke Drama... usually when a Shoujo Manga gets made into a drama, they only pick the comedy ones. I really don't know....

What do you think? Would you like to see a Kimi ni Todoke drama?

Anyways... man, I miss Kimi ni Todoke so much!

Wow I am super lazy when it comes to writing in this blog. There's so much I want to write about and so little time. All I've been writing about lately was Kimi ni Todoke. Now that it's on Hiatus, I will try to post about all the Manga, I wanted to in a long time.

Anyway, until I start doing so, some more Kimi ni Todoke news ;) :

Kimi ni Todoke will be made into an Anime starting from fall 2009. As I am never tired to mention here, I am really no big fan of Anime (haha, I even stopped watching Skip Beat around ep 6) so I'm just whatever, but actually this is a pretty big deal. Betsuma Manga don't get turned into Anime very often, so this is a great 'honor' for the Mangaka and the series. I kinda saw it coming though with Shiina Karuho winning the Kodansha Manga Award last year and all the fuss they made about Kimi ni Todoke afterwars.
I really wonder if start in fall means pretty much the same time the Manga will continue or if it should be a substitute for it and we'll have to wait for a continuation of the Manga for a little longer.

I'm off to watch ep 16 of Boys Before Flowers now.

As usual way too late, I am here to summarize the latest chapter of Kimi ni Todoke. Now this is going to be one of the shorter summeries. In chapter 37, after all their misunderstandings and unexpressed feelings (at least from Sawako's side), Kazehaya kun goes to talk to Pin (sensei) and tells him he got turned down and Pin is like "I see" and then he suggests maybe shouldn't you give up?
And that's it. I swear. Chapter 37 is like 15 pages long >_< While I could live with a month of a not very long and exciting Kimi ni Todoke, the following makes me kinda sad...

NEWS: From Betsuma No 3 (which should be the one coming out on Feb. 15th) Shiina Karuo will take a break and give birth to her child. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's exciting news and the pregnant, hard-working japanese lady seriously needs a break, but I wish it was after things become good between Sawako and Kazehaya kun. Plus, actually I thought she's going to finish the series soon anyway. Anyway, the series will be back around summer... :((


I would like to take some time and rant about the Korean Hana Yori Dango drama and what in my opinion went wrong with it, but I need to study now >_<
Maybe in my next post and hopefully that won't be around the time Kimi ni Todoke will be back with a new chapter, but a little earlier ;)

Sorry for being so late with a summary of ch 35 and 36. Actually I've read both chapters a while ago, but I was really busy so I couldn't post and now it took me forever to find the scans again. Anyway, here we go...

So Kazehaya confessed to Sawako in front of his friends and Miura kun (I swear, the confession was even on the cover of Betsuma, apparently this is a big deal) and asks if thats so hard to believe. Sawako cries and says people will start misunderstanding and his friends actually start to take the confession as a "I like you" meaning "I don't hate you". Kazahaya kun asks again if it's so hard to believe and then walks away, Sawako follows him. She keeps crying and remembers that Miura kun warned her she doesn't want to be a bother to Kazehaya kun with her feelings. Kazehaya asks if the reason she cries is Miura kun and she says he just conforted her before. Kazehaya asks what about him and Sawako says she's sorry that she forces him to pay attention to her because of her tears and that she is a disturbance to him in general. Kazehaya answers to it: "So what Miura does is based on good will and what I do is out of burden?..... It's good will too" (this is really hard to translate into english. They misunderstand each other and Kazehaya thinks Sawako rather wants to open up to Miura kun than to Kazehaya kun, because that's more troublesome). He hides his face and says he really isn't who she thinks he is and repeats he likes her. He asks her if she likes him too and before she answers he says his "like" is different from hers. He slowly walks away and Sawako thinks she knew that all along (remember, she thinks that he just likes her as a friend but she likes him as a guy, so this would make their ways of "like" different too). She sort of breaks down crying.
Rumors about Kazehaya and Sawako and the confession are spreading soon. Kurumi hears it and Yano chan and Chizu are searching for Sawako. Kurumi talks to Miura kun and asks for Kazehaya kun and Sawako and he says he might have done something he shouldnt have. Meanwhile Sawako skips class and Pin sees her and she tells him shes been dumped, which Pin finds weird (because he knows Kazehaya kun likes Sawako). Yano chan and Chizu stop him from saying more. She tells them what happened and they say to her she shouldn't worry. In the end, they also didn't become her friends because they felt like they had to, but because they wanted to. Chizu gets mad at Sawako for always thinking she's a burden and because she's so slow and walks away. Yano tells Sawako at first they misunderstood her too, but then they saw her good parts and how cute she was and how she never gave up and that Sawako is no different from them or from Kazehaya kun. And Sawako should understand that about her too.
Kazehaya kun meets Sanada kun and tells him he was dumped and apparently he is a burden to her and being dumped hurts more than he thought. He says he never thought he would be so troubled that he almost wants to cry.
Later Sawako tells an upset Kurumi that she got dumped and Kurumi says she doesn't want to be compared to Sawako because Sawako didn't even fight for her love. She also calls her slow. Kurumi runs off furiously.

So far for ch 35 and 36. For those who are wondering why Yano chan or Chizu or Sanada kun don't already help them to get together and stop the misunderstandings, it was explained a couple of chapters ago that Kazehaya kun isn't a person who likes third people to interfere and HE wants to tell the person he likes about his feelings. So just a little more patience! I really want to know what Sawako is going to do now and how she's going to approach Kazehaya kun again.
BTW, I read somewhere before that this chapter was 'close to the climax', which basically means apparently the series is going to end soon. Its always sad to see one of your favourite Manga end, but I am happy it is coming to an end as long as it's still good.


On anoher note, the Korean drama version of Hana Yori Dango starts today. I seriously seriously can't wait to watch it, even though from the trailers I've seen so far, the acting is pretty horrible. It probably won't be nearly as good as the Japanese version and not even to mention the Taiwanese version, which was just overall awesome, but still I can't wait to watch because I have this ridiculous crush on Korean men. Never been so fond of Japanese guys but having a korean bf, I really tend to like koreans. So even though it ends up being a horrible drama, there's something to watch for me :)
Gotta wait a couple more days for the subs tho, because I speak like two words of korean XD

As most people might know, Skip Beat has been made into an Anime and as of now, the first two episodes are out already. They cover exactely the first two chapters of the Manga. I wonder when they will move on with the plot faster and how much of the Manga will be covered. What we know now is that the Sho PV shoot storyline will be covered, because we can see Kyouko as the angel in the opening, but I wonder as to how much the Dark Moon storyline will be in the Anime. It starts rather late in the Manga (around vol 10) and it's like the main storyline so far, so I hope they'll have it in the Manga and it will be well done.
As for the Anime itself, so far it was pretty good. Okay, honestly, I have only skipped through ep 1, because I have read the Manga so so so many times and it's very close to the Manga original. I liked it enough to watch ep 2 fully and besides Ren's character design at times, I enjoyed it a lot. I especially love the dialect they gave Sho, when Kyouko/ Kyouko's devils have visions of him ^_^
I also like the music, especially the ending is nice. It's J Rap and it reminds me a lot of Greeeen. I also love the video to it, it's so fitting :)

I also read the the newest chapter, 130, today. The newest story arche gets really good. Kyouko is shooting her new Box-R drama and the director wanted her to act out Mio, her bully role from Dark Moon, but Kyouko has a problem with it. She actually develops with the help of Ren her new personality as Natsu. She now portrais an attractive, very grown-up looking girl, like the type that everyone has respect for and easily can manipulate people. Now this puts Chiori, the aspiring co-actress, who actually has a real bad personality, into a bad light, because she acts too pure to be part of Natsu's bully group and the director tells her she has to change her acting in order to fit in. This of course makes her incredibly upset and in the last scene we see her putting up a face that says she'll get revenge. Probably not in a fair way in front of the camera.
Kyouko really was cool in this chapter, especially when she was in Natsu mode and ripped off one of her "friends" ribbon. Can't wait for ch 131 out in 2 weeks!

After not posting in weeks, I am dont really come back to write a huge post about Manga. I mean, I haven't even had the chance to read much Manga lately, because I am really really busy with school. I have so much to post about though, but today, I'll only write a little about Kimi ni Todoke ch 34 that I got to read a little earlier today. Let me just say: ***KOKUHAKU TIME*** ^_^

So we all know that lately Sawako and Kazehaya didn't really spend much time together. It started when Sawako couldn't give only Kazehaya chocolate for Valentines Day and Sawako then befriended Miura kun, which made Kazehaya jealous.
So in ch 34, Sawako and Miura kun are talking about Kazehaya kun and Miura kun tries to convince Sawako it's better to give up on Kazehaya kun, after all that has happened lately, it's just the best and he might not be so much into her anyway. He might even have a girl he likes after all and Sawako would only be in the way if she would be around him and tried to make thing right between them. This actually makes Sawako cry and not surprisingly, out comes Miura kun's soft side and he says she should go for other guys, and how about him? Kazehaya overhears it and goes between them and asks what Miura kun did to make Sawako cry. Sawako clears the mistake when three of Kazehaya kun's friends appear, who comment on the weird picture of a pissed-off Kazehaya kun, a crying Sawako and Miura kun. They make fun and say it looks like the two are compeeting over Sawako because they like her and Kazehaya says it's true and in an awkward way, he finally does what we've all been waiting for in a long time, he confesses to her. Now don't get me wrong, Kazehaya kun could never do anything awkward, because he's awesome, but it's a public confession and I tend to think of them as really awkward. ;))

I'm excited to see Sawako's reply and I also wonder if Kimi ni Todoke will be over soon or if there will be more once Sawako and Kazehaya kun get together.

The next chapter will be out in Betsuma on sale in mid-Septer, which will also have the last chapter of B.O.D.Y in it. It's always sad to read the last chapter of a long running Manga that you liked, but this series seriously needs to come to an end!

I really havent been updating in a while, but the main reason was Ive been in Japan and I dont use the internet much here. I will be here for another month and all I can say is Manga Manga Manga :) I`ve been reading a lot so far, even though I dont think Ive bought more than 15 books yet. Well I still have a lot of time left and my suitcase is heavy as hell already so well see. I am reading a lot of Manga magazines lately that I throw away right after reading. I read the final chapter of Koukou Debut and its kinda sad the series is over. It was not the greatest ending, but it was very Koukou debut like :) Fans of the Manga, dont worry, Haruna and Yoh are still together! ;)

Also a lot of the Manga I am reading have new volumes on sale now. No wonder actually, since the last time I bought Manga was in April or so, so basically every continuing series I am reading has a new volume out right now. So here some impressions:

-) Koko ni iru yo: I am continuing to read this series and I even don`t know why. I dont hate it but I think the plot is kinda stupid. The main girl who never had any friends was confessed to by the coolest guy in class and found new friends and still shes all about her two online friends. I also have friends online, but they could never measure up to friends in real life. So when the main girl gets all upset about Kuro Usagi saying goodbye to her online and wanting to find him, I got really annoyed by it.
I totally loooove the ＜a href=" http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B3%E3%81%AB%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B%E3%82%88-3-%E8%AC%9B%E8%AB%87%E7%A4%BE%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%81%AA%E3%81%8B%E3%82%88%E3%81%97-%E9%81%A0%E5%B1%B1-%E3%81%88%E3%81%BE/dp/4063641899/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217312941&sr=8-1" target="_bliank">cover of vol 3</a>. Its so... japanese :) I believe there are so many memories you create with your friends on the way home during your high school time.

SPOILER AHEAD!
I think the main reason why I am still reading this series is Teru. I`ve really grown to like him. Hes for a change not the second guy who falls in love with the main girl, hes more of a protector of the main girl and her boyfriend. I really like his personality. If I would have met him in highschool, I think he would have been a guy I would have become good friends with :) He`s Kuro Usagi by the way!

-) Kare wa Tomodachi: Wow, I hate Kotone even more now. She`s not only plain stupid and needs to go away, she`s also a stupid slut. I can really understand the way how Hiyoko feels and I am getting annoyed with Sasamoto, her boyfriend. Its really interesting how it turned out between the characters now and I cant wait to read vol 3. Kare wa Tomodachi is really one of the most interesting series I am reading right now.

-) Ive started reading Switch girl and its super hilarious. Its such a fun read and I like both, the main girl and the guy a lot. The only thing that bothers me is that if the drawings are not exaggerated and show Nika in her switch mode, the way the faces are drawn reminds me of Old Shoujo Manga. Like oooooold. Versaille no Bara-like old ^_^ Thank good there are a lot of exaggerated scenes ;)


Other Manga that got published lately> Hana Yori Dango 37, Skip Beat 19, Uwasa no Midori kun 8, Boku no Hatsukoi kimi ni sasagu 11 (and 12 being published soon too!) and Kimi ni Todoke 7. I will post some more about those when I find time :)

It's written in huuuuge letter across the cover of the newest Hana to Yume issue, from fall on, Skip Beat will be made into an Anime. I kinda saw it coming, after it said in the last issue that there would be big news coming up. I don't know, I don't really watch Anime, so I am definitely more excited about the Taiwanese Skip Beat drama, but I guess it's good news. I'm definitely going to watch it. I'm somehow really looking forward to hearing Sho sing :)

In other news, there will be a Koko wa Greenwood Drama. Most people don't know Koko wa Greenwood I guess, but for me it's huge news. It was a Hana to Yume Manga series that ended many, many, many years ago. I don't know, it looks to me like it's going an afternoon series and the cast looks kinda crap, but nevertheless, I am going to watch it. The series was so great, even though it's been many years I've read it, I never forgot about the plot and the characters. It was somehow part of my youth ^_^

Official Koko wa Greenwood HP

Thanks to a special fellow fan, I can finally read Kimi ni Todoke in Japanese. And yeah, I was wrong, Kazehaya didn't confess to Sawako, he only said to her he always thought he was the one guy in class closest to her and asked her if he was wrong, but she couldn't answer to it, that's why he left looking really down. So no real confession. I wonder how the Kazehaya x Sawako x Miura kun love triangle turn out from now on.
Oh and finally being able to read the most recent chapters in Japenese is just wonderful. The chapters when they do the Hatsumode are really really cute. Kazehaya is such a cute guy, he gave his luck to Sawako! ^__^ Well, that's because she's the woman of his many first times! ;) I know I'm not making any sense right now, hahaha....;))

Otherwise, I am into Hana Yori Dango again. I'm reading the Manga and watching the Taiwanese and Japanese drama all at the same time. Nothing beats the Manga but I realize once more that I actually appreciate the Taiwanese drama version waaaay more than the Japanese one. No matter how much you look at it, Meteor Garden is just an all-overly well made drama, while the Japanese version was just *entertaining*. Awww, Meteor Garden brings back such good memories. I was really into it many years ago and I had this crush on the guy that played Doumyouji and I remember how I fangirled over him with my friend and how we took pictures of F4 ads on the streets in China ^__^; I still think he looks damn fine. He is also the one who'll play Ren in the Taiwan version of Skip Beat (YAY!), so I am really looking forward to it. Makes me wonder, why is Taiwan always the first country to make popular Shoujo Manga into drama and not Japan?

Wow haven't updated in a while (busy busy) and no, I'm not here to post the 'newest' Skip Beat summary, because Skip Beat is kinda boring these days. I'm rather here to speculate about current chapters of Kimi ni Todoke.

First of all, I really hate the chinese language! No, I don't hate it, it's more like... I hate the fact that I can't understand it. It was always like that, even when I went to China for travelling, I loved the country, but I hated that I speak no Chinese, because I couldn't really talk to people. Anyway, the Chinese Kimi ni Todoke page finally updated with current chapter and I have no idea what's going on. I really want to know tho, because from what I saw, I think(!!) that Kazehaya kun confesses to Sawako. There is this new character, Miura kun, I was talking about before, and he sits next to Sawako in class and develops a liking in her. He's attractive and acts rather friendly with her, so Kazehaya gets jealous over it. Also, the chapter before was the Valentines day chapter and Sawako gives everyone chocolates, except of Kazehaya. She carries his share around all the time, but is too shy to give it to him. All the guys like Pin or Sanada kun tell Kazehaya they've gotten Sawako's chocolate, so Kazahaya soon realizes he's the only one who didn't get chocolate from Sawako (poor Kazehaya ^^). Later in this chapter, Kurumi says something to Sawako that keeps her from giving him the chocolate in the end.
Anyway, if it's really a confession that I saw in the current chapter, it's those two things that make Kazehaya confess to Sawako at the end of the day. Sawako gets nervous so she doesn't answer him, which makes Kazehaya believe she doesn't like him (plus there is also the fact that he was the only one who didn't get anything from her for VD, which gives him another reason to believe he's hated). The last picture is Kazehaya on his way home, looking really down.

If anyone reading this reads chinese, please help me. At one point I even tried using bablefish and typed in Japanese Kanji and let it translate it from Chinese to english, but it made no sense. I am really desperate ^^;;

Other than that, in my last entry I wrote about the last chapter of Uwasa no Midori kun but actually the last chapter will be released in 3 days. So there's still a chance for Midori and Tsukasa to end up together, probably. As I said, never trust summaries that aren't your own.

I usually don't like to spoil if I haven't read anything myself, but I read some summaries of Uwasa no Midori kun online and wow.... never ever would I have expected such an end.
Read on your own risk because SPOILER aaaaand remember I am not 100% sure it's correct, because didn't read it myself and I only summarized what other people wrote (and often, people leave stuff out in summaries or summarize things wrongly)....



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So Midori and Tsukasa break up! That is, Tsukasa breaks up with Midori. I now think it's open if Midori will have a future with Kazama, but she won't be with Tsukasa. One of the reasons why Tsukasa broke up with Midori is because of his past he can't really let go of.... the second reason is that he is going to Germany as a pro.
I haven't read any chapters after vol 7 and till the final chapter, so I have no idea what happened until now, but I don't believe it's because Tsukasa doesn't love Midori any more. I think he can't deal with his past in Japan, so he needs to move on and start a new life. Midori was the first girl he gave his heart to and who he became happy with and he also told her that he really really loved her.
All I can say is, it is really sad, because we all want to see a happy girl and a happy boy at the end, kissing and saying they's spend the rest of their lives with each other, but I gotta say this might be one of the best Shoujo Manga ends ever. 'Cause all I can say is.... that's the realiy. This is how love goes.


*SPOILER END*

I'll miss Uwasa no Midori kun. It was cheesy and stupid, but I loved all about it. ^__^

I really really don't enjoy Anime very much, actually I never watch them, but I love S.A. and so I tried watching the new Anime. It's pretty good, though, not very surprising, the Manga is better. If I have time, I'll keep watching it, I think. I also decided to watch Vampire Knight, because I had time (um, not really, but yeah...) and I didn't find it bad. I am not into anything goth, but still, everything about Vampire Knight is very dark, but in a beautiful way. The music is kinda nice, it's really fitting, I thought. What I really don't like tho, I am a Zero fan from head to toe and I want him to be with Yuuki, but when watching the Anime, it seems he's just a side character who's in love with Yuuki, but doesn't have a chance. In the Manga, so far it has always been open who she would end up with. Until recent chapters that is... I really won't spoil too much here, but all I can say I am not happy *sighs* I am not a fan of brother-sister relationships AT ALL. It's just wrong on so many levels. It's just a no-go. I even hate it in Manga if step siblings, whose parents just met recently and decided to marry fall for each other :/
Okay, that's it, end of spoiler.

I read Skip Beat ch 122 and it's not all that special. I am neutral about it, it was rather boring. It was only about Kyoko thanking Ren for being a good sempai and scolding her and then they went and bought a very ugly vase for the rose Ren gave Kyoko as a birthday present. He then tells her a story related to this queen of rose, whatever. When Kyoko comes home, she sees the rose has actually fallen over and inside it, there was a little stone that fell out. Ren probably put it inside :)Next ch is out in a month >_<
It better be about Sho and a very good explaination to why he didn't remember Kyoko's birthday *angry* I was really expecting a Sho full of guilt and jealousy turning up at her birthday party with a huge birthday present for Kyoko, but that never happened. Ah whatever...

I read B.O.D.Y. vol 9 yesterday and some of vol 10 and there was this one scene in vol 9 that really amused me. Fuji's fucked-up-in-her-mind teacher, he once has lost his virginity to, shows up at the guys work place, who found out that Fuji used to be a host (who is also friends with Kuma, a guy who fell in love and confessed to Ryouko) and she (the teacher) says she'll have sex with him if he doesn't leak out that Fuji used to be a host and she would do everything for Fuji. Now the guy of course refused and calls Fuji and Ryouko and they come to pick the teacher up and as they were about to leave, he is like "What the hell is wong with you people??? There's a teacher, who behaves like that out of love for her student, this student, who used to be a host and his girlfriend, who is accepting all of this." I was really amused, because honestly, they are fucked up. Fuji realized he isn't good for Ryouko and breaks up with her at the end of vol 9. In vol 10, they want to talk it over again, but Ryouko later overhears him saying that he loves her, but it's so hard being with her. She says 'Sayonara' to him and they part for good (well for now..) Seing her leave made Fuji cry. Now he really isn't my favourite male protagonist ever, but I can't really hate on a guy that cries... ;)

Apparently, the Chinese site that has Kimi ni Todoke scans, I was talking about two entries ago, isn't as up to date as I first thought. I actually believed the newest chapter, that came out in Japan today, would be ch 27, but it is chapter 29. Dear Chinese scanslation site, that I don't understand at all, please update a little faster XDD.

I was searching around for summaries on Japanese fan blogs but there really isn't much. Ch 27 is still Sawako and Kazehaya at the Hatsumode and there's also some Chizu and Sanada and it seems there are feelings awakening between Yano chan and Pin. Aw well, I am not a fan of teacher-student relationships, but I like Yano chan and I like Pin. Ch 28 is Valentine's Day chapter (a late one) and I read Sawako gives chocolate to all her classmates and Kazehaya kun gets jealous (probably in a way, that EVERYONE in class knows now too that he likes Sawako ^__^). I really want to see that chapter. And finally chapter 29 (the one that came out today), there is a potential love rival for Kazehaya coming along called Miura or something! I was SO waiting for a rival to come. Like... Sawako, the way she is now is the exact definition of a Japanese girl, so of course now being more open and cute, she'd attract guys. Ganbatte Kazehaya, let Sawako as the last person know that you like her! ;)
Also (and this is the scan I saw at s-manga), they all become 2nd years and Sawako is still in class with Yano chan and Chizu and also with the two girls she befriended around vol 2, which means they will be classmates until they graduate. I really wonder if she's in class with Kazehaya again. It wasn't mentioned in the summary I read.
I want to see a picture of Miura kun. He's probably cute! ^___^

I've been really busy this week. Had no breaks and couldn't read anything. However, this morning before going to school, I was finally able to download Skip Beat ch 121!!!! Took me long enough, the next chapter is only a week away now XD

It's about Kyoko still being really really happy about her birthday present and she just keeps staring at them, when Darumaya Obasan comes in and asks her if the time is alright. Then Kyoko realizes she should be at work already and freaks out. At the set of Dark Moon a while later, she is super gloomy and Ren wonders what's wrong but she won't tell him. Later she does eventually and tells him how she came to work more than an hour too late, that's why she is in such a bad mood. Ren gets really mean ( saying she's annoying and stuff), which shocks both, Kyoko and Yashiro san, and tells her she shouldn't have such an unprofessional way of working, meaning, even if she did bad, she shouldn't get drag herself down, actors always need to be focused, reliable and do their work 100%. He walks away and Yashiro san asks if it was alright to say such harsh words to her and Ren says it's not like he'd say it to a person who couldn't take it and wouldn't be able to turn being scolded so much into becoming better. Last pic, we see Kyoko slightly smiling and being very determined.

On the 15th page of the chapter, I thought Ren's expression looked kinda cute <3 :)

In this chapter, there's also a new character introduced, a young girl who works in the same new drama as Kyoko, who looks a little like Mio and is very cute. Lets wait what kind of character she is!

I found this page that has all chapters of Kimi ni Todoke, even the newest ones, but it's all in Chinese. Now my Chinese skills are 0, I don't understand a single word >_< Esp ch 25, I can only guess what's going on, but ch 26 is almost only Sawako and Kazehaya and it's basically a lot of blushing and being shy. I think in ch 25, Sawako gets sad because the next trimester starts and she'll have to change seats and Kazehaya is no longer her seating neighbor. Then they decide to spend Oshogatsu together (Sawako, Yano chan, Chizu, Kazehaya, Sanada kun) and Yano chan and Chizu style Sawako and she looks really cute. They actually planned all of it and excuse them before meeting with Kazehaya and Sawako and Kazehaya have to go do the hatsumode only the two of them. Needlessly to say, kazehaya really likes the way Sawako looks and so he is totally shy. Yano chan, Chizu and Sanada kun (he probably was forced to be part of the plan XDD) follow the two in secret and make sure they are not disturbed. When Sawako tells Kazehaya her new email adress (which is 'Sawako_not_Sadako_1231@...' ^^) he realizes it's her birthday and around that scene, there's a lot of talking and I am like "????????"

The thing with the birthday, I only know for sure, because it was mentioned in the preview in vol 6 XDD
Well, at least I saw the pictures and still can lookforward to the text when vol 7 comes out ^^;

Other Manga wise, I read Uwasa no Midori kun 7 and it was a good volume. Midori and Tsukasa had sex with each other. So after 7 volumes, Midori finally fell and slept with him again. Ganbattano ni ... XD But I thought it was a good thing. You can actually say what you want about Ikeyamada Go manga and I even understand if people find Uwasa no Midori kun stupid, but what I like about her Manga is that she lets her characters have experiences which is rare for most Shoujo Manga. Like, Midori had sex in the first chapter and it was ahuge mistake but he learned from it and it made her wiser and stronger too and the second time she did it was because she loved the person she did it with (even though it was the same guy XDDDD). Also in Moe Kare, the main girl had her first time with the guy she really loved,but she later fell in love with someone else and had sex with this person then. Ikeyamada Go Manga are so far from being realistic, but when it comes to this, they are a lot more realistic then 99.9% of all other Shoujo Manga. I think also in real life, you have to be with other people and make experiences before you meet someone you really love and want to be with forever. So I really like that about Ikeyamada's Manga.

Other than that we found what happened to Tsukasa during the 3 years that he and Midori didn't spend with each other and why he has changed so much. Yup.


Aaaaah, Skip Beat ch 121 is out and I found the scans and the thumbnails won't load. Aaaaah, I want to read!!!!! >_

I was kinda busy today, but whenever I found time, I sat down to read through my newest Manga. When receiving a lot of Manga at once, I tend to read them all at the same time, like skipping through all first or reading selected chapters etc, because I feel like I want to read all RIGHT NOW. However, I did manage to read all of Kimi ni Todoke, Gakkou no Ojikan and Houkago Orange today.

3 of the 4 chapter of Kimi ni Todoke covered the Chizu storyline with Sanada kun and his brotherm but I still liked the volume a lot. I think every girl can relate to Chizu's feelings, that she had, when she found out that the guy she likes is going to get married to another woman. I don't mean the wedding stuff, but still, I think every girl has experienced one sided love at one point in her life. I could relate to her a lot, because she acted very strong and as if it didn't matter to her. I truly believe that if you like someone, but there's just no hope, it's better to keep quite about your feelings and just move on, because what's the point anyway. Chizu confessed in the end anyway, because everyone knew she liked Sanadas brother but she realized that she might only have brotherly feelings for him in the end anyway. Sanada kun was choo kakkoi when his brother said in the end that he thinks Sanada and Chizu would be a good match and Sanada was like "I think so too!" :))) He got to hug and comfort Chizu later too. Go, Sanada kun!
The last chapter focused on Sawako and Kazehaya again. Kazehaya got to talk to Sawako Mama on the phone and I think even Sawako Mama knows now that Kazehaya likes Sawako XD Sawako knitted a hat for Kazehaya as xmas present but Sawako papa thought it was for him, so she ended up giving him stomache warmers. Hahaha ;) She got a phone strap from Kazehaya which fits to her new cellphone and the first number she added to the phoneback was Kazehaya's ^_^ Next chapter will be the Oshogatsu the two are spending together, but I probably won't be able to read it before summer *cries*


I really liked the cover of Gakkou no Ojikan 13, Bishonen cover!! :) As predicted, Makki breaks up with Riku. I really can't hate him but the think what makes me so mad is, he broke up with her because he questioned her love for him. But it was Riku who confessed to him over and over again and he said he loved her onyl one lousy time, so what the hell gives him the right to question anything?! Riku's kohai (the very left on the cover) has a huge crush on Riku and gives her a love bite on her neck while she's asleep. Makki flipped out when he saw it, he really went crazy, which was probably the reason why I can forgive him and all. As a result, he gives Riku a love bite as well and then he starts dating this girl named Ai, but the more he's away from Riku the more he realized how much he wants to be with her, so in the end he tries to get her back again. (which apparently works, because in the preview there's a lot of kissing :))
I think they should have sex soon, and maybe it's happening in the next volume, but then again it's Margaret, where no one ever has sex. Aw whatever, I also wish the series would end soon, before I start getting really annoyed with Makki and feel like beating the crap out of him and anyway, how much more should the break up and get back together??

Houkago Orange was soooo good. If I was Natsumi, I would have accepted Koushi sempai's confession already and we would be rabu rabu by now, but I'm not Natsumi and she loves Yoku. They even kiss in this volume but afterwards Yoku says they should forget about it because going out between team members is not allowed in ther club. What the hell. I commented at the end of the Houkago Orange vol 1 summary on my Shoujo page that Koushi doesn't have a chance anyway, and well... I still think so, but Natsumi is seriously pissed at Yoku in the end up to a point where she even thinks "how could I fall for someone like him". She's mad because Yoku kisses her again in the end but it was the reward for winning against Koushi in batting and it ticks Natsumi off because first he kisses her and then says let's forget about it and then he kisses her and says it's his reward. Even Natsumi knows about his feelings by now, but Yoku is a complete jerk when it comes to his feelings and not acting against the club rules as the captain etc. Koushi for example said he doesn't care that love is forbitten between members and says Natsumi should be his girlfriend. He's really a good guy and I love how he doesn't give up. He really is my 2008 Ibushi :)) If you don't get what I am talking about, Houkago Orange vol 1 summary. ^_^

Wow long post, I'll talk about all the other Manga in my next few entries.

New additions on my Shoujo Manga page: Houkago Orange and Kare wa Tomodachi. Both are really good Manga so if you haven't heard of them yet, read my summaries :)

Tomorrow my Manga will arrive. Kimi ni Todoke 6, Gakkou no Ojikan 13, Houkago Orange 2, Kimi ga suki 2+3, Uwasa no Midorki kun 7, only to name a few. Yes yes yes :))

I think I am going to continue reading B.O.D.Y now or maybe I am just going to re-read Akuma to Lovesong, because I am probably not in the mood for the current B.O.D.Y drama ^^;. Aww, I am looking forward to tomorrow :)

I was reading Koibumi Biyori by Asakura George. I knew her from skipping trough Betsufure, but I never really read any of her stories and don't know how well known she is, but here is the Manga Update info page. One of the reasons I never read any of her stories was because the faces of her characters make me sad. They are seriously scary. I was often wondering why people like her stories, because you really need getting used to her art. It's probably because her stories are good, I guess. Like, when I read Koibumi Biyori, I couldn't stand the drawings, but I was really really impressed by Asakura's storytelling. The way she uses words to express the characters feelings are just amazing. Pure and simple, but I was really touched. I'm still really not like of the faces, but I was seriously impressed by how the story was told so I could overlook it a little.

I am now reading some of B.O.D.Y. I am stuck around vol 10 and I am getting mad reading it. Why is every Manga couple breaking up??? (see my last entry). And why is every single male protagonist so immature and self centered. I mean Fuji, hanging out with your tutor who you slept with in Jr high and still can't completely forget and then getting mad at Sakura for befriending another guy and breaking up because he confesses to her. I mean, sure a guy should get mad if his girlfriend gets confessed to, but breaking up under these circumstaces????
Ah whatever. But I really feel like reading a cheerful love story again for a change....

I ordered some Manga and they got shipped out already (Kimi ni Todoke, 6, Gakkou ni Ojikan 13, Koko ni iru yo 2, Orange Houkago 2 etc) but when I was tracking the order again today, I saw that I ordered Gakkou no Ojikan twice. What the heck, I must have made a mistake. It's 400 yen so it's not a big deal, but I always set myself a limit of how many Manga I can order and I could have ordered 1 of the 100 other Manga on my wish list instead. Plus, I hate having a Manga twice at home because I don't have any space at home whatsoever, so argh... Throwing it away is no option, I mean how could I?! I'd even give it away for free, hahaha, anybody want it? ^^;

 I finally read Gakkou no Ojikan vol 12! It wasn't a bad volume, but I got a little frustrated reading it. I hate and like Makki at the same time. I just don't get him, really. 
This volume was basically about him coming back to school (after being expelled for a week) and after the vice- headmaster asked him to break up with Riku, he decides to become a better student and work hard on his image. He also asked Riku to not talk to him during school and pretend they are not dating, so their wouldn't get into trouble. It's so common for Shoujo Manga, but here all comes together and I feel sorry for Riku because she's trying so hard. On one hand, I want her to just dump him, because he's hurting her all the time, on the other hand, he *is* a good guy and he cares about her a lot and I want them to be together. 
So them ignoring each other at school resulted in Riku being confessed to by a very cute kohai and Makki being confessed to by a girl who thought makki likes her, because he was being really nice to her and also because of some misunderstandings (argh, Makki!!!). The girl asks Riku to support her and tell makki to come meet her at the train station, so she can confess to him. Actually it's also the evening when Makki and Riku were planning to spend the night together and as they are about to go to Riku's room, Riku sends Makki to meet with the girl who is waiting for him. After a while, he comes back, pissed of and asks Riku if she just wanted him to test him and make him show his true feelings by sending him there (since she knew he would get confessed to). He says they should break up and return to being friends.

Vol 13 came out yesterday in Japan. I really want to get it, even though I am pretty sure they are really breaking up for now. I don't get Makki and It just makes me mad to see how Riku is giving her all all the time and he's hardly doing anything. I just feel he's really immature and I'm starting to wonder if he truly likes her. 

Kimi ni Todoke came out as weel, but I couldn't find it at Kinokuniya in NYC. I picked up a couple of Manga, but Kimi ni Todoke 6 was what I wanted to get the most. I actually got Akuma to Lovesong 2 and Koibana (the Parfait Tic-author one) and I managed to get all B.O.D.Y volumes I didn't have yet at Book-off and some short story tankoubon for $1 each. ^_^ I'm all happy, but I'd exchange all of those Manga if I could only read Kimi ni Todoke vol 6 right now XD