Anime Winter 2015, Mannerling Daughters 2, Crunchyroll and French manga

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• Anime: All watching on CrunchyRoll
  
  1. Kuroko's Basketball - Epi 60
     - Kise's and Kuroko's game continues.
  2. ALDNOAH.ZERO - Epi 24 - the end
     - Final show down continues.
     - The ending is full of hopes and rebuilding for the peaceful future.
     - Slaine is redeemed.
• Chapter Book:
  
  1. The Daughters of Mannerling 2: The Intrigue by M. C. Beaton (Marion Chesney)
     - Borrowed from bpl
     - Regency Novel. Story of Jessica.
     - Fast read, entertaining. I'm glad all wells that ends well.
     - The governess is full of mysteries.
• Manga:
  
  1. Shindo 2 by Akira Saso
     - From Crunchyroll here
     - Uta lost her home. She and her mother moved to a small rental place near Wao's parents'. Uta started to have a crush on Wao.
     - Uta started at a different school due to circumstances.
     - Highly recommended :)
  2. Orange chapters 1-17 by Ichigo Takano
     - From Crunchyroll here
     - Very interesting. First love. Friendship. Correcting past mistakes. Parallel worlds.
  3. Barakamon 3 by Satsuki Yoshino
     - Trouble makers :) I thought the shorter character was a woman.
     - City people and countryside ones.
     - Fishing. My favorite panel is on page 122 (give or take a few pages) as results of Naru - ha ha.
     - Another enjoyable volumes.
  4. Hana-kimi extra (volume 24) by Hisaya Nakajo
     - Borrowed from ILL
     - Extra one-shots.
     - Fun fast read. Besides beautiful art, the stories are not memorable sadly.
  5. Highschool debut 14-15 - the end by Kazune Kawahara
     - Yoh, Haruna and the gang are so much fun. I may reread the whole series one of these days.
  6. Yona, Princesse de l'Aube 5 by Mizuho Kusanagi - in French
     - Jin-AhShin-Ah's arc continues and resolves.
     - Next is the green dragon - private/Awa arc
  7. Wolf girl and black prince 5 by Hatta AYUKO - in French
     - End of the trip. Sata is tired of the new boy!
     - There's more to the story between Sata and the new boy which the anime shortens during the field trip, now he has another *friend*.
     - Erika's birthday. Poor Sata has trouble saying "I love you" to Erika
     - Accidental kiss between Sata and Sanda which led to Sata and Erika make up and understand each other more. Sata's birthday :)
  8. Gokusen 7 by Kozueko Morimoto - in French
     - School trip continues. The boys sneaked out after Yankumi's shift was over and got into trouble.
     - Yankumi got sick and trouble arose. She was kidnapped by a smaller gang but Shin came to rescue her, found out that she had a crush on the lawyer.
     - Shin's friends realized that he was in love with her and planned to help him.
     - A new term started. A new teacher arrived. Trouble is in horizon.
  9. The Boys Over Flowers Season 2 chapter 4 by Yoko Kamio
     - All 3 chapters are available on Viz manga website: here
     - The main character surprisingly has really low self-esteem!
     - She came to thank him for helping.
     - Her mother still lives in the cloud. Ugh!

French license News
• via Manga Conseil: Chiisakobe by Minetaro Mochizuki, octobre 2015, 4 volumes complete, seinen, Le Lézard Noir. Interesting. I may check out.
• From Éditions CLAIR DE LUNE blog: Atagoul, la forêt des chats by Hiroshi Masumura, seinen, 18 volumes complete, Éditions CLAIR DE LUNE, Vol 1 and 2 were out March 2015. I had this series in my amazon.jp wish list and seem to remember that shaenon talked about it in her lj, but don't have time to search for the entry. In any case, I'll check out the first volume next time and see.
• Shirayuki 12 french volume is listed on amazon.fr to be release August 2015 - 5 more months.