Crunchyroll and Funimation Anime, Inkspell, PS: I still love you, Emma, Handa-kun, Captive Hearts

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• Anime:
  
  1. My Love Story - Epi 17
     - Watched on Crunchyroll
     - Christmas in July - I watched the episode last week!
  2. Snow White with Red Hair - Epi 5
     - watched on Funimation
     - Shirayuki's a big help.
     - Obi is trying to earn Zen's trust.
  3. Castle Town Dandelion - Epi 1-5
     - watching on Funimation
     - Fun show about royal family, 9 siblings, 2 sets of twins, they all have magical powers.
     - Live as commoners.
     - I like how everyone in the family is trying to help Akane - who's a very shy 10 grader. I also like how Shu traded the chores (going shopping) with her because she doesn't like going outside because of the many cameras monitoring them.
     - I'm not sure what the point of the first part of epi 4, where Akane goes to school without her skirt!, reminding me of The Emperor and his new clothes!
  4. Junjo Romantica 3 - Epi 4
     - watching on Funimation
     - A different couple than the first 3 episodes.
  5. Aoharu x Machinegun - Epi 5
     - watching on Crunchyroll
     - Tachibana is interesting and tends to overreact.
  6. Fate/Zero night [Unlimited Blade Works] - Epi 25, Episode 20, Prologue
     - watching on Crunchyroll
     - Apparently, I'm still interested in Saber who's back in this anime. I watched the last epi first to have a feelings for the story and the characters. I also read wiki page on this series. I feel that this series is more to my taste, some characters are cooperating with each other.
     - I will watch this series.
  7. Rewatch: Sound! Euphonium - Epi 1-13 - the end.
     - watching on Crunchyroll
     - So good, I like the characters, the friendship.
     - I'm curious about this series, which is from a light novel, 4 volumes ongoing. Some chapters of the manga in Japanese are available on-line, here at KonoManga.jp
• Chapter Book:
  
  1. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
     - Borrowed from bpl, mp3
     - Read by Brendan Fraser
     - 2nd of the trilogy.
     - The story is about how a story and its characters are taking life of their own life and out of the author's hands.
     - I'm not sure why but I found Maggie annoying!
  2. Relisten The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
     - Borrowed from apl - oneclick
     - Read by Jonathan Fried
     - I've read this many times before and always enjoyed the characters. Didn't enjoy the mob mentality in chapter 1!
     - I really like Rosa. She's crafty.
     - I'm not sure about Prince Orange!
     - Recommended. Will reread.
  3. PS: I still love you. by Jenny Han
     - Borrowed from apl - oneclick
     - Read by Laura Knight Keating
     - The last of 2 books.
     - Continue from where the first one To all the boys I've loved
     - Friendship, relationship, falling out, making connection, highschool life, social media (misused! A bit of the drama, at some point, I had to listen to the last 2 chapters to find out the end to avoid the tension that I felt before continuing.)
     - It's a fun read. I like the characters.
     - Recommended. Will reread. Peter has flaws but I like him.
• Manga:
  
  1. Emma Omnibus 1 by Kaoru Mori
     - borrowed from apl
     - wow, the hardcover looks great. The art is so detailed and beautiful.
     - The credits for translator and letter are the same from CMX version. I haven't compared to see if anything changed in translation (don't have time to dig out my cmx copy!), but the translation is copyrighted 2015.
     - Hakim is so cool!!!!
     - What a great series. I'm leaning toward buying it again.
  2. Handa-kun 2 by Satsuki Yoshino - kindle
     - More groupies for Handa Kun.
     - Fun fast read.
     - Handa has come a long way! Poor guy. His mother as well.
  3. Captive Hearts 1-5 - the end by Matsuri Hino - Viz app
     - Got it from Viz bundle 10 books of Matsuri Hino
     - What a wacky and hilarious series. The author didn't pull any stops :)
     - The many different fonts - even in the 1/4 columns which I didn't notice the first time I read the series in book form - wow, I'm enjoying this series.