Dealing with Dragons, Broken Blade, Chihayafuru, and Skip Beat

[badtzphoto]

• Chapter Book:
  
  1. Dealing with Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Book 1 - by Patricia C. Wrede.
     - Borrowed from BPL.
     - Full cast reading
     - It's good. A princess doesn't want to be a princess so she ran away and volunteered to be a princess for a dragon.
     - I'm reserving book 2.
     - I prefer one person reading than full cast, though.
• Anime:
  
  1. Broken

Comments

[lyschan]

Ahhhhh, Dealing With Dragons and the rest of the series was another of my absolute favourites in middle/highschool!! Love♥ I think the books are still at my parents' house...

Haha, Otomen 18 is a spoiler? But isn't that the ending we all expected from the start? And that sort of image for the last volume is a total shoujo manga cliché, so it's perfect :D (although now that I try to think of what other series have done it, I can only remember IHY♥, Love Roma (seinen), and... maybe Ouran? and Itazura na Kiss had such a cover mid-series.)

The girl in Idea no Hana is named Ruby, actually. Her traveling companion is Sand, and the boy is Azurite (or Azulite? gem-and-rock names, yay! the blonde girl is Carnelian. but then there are other characters named Mint, Brown, Nile...) What I got from the first volume was that Azul/Azure can see spirits and monsters and didn't like his ability because it gets him in trouble and others can't understand. But Ruby can see things too, so he gets attached :) I don't know what the deeper storyline is, though.

Aaaagh Skip Beat!! I neeeeeeeeeeeed it!

[badtzphoto]

I like Dealing with Dragons. It's fun. I like the characters, even the silly prince, and the talking frog is awesome.

"Haha, Otomen 18 is a spoiler? But isn't that the ending we all expected from the start? "
that's true :) there's no triangle that I can remember. Well, I didn't think it would end with a wedding. They will become a couple, yes. There is one: Haruka.

Re: Idea no hana.
Thank you for explaining about it. Sand is like a retainer to Ruby, right? Aren't the kids so cute? I'm thinking if Emura draws a story with kids/twins, I'll get it. I think I'm guessing the glass-boy story wrong, too.

Skip beat is great.

[lyschan]

I've so far just seen the first few pages of the glasses manga (sampled here). The guy is Nijouin. The girl, Sawada, knocks him over on her way to confess to some other guy and instead tells Nijouin she likes him. Then she runs away... and goes back later to apologize for earlier/explain her mistake. But she still gets all heart-eyed at the slightest provocation :D I got the impression she's a little flighty and falls in love easily, but I haven't seen much of the story yet.

Yeah, I think Sand is something like a retainer for Ruby. Despite the occasional death glares and daggers he directs at Azul... And yes, I totally agree about the cute kids!!

[badtzphoto]

"... instead tells Nijouin she likes him ..."
Thank you for this. Haha, my guess was the opposite. That's funny.