Manga memos
The purpose of this post is to help me remember all the manga titles that I've had the pleasure to read, just in case I want to re-read them later in the future.
Kuragehime
Mangaka: Higashimura Akiko
Publisher: Kodansha
Scanlator: Hachimitsu Scans
Year: 2008
Summary:
Kuragehime follows Tsukimi Kurashita, an 18-year-old who moved from Kagoshima to Tokyo to become an illustrator. Tsukimi is a jellyfish otaku who comes to live in a shared bath and toilet, women-only apartment, Amamizukan. Other tenants include fujoshi, NEETs and others who consider fashion their natural enemy, calling themselves "Amars". One day, Tsukimi meets a fashionable and beautiful girl, Kuranosuke Koibuchi, who saves a jellyfish that is about to die at a pet shop. She later discovers that Kuranosuke is merely cross-dressing in order to evade inheritance of his father's occupation as a politician.
Features the stories Eiyuu (Heroes) Retsuden.
Winner of the Kodansha Award for best Shojo in 2010.
Nominated for Manga Taisho Award in 2010.(Source: mangaupdates.com)
Thoughts: I wasn't really draw toward this series as first, simply because I didn't like the mangaka's drawing style (too much like the Rose of Versaille's style), so I kept on ignoring it for a long time. Then the time came when I'm out of manga to read, so I picked this one up, and oh boy did I get smitten! The drawing style actually doesn't rub me in the wrong way too much, and I think it kinda fit the whole image of the story. The plot is pretty interesting too, and the outcome is not very predictable. Well, since the situation between the older brother and the main heroine is improving, I don't know if the younger bro will have a chance to get together with the main girl or not, but I'm not going to complain about the unpredictability of it all XD. Overall, a good manga to read. Many thanks for Hachimitsu Scans for bringing this story to the public.
Kuragehime
Mangaka: Higashimura Akiko
Publisher: Kodansha
Scanlator: Hachimitsu Scans
Year: 2008
Summary:
Kuragehime follows Tsukimi Kurashita, an 18-year-old who moved from Kagoshima to Tokyo to become an illustrator. Tsukimi is a jellyfish otaku who comes to live in a shared bath and toilet, women-only apartment, Amamizukan. Other tenants include fujoshi, NEETs and others who consider fashion their natural enemy, calling themselves "Amars". One day, Tsukimi meets a fashionable and beautiful girl, Kuranosuke Koibuchi, who saves a jellyfish that is about to die at a pet shop. She later discovers that Kuranosuke is merely cross-dressing in order to evade inheritance of his father's occupation as a politician.
Features the stories Eiyuu (Heroes) Retsuden.
Winner of the Kodansha Award for best Shojo in 2010.
Nominated for Manga Taisho Award in 2010.(Source: mangaupdates.com)
Thoughts: I wasn't really draw toward this series as first, simply because I didn't like the mangaka's drawing style (too much like the Rose of Versaille's style), so I kept on ignoring it for a long time. Then the time came when I'm out of manga to read, so I picked this one up, and oh boy did I get smitten! The drawing style actually doesn't rub me in the wrong way too much, and I think it kinda fit the whole image of the story. The plot is pretty interesting too, and the outcome is not very predictable. Well, since the situation between the older brother and the main heroine is improving, I don't know if the younger bro will have a chance to get together with the main girl or not, but I'm not going to complain about the unpredictability of it all XD. Overall, a good manga to read. Many thanks for Hachimitsu Scans for bringing this story to the public.