Read Castle Mango 2 and Rivers End...Oh boy. Glad I got to do it in one fell swoop. I think I would've stopped reading it from depression if I had read it in installments, especially Castle Mango 2. ( cut for spoilers, obviously )

I just found out that there had been a live action theatre version of Konohara Narise's book Utsukushii Koto earlier this year...There's a DVD out now. I'm curious, but a bit afraid.

I had a sudden urge to reread Himitsu by Konohara Narise and illustrated by Chayamachi Suguro today, and so went digging through boxes until I found it. I'd actually disliked it a lot when I'd first read it, but grew to love it after rereading it several times. College student Keita goes to a bar to find a guy to hook up with for the night. He is ( Read more... )

I came across an old, abandoned FST-in-progress for Iya na yatsu by Konohara Narise (my comments on the book here and here), listened to it, and rather enjoyed it. So here it is. All the music is kind of dark or wistful, all from Miura's POV. I think I couldn't find anything appropriate for Kazuya, because he's such a mix of annoying contemptible ( Read more... )

I just got through the reprint of the formerly out-of-print Nemuru Usagi by Konohara Narise (summarized here). While I still do love the story, why oh why did the art GET WORSE. I had to avoid looking at all the illustrations in the book because they'd almost ruin the story...And here I thought the illustrations in the original book were bad. I don ( Read more... )

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I feel like I constantly write about the books I hated...I need to devote more time to writing about the books I liked. Unfortunately, it takes so much longer to write about a book I like while it's easy to whip up a nasty rant for the crappy ones. :P

This time my crap rant is for Fragile by Konohara Narise and illustrated by Takao Hiroi. Though ( Read more... )

I was looking over my bookshelves and (foolishly) decided to flip through WELL by Konohara Narise. I hate this book. A lot. It is a post-apocolyptic survival story, which already is one big black mark in my book. I'm just not into the genre because they tend to depress (and scare) me if they are even remotely realistic and show how bleak things ( Read more... )

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