Hayate the Combat Butler is another manga I should do a proper pimp post of, but am to lazy to do so. Instead I bring you an average day in the life of a Combat Butler (mostly from vol 4, w/ 2 pages of vol 3 as the scene starts there)

( A true Combat Butler always remembers to bring along the heavy weaponry )

 How anyone can not be curious about a book called Hayate the Combat Butler where the titular 16 year old hero became the butler of an 13 year old otaku who though he professed his love to her and thus saved him from the yakuza, who were hunting him because his parents sold them his internal organs to pay off their debts is beyond me.  Especially ( Read more... )

A follow up to Saturday's post, just a list and short(extremely short) descriptions of the manga I'm enjoying the most right now.  Anything I've read all of is excluded.  There are several that will likely be on this list once I've read more than one volume.

Basara: Favorite manga ever.  About a girl who pretends to be her brother, a legendary ( Read more... )

Scrapped Princess: Song of the Forgiven by Ichiro Sakaki

The second Scrapped Princess novel covers the events in Taurus from the anime, where the Casull siblings take what should be a breather and befriend Winia, the young woman who runs the inn they stay at and strike a truce of sorts with Chris, one of the people hunting them.  And there's a ( Read more... )

All Night Long by Jayne Ann Krentz: Standard JAK-good mystery, strong, intelligent heroine, alpha male hero, great dialogue.  Nothing to make it stand out from her other books, but worlds better than most romantic suspense.

Hayate the Combat Butler Vol 1-2 by Kenjiro Hata:  Very fun series about a teenaged boy with worthless parents who are always ( Read more... )