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Mick Takeuchi, what’s with the near-shota cover there, huh? This isn’t that kind of manga! (Yeah yeah yeah…it’s meant to be more along the lines of “Bond villain with cat” or somesuch, but…

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So, I’m detecting a trend here. Namely, that the mangaka has a habit to kind of forget about characters for a while. Or am I the only one who noticed that Aoi just randomly disappeared after locking Ateko and Amane up in the storehouse and didn’t show up for the rest of that story (about ¾ of the volume.) Less of a complaint than Ateko disappearing ( Read more... )

Dear mangaka: I do not read your manga to see the heroine sitting around, doing her best Buttercup impersonation. That bit? Only works with Buttercup.

I like Zakuro and it was fun seeing him again, but watching him giggle circles around Hyoue has a limited period where it’s fun. It also seems that, yup, Aoi still only annoys me if he isn’t ( Read more... )

So, I typed up something proper at work, and then LJ was down, and then I forgot to save it or send it to myself at home, so you just get a few scattered comments.

It was nice to see Ateko finally get some backstory.

I find Aoi much more palatable lately. Possibly because he’s spending more time alternatively partnering and sparring with Ateko, ( 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... )

Wallflower Vol 11 by Tomoko Hayakawa-Y'know, I'm really starting to like Ranmaru's princess(who needs a name)  She's really the only kind of girl Ranmaru MIGHT eventually fall for.  The whole gang seems to have become shippers at this point(good, they can join the fans)  Sunako with a fan though is...scary...though she was insanely cute with her ( Read more... )

(32) Her Majesty’s Dog Vol 5 by Mick Takeuchi:  I've decided that the Japanese have a fetish for schoolgirls and temperamental centuries old dog demon guys, cuz it's all over the place.  I think I like this book more and more each volume.  This volume has Amane and Hyoue(and of course their personal shipper, Takako) travelling back to their village ( Read more... )

It has not ended, but it has dwindled.  And so...

Stuff I watched:

Inu Yasha: Season 2: At long last, I got around to it.  All the other important characters show up, and the episodes largerly responsible for the overwhelming Kikyo hatred in the InuYasha fandom are here, too.  Actually, these episodes are largely devoted to setting up the status ( Read more... )