Friday, January 14, 2011

Ovally Trap












Tokunaga-kun, Chiharu Taniyama's classmate and recent neighbor, is always laughing at her, and it annoys her to no end. How can she be cute? Then, she finds a magazine with tips on being popular. Well she get her revenge on Tokunaga?

This mangaka has written better stories. It's was just okay. Translation was a little hard to understand.

Orange Kiss









Orange Kiss
Kijima Aka had a dream. In the dream, she and an orange haired boy kissed under the setting sun. And that boy just so happens to be the guy who's in the same class as her, Shimizu! She always thought Shimizu had some kind of grudge against her because he seems to hate her. Will Aka's dream become reality?

Happy Words
The story of Saiko, a girl who was scouted as a model and Ichi, who plays in the high school band.

Last Train Under the Night Sky
Kanama and Andou met in the train by morning and became closer. However, she is troubled by Andou's expression and decides something is wrong. She follows him only to find the last train under the night sky.... and also someone.

More Orange Kiss
A short read about Shimizu's point of view about Kijima Aka, the girl who glares at him.

Orange Kiss was definitely the cutest! Happy Words a close second. And Last Train was still great :)

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Hitoribocchi wa Samishikute











Shio has no friends and is known as a devil, because she often writes something in her notebook.
Though, no one has seen what she has written in it. Until that day....

To tell the truth, it's very cute at times (both the art and some of the story) but I didn't quite enjoy it. Reason one being that most of the story relies heavily on Shio's beautiful singing and other music and it's very hard to imagine. And reason two being that it's one of those reckless teenage stories of rebelling against parents and "the man" and the school and grown ups in general. As a teenager I've felt oppressed by adults on multiple occasions but I still can't fully support a story of teenage rebellion and disrespect.