Friday, December 31, 2010

Dare Nimo










Hoshi Sae mo Nemuru Yoru
Kana wants to go to an island in Hokkaido to look at the star. She's going with some college friends, including the guy she likes. She plans to confess to him under the stars.

No Panties Musume
A popular guy thinks all girls are predictable and boring. When the foreign exchange student staying a his house suddenly kisses him he becomes interested in her. But her culture is so different from his that she doesn't wear panties!

Tomodachi Shikkaku
Riku is the prince of the school. Cute, kind, athletic...a perfect prince. If only she wasn't a girl!!!! On top of that she gets hassled by Sugisaki for grabbing the attention of the school's female body. Loved by girls as a prince and hated by guys..will she ever find love?

Koi no Neiro
"I know in my heart, for a long time now, a sound has been ringing that says "i love you"
A short girl likes and is also very scared of a very tall guy who she thinks hates her.

Yuuwaku Lesson Itashimasho
A girl who has very high expectations for a boyfriend yet is a virgin is the protagonist of this story. She tutors part time and when she meets her new student, he is beautiful! He's a lot younger than her so she feels conflicted.

Platonic Porno
Yuna is the most popular girl in school. Girls worship her and ask her for love advice. Yuna always gives perfectly worded grown up advice. Boys are too timid to ask out such an expert in love and dare not approach her. But she's never had a boyfriend before!!! Everyone thinks she's VERY experienced, but she actually has 0 experience. Since she loves helping out others in their love lives she secretly reads ecchi books to give her inspiration. But what happens when she's caught? By the author of her ecchi novels himself!!!

Clash











A prince at school and at home, Yama is the perfect student. Only when he is alone can he show his true self and his true personality. But, one day, a girl named Saku follows him to his villa and somehow she finds out about his true personality. What will happen now!?

This has to be the least clashing story ever. EVERYTHING was soo overdone and even the cliche parts were utterly lame! Dancing with little children, the doggie dance? Really? The art was bad too. I hate those extremely pointy faced drawings. I guess it was just not my cup of tea.

includes Kimi to Iru Kyoushitsu
About a boy and girl who are friends. They get along well. But she likes him and when she confesses he tells her he can't date her.

Better than the main story.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Bet!!












When she secretly took a picture of Saeki-kun, the No. 1 popular guy on campus, she witnessed a scene she really wasn’t supposed to! A bet has been made by him that if he can make her fall in love with him within a week, she'll have to delete that picture. Who will win this bet?

Opinion
Kind of weird (as in unbelievable) story...

Ai Kara Hajimaru











Sakura Ai, had her first love on Tokuzawa Taiyou during her elementary years. When the sweet and gentle Tokuzawa-kun transferred to another school causing Ai-chan to have a funny nickname "Granny Ai" when he left, Ai-chan tried to forget about him. But fate never gave up even when she was in high school! While Ai-chan went to her garden of sunflowers by the pool in the school, she found a phone lying on the ground. When she knew that it was Tokuzawa-kun's, she left it on the ground and ran away, knowing that the kind Tokuzawa-kun she used to know during childhood is now a frank tough delinquent, would her love for him bloom again?

includes Sugarless Kiss
Ami met Kasshi-senpai when he took a bite out of her choco banana muffin. Since discovering that he likes sweets, she has given him various handmade sweets. But that doesn't stop him from having other girls around.

includes Tsunde Renjyou
Yuika and Haru have been dating for a year. Yuika is selfish and likes sweet things, while Haru is amazingly kind. But will Haru end up hating Yuika because of her attitude...

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

18 Diary











18 Diary

This first story is about Uchi, a girl who is in love with her guy friend. However, her guy friend likes his childhood friend. And although he got rejected by his childhood friend, the guy wants to impress his childhood friend by learning how to swim better than her current boyfriend. The guy asks Uchi to teach him how to swim since she's on the swim team.

Cute. :) You don't know how CPR works? haha

17's Bible
Madoka finds her parent's secret divorce papers. She becomes depressed and goes out. She bumps into Kouki, a popular playboy classmate of hers, and agrees to have sex with him. However, the next day she realizes she left her parent's divorce papers inside the hotel room's bible.

Very shocking because the girl says "God doesn't care about us" as one of the closing "shoujo bubble" moments.

Looking for the Right Star
Ever since her mother left, this protagonist has had to take care of her little brother. She had become very busy, stressed, and anxious. And her little brother never talks or even smiles. One evening, the bump into a classmate of the girl's who is dancing in the street. He always has a carefree smile.

Very cute :)

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Sukimasuki










Through his hobby, which is exploring (peeping?) through the spaces in-between, Heisaku-kun ends up falling in love with his neighbor, Fumio-chan. However, it turns out that Fumio-chan has also been spying on Heisaku-kun all this time. Will this uncontrollable pair’s hidden love ever be realized?

It was really weird...they were college kids though so it's not shoujo manga so at least it had a different feel.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Sumire wa Blue










Kinoshita Sumire first saw Makimura Daichi in the library. For some reason, she was very attracted to the way he twirls his pencil, and from then on, she started taking interest in him. Daichi is a member of a famous ice hockey team and is secretly in love with his childhood friend, Shouji. These two people have nothing in common at all, yet they slowly get closer to each other.

Review
I really liked it the way I like Suki Kirai Suki, the other one shot manga of this mangaka. The reason being that her mangas are very slow and realistic. The feelings develop slowly, the characters have very casual and realistic conversations, and the events are not forced. My favorite characters in the story were Sumire and Daichi's respective best friends. Especially Sumire's. They were both very supportive and spunky and funny. I wish there had been a little more focus on them. Shouji was a very selfish girl who was cute and knew it too. Daichi was indecisive and slow and a bit annoying as well. Sumire's feelings were pure but almost stalkerish which was funny and squeal worthy. I just wish that it didn't seem like Daichi choose her as a number two. It was mostly a story of the stubborn Daichi getting over his childhood crush. He got Shouji out of his system and moved on. I still liked the focus on Sumire and her developing feelings. It was an enjoyable story and I had a good time staying up to 6 am reading it. And I just didn't get the point of the side story (Green Apple, Red Apple) which focuses on Daichi and Shouji about 3 years before. It just featured both Daichi's and Shouji's deceitfulness and selfishness again.