Eccentric Cookiez

I’ve been reading so much manga lately, I thought I might as well write about some of what I’m reading. Also for some reason I had a really hard time writing this entry, I didn’t bother checking spelling so I’m sorry it’s so terrible!!

New Series

Kekkaishi volumes 1-4- This is a series I had read a lot about on certain message boards so when there was a sale on Viz manga I decided to order the first two volumes. I liked it a whole lot! So much so that I decided to go out and get the next two volumes as soon as I could. I also forced my little brother to read it, he enjoyed it as well. I really liked Yoshimori, the wanting to build a castle of sweets thing is cute. I like Tokine too even though she seems like a bit of snob. The fourth volume was very good, I cried while I was reading the story about the pastery maker and his brother… yup if a manga can make me cry I know it’s good!

Omakae Desu volume 1- I think my favorite part about this was that the main character is in college! Heh, I don’t see that a lot! Most of the time characters in shoujo (and shounen) are in middle or high school and I feel like a creepy old lady (I’m 20…) but the main character in this is 18. The art style was nice and I liked the stories. I’m looking forward to reading more but I’m really not crazy about the new female character introduced at the end she’s kind of annoying and it seems like her part will be pretty big.

Yakitate!! Japan volume 1- This was something I was interested in ever since I heard about it. It looked funny and I liked the character designs. I just didn’t like something about it, I can’t quite place it but I didn’t even feel like reading the whole book. In the end I did but I really don’t know if I’m going to continue with this series. Though when I look at it I’ve already preordered the second volume, so I’ll probably try to keep with it.

Old Series

Young Magician volume 5- This series is really messed up! I keep on expecting it to get clearer as it moves along but it never does, with every new volume it gets more and more confusing and weird. Even so I can’t stop reading it, at the end of every volume I’m dying to know what happens next. This volume’s ending wasn’t quite so much of a cliff hanger as other volumes though. I can’t really explain it, that’s how strange it is…

Ouran High School Host Club volume 7- The stories in these volumes were recently in the anime. I didn’t really think there was too much of a difference in the anime version of the Kyouya story exept for Renge (who’s like totally awesome and who needs to be added to the anime all the time stealing Tamaki’s lines cos she’s like way cute and… sorry), the dog and the ending (heh actually now that I think about it…) I have not seen the episode about Honey’s brother but I heard they took out Mori’s brother which stinks because he was really cute and funny. I liked it, it’s pretty much the same as all the other volumes fun to read and all that.

Newtype Romance

Actually I put that in the title but what I really mean is random summer anime magazines I bought to look at the pretty pictures because I can’t read Japanese. I recently got the July Animage, the August Animedia and Newtype Romance. The September issues are out now but I don’t really care I like buying the older issues. No pictures or scans or anything because everything from them has already been scanned. Animage is so cheap seriously they use the same pictures of Athrun and Kira on everything all the time. Animedia had a cute Ouran Host Club pin-up.

Now I go through the whole magazine and write about it for no reason at all:

Anyway I wanted to write about Newtype Romance the most because I really, really liked it, much more then the other two. First of all I really love the cover, it’s Yuuri from Kyo Kara Maoh and he looks really good, heh I have it right next to me the way his eyes are he looks like he’s stareing at me There was a board from Harukanaru Toki no Naka de but I’m not interested in the series at all. There are a few pages about Kyo Kara Maoh, some in the manga/novel style and some about the PS2 game… I want the game, manga and novels here in English NOW. I don’t think the game will ever come but I have hope for the other two (Tokyopop PLEASE), but I bet the license costs a lot. Next there’s a bunch of pages about Tales of Saiunkoku with the four main guys and they all look very cute/pretty (I need to start watching this series again I feel guilty now).

After that there’s an article about the main character of Hack G.U and an interview with Takahiro Sakurai (ooh real man he’s not particularly good looking though. He doesn’t smile in any of the pictures, but that’s good… I’ve seen his teeth hehe of course I still love him!) Then there’s a art section (?) I liked the characters I THINK their names are Nagi, Rinrin, Takahashi and Mashimaro they were very cute. I also liked the little pictures by popular mangaka and artists, Clamp drew a picture of Watanuki and Doumeki, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto drew Shinji and Kaoru, the artist of the Eureka Seven manga drew Dominic and Renton, and five different artists drew Blood+ in the end I couldn’t figure out who all of them were, Yun Kouga drew Hagi and Riku, Hirotaka Kisaragi drew Kai and Hagi (looking very handsome heh), the artist who drew the character designs and the ending animation drew Moses and Karman, the other two pictures were Moses and the first Shiff who died (the guy with the long blonde hair) and Riku getting ready to bite in to Kai’s neck (hawt XD). Yeah so I was clearly obessed with that section.

Heh all that and I’m not even halfway though the magazine! There’s a cute section about brothers that totally spoiled me about Eureka Seven (I’ve only seen as far as the Adult Swim showings). Then there’s a part about new anime, this includes: Shounen Onmyouji, which looks pretty good, Code Geass, which I can’t wait for but the picture they have for it looks kind of ugly, La Corda D’Oro that I wasn’t even interested in at all until I saw these pictures… those guys are really cute, the Kekkaishi picture they have looks better then most of the art I’ve seen for the series so far. The next few pages are: Naota and Naoya from Night Head Genesis (looking cute), Kyouya, Tamaki and Tamaki’s dog (OT3 XP no not really…), and the two main guys from Gakuen Heaven (why does that series suck so much? Oh wait hehe).

Ah then I come to another section that I’m obsessed with. First the list of top 30 guys (most of whom I actually managed to figure out!). Why is Hagi so popular? He was the only one from Blood+ to make the list, he was 3. I was really suprised Rey from Gundam Seed placed so high (8) because I never see anything about him, he’s really cute so I figured he would be popular now I know he is and I’m glad. I was also suprised that Yuuri (from Kyo Kara Maoh) came in so low (6), most rankings I see usually have him at 3 or 4. Conrad (14) is more popular then Wolfram (19) :’( My favorite characters Ginko and Watanuki came in at 16 and 28, I was happy they made the list at all! Then there were a bunch of mini lists that drove me insane because I couldn’t figure out what any of them were for, really I looked at the pictures and I tried to figure out what all the characters in the lists had in common but I couldn’t!

There was a section about video games, some of them looked really nice. I wonder if any girl’s dateing sims with cute art will ever make it here? Tokemeki Memorial Girls Side 2 characters look kind of fugly but there were a couple of other games featured that look really pretty. There was a little bit about Jun Fukuyama who IS very cute (I liked him with long hair…) Then there were some pages about Gintama, Bleach, Prince of Tennis, Air Gear, Kiba. Then interviews with Masakazu Morita (Ichigo!!) and Tomokazu Sugita.

Shhhhhit I wrote SO much about it, much more then I though I would! I just started and kept going and going and going. Hah I don’t think anyone read that whole thing but I did have fun writing it. But now it’s really late!