Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou (manga)

Blogged by on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 10:50 pm in English, Manga (spoilers), Others | 0 Comments »

Been a while without any random manga posting action. Scans are pilling up and I didn’t have so much time for posting them lately. Anyway, today’s manga post is about the adaptation of an anime from this summer season : Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou.

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I happened to come across the first volume in the second-hand books some weeks ago, and oh nice coincidence volume 2 got released recently. I think this manga is kinda aimed to people familiar with the novels or the anime. But anyway, here’s a bit about the story for people who doesn’t know it : Koyomi Morishita is a highschool girl who’s often mistaken for an elementary school girl because of her short size and her klutziness. She fails at everything she does, and has hard time finding something she would good at. One day, she finds a flyer about a magic school, and decides to go find that school in order to learn magic, feeling that magic is finally the thing for her. There, she will learn of the existence of ‘Modern Magic’ (magic that can be used by anyone by using computers and codes), and finds out that she has a unique inner ability : she can dispel any code (magic spell) and turns them into metal washtub.

The anime ended not so long ago so this manga sure comes at the perfect time, bringing moar Yumiko-chan, Kaho-chan, Morishita and Misa-san goodness. Again it’s time for <3s delivery, baby. Starting right now.

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It starts with random chapters introducing all the characters. Mostly stories we got to see in the anime, such as the story when Moroshita is searching for a lost cat or when hunting ‘ghost’ at school. It gets lovely Yumiko x Morishita moments right in the begining~

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Kaho-chan XD

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Then it goes chronologically, with Morishita searching for the Anehara school after she saw the flyer.
And her first encounter with Yumiko-chan <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Nice art, I luv Yumiko-chan’s facial expressions a lot in this manga~

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Just like in the anime (IIRC), Yumiko attacks Morishita later when she learns she’s Misa-san’s disciple.
During the fight, Morishita’s scarf gets burned. The next day, Yumiko brings a new scarf for her… but Morishita got one already XD
Man those faces of Yumiko-chan are so damn lovely <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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The second half of the book is all about Kaho-chan, and how she actually became friends with Morishita~
Starting with that happy loli Kaho-chan scene they showed in the anime, when she witnesses the ‘Chrismas Shopper’.

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Kaho-chan makes her approach on Morishita when she first hears her bringing up ‘(modern) magic’ during a discussion with random classmates. Kaho-chan, who actually doesn’t really believe in magic, tells the others that Morishita is actually talking about programming.

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… because when Kaho-chan told her parents about what she saw that day, her parents told her that she was dreaming and that magic doesn’t exist. But still, SHE WANTS TO BELIEVE ! XD and since then she’s been quite obsessed by that song (Daisy Daisy).
M : “Iinchou, do you like that song ?”
K : “!”
M : “Ah sorry, I didn’t want to surprise you. I just wanted to thank you for earlier”
K : “Earlier ?”
M : “Yup. That suprised me when you stepped on my foot, but you lied for me, right ? They would surely think I’m weird, bringing up magic like that…”
K : “What about me ?”
M : “Eh ?”
K : “Didn’t you think that I would find you weird too ?”
M : “Well… Since you know a lot about computers, I thought you had heard about it already. Modern magic…”
K : (Modern Magic ? It was something I had never heard of. I never saw these words even on the internet)

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Then she starts sticking to Morishita for learning more about modern magic. Of course, Morishita is always willing to show some magic and make people believe in it…

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… and she activates the Chrismas Shopper.

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Misa-san appears, and Kaho-chan finally meets with the creator of the Chrismas Shopper~
End of volume 1~

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Volume 2 welcomes you with delicious Kaho-chan swimsuit~

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Showing various faces too~

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Kaho-chan finally gets to witness gendai mahou again when Morishita transforms the Chrismas Shopper code into washtubs.

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Kaho-chan’s rare smile~

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Kaho-chan’s rare smile (2) <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
K : “Morishita, for the second time in my life I’ve been extremely lucky”
M : “Eh ? What ?”
K : “That means I thank you for having shown me something great”
M : “Eh ? W- well then, can I consider you my friend ?” (<< earlier when Misa-san asked to Kaho-chan if she was a friend of Morishita, she said that they were just classmates, awww)
K : “Yes. But, don’t call me iinchou.”
M : “Ok, Kaho-chan !”
<3 <3 <3

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After the Kaho-chan arc, it gets non-animated random yet nice chapters.
Such as… onsen chapter ! <3

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Morishita accidentally drops everybody’s underwears.
But something is missing…

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Yumiko’s pantsu is nowhere to be found ! (Nopan Yumiko-chan… classic ? XD)

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But Morishita takes her responsabilities, and does her possible at protecting Yumiko’s ‘privacy’ XD

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Sneaking out when everybody’s asleep for finding a convini…
“CAN YOU SELL ME A PANTSU ?”
lol~

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Morishita is found out and has to tell to Yumiko what happened…
Y : “You lost my pantsu… That’s why you were so strange today !”
M : “Uuu I’m sorry Yumiko-chan, because of me you…”
Y : “Raise your head, Koyomi ! I’m not blaming you !”
M : “h- hai…”
Y : “Since… I WASN’T WEARING ANY PANTSU IN THE FIRST PLACE”

……………… KITAAAAAA ! ! ! ! XD

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Misa & Kaho : “(haitenai…)” (<that grows up to be one of the lines in anime I like to hear the most XD )
Since it comes from Morishita, Yumiko accepts the pantsu~
M : “Err… this pantsu…”
Y : “It’s a return gift for yesterday. That’s something I’m not wearing anymore so you can have it.”
M : “(which means… USED PANTSU)”
K : “Don’t worry, Morishita. It comes from somebody who doesn’t wear pantsu to begin with so…”
Y : “I- I DIDN’T PARTICULARLY BUY IT AS A PRESENT FOR HER !”
Yumiko is so tsundere for Morishita~
… and W00T FOR NOPAN ! XD
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
On the other hand, I’m pretty sure that Yumiko-chan, even if she never wears pantsu, would be glad to wear Morishita’s used pantsu~

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Swimsuits again~
Kaho : is that some Hamzawa-san cosplay ? XD
Anyway, cute~ Just like that SD Kaho-chan on the right~

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Morishita is all happy about her ‘new’ adult pantsu, but her classmates continue to consider her as a kid…
but Morishita is well-decided to show them how much of an adult she is, so she decides to find a baito so she can buy more adult underwears ! XD

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Yumiko hears the news from Kaho-chan, and decides to go check Morishita’s baito, cause she just can’t leave her alone~
I wub her worrying face a lot~

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And there aren’t so much jobs a girl can do in akiba…

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Yumiko mistakes that random maid cafe for the Dream (C) Club XD

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Not surprisingly, she ends up working there too so she can have an eye on her beloved Morishita~

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Not suprisingly again, she sucks at it.

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So it doesn’t take long before they get fired XD

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Yumiko finally notices her mistake…
Y : “Anyway, I don’t think it’s a good job for you !!” <<< looks so cute <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Seeing how Yumiko is worried about her, Morishita gives up about finding a baito~
Medetashi, medetashi~

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Random chapter again, with Morishita getting top grade at an exam thanks to a magical pencil she got from Misa-san… XD

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Since Morishita can’t hide the fact that she’s dumb any longer, Yumiko, who’s so thoughtful when it concerns Morishita, prepares a magical room in which the flow of time is magically altered (1 day is worth 1 year)… and she locks Morishita inside for 7 days for studying XD

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When she finally goes out from the room, she’s like the super saiyan of studies XD

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But you can so tell what happens next… XD

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Still with the random chapters, Morishita decides to go in the past by using a ghost script for giving to her loli self the flyer, so she would meet with Misa-san earlier and become a super magician~ XD
Of course, Yumiko is tagging along~

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Loli Yumiko appears too~

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But again, Morishita wants to show some magic to her loli self and ends up dispelling the ghost script.

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But it wasn’t totally in vain, cause the paper she gave to her loli self is actually the paper she found 6 years later, the one which made her to go find Misa-san XD
Medetashi medetashi~

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And then I see this :
Final Chapter : Last Days
… wait, WHAAAAAAAAAT ?!?!!!! Already ?! o_o
Where’s all the fights, the drama, that Jean-Jacques jerk and all the stuff about Digitalis and the Sorceress Library ? :o
Dondake… orz
Anyway, last chapter is about Morishita not showing up for several days because of some weird code Misa-san used on her, and of course Yumiko is worried like mad.

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That code actually locked Morishita’s ability to transform codes into washtubs.
… and thanks to this, she actually became the most powerful magician ever XD

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But at the same time, it caused a change in her personality : she wants to take over the world ! XD

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Morishita became deh new Sephiroth and strolls around in town controlling everybody’s mind so she can get everything she wants.

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M : “You and me, we can rule the world !”
Kaho-chan’s face in the bottom panel of the right page hurt me… still, I dunno if she’s sad because of what Morishita became, or because she hasn’t been chosen for ruling the world with her XD.

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And the manga ends with the inevitable fight between Yumiko and Morishita.
What will happen to Earth ?! The conclusion in volume 2 !
… Wait, that’s actually the reversed final fight of the anime XD

This manga was a nice addition to the anime, since it gets many ‘slice-of-life’ stories we didn’t get in the tv show. But Japan sure knows how to ruin my fun by doing short manga like that. I mean, I was actually expecting this manga to be my regular amount of Gendai Mahou goodness… orz

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Hayate no Gotoku – volume 21

Blogged by on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 3:46 pm in English, Hayate no Gotoku, Manga (spoilers) | 5 Comments »

New Hayate no Gotoku KITAAAAAAAAAA !!!

Do I ever have to mention again that HnG is the manga I’m most looking forward to everytimes ?

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And the nice thing is that this book kept all its promises (yeah, Hyakko #5… orz). I could even say that it was one of the best books of the serie so far. The plot is moving rather slowly (well good thing I would say, don’t want it to end XD), but it gets a well-balanced amount of everything that makes HnG so awesome : romance, lulz, and combat butler action (when did the later one happen for the last time, I wonder ? XD ).

Time for random scans, intense Hina-san goodness incoming.

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It’s me or Hamzawa-san looks hotter than usual ?

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Izumi seems to somewhat remember that Hayate was the boy she kissed when she was younger. GO GO IZUMI ENDING !!!
… well a harem ending is fine too (Seitokai no Ichizon~ XD )

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Wataru gets from his mother one of the mysterious stones that Hayate and Aika-san also own, and that’s the starting point of a turn of events that will make HnG going back into combat butler mode (kinda).

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Hina feels down and starts to reconsider her whole ‘I’m waiting Hayate to confess to me’ attitude, when Hayate suddenly shows up…
Hayate : “Hinagiku-san… Isn’t there anything you want to confess to me ?”
XD

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Continue to insist, Hayate ! Hinagiku is about to have an orgasm just with that. XD

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awww Delicious Miki was on the wrong side of the page… orz
Still, <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Mikado has changed the rule regarding the Sanzen’in inheritance : now the one who takes the stone from Hayate will get the inheritance. And some old chars are back for giving it a try XD

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After having his ass owned many times in a few seconds, Gilbert decides to challenge Hayate to a 2 vs 2 beach-volley match, and choses Hinagiku as Hayate’s partner, thinking that she’s the frailest from the crew… AMAI ZO, Gilbert-kun ! Don’t judge a girl by her breasts size, you fool.
Miki : “WHERE’S YOUR SWIMSUIT !!”
XD

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Because of a certain event from the previous volume, Hina believes that Hayate luvs fragile girls… and decides to act as one by losing on purpose… Kimoi~ XD (< watch/read Kannagi if you don’t get this)

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But after that this Gilbert jerk made fun of Hina’s cute DFC, she turns back into the Hina-san we love~

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But…
Gilbert : “There was a serious rule violation during this game : GIRLS MUST PLAY WITH SWIMSUIT!”
Miki’s reaction XD

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But Hina’s hatred of losing is stronger than everything~
POWER OF DF-… errr FLOWER !!!

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Hayate got his ass kicked again after saying how Hina shouldn’t strip like that…
Ha : “Yeah, that’s not my business indeed, but I’m worried because of your lack of self-consciousness”
Hi : “Self-conciousness ? about what ?”
Ha : “Well, about the fact that you’re a cute girl…”

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Right :
Hina : “(I’m so happy I can’t turn my face back to normal… !! ///////////////////////////)”
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Left : trying her best at making a normal face…
lol awesome face XD
Hina-san~ <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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It had to end with some hawt service~
… and someone to interfere XD

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Following Aika-san’s advice (the love master XD ), Hayate uses all the money he earned from his baito for inviting Hinagiku to a super-expensive restaurant, making this our incoming lovely Hina moment of the next volume~

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OMG AWESOME SISTER IS BACK
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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And she’s here for the stone of course~
Man I almost forgot that Hayate was a COMBAT butler XD
From what she’s saying, it’s by trying to steal this stone that Himegami (Nagi’s former butler) got fired.

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And Sister Sonia knows the perfect technique to use against a ‘Too Pure Pure Boy’ such as Hayate : she strips XD
<3 <3 <3 <3

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Sonia <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
I luv that fighting pose with the /////// all over her face XD <3

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But finally, Sonia does manage to steal the stone, and Hayate breaks…

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But thanks to Ayumu’s lovely smile, Hayate gets a grip of himself~
Hamzawa-san <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Warning : ‘Ayumu is one of the cutest things ever made’ moment.
Ayumu : “B- betsu ni horechattemo, ii n’da ze~” (You can fall in love with me, that’s no problem !)
HORECHATTA <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Hamzawa-san rapidly got one step forward Hinagiku again.

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A pic of 17 years-old Nagi-mama wearing swimsuit, found by Nagi in the pocket of Klaus’ jacket…
hawt~

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Hina-san will have the opportunity to get again one step forward Ayumu in next volume with that ‘restaurant event’. Not mentionning that she seems to be ready to put her pride aside and to confess to Hayate sometime. But I get the feeling that Athena won’t let this happen…

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There is no HnG book without loli Maria-san service ! XD

Next book is released ‘this winter’, without any more details… WANT MOAR HAYATE NOW Q_Q

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Hyakko – volume 5

Blogged by on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 1:53 pm in English, Hyakko, Manga (spoilers) | 1 Comment »

Wow… Been 9 months since the previous volume. FRIKKIN MISSED THIS MANGA.

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One thing I like about Hyakko is that the books themself are always made of win. This time, it gets a whole pic on the other side of the cover ! Never saw that before ! Nice stuff~
Ain’t really visible on this pic, but the back of the uncovered book gets none other than Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li XD

Volume 4 was epic on many points. As for this volume, it was… hmmm how could I say it…

Surprising.

Was epic, for sure. But not in a way you have known before. Well, that’s what make Hyakko’s quality, finally. But still… I guess it’s safe to consider this book as a ‘gaiden’ of the actual manga.

As always, read the comments below the random scans for more info, since I suck at making decent descriptions.

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These 4 characters are actually the main characters of the book. The book is divised in 4 chapters, each chapter focusing on one of them.
But , the 3 first chapters are actually an arc with a plot. PLOT ? IN MY HYAKKO ? :o

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Chapter 1 : Kirin
so the whole thing starts when Torako meets a cute girl that even yankees are afraid of : Kirin Muromachi (kirin : girafe, back with animal names again XD)

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Kirin is one of the ‘Four Emperors'(Shitennou), meaning one of the four biggest badasses in the school.
She actually intends to be the new seitokaichou, but her rival for the election is one of the other shitennou : Takaya (hawk).

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Takaya, helped by his right arm Kitsune, is ready to use any dirty trick for winning the election, like sending random guys attacking Kirin.

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Wait… did my Hyakko become some fighting manga ?
Even Torako ain’t sure about it anymore XD
Anyway, Kirin is <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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chapter 2 : Shishimaru
After having pwnd the random guys, Kirin gets to fight the mid-boss brought by Kitsune, the third of the shintennou guys who’s none other than our old erobaka Shishimaru XD

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Shishimaru wins the fight (like every stupid pervert, he’s uberly strong XD ), but…
Torako : “ah wait, you hit a girl ! SAITTEEEEE !!!”
Clean hit XD

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Chapter 3 : Takaya
Final chapter of the seitokai arc, with Takaya’s motives being revealed, and the final fight (?!?) for being the seitokaichou.

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Now, that’s really fighting manga.

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Chapter 4 : Kumahiko
The chapter involving the last of the shitennou guys is actually a good old crazy Hyakko chapter~
Torako decides to help Kuma, her childhood friend and obligatory ‘guy who looks scary but is actually a shy and kind guy’, to overcome his shyness toward girls.

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Training with Ayu…
She looks so cute with longer hair <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
… but please, DON’T GIVE THAT LOOK TO KITSUNE !!!
He’s not a guy for you T_T

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It gives also the opportunity to other chars to finally appear, such as Nene…
N : “Oh man, you’re big ! Your ***** must be quite awesome too ! How long ?”
lol Even this jerk Kitsune is blushing at this. XD

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Hitsugi & Inori~
XD

So yeah… I enjoyed it pretty much, but to be honest not as much of the previous ones. It’s just that I’m so a sucker for slice-of-life and iyashi-kei, and Hyakko was truly one of the best from this genre, so I can’t help feeling a bit disappointed. Anyway, looking forward to the next book~

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Lucky Star – volume 7

Blogged by on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 1:52 pm in English, Manga (spoilers), Others | 3 Comments »

We have waited 13 months for it, and it’s finally here. New Lucky Star fix.

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It’s always a bit difficult to find something to say about manga as famous as Lucky Star, because you guys already know what you will find in it. Slice-of-life, random situations, light humor, otaku talk… Everything you have known before is still here. But with uber awesome art.

Now, about what this book brings new in the RakiSutaverse (more details in the random scans’ comments as usual) :

– Konata and her crew are now college students (they have graduated at the end of volume 6). But actually, we don’t really get to see their campus life.

– Yutaka, Minami and Hiyori are now second-year. Sakuraba-sensei was the teacher in charge of their class during first-year, but for their second-year it’s Kuroi-sensei. So rejoice, Nanako fans, she’ll still be around.

– 2 new characters get introduced : Izumi Watase, and Patrica Martin (!?)

Ok, time for the random scans.

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Yoshimizu-sensei’s art is really at its best, making LS even more enjoyable to read. Just like volume 6, volume 7 contained a nice bunch of delicious sketches. The author has been doing lot of effort on the characters’ clothes, they all look very cool. And Kagamin never looked so beautiful <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Random cute Kagamin 4komas.
Right : Kagamin accidentally deletes all her mails.
Center : T “Cheer up, onee-chan…” K “What is done is done, it can’t be helped. Don’t worry about it”… but last panel awwww
Left : Tsukasa told everyone about it, and they’re sending mails to Kagamin.
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
OH MAN I MISSED YOU LUCKY STAR

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As I said, we don’t really get to see Kona-chan & co as college students. We just get some hints, such as the fact that everybody got separated, except Konata and Misao who ended up in the same university.

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Randomness~
First comic, first panel : I so looove Minami’s funny faces. The author is definitely the only one who can make Minami looks this funny and cute. People calling Minami a Nagato-character : you’re all so fucking wrong.
Last comic : Misao and Ayano call Kagamin ‘Hiiragi(-chan)’, but they respectively call Tsukasa ‘Tsukasa’ and ‘Hi-chan’. Kagami : “(Wait… isn’t there something wrong here ?)” XD
On a side note, there’re some unexpected developmenta between some characters. Like, Tsukasa and Ayano actually became great friends. There’s even a comic about them sending mails to each others a whole night, or going out just the two of them.

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So, here’s the whole deal about Patty in this book :
As a reminder, Patty is a character who’s been created for the drama cd. Tho KyoAni gave her decent time of appearance in the anime, the author just never knew how to use her in the actual manga. So, she appeared only a few times until now.
But seems like the author finally thought of a way of using her in the story : Patty is an exchange student who comes to live at Konata’s place. But doing so, the author has actually RESETED ALL THE CHARS’ MEMORIES OF PATTY O_o
She got introduced just as if she had never appeared before, and nobody knows her. She directly joins Yutaka’s class as a second year student, making all the time they spent as first-years as if it never happened.
Really weird… but heh, now Patty gets a reason to appear more often, so I guess it’s ok… ?

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random KOU-CHAN-SEMPAI MY LOVE moment.
First comic : Kou (who’s now a third year) find a love-letter in her desk… which is actually for Kagamin XD
Second comic : Hiyorin and Yama-san (new sub-char) see the name on the letter and believe that Kou is gay for Kagamin…
nice misunderstanding <3 XD

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Izumi Watase KITA
Izumi is an iinchou (most likely the one of Yutaka’s class, Hiyori calls her iinchou in the last comic) but she doesn’t want anyone to know that she’s an otaku… failed at it XD

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Tsukasa is asked by Kona-chan to get a sign from Akira-sama, but ends up giving her own name. XD
Tsukasa ttara~

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<3 <3 <3

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Various Hiyori faces and hairstyles in just three 4koma.
Second comic, first and third panels : <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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I’ve already arged many times and on many place about how I wanted to see LS characters in short stories instead of 4koma, even if it’s just once in a while. Looks like the author heard me, since he delivered a very vey VERY cute SHORT STORY, full of YutaMina goodness and awesome art.
The school is organizing some marathon event, and Yutaka and Minami get a light argument cause Yutaka doesn’t want Minami to give up on the race for looking after her. This thing was so damn cute… Hope to see more of these things in the future. GJ, Yoshimizu-sensei !

And I’m done already. I know, that was only a few scans, but since LS is all about randomness it’s hard to find comics which stand out and on which I have something to comment about.

I guess it’s about time for KyoAni to make another season, don’t you think ? The graduation event from volume 6 would come in handy for an ending to it~

Well, until then… I guess I will really have to get a PSP this chrismas for getting my next LS fix…

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Zettai Karen Children – vol. 16~18

Blogged by on Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 4:25 am in English, Manga (spoilers), Zettai Karen Children | 0 Comments »

Today’s random scans posting action is Zettai Karen Children. I’ve been following this manga since several months already and it’s been one of my favorites, so it was about time I start posting something about it.

Starting where the anime ended. Means, when ZA CHIRUDOREN ‘grow up’ (lol).

A few words about this manga for people who ain’t into it. ZKC is a shounen (I think ?) manga that we can somewhat summarize like this : X-men with lolis. In a world in which ESPers live among normal people, japanese government has created a group called BABEL that hire ESPers for fighting against terrorists and criminals (humans or ESPers). And that BABEL group happens to have the three most powerful ESPers in the world (Level 7) working for them. But these three level 7 ESPers are actually three little girls with horrible personalities. XD Then, it’s mostly a succession of lulz and fighting action, with a bit of seriousness when they eventually meet other ESPer groups who want to start a war between ESPers and normal people.

Ok now time for the scans~

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Volume 16. And so, ZA CHIRUDOREN graduated from being ZA CHIRUDOREN~

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Right page : so people can see one last time how they looked like before…
Lolicons shed many tears XD

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Chisato-chan <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Honestly, the moeness of this manga has been MULTIPLIED BY 1000 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Wait a second… THEY’RE 12 YEARS OLD !?
LOL~
No wonder the other characters haven’t changed one bit, the story jumped only 2 years forward ^^;
When I saw the first time how they look like now, and that there are now middle-schooler, I thought they had at least 15 ^^;
They’re still ZA CHIRUDOREN finally XD

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So middle-schoolers CHIRUDOREN’s adventures start with an adorable Aoi-chan chapter, which makes me think again that Aoi-chan is definitely the one for Minamoto. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Bath scenes are now epic.

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New grade, new classmate : Yuuri Kumoi.
And her first name suits her perfectly <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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“KUSO, MOETE SHIMAU !!!”
XD
Shit, I’ve been moe’d too XD
On a side note : Kaoru turns girls gay <3 <3 <3

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Random sekuhara~
Kaoru : “Chisato-chan, thanks for being born ! Thanks for having grown up !”
XD

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Reversed sekuhara ! XD

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Volume 17 starts with 12 years old Naomi.
For some reason 12 years old Naomi looks as young as 10 years old CHIRUDOREN, and 12 years old CHIRUDOREN looks almost as old as the actual Naomi… lol

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Yuuri-san is LOVE.
Right : “It’s so nice… to have friends~”
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Left : these o_o and ;_; faces are <3 <3 <3

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Kaoru asked Sakaki to hit on a girl for her (but he failed XD ).
Minamoto is sure a lucky guy.
Must be nice to have a girl who’s lesbian, and straight for you only~

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Yuuri-san is LOVE. (2)
Chisato : “But… Can I put it in a aquarium ? I feel bad for it, being in such a small place. I want to put it in a large aquarium, with lot of medaka (?). I’m sure it would prefer to be with lot of friend~”
Yuuri-san : “yeah… you’re right”
SO HUGGABLE, YUURI-SAN !
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Prelude to epic arc.
The “Minamoto gors back to his hometown for a omiai” arc XD

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Minamoto received a phone call from his mom.
A : “By the way, we’ve yet to meet Minamoto-han’s family…”
M : “Well, there isn’t any reason for you to meet my family…”
K : “WHY !? SHE’S THE PERSON WHO WILL BECOME OUR MOTHER-IN-LAW !?”
M : “LIKE HELL ! And wait, “OUR” !? Marrying all of you, what heretic doctrine is that ?!” (<< litt.)
S : “So you are actually ok to marry one of us ?”
A : “YOSH ! LET’S JANKEN !”
I approve of that doctrine, religion or whatever that Kaoruism is called.

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Right : Na*i Shiho & Aoi, ready to ruin Minamoto’s omiai. Kaoru on the other hand is in yuuutsu mode during all the arc.
Left : random awesome reaction. And Kaoru is still all “nan darou… sono kimochi ?!”

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Minamoto-mama~

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Mio-chan KITAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!
And Kazura-chan !!!!
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Mama : “So how about one of you becoming his bride ? The three of you if you want to !!”
S : “IT’S OK !?”
A : “Okaa-han !”
Minamoto-mama approves the Kaoru doctrine.

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I see ero-doujin material here.
Continuation in volume 17~

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Volume 18. For the first time, cover doesn’t get ZA CHIRUDOREN o_o
well Pandora is ok but…  NO MIO AND KAZURA ? wtf
Contains also that Kaoru panel Aya Hirano worked on… in the omake part of the manga XD

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Actually, have nothing to post about this volume ’cause it was fights, revelent moments, and fights.
(゜∇゜)b : Shiho-chan. Gets a bit more of spotlight than the other chirudoren, and offers some many lovely moments. She still looks pretty cute too (seeing how she will look so slutty once adult saddens me a lot). Nggg… Definitely can’t choose a fav between Shiho and Aoi >_<
(-_-)p : Mio-chan. Doesn’t appear. The main theme of the book is ‘Pandora is back’ tho, but she just doesn’t appear. Nor Kazura-chan. orz

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The omake page with the panel Aya Hirano worked on… XD

Done. Actually, I’ve just started to watch the anime version. I like the OP. Pretty catchy, and the fact that it’s being sung by real 10~12 years old cracks me up. XD

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Also, just got my hand on the new Lucky Star and iM@S Break books. Also waiting for the new Nyan Koi and Hyakko, and the new Hayate no Gotoku got released in japan. Epic month !

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Sora no Manimani – volume 6

Blogged by on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 10:13 pm in English, Manga (spoilers), Sora no Manimani | 0 Comments »

Again, it’s time for some SoraMani random scans posting action.

Volume 6 was all about the crew’s summer vacation. It was (as usual) filled with intense love & piece, iyashi-kei, and a bit of melancholy with some of the characters wondering about what they would do after graduation, about their future and stuffs. A very nice book which reminded of Hyakko volume 4.

Be careful, incoming scans contains major dose of moe.

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Starts with obligatory Tanabata chapter and yukata service~
The girl on the left, next to Hime’s friends Emiri and Mayu, is Aiko. She appeared several times before, and she’s actually one of the cutest little things of this manga. But since she’s actually dating that horrible chonmage guy, I never felt like posting pics of her before… >_>
Anyway, awesome Hime chapter <3 <3 <3 <3

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After that, it gets a very large part about the network going on obligatory camp, during which they are making their very own hand-made telescope.
Just like in the previous volume with Akina, one of the numerous super cute sub-characters gets spotlight in this book, and gets many many love points.
So this time, it’s An-san.
She appeared many times before. She’s the stars otaku combi’s kouhai. She became the new ‘leader’ of the network after that Oumi-tan and the otaku combi graduated. And let me tell you straight : she fills this book with delicate lovelyness and gentle moe.
The new #1 SoraMani super lovely sub-chara. AN-SAN IS PURE IMMACULATE LOVE.
On a side note, we get a new otaku duo~

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An-san is going to attack.
OMG WHO’S THE LUCKY GUY ?!

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omg she loves Saku.
*love points go up*
Yeah, I must have a fetish for girls who have one-sided love with the male lead and 0% chance to get him…
An-san <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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wait… WHAT !!!!
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO AN-SAN, YOU JERK !!!! (<<< me and Edogawa)
Answer in volume 6 XD
and moar An-san goodness inside~

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3 random An-san moments, shining with innocent cuteness.

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Former #1 SoraMani super lovely sub-chara Akina (she gratuated so she’s out of rank now) making a short appearance for looking over her kouhai-tachi.

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An-san is SoraMani’s Ayumu : futsuu de suteki.
She gets that charm that some ‘ordinary’ girls have.
MAI ENJE~RU

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Summer camp arc ends with random author talk, and the couple of most lovely SoraMani sub-chars (well Aiko is out of rank too since she has a guy…)

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After that we get to see everybody’s summer vacation, in the same fashion that in Hyakko #4.
Oumi-tan saabisu~
… Roma-buchou, you lucky bastard ! XD

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Edogawa-imouto (Miku) KITAAAAAAAAA !!!!!

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Otanjoubi omedetou Saku~
August 15th ! just like me ! XD

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And finally, obligatory “Fuumin has one of the most charming smiles in manga history” moment.
HIME-CHAAAAAAAAN T_T
Sorry… sorry but how can you cannot root for Fuumin when seeing this ? T_T

So, it was actually the last released book. Catched up with releases in japan. Means no moar random scans regarding SoraMani until a next volume gets released. Since the anime ended, where am I getting my SoraMani fix now ? T_T

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Sora no Manimani – volume 5

Blogged by on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 3:28 am in English, Manga (spoilers), Sora no Manimani | 2 Comments »

Okay I’ve read volume 5 about a week ago, so it’s about time I throw some random scans.

Nothing to say in particular about it, nor many scans to post. A school year ends, a new one begins. Some characters graduates and leaves the story, and some new characters are introduced. Well, there isn’t as many new characters as in previous volumes though. It’s some kind of tradition in each SoraMani volumes to bring many cuties, but this book only contained one new cutie, surprisingly enough.

No drama, a bit of melancholy when seeing some of characters parting with the crew, but as always many many MANY relaxing love & piece.

I guess it’s enough for an intro.

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Continuing the trip in mountains that started in previous volume, and it starts with onsen saabisu~ \o/
OTOME NO RAKUEN

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Akina-chaaaaan <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Sayo-chaaaan <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Mai Enje~ru <3 <3 <3

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Spring is approaching, means graduation time for many chars, including the awesome stars otaku duo :/
One last pic as a tribute~
AKINA MY LOVE

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New grade, and Hime-chan is particularly motivated about getting new members !
Because well… She ended up being in a different class than Saku, so she does her best for not letting the club to be disbanded XD

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Random super cute literature club trio panel~

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And since it’s new grade, it means new chars !
And Astronomy Club gets its new cutie : Emi-chan.
But one problem : She doesn’t want to join the Astronomy club, but the Earth Science club XD (reminder : Earth Science club doesn’t exist anymore and became the Astronomy club)

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Most of the time, Emi-chan gets the same plain face, but her funny faces are priceless~ XD <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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The crew gets baito for buying a telescope~
TELL ME THE ADRESS OF THAT FAMILY RESTAURANT PLEASE

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Again, when I see such a smile I can’t help thinking for a short moment that Fuumin is the one for Saku.
One of the most charming smile in manga history, I tell you.
FUUMIN <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Awesome~ XD
Déjà-vu !?! XD

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H : “Emi-chan you seems to be ok too, do you want to drink mine ?”
E : vomits
lol~

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Last page of the book.
Saku : “(Haruko-san, you’re mistakiiiing !!!)”
hahaha~

One more book before catching up with japan… orz

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Ani Koi – volume 1

Blogged by on Sunday September 20th, 2009 at 6:15 pm in Ani Koi, English, Manga (spoilers) | 2 Comments »

It’s been a while that I haven’t bought something new.

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Ani Koi (アニコイ)

No, that ain’t a bro-con manga. AniKoi stands for ‘Anime mitai ni Koi shitai’ (I want to live a love story like the ones in anime). This is a manga I saw in an advertising paper some months ago, and when it has been released last week at the japanese library I haven’t waited long before buying it. Why ? ‘Cause personally, I’m totally fond of otaku-related manga such as Genshiken or Otaku no Musume-san.

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Well, the full title tells enough about the story. The main character is a cute looking guy who happens to be a hardcore otaku. He has a dream that I think we otaku have all : he wants his life to be like a rabukome anime. I finally gave a read at this book yesterday, and I can say that it’s a very promising manga.

I ended up scanning a nice bunch from it. So just as I usually do for new manga, I’ll be posting random scans while adding notes about the story, letting you choose if it can be relevent to your interests or not, instead of trying to convince you by any prices to read it.

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The main guy, Takatoki. Quite popular because of his cute face, but he is only interested in a love like the ones in anime, an Ani Koi~
If you’re wondering about the dragon, it’s his imaginary ‘friend’, and the actual narrator of the story.

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His childhood friend Chiyoko, that everyone misread as Inoko.
Even her supposed childhood friend XD
But that’s some kind of a recurrent gag since everybody calls her with a different name everytime~
Yankee girl with kansai accent, and the strongest badass in town XD

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A cute girl ? being cornered by two yankees ?
TYPICAL RABUKOME ANIME SITUATION KITA~ !

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Right page : Takatoki plans to escape with the girl (yeah he’s not really a courageous guy XD), but…
left page : bad guys are already being pwnd by Chiyoko XD

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x : “… You’re letting the girl fight alone ?”
T : “Yup !”
x : “(what pure eyes…)”
T : “Don’t worry, she’s a gorilla anyway~”
x : “I see… But I can’t escape. My favorite anime hero wouldn’t do such a thing…”
T : “Eh ?”
x : “Those yankees were actually picking on middle-schoolers, and I couldn’t forgive it…”
“… so I wanted an ‘Ani Koi'”

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But her ‘Ani Koi’ is a bit different… XD
It doesn’t stand for “Anime mitai ni Koi shitai”, but “Anime mitai ni Koto shitai'” (I want to do things characters in anime do) XD

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Seeing such a peculiar girl, Takatoki immediately grows love for her. XD

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The next day, Takatoki searches for the girl, but he can’t remember her name, nor her face without fake eyebrows XD
(As you have noticed, he’s our good ol’helpless guy)

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They come across a jerk who is recruiting members for his club, by attacking people with a shinai.
Chiyoko is the only one avoiding the attack successfully, so the guy invites Chiyoko to join his club~
You can guess her answer~ :p

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And hawt seitokaichou appears~
But man… Her name is Anjolinajolie Azuchi XD (typo intended)
Seriously !? XD
I thought it was some kind of nickname related to her hawtness, but that’s her true firstname indeed XD
Everybody calls her Jolina (except the jerk here who calls her Angeliko).
But man… lol XD

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The weird guy is actually the Anime Club President, Fumon Jionji (awesome name again XD ).
I dunno about the drama CD (yup there’s one), but (my) image CV : Katsuyuki Konishi XD (Kamina in Gurren Lagann)

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Next day again, Chiyoko finds out that the weird cosplay girl is actually a girl from their school, Yotsugi Asazuma.

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doki

Is Jolina actually in love with Jionji ?! :o

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Chiyoko finally finds Yotsugi… and wants to make her disappear so she can have Takatoki all for herself XD

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Round 1, FIGHT !
But…

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TYPICAL RABUKOME ANIME SITUATION KITA~ ! (2)

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But again things don’t turn as Takatoki expected XD
Not a surprise, Yotsugi is a member of the anime club~
… and they still want Chiyoko to join ! (yeah, Takatoki is just an ‘extra’ to them XD )

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Chiyoko is ready to join the club for making her guy happy~
She reminds me of Kanako from Nyan Koi a lot <3

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Another (epic) attempt from the anime club at recruiting Chiyoko~
crash
x : “Don’t worry, it happens all the time~”
C : “All the time !!?”
J : “N- No need to worry, Imoko(?)-kun… Things like that may happens, so my body is well-trained !”
T : “By the way, that’s not the case for me (I’m a girl after all)”
lol~
We also get to see the 2 other members of the anime club : Natsuko the happy-fatty-chan and Fuyuko the osage-meganekko.

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The duo finally joins, but they’re still short on members.
So they randomly pick up a passing-by cool-megane-kun XD
By the way Natsuko and Fuyuko are actually twin sisters. XD

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Good (?) pick, since the guy is actually an elitist otaku (you know, those guys who love ghibli films, Monster and ‘high-quality’ anime, and despite moe anime)

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They’re all wrong in their head, but they do have a serious project for the bunkasai though :
making their own animation.
Book end here~

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Back of the book.
I must confess that the ‘awesome gundam cosplay’ reference was the thing that definitely made me think ‘MUST GET THIS BOOK’ XD

This book reminded me of Genshiken on many points. But mainly as the fact that finally, the main character isn’t the male lead Takatoki, but Chiyoko. Just like Saki in Genshiken, she’s a ‘normal’ girl who’s in love with an otaku, and eventually has to stick with a bunch of freaks. And I felt like the manga was focusing a bit more on that than on Takatoki’s romance(s). After all, that’s Chiyoko the anime club wants, not Takatoki. XD

But well… unlike Genshiken, Ani Koi is way more crazier, less realistic and gets more of rabukome elements, so no that ain’t Genshiken ripoff. Anyway, it was a very nice read, and I’m looking forward the next volume~

One last thing. You can call me sick, but because every girls in manga are cute and have nice bodies, let me say this : NATSUKO-CHAN MOEEEE~ ! XD

No seriously, it’s fun to see a fatty-chan in a manga once in a while. XD

:beer:

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Sora no Manimani (volume 1 to 4)

Blogged by on Friday September 4th, 2009 at 5:05 pm in Anime (spoilers), English, Manga (spoilers), Sora no Manimani | 2 Comments »

Today’s random scans posting action is about a manga I fell in love with recently, which also is actually being animated : Sora no Manimani.

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I decided to check this manga when I saw the news about it being animated about 3 months ago in Newtype. Well, I will start by saying this :

If you’re not already reading/watching this, you fail.

I won’t talk about the story ’cause well… it actually doesn’t get much of a story. This is a ‘slice-of-life’ manga about an astronomy club, an iyashi-kei manga filled with Love & Piece, comedy, and a very bit of drama. If you’re into this, you just can’t miss it.

And more importantly… You never saw such a high concentration of cute girls in a manga in you life, EVAR. From the main characters, to the unnamed background sub-characters, this manga gets nothing but lovely female characters.

Ok, I guess it’s enough for an introduction. Now let’s spread many <3s as usual~

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Mihoshi, the adorable genki baka who’s crazy about stars~
Saku, the main guy, is some kind of mix of Kyon and Yuuki (genderswapped Nagato) : a ‘tsukkomi’ bookworm who joins the astronomy club (not totally) against his will.

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Sayo, Mihoshi’s best friend.
SO BEAUTIFUL <3 <3 <3

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And then comes my fav character so far, Hime-chan.
MY ANGEL <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Buchou : “Actually, they’re not going out together…”
Hime : “EH ?”
Hime : “Buchou-san, I’m joining the astronomy club !”
XD <3
oh man that face of her on the right page… <3 <3 <3

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It gets also some hawt seitokaichou, Kotozuka-sempai, aka Fuumin~
<3 <3 <3

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Epic intro page for epic chapter. Hime XD

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Right page : <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Mihoshi : “If you dress like that, you won’t complain if you get attacked… by mosquitos !!!”
lol~

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Sayocchi <3 <3 <3
Well, sadly enough that’s pretty unlikely that she will join the love equation tho… yeah, I was hoping it would become harem manga…

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The girl in the very first panel is Yoko, some lovely huge random classmate who appears occasionally. So damn cute <3
Also, she’s in love with the main guy~

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Saku escapes from club’s activities, and the bookworm meets the bookworm~
I feel something nice is happening~
… not mentionning that the seitoukaichou is actually astronomy club’s natural enemy XD

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Hime~ <3 <3 <3 <3
Her onee-san should tell her that when wearing pajamas, pants are unnecessary. Pajama-shita nante kazari desu, erai hito ni wa sore ga wakaranai no desu.

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End of volume 1~
Right page, bottom right panel : DEH LOVE <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
I’m glad I picked up that manga~

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Back cover : a hint about how will evolve the love equation ?
Anyway, many <3s

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Volume 2, and SoraMani continues to get cute background characters, such as Hime’s friends Emiri (<3 <3 <3 <3 <3< 3) and Mayu (<3 <3 <3).

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Mihoshi, so adorable~
naisu sukkinshippu~

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Hime~ XD
lulz and many <3s

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SAYOCHIN IS HAWT
Left pages : moar cute background chars : Izumi-san (short hair) and Yoshinari-san (long hair) from the literature club.
Yoshinari-san <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Hime : SO CUTE <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Emiri <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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One thing got confirmed in this second volume : Fuumin is my second fav <3

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Volume 3, and new cute girls just never stop to appear XD
Saku’s best (?) friend’s imouto, Miku-chan.
SO DAMN CUTE <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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The crew starts sharing activities with other schools’ astronomy club, which means even more cute girls appearing~
Such as Ayumi, aka Oumi-tan.
Man those tsurime of her are hawt <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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There are also these 2 ‘stars otaku’ (?) from an all-girl school.
Instantly grew love for the one with long dark hair. <3

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But still… Hime-chan is just the BEST.
Most epic Hime-chan moment EVAR XD
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Omake pages are Oumi-tan flashback.
aww she was all boyish before~

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Volume 4, that I’ve just finished to read.
As always, was overflowing with intense Love & Piece~
Obligatory “Main guy bumps into the meganekko and accidentally breaks her glasses” chapter XD

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She can’t see anything without her glasses~
Right page, bottom right panel : <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Even though Hime is my fav, I can’t help but feel for a short moment that Fuumin should be the one for Saku when she comes up with such a smile.

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Square glasses~
Cute ! <3
Right page, upper right panel : Yoshinari-san <3 <3 <3 <3

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Mihoshi is constantly in need for skinship, that’s why I luv her so much~
Mihoshi x Hime <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Ok, starting here it’s all about my beloved star otaku XD
Boku no mai enje~ru~

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Right page : she eventually gets a proper introduction !
Her name is Akina~
Awesome otaku girl B is Minami (she’s called by her last name for some reason).
Left page : as you can expect from SoraMani, Minami is actually quite a beauty too~

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nyari~
<3

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And well yeah, they’re stars otaku XD
omg Akina luvs deh GARness XD

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Funny face~

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She also appears on the back cover !
Yay colors~

6 books have been released so far. See ya soon with volume 5~

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As I said at the beginning of this post, the anime is actually being aired. I don’t find the character design to be as cute as in the manga, but that’s still a very cute and enjoyable show. I like the opening very much~

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Hime-chan anime version <3

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Sayo is still totally hawt and beautiful in the anime <3 <3 <3

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Anime gets also Youko-tan~

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<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Left pic : The literature club = Otome no rakuen ! <3
Right pic : Yoshinari-san, right in the middle. She actually gets some nice boobage XD <3 <3 <3 <3
Some another very cute girl also appeared on the right, a bit separated from the others for some reason.

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Love & Piece~

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MY ANGEL !

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The way this scene was animated reminded me of THIS. XD

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ザ・lovely sub-characters.
Yoshinari-san <3 <3 <3
Emiri looks particularly cute with these red cheeks <3
… but I thought she was actually blonde. :o (her hair aren’t colored in the manga). I wish Edogama-imouto Miku-chan got a proper introduction like in the manga…

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Fuumin is totally HAWT.
Kudos to her seiyuu Ami Koshimizu (Tenma in School Rumble), great work.

That was the 100th post of this blog~

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the iDOLM@STER >>>relations

Blogged by on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 at 6:18 pm in English, Manga (spoilers), Others | 3 Comments »

Some weeks ago, I came across the first volume of a iM@S manga at Book-Off.

Since I wasn’t expecting anything good from it, I put that book way back in my reading queue, and I finally gave it a read some days ago.

As a iM@S fanboy, I had to make a post about it. And well, made already a post about ‘Break !’ (see here) so I had to make a post about this one too.

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‘relations’ is a 2 volumes-long manga which as been released last year. The art isn’t as good as in ‘Break’, and it gets 0 service, but I must say that I found the story way, WAY better. Yup, surprisingly enough, the story is rather interesting, making it the best iM@S related manga I’ve read so far.

As I did for ‘Break’, I won’t go for a long summary of the story, so I’ll just throw the usual random scans with comments.

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Unlike ‘Break’, ‘relations’ features all the idols from the game, but the main character is actually Miki.

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A short time after having recruited Miki, Producer-san decides to make her start as a member of a trio unit, the ‘Namco Angels’, with Iori and Yukiho.
Surprisingly, the author’s choice works and it ends up being a rather cute trio~, GJ !

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In this manga, Chihaya is already a top idol, nicknamed ‘the idol who never smiles’. She was Producer-san’s former protégé, but they ‘broke up’ for some mysterious reason, which is apparantly why she constantly has this sad face.

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On the other side, Producer-san decides to use her new protégé’s bright smile as her #1 charm point (who said that her main charm point was her breasts ?).

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But when the trio finally gets some popularity, Producer-san decides to disband it so Miki can make her solo debut.

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Then, Miki starts feeling all lonely, and misses Iori and Yukiho. That was cute~

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But after some words from her two friends, Miki finally gets a grip of herself.
M : ” ‘Top Idol’ is the summit, right ?”
P : “?”
M : “It’s the best, right ?”
P : “Well, yeah.”
M : “Everybody will have to do what I say, right ?”
P : “Well… That’s a bad way to put it, but yeah in this business you can have this kind of power…”
M : “Then, I’ll become a Top Idol ! You said that I should have an objective ? Then I’ll become a Top idol, I’ll become famous enough to be able to go against your decisions, and reform the Namco Angels. That’s my objective.”
Man that was kind of cool~
Miki kakko ii <3

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The ‘Idol Master Grand Prix’ is approaching, and (original) rival characters start to appear !
That’s all for the first half of the book. You will have to check this book for more~

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At the very end of the book, we get to see what actually happened between Chihaya and Producer-san.
Chihaya is a genius who lives only for the music, but because of that she always has been alone. One day, a beginner producer joins the Namco prod., and becomes the one in charge of Chihaya.

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This new producer actually has some knowledge about music, and Chihaya finally finds somebody she can share her passion with.
Right page, second panel : CHIHAYA~ !!! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Dere Chihaya KITA ! This book gets many win points just with this scene~

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But because of Chihaya’s high abilities, Producer-san starts to feel useless, and says to Chihaya that she doesn’t need him anymore.
“To be saved once and then be dropped again, is a much deeper solitude.”
Chihaya~ ;_;

From here starts a race for the Idol Master Grand Prix between the ‘Egao no Tensai’ and the ‘Egao no nai idol’~

That’s all for this book. It gets more goodness so be sure to check it if you’re a iM@S fan. I’m leaving to japan soon so I don’t feel like spending money ordering the second book, but I really look forward to it and hope I will come across it at Book-off~

See ya~

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