Sunday, December 9, 2007

   [Manga] Hatsu Koi Shimai Chapter 7
[Posted @ 9:00 PM]
Is this the climax? By the way, the release of Volume 1, Hatsu Koi Shimai [First Love Sisters] on paper by Seven Seas Entertainment would be out on 15th December 2007, which is this coming friday! Ordered yours yet?

Disclaimer:

As this series is licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC, please buy your own copy to show your support for the mangaka and Seven Seas so that they could licensed probably more shoujo-ai mangas for us =).

I do not scan, so I don't claim credit for it, so please do not ask me where I got my scans. PLEASE.

Click on the scans and a new window will open and bring you to the larger and clearer version.

Please do not hotlink on forums, just paste my blog url and direct them to the Manga Page section, thanks.



Recapturing from the previous chapter, Chika was sent home via Touko-sensei's bike. A while later, Touko dropped Chika in front of her house, Chika thanked Touko-sensei for sending her home. Touko happily replied that there's no need for Chika to act so formal with her even though they just met for a day lol. Touko then teased Chika by asking if it's Chika's first time on a bike with another person and that means ... she's Chika's first person isn't it? [LoL, Nice play of words here.] Chika didn't get it at first but when she got it lol, she hollered at Touko-sensei for teasing her.

In her mind, Chika was thinking that her first love is Haruna and she wanted to give all her first times to only Haruna. But she added, she couldn't imagine Haruna riding a motorcycle lol. Touko merely smiled and left. Chika thought about the many incidents that day, riding a motorcycle, been carried like a princess by Touko-sensei ... and Haruna's compliment that she's cute in her summer uniform. She began thinking how she's going to face Haruna the next day, regretting a little for accepting Touko's offer.



- Haruna's Flashback - Haruna's calling out to her senpai [senior] to wait for her. Facing the senpai, Haruna questioned how the senpai felt about her, is it merely an innocent kouhai [junior]? But Haruna's feelings for her senpai's ... before Haruna could continue, the senpai in her dream asked if Haruna wanted to hear her answer and the answer's ...

Haruna started crying out in her sleep and saw Akiho's worried face in front of her and realized she's having a bad dream. Akiho asked if Haruna's alright, Haruna just thanked Akiho and left at that. After Akiho left the room, Haruna cried to herself as she haven't been getting this dream after meeting Chika.



The next day, Akiho met up with the poor Chika who had been suffering from the glares of Touko's fangirls that morning lol. Akiho noticed Chika's more intimate reference to Touko and teased her. Chika then asked about Haruna who was not around, Akiho replied that Haruna had slight headache and would be coming to school later and adviced the worried Chika to probably check out Haruna at lunch time. During homeroom, it was announced that they would be having a cultural ceremony next month and the first year classes would be paired with the second year classes to put up a performance.

Chika and Akiho were delighted because they would paired with Haruna's class. Chiori asked for a volunteer in the class as committee member for the event, noone wanted to do it lol. Touko-sensei tried to get Chika to do it by whispering in her ear that she's the advisor for the selected committee member. Chika was weeping how disconcerting it felt while Akiho was pissed at Touko for teasing Chika.



In a moment of anger, Akiho volunteered to be the committee member and walked to the front. Touko smiled and revealed herself to be the advisor for the selected committee member, earning many protests from the fangirls lol. During lunch time, Chika went to Haruna's classroom to look for her but she wasn't around and was informed by Miyu that Haruna's always went to somewhere else during lunch. Chika happily went to their secret garden to look for Haruna when she saw the figure in a distance and wanted to call out to her.

She noticed that Haruna's crying and so didn't talked to her. As the girls were changing classes, Chika thought to herself that she couldn't forget the lonely expression Haruna's face and that expression was back again. Chika then daydreamed that probably Haruna felt hurt that she's chummy with Touko-sensei and regretted for not talking to Haruna ealier. Chika then decided to explain to Haruna after school then.



After school when Chika went to look for Haruna, Miyu told Chika that she went home after lunch break. Miyu expressed her thanks to Chika for changing Haruna to a more friendly and happy person as compared to last year when they were in the theatre club. Chika was really surprised that Haruna was in a club and felt that she knew nothing much of Haruna at all.

Meanwhile, Akiho and Touko were together for the duties of the cultural ceremony committee member and advisor respectively. Touko with a smile told Akiho that she's also the acting advisor for the library club lol. While walking, Touko teasingly asked Akiho not to display such apparent dislike for her lol. Akiho told Touko that she's not like Chika and wouldn't easily trust such a sly person like Touko.



Touko grinned and praised Akiho for being smart enough to make that judgement. Akiho's pissed that Touko actually admitted and demanded the reason why she's creating trouble for Chika and if it's Touko's sick pleasure to see people suffer. Touko didn't answer Akiho's questions and questioned back Akiho's feelings towards Chika. With that, Touko left, leaving Akiho startled and confused.

The next day, Chika didn't sleep as she was heavy with worries. Just then, Akiho greeted Chika along with Haruna who apologized to Chika for making her worry and with a smile thanked her. Chika was delighted at Haruna's smile and thought to herself happily that it's the usual Haruna! Akiho took in the scene with a envious/sheepish smile and tried to change the subject by telling them that they had decided what performance for their collaboration with the second years.



Chika noticed that Haruna's bag looked heavy, Haruna replied that she's having PE and arts classes so there's more stuff. Chika taking in consideration of Haruna's weak condition, offered to take her bag. When Chika placed her hand on Haruna's, Haruna slapped Chika's hand away while yelling, 'No!'. Both Akiho and Chika were stunned by Haruna's display. Haruna apologized, worked up an excuse of surprise for her behaviour and left.

Staring at Haruna's retreating back, Chika thought to herself that she could chase and chase after Haruna's back but couldn't help but wonder how long is the distance between her and Haruna. - END of Chapter 7 -

Aw man, that was a heavy chapter, Touko revealed herself to be the 'evil villian' her but ... is she really the 'evil' one? How would Chika react to the brush off her first love gave to her? Await Chapter 8 XD.

Random rantings;
Sorry for the long [almost a month] wait for Chapter 7 ... lol, I was simply procrastinating again ... sighh. Feeling fucking pissed these few days cos I just realized a few days ago after amazon.com shipped my order that vPOST closed the USA address I placed as my shipping address. I have like totally no idea! Even after I submited my invoice to vPOSTUSA, it's like they didn't even check what I sent to them or didn't bothered to help check that I had placed the old/unusable address.

Maybe, maybe, I could had changed the shipping address on time ... cos it took two days for amazon to process that shipping stuff. Oh well, I emailed them asking what I should do or maybe at least please process my order before they closed their address lol, because I would really really really love to get my stuff before Christmas. Besides, I worry for the Burst Angel Box Set which was at 50% discount!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Oh well, you can say it's my own mistake that I didn't read the big important thingy for members on their site or what but ... what's done, was done, all I could do is weep, pout and wish for a miracle. It seemed like amazon.com issue a full refund for undeliverable packages ... I reckon that's some kind of consolation in some way, I just want the DVDs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Signing off @ 10:25 PM]

PS: I think EVERYONE should know this;

The Melanchony of Haruhi Suzumiya Manga Licensed By Chuang Yi? It's truly christmas!
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Monday, December 3, 2007

   Negima!! Live Action Drama Ep9 - Baka Rangers!
[Posted @ 5:05 PM]
LOL, the special Baka Ranger OP's the BOMB, I tell you, I was laughing my guts out.

I don't intend to summarize this episode ... just wanna share the Baka Rangers screenshots in the episode cos LOL it's sooo funny lol.


LoL, I kept thinking about Power Rangers ...



But then, it's like not so funny now after laughing so much haha.

[Signing off @ 5:35 PM]
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Saturday, December 1, 2007

   Candy™Boy PV by MEILIN
[Posted @ 10:07 PM]
From the comments I got in my first post about ONA, 'Candy™Boy', I'm glad to see it pretty well received.

Hopefully, by supporting the single, 'Candy™Boy' by MEILIN, AIC might consider making this a series? XD. I think they're trying to bring MEILIN in Japan as the next BoA or something, oh well.

The PV was leaked out a few days ago on net and someone uploaded in on youtube so try listening to the theme song, it's pretty catchy and upbeat. I think this was an addition scene !? ;

Watch/listen it on youtube.com ;



I've uploaded the AVI on YSI cos I got a 14 days free trial of anything I upload to have unlimited bandwidth and the file never expires LOL, cool.

So yeah, rape it on YSI all you like.

And if you enjoyed it, buy it.

[Signing off @ 10:25 PM]

PS:
New Song of the Month for December, Rebuild of Evangelion - Beautiful World by Utada Hikaru.
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Saturday, November 24, 2007

   Yuri Hime S Vol2 - Honey Crush Chapter 2
[Posted @ 4:28 PM]
I never wanted to continue summarizing Honey Crush cos I was thinking of leaving the job to Dynasty Scans. Then I figured, hell with it, since I done Chapter 1 why not 2 lol. I believe noone minds right?

Disclaimer:

I do not scan, so I don't claim credit for it, so please do not ask me where I got my scans. PLEASE.

Click on the scans and a new window will open and bring you to the larger and clearer version.

Please do not hotlink on forums, just paste my blog url and direct them to the Manga Page section, thanks.



Continuing from the previous chapter, Mitsu's depressed that the person [Madoka] she's in love with has a boyfriend and even though she really liked Madoka, there seem to be no way to convey her feelings because her rival's a life human being while she's just a spirit. Mitsu's also pretty upset over the fact that Madoka doesn't seem to have any spiritual sense at all and so Mitsu's existence is practically zero. However, Mitsu stated that she still likes Madoka so she will NEVER give up and went on to whine at Madoka holding hands with boyfriend, Yamada-kun lol.



Mitsu thought of a way to disrupt their relationship by making Yamada-kun late for their date. Little did she know, Madoka was late too and was impressed that Yamada-kun waited for her LOL. Mitsu then tried to use her 'scary' face on Yamada-kun but Yamada-kun's also one of those kinds who can't sense any spiritual energy LOL.



Next, Mitsu had added some toothpaste in the sandwiches Madoka made the night before for the date and anticipated Yamada-kun to make a fool out of himself. Unexpectedly, Madoka told Yamada-kun that she forgot to bring her share and so they shared the toothpaste flavoured sandwiches together ... and to Mitsu's horror, both of them doesn't seem to have taste buds and even thought the sandwiches to be pretty good LOL. In the end, Mitsu lost to the natural abilities of Madoka and Yamada-kun lol. As Mitsu's worshipping the ground in despair, Kyouko showed up beside her and reprimanded her for the underhand tricks of hers. Seemed like Kyouko has not given up too.



Mitsu thought of tripping Yamada-kun but accidentally tripped Madoka instead as she was moving forward to pet a cat lol. Yamada-kun tried to grab hold of Madoka but also fell along with Madoka. With Yamada-kun suggestively on top of Madoka, it created a rather romantic atmosphere for them to kiss lol. Mitsu tried to stop and push Yamada-kun from doing whatever he might do lol.



As she was desperately clinging to Yamada-kun, Mitsu suddenly found herself in the body of Yamada-kun! LOL. Mitsu found it to be disgusting but seeing Madoka's cute face in front of her, Mitsu remembered that he was about to kiss her and was going to stop but Madoka's ... lips were just too irresistible and she moved forward ...



But was interrupted by Kyouko whacking her head lol and that got Mitsu out of Yamada-kun's body. Kyouko then told Mitsu off that the body she's in was not hers. Meanwhile, Yamada-kun woke up confused lol. Madoka smiled at Kyouko's display of jealousy and Kyouko gallantly admitted to it and declared that she likes Madoka. Madoka replied that ... but Kyouko's a girl, Kyouko answered back that she wants to have a lesbian relationship with Madoka. Kyouko went on to hug Madoka and told her that she likes her again ...



However, Madoka bluntly refused Kyouko's confession by stating that she doesn't feel her heart beating fast when she's with her lol which brought relief to both Mitsu and Yamada-kun lol. Back home, Kyouko thought to herself that she's merely seen as a mistaken male childhood playmate lol. Kyouko added that they even promised to get married and their relationship was so good that it doesn't matter whether she's a male or not. Kyouko sighed and thought to herself that she doesn't feel that depressed as she thought and wondered if it's because of Mitsu who was beside her weeping her eyes out lol.

Kyouko suggested Mitsu to give up on Madoka as it's an unrequited love and go attain nirvana instead. Come to think of it, why is Mitsu in Kyouko's house? LoL. Mitsu replied that she felt sad when she's with Madoka and her own house was occupied by her grandparents LOL. Mitsu then changed her reason to her supposed concern for the 'heart-broken' Kyouko lol and Kyouko wondered who's the one crying just now. - END of Chapter 2 -

This chapter is interesting, seemed like Kyouko's interest is moving some where else ... heh heh heh.

[Signing off @ 6:00 PM]
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Friday, November 23, 2007

   Candy�™Boy [ONA] 7.39 Mins Short Clip
[Posted @ 9:51 PM]
Don't think, there's shoujo-ai in this! LoL. It's an ONA aka Original Net Animation so you can catch it online via nico by clicking the thumbnail below ;

It's twincest though haha but it's really sweet and quite easy to understand even though the clip is RAW =). Hopefully more developments in the future XD.



More info at animenewsnetwork.com and offical website.

Fans of seiyuu, Nabatame Hitomi [Also seiyuu of Hanazono Shizuma in Strawberry Panic!] can try watching the clip too cos Nabatame-san voiced the younger twin sister, Sakurai Kanade [The brunette].

... ... ... ... What are you waiting for? Watch it now! LoL.

PS: I really think the title's weird, I mean Candy Boy? lol wth. Oh I just started playing dota, complete newbie though.

[Signing off @ 10:11 PM]
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Thursday, November 22, 2007

   Happy Thanksgiving to Punk'd ODEX
[Posted @ 9:10 PM]
I juz got home from my Malaysia trip last night so I didn't managed to 'catch' all the actions which happened in the early morning of Thursday, 22th November 2007 regarding ODEX. Check out bj0rN, THAT Animeblog and Dark Mirage sites for more info.

Well, technically, I was online that fateful Wednesday, 21st November 2007 night but I was hm reading fanfics, feeling sleepy and lurking in yamibo for new updates. Was in ChuangYi forum for a little while, randomly reading some threads but went offline after a while lol. Think I slept at around 1AM and only did woke up at 1PM this afternoon LOL, I was wayyyy freaking tired.

While I was MIA for the three days, ODEX hits the limelight;
Odex takes on the world (by mistake) - Credits to Konpaku no uta

LOL was my reaction.

Needless to say, I was pretty amused that my ranting post was 'featured' in the hacked site of ODEX and thanks to the hacker, my blog ratings went up! LOL.



However, I must really state that I'm in no conditions related nor in any conspiracy with the hacker. I was dead to the world at the 'scene' of crime lol.

Oh well, I wonder what will happen next.

Oh yeah back to safe grounds, I'll probably be summarizing Honey Crush Chapter 2 tommorow or saturday, not sure.

[Signing off @ 9:37 PM]
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Sunday, November 18, 2007

   Happy 15th Birthday Fish!
[Posted @ 7:52 PM]



Fish's birthday is tomorrow but we celebrated it tonight cos we're going to Genting Highlands tomorrow morning.

Away from 19/11/2007 to 21/11/2007

Didn't manage to summarize Yuri Hime S #2, Honey Crush Chapter 2 today cos I was out from 10am till 7pm lol, mum woke me up to go have lor mee at Clementi for breakfast then went to IMM for some shopping, went to dad's office in Choa Chu Kang, watched ADVFilm's [IT'S LEGAL OKAY!?] Chrno Crusade DVDs with the boys and finally went to a coffee shop near IMM for claypot rice XD.

Reckon I'll do the review when I'm back, so, cya!

[Signing off @ 8:02 PM]
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

   [Manga] Hatsu Koi Shimai Chapter 6
[Posted @ 8:34PM]
Please buy the manga when it's out next year!!!

Disclaimer:

As this series is licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC, please buy your own copy to show your support for the mangaka and Seven Seas so that they could licensed probably more shoujo-ai mangas for us =).

I do not scan, so I don't claim credit for it, so please do not ask me where I got my scans. PLEASE.

Click on the scans and a new window will open and bring you to the larger and clearer version.

Please do not hotlink on forums, just paste my blog url and direct them to the Manga Page section, thanks.



I really like Volume 2's cover, Haruna and Chika in embrace looks so sweet~



It seems to be a brand new school term as the girls were dressed in summer uniforms. Just then, a new character arrived with style via bike, attracting the attentions of the fangirls around. Akiho greeted Chika as they met but Chika seemed a little sadden, so Akiho teased Chika by apologizing for not being Haruna lol. Chika changed the subject by pointing them to the crowd swarming the new character. The new character amused by the mob, asked if they could bring her to the school office, sending the fangirls into a frenzy and knocked over the bike.

Akiho noticed the bike falling and rushed over to hold it, along with the new character. The new character then asked Akiho to bring her to the school office, to the disappointment of the fangirls. The new character smiled and sent the fangirls into a frenzy once again by winking at the fangirls. As Akiho and Chika brought the new character to the school office, Akiho asked if the new character's the new relief teacher.



The new character teased Akiho by stating that she's curious in her hm? Akiho agitatedly yelled that it's natural isn't it, if not the new character would not be allowed in school grounds, thus making the new character chuckle at Akiho's reaction. The new character moved her attention on the unsuspecting Chika, calling her cute and naive. Feeling a little pissed, Akiho walked off with Chika and told the new character to make her way to the school office which was around the corner herself as they had to go prepare for their classes.

Chika wondered at Akiho's sudden actions which Akiho merely replied that she had an annoying feeling and didn't want to listen to a person as the new character talk lol. Akiho then advised Chika to be more cautious but Chika said that the new character's all smiles and friendly, looked to be a good person and added, cool too. Akiho apparently doesn't think so lol. Chika's surprised as it was quite rare that Akiho would comment that badly on a person. Akiho replied that a person like that new character's difficult to deal with lol.



During lesson, the new character was introduced as their new relief English teacher, Hiiragi Touko-sensei lol. The girls in classes instantly began fangirls while Akiho and Chika were like, 'Ah! That person from that morning!' [Akiho called Touko as cheater though lol]. Chiori immediately stood up and reprimanded the girls for being rude, creating a din as the other girls commented that Chiori's bullying people again. Touko-sensei managed to stop the noise by making this pitiful? worrisome? looking expression wishing the cute girls will get along with each other, to which the fangirls with hearts in their eyes gladly listened.

During lunch, Chika told Haruna about the new teacher, Touko-sensei, however Haruna said that she already knew about her, rumours spread fast about cool teachers lol. Chika too agreed, wondering why Akiho would say Touko-sensei to be a difficult person to deal with because she seemed to be a friendly and straight-forward person. Haruna listened with a grim expression on her face.



Chika suddenly changed the topic by complaining to Haruna that she felt lonely that she didn't see Haruna that morning and she had wanted Haruna to be the first person to see her in summer uniform lol. Haruna grasped Chika's hands, apologized as she had duties that morning and went on to comment Chika looked cute in her summer uniform. Chika blushed and thank Haruna for the praise. In her mind, Chika told herself that even though Touko-sensei had called her 'cute' earlier, compared to Haruna calling her 'cute', this made her feel like she was bursting with joy. Although they had been through alot since they first met, to be able to enjoy sweet moments with Haruna in their secret garden, brought her the most happiness.

As they were walking down the stairs, they noticed Touko-sensei in the centre of attention in the crowd like an idol. Suddenly, Chika missed a step and fell down the stairs, spraining her ankle. Touko-sensei noticed the commotion and went over to help by carrying Chika bridal-style to the infirmary. Haruna could only looked worriedly at Touko-sensei carried Chika there. Chika felt like a princess and very embarrassed being like that but later relaxed by Touko-sensei's soothing warmth.



In the infirmary, Touko-sensei help bandaged Chika's ankle as the teacher in charge wasn't around. Haruna, with a worried expression on her face asked if Chika's alright. Not wanting to see that expression on Haruna's face, Chika bolted up on her two feet while trying to control her pain lol. Haruna then offered to assist Chika back to her classroom. As they were walking back, Haruna tried to explain probably her helplessness just now, but Chika said that the incident reminded her of the first time she met Haruna.

Chika continued that she had fallen that day too and clumsy her brought much troubles to Haruna. However, Chika added, because of that day, she had met Haruna and be with her now. Haruna felt touched by Chika's words, smiled and agreed. Unknown to them, Touko-sensei heard their conversation and seemed to conclude something. After school, Chika felt agonized by the glares of Touko-sensei's fangirls lol.



Touko-sensei made matters worse by coming over to offer Chika a lift home lol because it was her fault that she's too mesmerizing that Chika fell. Akiho then went to Haruna's classroom and told her that Chika went home already, no thanks for Touko-sensei. Akiho angrily added that Chika had wanted to walk home with Haruna but was forced away by Touko-sensei. Haruna smiled and remarked that it's rare to see Akiho so worked up lol. Akiho blushed and stammered that she's not angry, just that Touko-sensei's a difficult person to deal with and seemed to be a liar. Haruna didn't mention more and suggested that they go home then.



Meanwhile, Chika was on Touko-sensei's bike, still attracting glares from fangirls and wondered she could spend her school days tomorrow normally lol. Touko-sensei told Chika to hold tight as they speed off. Chika thought to herself that she felt relaxed at Touko-sensei's soothing warmth like earlier spreading from her back and body with a girl's softness and she smells good too. Feeling her heart beating fast, Chika quickly stopped her thoughts lol, bringing a chuckle from Touko-sensei. Chika regretted going off with Touko-sensei as she felt like walking home with Haruna and her last thoughts were about Haruna ... - END of Chapter 6 -

Hm, seemed like I was off when I stated that Akiho likes Chika romantically in Chapter 5. After this chapter and ... lol okay I was spoilt by the next 3 chapters that Akiho likes Chika only as a friend and likes Haruna alot haha. And no, Touko-sensei's not a bad person, she's just probably more realistic and trying to speed things up between Chika and Haruna which is good isn't it? Ahhhh, no more spoilers, await Chapter 7!

Oh I'll be posting up the summary for Yuri Hime S #2, Honey Crush Chapter 2 this saturday!

Random rants;
I finally watched 'Blue Drop Tenshi-tachi no Gikyoku' today and ... I found Wakatake Mari's voice very familiar and it turns out that the seiyuu for Mari is the same as the seiyuu for Nohara Shinnosuke in Crayon Shin-chan LOL. I was constantly reminded of his witty lines in Mandarin [I watched the anime on VCDs in Mandarin], 'ºÇºÇ£¬ÎÒûÄÇôºÃÀ²!' and his 'ÎÒÊÇÒ°Ô­ÐÂÖ®Öú£¬½ñÄêÎåËê!' pick-up lines lol.

I also watched Minami-ke a few days ago, I skimmed through the manga first before watching the anime and episode 1 was totally hilarious lol. Especially the scene where Kana-chan tried to kiss Chiaki-chan and chased her around when she refused. I love episode 5 too, when Kana tied and hanged Chiaki to the pole and treated her as the Weather Doll LOL and later prayed at Chiaki, that was totally priceless!

Okay, it got me interested cos of Mako-chan lol, the potential successor to the Best Trap Ever, Miyanokouji Mizuho hahahaha. Seriously, Haruka's really dense -.-||| but BURNINhotcute nevertheless.

Hmm, HQ's and S's birthday parties fell on the same day [which is this coming saturday], so I had to make two trips since both of them came to my party, so it's polite to go to theirs. Not sure what to get for them, probably ... heh, I dunno lol.

Oh yeah, I'm going to Genting Highlands next Monday~~ Miss the KFC and Pizza Hut there, yum and won't forget to scream 'I LOVE KFC' when on the Dragon ride lol.

[Signing off @ 9:11 PM]
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Thursday, November 8, 2007

   [Manga] Yurihime Wildrose Part 2
[Posted @ 3:09 PM]
Ichijinsha - Comic Yurihime has published an ecchish yuri manga titled 'Yurihime Wildrose' [•S�‡•P Wildrose] on 18th October 2007 along with latest issue, 'Yurihime Volume 10'. This will be Part 2 of my review, click here to view Part 1 of my review.



As this is primarily a PG-13 sometimes M-18 uh blog, I'm not going to directly post any explicit images here, just gonna post up some teaser images and worksafe pages. If you really want to read the whole thing, buy the real thing or go yamibo [wait patiently] and I will not elaborate any further than this.

So, don't request for downloads as they WILL BE IGNORED and DELETED.

Here's the list of mangaka and their works in 'Yurihime Wildrose';

- Cover Illustration by Monchi Kaori [–å’n ‚©‚¨‚è]
- Illustration by CHI-RAN
1. '�D‚«‚Æ‚«‚Ç‚«ƒLƒX' by Miyashita Kitsune [‹{‰º ƒLƒcƒl]
2. 'ƒA�[ƒPƒfƒBƒA�`Šy‰€‚̉Ô�`' by Mizuno Tohko [�…–ì “§Žq]
3. '‰·Žº‚Ì–‚�—' by Mikuni Hazime [ŽO�‘ ƒnƒaƒ�]
4. '�D!' by CHI-RAN
5. '�—‚ÌŽq�‡‚킹' by Morishima Akiko [�X“‡ –¾Žq]
6. '‚­‚¿‚Ñ‚é‚É‚Ì�E‚¹�E‚Ä' by Jounouchi Nene [�é”V“à ”J�X]
7. '‚¢‚¿‚΂ñ‚·‚«‚ȂЂÆ' by Tokitsukaze Otoha [Žž’Õ— ‚¨‚Æ‚Í]
8. 'Sweet Little Devil' by Nanzaki Iku [“ì�è ‚¢‚­]
9. 'BLUE' by Hashiba Hayase [‘¬�£ ‰HŽÄ]

I will continue from mangaka [Author], Morishima Akiko [�X“‡ –¾Žq], to view the ealier reviews of the first four mangaka, check out Part 1 of my review.

I would suggest you not to view these at work lol, anyways, enjoy!



5. '�—‚ÌŽq�‡‚킹' by Morishima Akiko [�X“‡ –¾Žq];
Morishima-sensei, a regular contributor in Yuri Shimai and Yuri Hime, with her short work, '“VŽg‚½‚¿‚̉H‰¹' in Yuri Shimai 2 of cosplaying girls lol. I really like her works, very interesting reads, for example, '‚»‚µ‚Ä–l‚ç‚툤‚¨–ÚŽw‚·' about a relationship between a senpai [senior] who took care of her cute kouhai [junior] in their youth. When they grew up, the kouhai became taller and more mature looking than the senpai lol however the kouhai still looked up to the senpai spiritually. Oh yeah, her work in Yurihime Wildrose is kinda PWP though, girl confessed then the other girl reciprocates the feeling and they start doing the 'deed' [!?] in a rather cute and amusing way haha.



6. '‚­‚¿‚Ñ‚é‚É‚Ì�E‚¹�E‚Ä' by Jounouchi Nene [�é”V“à ”J�X];
Also a regular contributor with her still continuing work, 'ƒAƒbƒvƒ‹�EƒfƒC�EƒhƒŠ�[ƒ€' aka 'Apple Day Dream' in Yuri Hime and was published as a Tankoubon [Volume] two months ago. Jounouchi-sensei also do BL stuff and personally, I like her art when she does BL charactrs better than she did GL characters, I don't know why lol. In this work of hers, the characters kind of reminded me of Yumi and Sachiko from Maria-sama ga Miteru except the Sachiko look-alike here was more cheeky and forward later XD. Yumi look-alike confessed to Sachiko look-alike and it turned out that Sachiko look-alike liked Yumi look-alike despite how aloof she looked lol.



7. '‚¢‚¿‚΂ñ‚·‚«‚ȂЂÆ' by Tokitsukaze Otoha [Žž’Õ— ‚¨‚Æ‚Í];
I believe Tokitsukaze-san started out doing CG art works of BLEACH, BLOOD+ and others as seen on her site and she recently had her BLEACH, Rukia x Byakuya M-18 doujinshi published on Comiket 72. I liked the way she drew the girls rather than the guys lol, reminds me of Itou Ei-sensei's art. The plot of her work in Yurhime Wildrose is pretty straight-forward, the characters were childhood friends and one of the characters was agonizing that she liked her best friend, little did she knew that her best friend liked her too. Best friend then asked friend to embrace her and it's okay if she's her first person and they knew that they liked each other and stuff. It was a sweet story in the end.



8. 'Sweet Little Devil' by Nanzaki Iku [“ì�è ‚¢‚­]
More famously known as his circle, '‚Ç‚ë‚Ï‚ñ‚¾TOURS' aka Doropanda TOURS, Nanzaki-sensei is the man behind the utterly god-like gorgeous art of Mai HiME/Otome doujinshis we see in the Manga Page of this blog. I was thrilled to see his name among the list of mangaka in Yurihime Wildrose and can't wait to see the original characters of his. Needless to say, the two main characters beared a close resemblance to Natsuki and Shizuru of Mai HiME lol but the Shizuru look-alike, Sayo [minus Kyoto-ben] was two years younger than Natsuki look-alike, Ritsuko. A little like Morishima Akiko's [�X“‡ –¾Žq], '‚»‚µ‚Ä–l‚ç‚툤‚¨–ÚŽw‚·' story I mentioned earlier, small Sayo grew taller than Ritsuko when they met in the same high school lol. This is probably THE hottest work of the list of mangaka in Yurihime Wildrose lol.



9. 'BLUE' by Hashiba Hayase [‘¬�£ ‰HŽÄ];
Hashiba-sensei contributed some of his works in Yuri Shimai and did a Maria-sama ga Miteru, Sei x Shiori doujinshi, 'Sakura' under circle name 'Red Dragon'. One of his major works would be his manga adaptation of 'Simoun' which I believe most of us would be familiar with. His work, 'BLUE' is quite weird yet teasing lol, it's about this girl who finds fault in the way the other girl tied her shirt ribbon. The other girl found the fault-finding girl sleeping on the rooftop, went on to untie her ribbon and touching her. I believe the fault-finding girl liked the other girl and probably thought she was dreaming when the other girl was touching her. Towards the end, the other girl told her subtly that she likes the blue ribbon [The bra ribbon was blue lol] and left grinning.

Ah, that's all, it was fun and I hope you enjoyed it =). Since yamibo is up and well, I can get working with Hatsu Koi Shimai, so expect Chapter 6 pretty soon.

Random rants;

I finally went to get my student visa done at IDP, submitted the dorm application and went on to do the medical checkup near town. After doing the X-ray, I happily trotted to a clinic at the Paragon, to my horror, the lady told me they were closed ... for lunch break lol. So I went to Takashimaya, had lunch at KFC [Not a good idea to eat fattening food before a check up? LOL who cares] and buzzed up to Kinokuniya to sniff out manga.



I spied a lonely 'Kamikaze Girls' [Manga] #1 in a corner and set on to buy it lol. I watched the movie a few months ago and I enjoyed it pretty much. Well, there's like 0.01% of shoujo-ai between Ichigo and Momoko and that 0.01% was towards the end when Momoko mumured that she likes Ichigo alot, more than her BABY's clothes lol. HOWEVER. My hopes were dashed when I read the bonus chapter, 'Ichigo's case' as I painfully witnessed Ichigo's interest in ... the twin of her ex-love O_o sigh. It was a fun read though despite the shock lol. After picking 'Kamikaze Girls' up, I went to browse through the Chinese and Japanese section.

I don't dare to buy much cos I didn't bring the Kinokuniya vouchers I got for my birthday with me, -.-||| it was an impromptu trip okay? Talking about the vouchers, LOL I have absolutely no idea what to spend that S$60 voucher, hm, do I spend it on Loveless?, Princess Princess? or wait till December and spend it all on Seven Seas' Strawberry Line manga? HMM HMM, decisions, decisions lol. I figured I better buy Loveless soon yet I'm not sure if ChuangYi will ... license it ... I'll cry if they do cos I would had paid twice for the TokyoPop version. Anyways, I'll just leave it and see first =).

Btw, Happy Deepavali! Below's some of the yummy food I had last night at work place;



[Signing off @ 5:02 PM]
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Friday, November 2, 2007

   [Manga] Hatsu Koi Shimai Chapter 5
[Posted @ 4:21 PM]
Chapter 5 is fun cos Haruna's all cool, cute and sexy rolled into one.

Disclaimer:

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Recapturing from the previous chapter, Chika was confronted by Chiori and her classmates as they accused Chika of cheating. Chiori nastily told Chika not to pull the class down by doing such a 'dirty' deed. Chika was totally speechless, in her mind she was begging her 'friends' not to continue such words and in truth, it was Haruna's warm who gave her the strength to do so well in her re-tests.

Just then, Chika noticed Haruna was standing in front of her, Chika flinched when Haruna placed her hand on her [probably thinking she's going to reprimand her]. However, Haruna smiled and asked if Chika's alright, when Chika replied she's okay, Haruna protectively hold Chika to her as she stood against Chiori and classmates.



Haruna asked if the girls knew what they were talking about and stated that Chika's not a person who cheats and demanded proof of the girls' accusation. Chiori answered that the proof is that Chika's grades suddenly shot up way too fast and it's unnatural. Haruna retorted that Chika had been studying in school everyday till evening and she knew best [cos she's with her duh].

Haruna continued that Chika was even trying her best in her weakest subjects and rebuked the girls for accusing Chika on no grounds of proof and rounding up on her. Haruna questioned who were the ones doing 'dirty' deeds. Chika was totally touched that Haruna's protecting her and standing up for her. Haruna ended her statement by warning the girls not to sully Chika by saying such thoughtless comments. [Haruna called Chika by her name in her statement rather than her surname]



With that, Haruna held Chika's hand and left the room expressing that they have no business staying any longer, leaving Chiori and the other girls stunned. Meanwhile, Chika's delighted that Haruna called her name and remembered the first time she met Haruna and she was holding her hand warmly the same way.

In her mind, Chika felt that Haruna with her warm smile, extending her hand to her and confirmed her feelings that she really liked Haruna. The girls then stopped at the garden, still holding their hands, Chika thanked Haruna for coming to her rescue and added that she's happy that Haruna called her by name.



Haruna paused for a moment before reacting dramatically with a huge blush on her face [Cute~~~], that she was too engrossed lol. Chika smiled and said that Haruna looked like she turned into another person, sooo cool~ lol. Meanwhile, the girls who were with Chiori in the accusation were badmouthing Chiori about being too overboard and controlling. Chiori made her presence known by slamming her shoe locker door and left quietly as the girls continued criticizing Chiori.

Akiho witnessed the incident and went to comfort Chiori by lending a listening ear as Chiori complained that she's been hated. Chiori went on to confess that she doesn't care about those girls and she wouldn't forgive those babbling girls as they wouldn't understand a person's feelings. When Akiho asked if it's Chiori's feelings, Chiori said it's not hers ... fumed and kept quiet.

Akiho began to speak, saying that it's strange, for example a person like Chika, is definitely not an airhead as she could smile even though she's feeling hurt inside and that's admirable. Akiho wondered if that's the feeling of falling in love with someone and added with a sorrow expression that liking a person doesn't seem to be something very important anymore. Chiori replied that she doesn't understand about those things.



Chika and Haruna were on a date, Chika made no effort to cover her happiness lol as she grinned widely. When Haruna remarked that Chika had a wide smile on her face, Chika explained that she's been looking forward to patronizing the cafe they were in. Haruna chuckled and said remembered that Chika had mentioned about yummy soufflé the cafe had. Chika was surprised that Haruna remembered and was happy about it.

The girls then placed their orders with the waiter, as they waited for their orders, Chika thought to herself that even though she's looking forward to her dessert, compared to being with Haruna together totally takes the cake [Pardon the pun lol]. When Haruna asked about the results of Chika's second re-tests, Chika replied that she didn't cheat in the first place so she had no problems and was happy that Haruna helped her. Haruna smiled and started to say 'Yes, me too ...' when she was interrupted by the arrival of their orders.



After the waiter left, Chika told Haruna to continue her sentence and she could tell her anything lol. Haruna began speaking again that she too used to have a senpai [senior] she admired and was chasing after the senpai. Haruna added that the senpai's really outstanding and thus she had many admirers. Like Chika, Haruna was then confronted by the admirers of her relationship with the senpai, that time, the senpai rushed in to her rescue and made clear that Haruna was merely just her cute kouhai [junior] and nothing else.

That moment, Haruna realized that her feelings were being rejected, so when she first met Chika and felt an attraction to her, it was frightening. Haruna didn't want to have that to happen to her a second time and that's why she don't know how to react to Chika. Haruna then apologized for hurting Chika as that time, no matter how much attraction she had for Chika, because of her fear, the step was never taken. Chika finally understood and confessed that when she first met Haruna for the first time, she was deeply attracted to her.

Chika professed that she trusted in the warm Haruna she met, no matter how cold or distanced Haruna treated her, she will always pursue after Haruna, even now, she will still be pursuing Haruna. The mood was once again interrupted by the arrival of their orders lol. It was then they realized where they were and weeping in public.



They started to dig in their desserts and Haruna was content to see the happiness written all over Chika's face as she ate the chocolate soufflé. Haruna fed a spoonful of her soufflé to Chika and Chika shyly accept the offer. Chika was totally flustered by the fact that she was spoon-fed by Haruna yet she couldn't taste the flavour and went on to gobble her soufflé.

Haruna noticed that Chika had a splotch of the soufflé on her cheek and leaned over to lick it off [What a tease lol]. When Chika went all 'Kyaaaa' mode, Haruna innocently said that there's a splotch and she had wanted to taste Chika's chocolate soufflé. Chika thought to herself, whenever they were by each other's side, they will be smiling, the time between them was soft and sweet with happiness like the soufflé. Chika's chest was filled with the feelings Haruna gave to her, which is ... first love. Chika added that she want to stay by Haruna's side, to cherish, cherish and cherish the moments they have together. - END of Chapter 5 & Volume 1 -

I want to point out at the 'heart to heart' chat scene between Akiho and Chiori, I was understanding fine until Akiho mentioned about 'Liking a person doesn't seem to be something very important anymore'. I was confused but after a while, I finally understood. In my own interpretation, I feel that Akiho likes Chika alot however, in this case in her statement, liking a person doesn't make any impact as the person she likes, Chika, is in love with Haruna. So I believed that Akiho in some way is trying to accept the rejection she felt by saying that no matter how much she likes Chika, it doesn't seem important because it's an unrequited love.

This chapter was wonderful, Haruna coming to Chika's rescue and both of them confessing that they liked each other. However, it was sad that Akiho was heart broken but never mind! Akiho's real love interest will arrive in the second volume of Hatsu Koi Shimai! Stay tune for Chapter 6? =).

Random rants;
TGIF!!! I love fridays lol cos it marks the ending of a weekday and beginning of a short weekend =) ... anyways, lappy's okay now, most of my links were wiped out as lappy was re-formatted. But it's okay, I'll just find the links back slowly again, however, I think this incident was something good in a twisted kinda of way.

I'm like 21 already, it's time to probably let go of my hobby soon, I'm not a kid anymore, I can't hang around lappy all day and worry about the latest stuff coming out everyday when I study in Australia. Uh, maybe I WILL lol. I'm so gonna try my best to get good grades and study another year for honours, so can I afford to continue this wonderful hobby of mine? It's something for me to concentrate on, I can't afford to jeopardize my life anymore.

PS: New song of the month for November, School Days Insert Song - 'Kanashimi no Mukou he' by Itou Kanako. Enjoy your weekend! I'll probably post up [Manga] Yurihime Wildrose Part 2 next week.

[Signing off @ 6:00 PM]
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