Friday, July 10, 2009

Tachibana Higuchi - Gakuen Alice

Gakuen Alice by Tachibana Higuchi


From Tokyopop:
Young Mikan runs away to Tokyo to follow her best friend, Hotaru, who has been enrolled in an exclusive, secretive private school for geniuses. But it turns out that Alice Academy is a lot more than meets the eye. If Mikan wants to stay by Hotaru's side, she has to both pass the strange "entrance exam" and face the even greater challenge of befriending her very odd new classmates. Whether it's Hotaru's gift for inventing gadgets, the cranky Natsume's fire-casting ability, or Professor Narumi's control of human pheromones, everyone at the school has some sort of special talent. But what ability, if any, does Mikan possess? Mikan is going to have to rely on her courage and spunk if she's going to stay in school, or even stay alive!
When I saw the picture they had on mangaupdates, I thought it looked stupid artwise and thought it would be one of those kiddy girly things. But it isn't like that and its pretty kool.

Nicky Lee - The One




It's a Manhua not Manga but I don't want another label...so it's a manga ok?!

The fashion industry is beautiful and Cane Lele was born right into the middle of it. Her parents where both models until they died in a plane crash. Now living with her grandmother, she finally decides to enter the modeling field after years of persuasion by her aunt who is a fashion agent. She had fallen for a black and white photo of Angus Lanson and wanted to be in the same industry. However during a photo shoot her grandmother dies and gaining courage from Angus's brother they begin to be of importance to each other. Meeting up again in New York, where will all this lead?

I saw this manga a loooooong time ago, but never when to read it. I had no idea why...But one day I was really bored and decided to read it...and OMG it was amazing. I loved the art, so pretty! And the clothes are really nice too. And the story reminds me of Skip Beat they are pretty different, in a good way of course! I love her character, so strong...and sometimes childish...Plus I love Eros Lanson...what a happy bum...hehehe

Aya Nakahara - Lovely Complex

Lovely Complex/Love Com/Rabu Kon/Lovely Complex Plus - Aya Nakahara



Most girls like guys who are taller than they are and most guys look for girls that are shorter than they are. Well this a problem for Risa Koizumi and Atsushi Otani. Even though they like the same things, react the same way and the compatibility machine told them they are 100% compatible for each other, Risa is 172 cm (5'7") and Atsushi is 156 cm (5'1"). They always make fun of each other for their height complex and what do they do with the feelings that are growing for each other?!

A funny and cute manga. Risa and Atsushi make a cute couple and she is not annoying. I have romantic mangas and the main character is some little ittle girlie girl. Pisses me off, she is a normal girl and even though Atsushi is short, he can be really manly. So it's a different kind of romance manga. Very refreshing.

Takashi Hashiguchi - Yakitate!! Japan




Azuma Kazuma hopes to make the bread that will be able to represent Japan. He use to hate bread and though that as a Japanese one should only eat rice, but fell in love with bread once he had a taste. To convince his grandfather to eat bread he was taught that with the right ingredients he could make bread go with any kind of meal. This is his jonery to make JAPAN (pan is bread...so japan...get it?)

This was actually the first manga I ever read. I was 12? or 11? Either way I loved this manga and since I didn't have my own coputer back then I had to beg this big brother to let me read it on his...well he got me addicted to it, and there was another manga I was reading...but I kinda forgot the name...Anyway it's all about making bread, and you can learn a lot of stuff from the manga, like the history of bread. It was really good in the beginning but it started to get really stupid later on. In the begnning it was kinda believe able to an extend but then we have people dieing and coming back to life (which I was ok with), people going back in time to save their parent (which I was also ok with), and people turning into dams and turtles (which I thought was just plain stupid...). So I kinda stopped reading it for awhile, but I will still finish it when it is complete but I will never read it again because it got so bad...But it gave me lots of laughs so its still really good^^

FUJISAKI Masato - Wild Life

Wild Life - Masato Fujisaki



Iwashiro Tesshou was a useless person who did nothing worth mentioning but had a special skill of having a perfect sense of hearing. One day he saved a dog and began to care for it and found that it had an illness. From then he found his love for life and animals and became a vet.

Currently incomplete but it is pretty good so far. He is someone who is not just book smart and has the passion for his job, making it entertaining to read.