The one - chapter 64

i started school again, so i don't have much time... Yet, i've read new chapter of 'the one' - taiwan manhua, so some thoughts about what's happening there. It's all big spoiler - so if you don't know manga - don't read it :P

First thing, it's really pisses me off that she bacame so popular in such a short time. I can't believe it can happen in real world. And she's got bad mood, everybody is concerned about her... She comes back and there is no complain... IMO, in fashion world there are too many girls who can be as good model as her, so with this kind of attitude she would become out-of work. Another thing: how can it be that she bumps into Yin soooo often? Well, i've never been in NYC, but i believe it's quite big (Big Apple, right?:P)

On the other hand Young Qui at last did sth helpful. It's a shame this character isn't more developed. She should have some drawback or background or sth... Anyway one chapter more with Lele still in coma and i would stop to read this comic :P (it's not true, anyway, i'm addicted) �

And Yin is too easy to read :( It would be so interesting if he really was an asshole :P I hope that he will do or say sth unkind and Lele will decide to go to Paris (in fact, i believe she will go). Anyway, she should be left whit no hope. Yes, i'm cruel :] �I want her to be happy at the end, but well... this end shouldn't come yet :P

Sailor Moon - my beginning

OM Rank: 339

 
Categories: adventure, anime, fantasy, live action, romance, shoujo, supernatural

Author: Takeuchi Naoko

Chapters: 36 - finished (read here: http://www.mangafox.com/manga/sailor_moon/v01/c001.1/ )

Anime: 

episodes: 200 - finished (5 seasons)

director:  Junichi Satō, Kunihiko Ikuhara, Takuya Igarashi

A lot to write about :) And... is there anybody, who hasn't heard about Sailor Moon?

Well... That was the first anime i had ever watched. I was about 4 then  and it was still brand-new series, so on TV there was only the first season. I remember i liked it a lot :D Of course i was playing with friends we're sailors ;)

Then, 5 years later it was on TV once again. There were also comics, magazines, manga (but i wasn't intrested in it). Yeah, i think thats the moment when manga & anime became popular in Poland for the first time. The show was about 5 minutes after i finished lessons so i used to run from school to home like for a life ;) My friends didn't understand it :D

Then came Pokemons, Digimons, Shaman King (all on TV)  but Sailor Moon remain as my favorite series from the childhood. Without any problem i could recall all name and places. Well... anybody else could, so i stay silent;) 

One day my friend started to download anime (God bless torrents!) and Sailor Moon was one of the first. She borrowed me DVDs with 2 first seasons and during the time i was waiting for next i looked for manga. This way i discovered onemanga and mangafox ;) Manga was so fascinating i couldn't stop reading! And anime... i didn't finished it at all :P

I think, i'll compare manga & anime in new post... Just a little bit later

Hana Kimi

One Manga rank: 83

status: completed

categories: comedy, gender bender, romance, school life 

author: Nakajo Hisaya

chapters: 145

I've finished that manga about 1,5 year ago.  It's quite long, but... oh my, i love all characters there! The plot is like that: an american girl Mizuki transfer to japanese all- boys high school because she wants to be near her idol: high-jumper Izumi Sano. Happens to her, that Izumi become her roommate. During all manga we observe how their friendship grows, all Mizuki's troubles to hide her real gender, sorts of problems like: evil father, envious younger brother and so on... We also get a huge number of stories about typical high school live (school's festival, sport festival...) Of course, there's a lot of humor in almost every chapter.

As usual, the best are first chapters (about 30?) after that author sometimes has got better ideas, sometimes worse. Fortunately there are only few chapters which are very, very bad, so i didn't have any problems to read it all. However... the way mangaka end it is abosolutely too simple. [little spoiler] i thought: Hey, you could it end like this 40 or 60 chapters before![end of spoiler]

The style of drawing is simple, but nice. You won't get fabulous scenery or much shading but it's ok.  Also, later chapters look better ;)

The most important are characters.  Mizuki is typical shoujo heroine: cheerful and naive.  But she isn't so dumb as most of them :P Sano is  an introvert and bishounen, he is kind and liable fortunately he's got some shortcomings, so he isn't irritating for readers :) You get lively people in normal situations: that's the best advantage of the manga

To sum up: I LOVE IT! Everybody should read it, especially when one's interested in tags above :)