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Read This! Ooku: The Inner Chambers

dreiser: (Repo! Paris Listens)
Monday, January 18th, 2010 09:44 pm
There's more than a few stories out there about a world where men are a rarity. Something happened somehow and now they're next to extinct or they're completely gone from the planet Earth. Women have moved into the traditionally male gender roles while men are treasured and hidden away because without them the ability to reproduce and propagate the human race would cease.

( Ooku: The Inner Chambers is one such story. )
  • Current Music: Black Eyed Peas: Meet Me Halfway
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Yaoi Press, Holy Shit

dreiser: (Kathy Griffin: Looooser)
Thursday, September 24th, 2009 10:01 am
This is scandaltastic.
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Read This! Nodame Cantabile

dreiser: (Zsa Zsa: Zombie Musical Theater)
Monday, September 14th, 2009 06:59 pm
I'm a music whore and as such I love all types of music. This includes classical and opera though I know nothing about the history behind the pieces or their famous composers, conductors, and musicians. Even if you're someone who doesn't like classical music Nodame Cantabile is a manga which can explain and express the love many people feel for it. Something that's hard to do in a print medium.

( Nodame Cantabile revolves around the lives of classical musicians. )
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Read This! Skip Beat

dreiser: (Skip Beat: Kyoko Scream)
Saturday, September 5th, 2009 11:35 pm
I've been trying to recommend manga that are lesser known, not super popular, whatever you call it, in order to bring them whatever meager attention my friendslist creates to get more people reading. Skip Beat isn't any of those things. It's pretty damn popular without me doing my puny thing here but I don't care how many fangirls and boys Skip Beat has, it deserves a thousand times more. The manga is just that awesome people.

( Skip Beat is a shoujo manga with the coolest female protagonist of all time. )
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Read This! The Kindaichi Case Files

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Saturday, August 29th, 2009 02:30 pm
I love a good mystery but I admit, I'm somewhat dim when it comes to figuring them out on my own. I suspect that I tend to turn my brain off a lot when I get into my personal entertainment and thus I'm almost always surprised when I read murder/mystery stories. There aren't nearly enough good murder/mystery manga out there, imho, and I really wish there were more. Out of the few that we do have released and translated into English I think Kindaichi Case Files is amongst the best.

( Kindaichi Case Files is a shonen murder/mystery whodunnit series. )
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Read This! Kimi ni Todoke

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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 10:24 pm
I read lots and lots of manga. I've decided to do some recommendations and reviews on some of the manga I'm currently reading maybe once a week or every other week. Most of my interest lies in romance so a good deal of these series will be shoujoai. I will let you know before the LJ cut what the series is about theme wise. I'll also be going a bit into plot with each entry just because I don't think it's possible to give a sense of the series if you don't.

( Kimi ni Todoke is shoujoai and fluffy and just heart warming. )
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Fish Nightmares

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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 03:00 pm
Normally I don't remember my dreams but I had a nightmare last night about the fish monsters from the manga Gyo appearing all over the midwest. They were coming out of my parents koi pond and attacked me and my dogs. Seriously freaked me out. I mean, I read that manga years ago and it still scares me. Brrr. Walking fish.

I'm going to watch Howl's Moving Castle to cleanse my brain. Miyazaki tends to do that for me. Or at least makes me feel all fluffy and good inside. I love his films and I can't wait to see Ponyo when it comes out August 14th.

Almost done with the second chapter of Fragile Things. I should have it done tonight but then I'll send it to my beta to look over. It's filled with angst and a lot of killing spree action from Shizuru which is to be expected.
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Read This! Twilight The Manga

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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 10:52 pm
I'm one of those people who loves Twilight because it's made to be sporked. I'm a huge fan of things that are so bad they're good and oh boy, does this novel series qualify. That being said, I did sort of do a sad fangirl squee when I found out it's being made into a manga.

Dear god why do you ask?

Mostly because I'm a sad shoujo fangirl. I admit it. I'll probably die an old lady with tons of fucking manga that have the same sorry plot and I'll keep reading them and loving them and insisting because of this minute character or plot difference the stories are SO not the same! Except they really are.

Twilight is painfully bad sporkable funny as a novel but when it's made into a manga? I hate to admit it but it becomes the essence of everything that I love in a shoujo manga. I'm curious to see how Edward sparkles in black and white format though. Hmm. It puzzles. And you know what makes my shoujo obsession even sadder? The fact that I'm a big ole lesbian and have zero interest in men sexually and romantically but all these fucking manga I obsess over are almost 100% totally heterosexual romance.

Lame. It's so lame of me. I can't help it though, I just like me some romance.
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