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TITLE: Flower in a Storm
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Shigeyoshi Takagi
PUBLISHER: Viz
RATING: Older Teen (16+)
CATEGORY: Shoujo
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 2
SCORE: 7 (Good)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Shigeyoshi Takagi, Ouran High School Host Club, romance, action, comedy

Link to "Flower in a Storm" Review

Current Mood: okay

New chapters have been posted for Melting Ice and To Be By Your Side at FF.net and .moon. I also finally updated my much ignored writing journal,

oyster_shell . Just some MI and TBBYS chapters, but if for some reason you don't want to read them at the other two sites, you can find them there, too. I'm going to try to keep that journal updated from now on... We'll see how that goes.

*hates having to sign out of this journal to access the other; should have made it a community*

And now this week's manga review.

TITLE: Haru Hana
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Yuana Kozumi
PUBLISHER: Tokyopop
RATING: Teen (13+)
CATEGORY: Shoujo
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 3 (released as an omnibus)
SCORE: 6 (Fine)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Yuana Kozumi (mangaka of Flower of the Deep Sleep and A Million Tears), romance, humor, drama

Link to "Haru Hana" Review

Current Mood: accomplished

TITLE: Songs to Make You Smile
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Natsuki Takaya
PUBLISHER: Tokyopop
RATING: Teen (13+)
CATEGORY: Shoujo
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 1
SCORE: 6 (Fine)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Natsuki Takaya (mangaka of Fruits Basket, Tsubasa: Those With Wings, and Phantom Dream), romance, humor, drama

Link to "Songs to Make You Smile" Review

Current Mood: content

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Current Mood: blah

TITLE: Name of the Flower
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Ken Saito
PUBLISHER: CMX
RATING: Older Teen (16+)
CATEGORY: Shoujo
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 4
SCORE: 8 (Very Good)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Ken Saito (mangaka of Oh! My Brother), drama, romance, comedy

Link to "Name of the Flower" Review

Current Mood: blah

TITLE: Azumanga Daioh
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Kiyohiko Azuma
PUBLISHER: ADV Manga and Yen Press
RATING: Teen (13+)
CATEGORY: Shonen
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 4
SCORE: 9 (Great)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Kiyohiko Azuma (mangaka of Yotsuba&!), 4-koma manga, Azumanga Daioh anime, Lucky Star, comedy, slice of life

Link to "Azumanga Daioh" Review

Current Mood: frustrated

Man, it's been a while since I posted in here. I haven't felt like doing much of anything lately. First I had to deal with the toothache from hell, and now I'm dealing with the backache from hell. Ugh! I don't even know what is up with my back. It's not like I've done any heavy lifting lately. I thought at first I just slept on it wrong, but considering this is now about the third day and it seems to be getting worse instead of better...

Argh!

*slathers on more Icy Hot*

Well, since I didn't post a manga review last week, I forced myself to crank this one out for this week:

TITLE: Alice 19th
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Yuu Watase
PUBLISHER: Viz
RATING: Older Teen (16+)
CATEGORY: Shoujo
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 7
SCORE: 7 (Good)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Yuu Watase (mangaka of Ceres: Celestial Legend, Fushigi Yugi, Imadoki, etc.), Card Captor Sakura, romance, drama, comedy

Link to "Alice 19th" Review

Probably was a bit harder on this title than necessary thanks to being in so much pain... It is a good series, though! (And I really do wish it would be turned into an anime.)

Also posted a new chapter for Melting Ice at FF.net and .moon. The new chapter for To Be By Your Side will be up whenever I get the corrections from my beta.

Current Mood: sore

TITLE: Aishiteruze Baby
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Yoko Maki
PUBLISHER: Viz
RATING: Teen (13+)
CATEGORY: Shoujo
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 7
SCORE: 9 (Great)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Yoko Maki, Bunny Drop, Baby & Me, romance, drama, comedy

Link to "Aishiteruze Baby" Review

In other news, I'm still contemplating the Helios origination story I mentioned in my last entry. I even came up with a title for it: Metamorphosis, an allusion to Ovid's famous poem. I've also done a little bit of dialogue work for the first few scenes.

Man, I have a feeling this particular plot bunny is not going to leave me alone until I write it...

Current Mood: drained

TITLE: High School Debut
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Kazune Kawahara
PUBLISHER: Viz
RATING: Teen (13+)
CATEGORY: Shoujo
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 13
SCORE: 9 (Great)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Kazune Kawahara, Imadoki, Fruits Basket, romance, drama, comedy

Link to "High School Debut" Review

BTW, I'm till taking requests for the Alphabet Drabble meme. There are only seven letters left, so I'm really hoping to finish the entire alphabet. From now on, I'm letting go of the restriction of how many you can request at a time. If there's somebody out there who can think of requests for all the remain letters, I'll be happy to do them all.

Current Mood: lethargic

For a change, let's get to the weekly manga review first:

TITLE: Clover
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: CLAMP
PUBLISHER: Tokyopop and Dark Horse
RATING: Older Teen (16+)?
CATEGORY: Shoujo
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 4
SCORE: 8 (Very Good)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: CLAMP (mangaka of Card Captor Sakura, Chobits, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, xxxHolic, etc.), experimental manga, steampunk

Link to "Clover" Review

Now, here's a fun meme I snatched from a couple of people on my FL.

Choose one of my fics and I'll tell you my favorite line.

(But I'll allow you up to three at a time.)

You can find my fics at

oyster_shell , FF.net, and dotmoon.

Current Mood: blah

,Before the review, I'd like to remind everyone that I'm still taking request for the Alphabet Drabble Meme. There are still plenty of letters left up for grabs.

Now, review:

TITLE: Only One Wish
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Mia Ikumi
PUBLISHER: Del Rey
RATING: Teen (13+)
CATEGORY: Shoujo
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 1
SCORE: 6 (Fine)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Mia Ikumi (mangaka of Tokyo Mew Mew), Hell Girl, supernatural, romance

Link to "Only One Wish" Review

Current Mood: sleepy

Before I get to this week's review, sad news on the manga front: CMX is shutting down. This is particularly bad news for me because I’ve had Name of the Flower Vol. 1 and Venus Capriccio Vol. 2 on backorder from Right Stuf since the beginning of February, along with a preorder of VC Vol. 4 (which, according to the article, will be released next month, so I guess that‘s something). I wasn’t worried at first, because I remembered how long it took Right Stuf to send me those backordered Cherry Juice volumes, but with this news, I’m not sure if I’m ever going to get them. Don’t care so much about getting the Venus Capriccio volumes; they won’t be releasing the last volume anyway, so that series was a waste of money. (Ugh, I hate owning incomplete series! And I can‘t seem to find any scanlations either.) But I just need that one volume to complete Name of the Flower. I hope they can get their hands on some back inventory somewhere. Also need to try to get my hands on some of the other (completed) CMX titles I’ve been wanting…

Now, the review:

TITLE: Phantom Dream
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Natsuki Takaya
PUBLISHER: Tokyopop
RATING: Older Teen (16+)
CATEGORY: Shoujo
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 5
SCORE: 7 (Good)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Natsuki Takaya (mangaka of Fruits Basket and Tsubasa: Those With Wings), Yurara, Rasetsu, drama, romance, action, supernatural

Link to "Phantom Dream" Review

Current Mood: disappointed

TITLE: Ristorante Paradiso
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Natsume Ono
PUBLISHER: Viz
RATING: Older Teen (16+)
CATEGORY: I’m not exactly sure, but it’s probably either josei or seinen. Anyone know for sure?
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 1
SCORE: 8 (Very Good)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Natsume Ono (mangaka of not simple, Gente, House of Five Leaves), All My Darling Daughters, slice of life, romance

Link to "Ristorante Paradiso" Review

Current Mood: crappy

Back to manga reviews. I think I'm going to make Wednesday my official "review" day.

TITLE: Socrates in Love
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Kyoichi Katayama and Kazumi Kazui
PUBLISHER: Viz
RATING: Older Teen (16+)
CATEGORY: Shoujo
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 1
SCORE: 7 (Good)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Socrates in Love novel, Be With You, romance, drama

Link to "Socrates in Love" Review

Current Mood: contemplative

Apparently people have been saying I retired from writing -- at least according to a review I got today for To Be By Your Side. I honestly have no idea how a rumor like that got started! *chuckles* Yeah, maybe I'm not as productive as I used to be a few years ago, but just looking at my FF.net profile shows that I've been posting every few months or so. In fact, I've been posting quite regularly as of late, thanks to TBBYS and Melting Ice. The weird thing is that the reviewer has me on Author Alert, so they should have been getting emails every time I updated.... I'm just really amused by this whole thing. (And kinda curious about who started this rumor.)

But speaking of my multi-parts, I've posted new chapters for TBBYS and Melting Ice at FF.net, and they should be up tomorrow at .moon, if anybody is interested.

No manga review this week. I have a handful of reviews almost done, but none were polished enough to post. I'll try to get one up next week.

Current Mood: amused

Here's another manga review:

TITLE: Cherry Juice
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Haruka Fukushima
PUBLISHER: Tokyopop
RATING: Teen (13+)
CATEGORY: Shoujo
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 4
SCORE: 5 (Okay)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Haruka Fukushima (mangaka of Instant Teen and Orange Planet), Marmalade Boy, romance, drama, comedy

Link to "Cherry Juice" Review

In other news, I ordered some things during Right Stuf's recent sale on in stock items. Not all I got was actually in stock, but still a good haul: Azumanga Daioh omnibus, Clover omnibus, Ristorante Paradiso (one-shot), Vol. 5 of Phantom Dream (last colume), Vol. 15 of xxxHolic, Vol. 25 of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Familiar of Zero boxset, Kanon boxset, and, of course, another keychain for my collection: Simon from Gurren Lagann.

Current Mood: grumpy

Heh, it's been a while since I updated this thing. Been obsessed with the Sims again. You know how that goes... I'm going to try to do some actual writing today, though. I need to get back into the habit.

For some actual content, here's another manga review:

TITLE: Fall in Love Like a Comic
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Chitose Yagami
PUBLISHER: Viz
RATING: Older Teen (16+)
CATEGORY: Shoujo
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 2
SCORE: 6 (Fine)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Chitose Yagami, romance, comedy

Link to "Fall in Love Like a Comic" Review

Current Mood: lethargic

Happy Easter! I can finally play Sims again! *dances* Yay!

But before going to church and beginning my Sims marathon, though, here's a new manga review. Somewhat appropriately, considering the holiday, it's about a woman who appears to comes back from the dead.

TITLE: Be With You
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Takuji Ichikawa, Yoko Iino, and Sai Kawashima
PUBLISHER: Viz
RATING: Teen (13+)
CATEGORY: Josei
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 1
SCORE: 6 (Fine)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Be With You novel, Be With You movie, Over The Rainbow, All My Darling Daughters, romance, mystery, supernatural

Link to "Be With You" Review

Current Mood: excited

For those who are interested in my manga reviews, I proudly present the debut of my new review blog, Manga Kaleidoscope. This is where I'll be posting my reviews from now on, although I will be sure to post links here for those who don't want the hassle of checking another blog for updates. Right now I'm in the process of moving my old reviews over there, so it'll probably be a couple of weeks before I start posting new material. I do have two new reviews written, though, for Be With You and Fall in Love Like a Comic.

Current Mood: complacent

TITLE: Canon
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Chika Shiomi
PUBLISHER: CMX
RATING: Teen (13+)
CATEGORY: Shoujo
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 4
SCORE: 9 (Great)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Chika Shiomi (mangaka of Yurara, Rasetsu, and Night of the Beasts), supernatural manga, violence, romance

( "Canon" Review )

Current Mood: blah

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Entries tagged with review

Flower in a Storm Review

Haru Hana Review and writing updates

Songs to Make You Smile Review

Paradise Kiss Review

Name of the Flower

Azumanga Daioh Review

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Aishiteruze Baby

High School Debut

Clover and a meme

Only One Wish

Phantom Dream and other stuff

Ristorante Paradiso

Socrates in Love

Hey, did you hear the rumor?

Cherry Juice

Fall in Love Like a Comic

Be Wtih You

Manga Kaleidoscope

Canon