Howdy!
Sorry for leaving you hanging for about 4 months. It seems like the only time I can focus on something is when I'm supposed to be doing something else. So, you can all thank my upcoming math final for this update :D
Since it's my first blog post after a very long absence, I thought I'd review something a little different: a song, or rather, a series of songs. I actually spent a lot of time exploring this story and facets of its creation, so this post isn't only about the songs, but the story, the creator, and the medium in which it was presented. And to top it all off, this is a really, really long blog post. But before you close your browser windows in disgust, please humor me for a few more paragraphs...
Showing posts with label review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label review. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Review: Ouran High School Host Club
Read Ouran HSHC online here
Watch the anime here
Welcome back, my lovely readers!
I hope this Thursday finds you well, and looking forward to a fantastic weekend. With 30 days until my first semester of university is over, I'm definitely looking forward to this weekend. Well I would be, except there are still 30 days until the end of my first semester of university, and it doesn't look like my workload will let up until the last possible moment :'(
Winter is finally settling in over this metropolis, and I'm feeling a little of the November blues. So I thought, how better to fix my under-the-weather attitude than with a super-cheerful and lovely manga that is also an anime full of roses and sunshine? And there's also a cross-dressing heroine! That's right, I'm talking about the hilarious, sympathetic, comedic, gender-bender high school romance, Ouran High School Host Club!
I've actually watched the anime, and the story matches up with the manga in most places, so I will be doing a sort of joint review of the manga and anime. Unless I specify that I'm referring to only the manga or only the anime, assume that I'm speaking about them both.
Watch the anime here
Welcome back, my lovely readers!
I hope this Thursday finds you well, and looking forward to a fantastic weekend. With 30 days until my first semester of university is over, I'm definitely looking forward to this weekend. Well I would be, except there are still 30 days until the end of my first semester of university, and it doesn't look like my workload will let up until the last possible moment :'(
Winter is finally settling in over this metropolis, and I'm feeling a little of the November blues. So I thought, how better to fix my under-the-weather attitude than with a super-cheerful and lovely manga that is also an anime full of roses and sunshine? And there's also a cross-dressing heroine! That's right, I'm talking about the hilarious, sympathetic, comedic, gender-bender high school romance, Ouran High School Host Club!
I've actually watched the anime, and the story matches up with the manga in most places, so I will be doing a sort of joint review of the manga and anime. Unless I specify that I'm referring to only the manga or only the anime, assume that I'm speaking about them both.
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| One of these things is not like the other... |
Thursday, 10 November 2011
It's Not You, It's Me...
Hey buddies
Sorry for the delay with this update. This has been a rather tiring week (first the workers strike, now the students strike... and it keeps raining) and I'm sure we're all a little fatigued. I know I am. So instead of a review, this is just a quick update.
In the last review I posted a link to read Yotsuba&!, but only 68 chapters are available on that site. I believed that it was no longer being translated online, but one of my readers corrected me (thank you for commenting!). Since manga that are licensed in English have a habit of temporarily disappearing from the internet (depending on how possessive the English publisher is), I wanted to post a more comprehensive list of resources specific to Yotsuba&!
The YotsubaScans blog has all the chapters of Yotsuba available for downloading here. I'm not sure if the person in charge of the blog is part of a scanlating group or just receives translated chapters and posts them, but they are being careful to respect publisher's rights. If you love this manga so much you want to download it, please be sure to respect the rules of the blog owner, which you can read about here.
I don't ever download manga of the internet (for multiple reasons, all of which are irrelevant to this post), and if anyone else feels the same way you can still read this manga online. YotsubaScans currently uploads its chapters on only one site, Mangareader. Scanlator's rights are a can of worms I don't feel like addressing, but let it suffice to say that if the blog owner says they'll only host their manga on one site, don't bother looking for it anywhere else on the internet. If any site is found to be hosting manga they're not supposed to have, it will get taken down p.d.q. (pretty darn quick, for all you linguistically-limited folks). Since the blog owner has promised to upload to Mangareader, the most reliable place to read Yotsuba&! and check for updates is Mangareader. You can read Yotsuba&! on Mangareader by clicking here.
Summary:
Download chapters of Yotsuba&! here
Read Yotsuba&! online here
Play the dress-up game here
(okay that last link wasn't actually mentioned in the update, but it's a cute game, and both real and imaginary 4-year-olds love it)
Sorry for the delay with this update. This has been a rather tiring week (first the workers strike, now the students strike... and it keeps raining) and I'm sure we're all a little fatigued. I know I am. So instead of a review, this is just a quick update.
In the last review I posted a link to read Yotsuba&!, but only 68 chapters are available on that site. I believed that it was no longer being translated online, but one of my readers corrected me (thank you for commenting!). Since manga that are licensed in English have a habit of temporarily disappearing from the internet (depending on how possessive the English publisher is), I wanted to post a more comprehensive list of resources specific to Yotsuba&!
The YotsubaScans blog has all the chapters of Yotsuba available for downloading here. I'm not sure if the person in charge of the blog is part of a scanlating group or just receives translated chapters and posts them, but they are being careful to respect publisher's rights. If you love this manga so much you want to download it, please be sure to respect the rules of the blog owner, which you can read about here.
I don't ever download manga of the internet (for multiple reasons, all of which are irrelevant to this post), and if anyone else feels the same way you can still read this manga online. YotsubaScans currently uploads its chapters on only one site, Mangareader. Scanlator's rights are a can of worms I don't feel like addressing, but let it suffice to say that if the blog owner says they'll only host their manga on one site, don't bother looking for it anywhere else on the internet. If any site is found to be hosting manga they're not supposed to have, it will get taken down p.d.q. (pretty darn quick, for all you linguistically-limited folks). Since the blog owner has promised to upload to Mangareader, the most reliable place to read Yotsuba&! and check for updates is Mangareader. You can read Yotsuba&! on Mangareader by clicking here.
Summary:
Download chapters of Yotsuba&! here
Read Yotsuba&! online here
Play the dress-up game here
(okay that last link wasn't actually mentioned in the update, but it's a cute game, and both real and imaginary 4-year-olds love it)
Monday, 7 November 2011
Review: Yotsuba&!
Read Yotsuba&! here
Play the dress-up game here :)
Hello folks
Thank you for the (single) comment on my last post. I look forward to more communication. I was actually sort of at a loss about which manga to review this time. There are a lot of manga I like to read, but I wasn't "in the mood" to go over any of them. In the end, I chose one of my all-time favourites. Note that the title is not "Yotsuba" but "Yotsuba&!" because each chapter is named after a different topic, for example Yotsuba and Shopping! or Yotsuba and TV!. So the title reflects the enthusiasm that Yotsuba has for life and each subject.
Play the dress-up game here :)
Hello folks
Thank you for the (single) comment on my last post. I look forward to more communication. I was actually sort of at a loss about which manga to review this time. There are a lot of manga I like to read, but I wasn't "in the mood" to go over any of them. In the end, I chose one of my all-time favourites. Note that the title is not "Yotsuba" but "Yotsuba&!" because each chapter is named after a different topic, for example Yotsuba and Shopping! or Yotsuba and TV!. So the title reflects the enthusiasm that Yotsuba has for life and each subject.
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| In Japanese "yotsuba" is a 4-leaf clover. Since she has 4 green pigtails the name is fitting |
Thursday, 3 November 2011
Review: Fruits Basket
Read Fruits Basket here
G'day mates! (*Please comment on this post once you've read it!*)
Fruits Basket is a very popular shoujo* manga that was even made into an anime. The anime is only 26 episodes while the manga is 23 volumes, so some of the characters that appear in the manga don't appear in the anime and it has a different ending from the manga. I rarely watch anime, so this review is about the manga.
Summary:
Fruits Basket is the story of a ridiculously cheerful and good-natured girl named Tohru Honda. After the death of her mother and some other circumstances, she is living alone in a tent and ends up taking shelter in the house of Shigure and Yuki Sohma. Yuki is the famous "prince" of her high school and she is excited yet shy to be living with him, but she doesn't expect to uncover a major secret -- the Sohma family is under a curse! Some members are possessed with the spirit of zodiac animals, and turn into those animals when physically weakened or when hugged by a member of the opposite sex! The story documents Tohru's encounters with the members of the zodiac and other characters, as she learns of the terrible implications of the curse and works to break it (falling in love along the way, of course!).
G'day mates! (*Please comment on this post once you've read it!*)
Fruits Basket is a very popular shoujo* manga that was even made into an anime. The anime is only 26 episodes while the manga is 23 volumes, so some of the characters that appear in the manga don't appear in the anime and it has a different ending from the manga. I rarely watch anime, so this review is about the manga.
Summary:
Fruits Basket is the story of a ridiculously cheerful and good-natured girl named Tohru Honda. After the death of her mother and some other circumstances, she is living alone in a tent and ends up taking shelter in the house of Shigure and Yuki Sohma. Yuki is the famous "prince" of her high school and she is excited yet shy to be living with him, but she doesn't expect to uncover a major secret -- the Sohma family is under a curse! Some members are possessed with the spirit of zodiac animals, and turn into those animals when physically weakened or when hugged by a member of the opposite sex! The story documents Tohru's encounters with the members of the zodiac and other characters, as she learns of the terrible implications of the curse and works to break it (falling in love along the way, of course!).
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| Yuki the rat and Kyo the cat. Our 2 possible love interests ;) |
Monday, 24 October 2011
Review: Bakuman
Read the translated chapters of Bakuman here
Hello again folks!
2 posts in 3 days? How exciting! (Actually I'm required to have a certain number of posts a month, and my teacher just announced that more posts = a better grade. On the plus side, this means more updates for you, which is still exciting!) After blogging about Sket Dance I read to the end of the last translated chapter, and there were more and more in-text references (breaking the fourth wall...) about this manga called Bakuman. They're both serialized in Shonen Jump so I can see why that would be, but it just so happens that I read Bakuman before starting Sket Dance and it's very worthy of a review. One thing to note is that the author (actually, a team of 2 authors) writing Bakuman are the same guys who wrote Death Note (a super-epic psychological manga that I will definitely review one day!). If anyone has read Death Note, Bakuman is nothing like it but it is at least worth a try.
Summary:
This manga is about 2 boys, Takagi and Mashiro, who want to be mangakas*. Mashiro is in love with Azuki, a girl in his class who wants to be a voice actor*, so they make a promise to get married as soon as he rights a manga that gets turned into an anime and she does the voice of the lead female character. The story starts at the beginning of middle school and has continued into their early 20s.
Hello again folks!
2 posts in 3 days? How exciting! (Actually I'm required to have a certain number of posts a month, and my teacher just announced that more posts = a better grade. On the plus side, this means more updates for you, which is still exciting!) After blogging about Sket Dance I read to the end of the last translated chapter, and there were more and more in-text references (breaking the fourth wall...) about this manga called Bakuman. They're both serialized in Shonen Jump so I can see why that would be, but it just so happens that I read Bakuman before starting Sket Dance and it's very worthy of a review. One thing to note is that the author (actually, a team of 2 authors) writing Bakuman are the same guys who wrote Death Note (a super-epic psychological manga that I will definitely review one day!). If anyone has read Death Note, Bakuman is nothing like it but it is at least worth a try.
This manga is about 2 boys, Takagi and Mashiro, who want to be mangakas*. Mashiro is in love with Azuki, a girl in his class who wants to be a voice actor*, so they make a promise to get married as soon as he rights a manga that gets turned into an anime and she does the voice of the lead female character. The story starts at the beginning of middle school and has continued into their early 20s.
Saturday, 22 October 2011
Review: Sket Dance!
Read Sket Dance here
Hello to my loyal readers! (all 2 of you)
Your patience has been rewarded with a new update. This is the first of my manga reviews. From now on, expect updates weekly. The reason I'm choosing Sket Dance is because it's a very funny manga and I wanted an excuse to read it last night. Actually I was gonna wait until all my midterms are over, but after the mental beating I just took with the first 2 tests yesterday, I needed to laugh at something other than my own pitiful existence. You're actually doubly lucky, because I stayed up so late last night/this morning that I was gonna leave the blog post until tonight, but I downloaded the blogger app and am now typing this on my phone during a break in my midterm crash course tutorial. I gotta say -- as much as I love my shiny, high-tech smartphone (android ftw!) I wish I had a keypad. [Actually, by the time I get around to posting it, it will be tonight. But I started it earlier than I intended and it's the thought that counts, right?]
But enough about my misery -- let's started with the manga!
Hello to my loyal readers! (all 2 of you)
Your patience has been rewarded with a new update. This is the first of my manga reviews. From now on, expect updates weekly. The reason I'm choosing Sket Dance is because it's a very funny manga and I wanted an excuse to read it last night. Actually I was gonna wait until all my midterms are over, but after the mental beating I just took with the first 2 tests yesterday, I needed to laugh at something other than my own pitiful existence. You're actually doubly lucky, because I stayed up so late last night/this morning that I was gonna leave the blog post until tonight, but I downloaded the blogger app and am now typing this on my phone during a break in my midterm crash course tutorial. I gotta say -- as much as I love my shiny, high-tech smartphone (android ftw!) I wish I had a keypad. [Actually, by the time I get around to posting it, it will be tonight. But I started it earlier than I intended and it's the thought that counts, right?]
But enough about my misery -- let's started with the manga!
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