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MANGA: Last Summer Blues
Last Summer Blues – Ogawa Chise
A story of baseball and summer blues.
A one-shot about school boys, summer and baseball.
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MANGA: Ikemen-kun to Saenai-kun
Ikemen-kun to Saenai-kun – Hideyoshico
Kentarou is a plain, nondescript college student who has never had a girlfriend or any friends. After getting hit on the head by a wayward ball, he begins to notice that there are increasingly long periods of time in which he cannot remember what he was doing. One afternoon, he regains consciousness in an apartment he’d never been to before – and sitting next to him is a young man who then tells him “You’re being possessed by the spirit of my dead girlfriend”…
A little slow and a little confusing with a somewhat open-ended ending but still wonderful, fluffy and dramatic. Wishing for more stories from this author
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MANGA: Kono Ore Ga Omae Nanka Suki Na Wakenai
Kono Ore Ga Omae Nanka Suki Na Wakenai – Ogawa Chise
Fujima Taisei is a high schooler who had grown up spoiled by the people around him ever since he was little because of his pretty face. In his pleasant school life, there was only one time that had become the only stain in his life, when a student named Okachi Machi, whom Taisei had grown close to in order to get others’ attention, had told him that actually he had never been his friend at all. Now Taisei wants revenge. What will happen these two?!
This is a nicely drawn volume about a vain school boy and his friends. Hilarious and sometimes a bit nonsensical, it’s mostly shounen-ai with an almost yaoi scene at the end.
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MANGA: Suteneko no Ie
Suteneko no Ie – Nawo Inoue
A vampire who lives in complete isolation, Ed, one day finds an abandoned child named Phil on a whim. From then on, they live together. Saying he loves Ed, Phil grows innocently emotionally attached to the vampire. Meanwhile Ed grows perplexed by the passions awakened in him by the human.
A nicely drawn story of a vampire and his human. Mostly shounen-ai with a dash of yaoi but nothing too explicit.
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MANGA: Masakadou e Irasshai
Masakadou e Irasshai – Yamamoto Kotetsuko
Bird shop owner Masaka meets exchange student Fon-kun.
Funny and cute!
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MANGA: Hybrid Child
Version 1.0.0 Hybrid Child – Nakamura Shungiku
The Hybrid Child is an amazing android that can grow if it is lavished with enough love and care from its owner. Neither fully machine nor fully human, the various Hybrid Child models develop strong emotional bonds with their owners. This volume contains several short stories of love, sacrifice, and drama: Young Kotaro learns the importance of responsibility when his Hybrid Child’s lifespan runs out. The tragic swordsman Seya learns to love again with the help of his Hybrid child, Yuzu. The final tale tells the story of Kuroda, the creator of the Hybrid Child designs, and how his lost love inspired their creation.
I really the author’s pattern of making stories with multiple pairs that have interconnected lives. A volume of pure and earnest feelings. The last story was especially bittersweet.
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MANGA: Haikei, Niisan-sama
Haikei, Niisan-sama – Tagura Tohru
Yutaka gets his yearly letter from his beloved older brother.
Because brotherly love is the best thing in the world…
A story of pure hearts, innocence and things left unsaid. For those who like light, slow-paced summer stories. -
MANGA: Walking with You
Walking with You – Junko
Ken and Yuu are childhood friends, they have always been together, they went to the same kindergarden, the same elementary school, the same middle school and now the same high school. Ken is really good at soccer, but he’s hiding something from Yuu. What is it?
A BL one-shot that just tugs at the heartstrings.
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MANGA: Kurayami ni Strobe
Kurayami ni Strobe by Hayakawa Nojiko
Arata who is in love with his childhood friend Miyamoto, always eavesdrops on the confessions his friend receives from girls but Miyamoto constantly rejects the confessions saying he already has someone he likes. One day Miyamoto catches Arata eavesdropping and asks, “Want to know who?”
That question got me into reading this manga. A funny, heartwarming manga full of shounen-ai goodness.
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MANGA: Slow Starter
Slow Starter – Ichikawa Kei
It’s a story about two boys, Kiyo and Ino, who go to different schools but take the same train every morning. As time passes by they become aware of each other but never engage in conversation until one day when Kiyo oversleeps in the train and is awoken by Ino. From that point on they begin talking to each other and eventually become good friends…
A story full of innocence and fluffy awkwardness. Definitely a must-read
