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Popping in for my yearly "Has/Is Ai Yazawa (Nana, Paradise Kiss) doing anything yet"?
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Oct 26, 2011 04:56
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PRADA SLUT posted:Popping in for my yearly "Has/Is Ai Yazawa (Nana, Paradise Kiss) doing anything yet"? This is the most recent news I've heard, from a couple pages ago: The Black Stones posted:She's recovered from her illness but she mentioned she hasn't picked up a pen since it had happened and she just wasn't sure she'd ever return to drawing again. That was well over a year ago so things are looking slim. I'll be so depressed if she never finishes it.
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Oct 26, 2011 05:03
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I would be okay with someone else drawing if she wrote it or whatever. Anything similar out recently (3~ years) then? PRADA SLUT fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Oct 27, 2011 |
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Oct 27, 2011 07:36
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PRADA SLUT posted:I would be okay with someone else drawing if she wrote it or whatever. Nothing I know of that has her mix of characterization and fashion. The only thing that comes to my mind might not be quite what you're looking for, but the manga Octave has: adult characters, drama, mistakes, and the dizzying heights and horrible lows of love and life. It's not a perfect manga by any means, but overall I really enjoyed it. So, if those are some of the things you like about Ai Yazawa's works you might give it a look.
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Oct 28, 2011 05:00
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I'd second Octave, it was pretty good. Nothing else I can think of really matches her works. I will recommend watching Chihayafuru as the same director who worked on NANA and same studio is adapting that and the material is pretty good too, but a bit less mature than Yazawa.
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Oct 28, 2011 05:33
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So here's another chapter of some poo poo http://www.mangareader.net/ge-good-ending/102 I like Shou's family more than anything about Yuki, but he's still hanging around the Wrong Girl. 
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Oct 30, 2011 21:51
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SpazmasterX posted:I like Shou's family more than anything about Yuki, but he's still hanging around the Wrong Girl.
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Oct 30, 2011 23:10
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Paracelsus posted:The Right Girl, of course, being Oonuma. Naturally.
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Oct 30, 2011 23:34
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Took me over a month, but I finally finished Kimi ni Todoke, and the second season. Overall thoughts: Perfection. While it doesn't have the best romance scene in anime history, it was otherwise perfect. It avoided the usual tropes, and spruced up the ones it still touched on. The romance felt fresh and constantly elicited a gasp or swoon from me- in the final 5 episodes of the second season, I often wouldn't go longer than 2 minutes without having to hold my breath again. The art was beautiful, the music was almost perfect(the re-use of the opening songs in piano was often more distracting than suitable, but both songs were classy as hell), the voice acting was the most intimate thing I've ever heard. I felt like I was one of them- not just watching them, hoping for them, envying them, but that I was there, experiencing Sawako's highs and lows as if I were her. And finally, an ending in an anime that doesn't leave me wanting horribly badly. It ended perfect and satisfying. I don't even have the desire to go looking for fanfics or anything!
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Nov 1, 2011 11:03
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I just read whats been scanned of http://www.mangafox.com/manga/tonari_no_kaibutsu_kun/ and it's pretty good Shoujo. I like that all the drama really comes from the main characters being awkward and weird people.
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Nov 3, 2011 16:29
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coathat posted:I just read whats been scanned of http://www.mangafox.com/manga/tonari_no_kaibutsu_kun/ and it's pretty good Shoujo. I like that all the drama really comes from the main characters being awkward and weird people. I like it! I'm only about halfway through what's there so far, but all of the characters are pretty entertaining, and it's a fun read, nothing infuriating. I'm a fan of the main character, she doesn't dance around her feelings.
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Nov 4, 2011 01:59
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The cover and a couple inside pages for Wandering Son Vol 2 just popped up on Twitter. http://twitpic.com/7a0p7x http://twitpic.com/7a0pnc Too bad it's not actually coming out until January. 
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Nov 4, 2011 07:55
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So I guess that My Girl by Sahara Mizu has been dropped by all the groups scanlating it, and also that the entire series has now been completed in five volumes. Is there an SA scanning group? It's a really great series and I'd love to see the rest of it. I'd chip in if it'd take some kind of commission to get it finished properly. edit: I just got an email saying that chapter 25 just got released RIGHT NOW, I'm guessing a goon who is on one of the scanlation teams saw my post? 
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Nov 4, 2011 11:02
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I don't know if anyone here's seen Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, it doesn't seem like it's very popular here. I stumbled onto it on Crunchyroll earlier this week, and I'll be god damned if it's not one of the most adorable things I've ever seen. It's complete fluff, and nothing deep or anything, but seriously I think I like all the characters involved. The main plot is that the lead girl is one of those super perfect people, great at academics and music. She has a secret hobby of being an otaku, and the main boy finds it out, and it freaks the girl out. The boy convinces her that he'll keep it a secret, and they become friends. It's another one of those romantic comedies where the leads just won't say they like each other, but at least unlike all the other ones, Haruka and Yuuto are basically a couple in everything but name. Haruka is also voiced by Mamiko Noto (Sawako from Kimi ni Todoke), which makes everything she says pretty damned adorable.
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Nov 4, 2011 18:40
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New chapter ofKimi no Iru Machi is out. Haruto just can't seem to catch a loving break.
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Nov 4, 2011 18:53
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Captain Invictus posted:Is there an SA scanning group? It's a really great series and I'd love to see the rest of it. I'd chip in if it'd take some kind of commission to get it finished properly. No there isn't, I wish there was so I could get someone to translate the latest chapters of Otoyomegatari 
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Nov 8, 2011 21:24
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I think this is the right thread for this. Nyankoi! is apparently coming back! http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-10-31/nyan-koi-manga-to-resume-next-month-after-creator-illness
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Nov 10, 2011 21:26
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gently caress YES I was all bummed out that it probably wasn't going to resume. This is good news.
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Nov 10, 2011 21:44
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new Kimi ni Todoke is out.
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Nov 18, 2011 20:31
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That's a rather sudden development for what I thought was going to be a simple flashback I guess.
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Nov 18, 2011 21:09
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Huh, new scan group? At least new to KnT I think. They sure like their watermark.
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Nov 19, 2011 01:38
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I just started reading Hiyokoi. I'm like about halfway through, but it's giving a lot of Kimi ni Todoke vibes. I don't think it's on that same level, but I think it's still worth giving a read.
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Nov 19, 2011 07:32
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New chapter of http://www.mangafox.com/manga/tonari_no_kaibutsu_kun/v05/c018/1.html
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Nov 19, 2011 16:09
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Mura posted:I just started reading Hiyokoi. I'm like about halfway through, but it's giving a lot of Kimi ni Todoke vibes. I don't think it's on that same level, but I think it's still worth giving a read. Hiyokoi is really cute!!
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Nov 19, 2011 21:02
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The Black Stones posted:Just to give people a heads up. Those artboxes NISA does are loving HUGE compared to most anime packaging. But they are very well made and very sturdy and look incredible. I only have the Toradora! ones, but they look pretty cool. I wish more series had them.
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Nov 21, 2011 03:10
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Good Ending Chapter 105 is out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5IVuN1N6-Y Mainly though I'm happy to see that Aoi Hana 42 is out and at long last we get to see how Fumi and Akira's relationship is going, and it's going well for the most part, but Akira still seems, perhaps understandably, a bit confused as to what her feelings really are at the end of the chapter but "It's ok, you can kiss me whenever you want" was super adorable. Shimura really likes having her characters in plays, but that's fine I like seeing her characters in them. Plus: D'Artagnyan  Now that I've had time to mull it over a bit more, my thoughts about the chapter have changed a little. Aoi Hana 42 Fumi is crazy, loopy, head over heals for Akira. Akira on the other hand doesn't seem like she's ever initiated a kiss and in contrast to how the chapter ends for Fumi is shown once again to be deep in thought with a vaguely sad look on her face. She seems like she likes being with Fumi, but she doesn't really seem like she loves it with anything like the intensity that Fumi does. I suspect she was going to follow up her question to Kyouko about whether she'd ever kissed anyone with a question about what it felt like emotionally. And also, of all the people to ask about that poor messed up confused Kyouko was the one she picked. (I do of course realize that she is probably the closest friend she has outside of Fumi, but talk about inadvertently opening a can of worms) So now I don't know if Akira is just not into Fumi as much, not gay, in love but shows it in a quieter fashion or what. So where is it going to go from here I wonder. It's not like Shimura has any problem with putting her characters into difficult emotional situations, but even with all the ups and downs this group hasn't had quite as many huge shakeups and in Wandering Son. In conclusion Chapter 42= +
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Nov 21, 2011 05:19
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Mura posted:I just started reading Hiyokoi. I'm like about halfway through, but it's giving a lot of Kimi ni Todoke vibes. I don't think it's on that same level, but I think it's still worth giving a read. This is indeed really cute. I really hate reading unfinished romance shoujo, though. It always feels as though I run out of chapters right at "the good part."
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Nov 23, 2011 07:02
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I've discovered Stiletto Heels Scans recently. They do pretty good josei stuff involving mostly post-college-aged people, but they have a lot of projects and only release every couple months. I've particularly been liking Futago, which is about a set of fraternal twins who grew up mostly separately and their growing closer. This is accomplished by one bringing a young vagrant she spent her honeymoon with to live with the other. 3 AM Dangerous Zone is a cute, slow-moving romance about a girl who works long hours as a pachinko machine art designer and the guy she eats lunch with. The Mangafox link there has a thread that links to completed raws of the series, which is only 3 volumes. They're also doing something called Toribako House by Yumi Unita (Bunny Drop). It starts with a 23 year old in a relationship with someone 12 years older. They've been together for 7 years!
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Nov 28, 2011 18:29
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Ah cool, I'll have to give the first two a look, been needing to find some new (to me at least) josei things to read. If anyone who reads this thread isn't watching Chihayafuru they should probably remedy that right away, it's super good with great characters and some amazing production values too. So far I've managed to avoid letting myself sneak a look at the manga to see what happens, hopefully I can keep myself from doing that, I'm really alarmingly bad at peeking at spoilers. I think I'm officially just done with Good Ending now. Plotlines involving sexual assault are just not what I'm looking for in a high-school romance storyline, especially to a character whose sole reason for existing is just to have terrible poo poo happen to her. It's the last straw in my patience for what has really been a frustrating read. If anyone besides me is reading Aoi Hana it would be nice to hear some opinions about it and how it is going that aren't as likely to make me as annoyed as reading things about it (or really any anime/manga) from other places on the internet. Also, if you do like it you should add your opinion to the ADTRWiki too. a kitten fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Nov 28, 2011 |
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Nov 28, 2011 19:21
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a kitten posted:I think I'm officially just done with Good Ending now. Plotlines involving sexual assault are just not what I'm looking for in a high-school romance storyline, especially to a character whose sole reason for existing is just to have terrible poo poo happen to her. It's the last straw in my patience for what has really been a frustrating read. I have a pretty good idea of what's going to happen there, which is the only reason I'm sticking it out. Since what's-his-name saw her being escorted away, he'll either inform our protagonist what happened or go himself to save the day. Hoping for the latter so she can fall in love with someone who actually cared about her well being.
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Nov 28, 2011 21:16
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a kitten posted:Good Ending Like I always say, just read the one-shot and pretend nothing else happened.
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Nov 28, 2011 21:26
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a kitten posted:
Can you read Japanese? Because that's the only way you can peek. All what I found available online only went so far and the show has blown past it at this point.
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Nov 28, 2011 22:31
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The Black Stones posted:Can you read Japanese? Because that's the only way you can peek. All what I found available online only went so far and the show has blown past it at this point. Haha, well I just assumed it had an ongoing translation since I knew I would "just take a quick peek" at some later chapters if I so much as looked at it on mangafox or wherever. Guess that makes my temptation to spoiler myself fairly moot.
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Nov 28, 2011 22:43
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a kitten posted:
Actually I had just started (and finished) watching this series two weekends ago, and as of last weekend I've caught up with the manga. Very sweet story, though at least one point had me screaming BAD IDEA BAD IDEA in my head. Given that it's a fictional story though I'm going to roll with it, but if it happened in real life that would probably be my reaction. I am enjoying it very much though! EDIT: Also to complete my shoujotastic Thanksgiving weekend, I watched the first two seasons of Maria-sama ga Miteru, and it's a cute series so far. A bit melodramatic, but I really like the characters a lot. Currently watching the OAVs on that series. pezzie fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Nov 29, 2011 |
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Nov 28, 2011 23:20
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a kitten posted:If anyone besides me is reading Aoi Hana it would be nice to hear some opinions about it and how it is going that aren't as likely to make me as annoyed as reading things about it (or really any anime/manga) from other places on the internet. Also, if you do like it you should add your opinion to the ADTRWiki too. Being the Takako Shimura nut I am, I'm really fond of the series. It's actually what got me into the yuri genre in the first place. Hopefully, with GIRL FRIENDS and Wandering Son being licensed, Aoi Hana will get an English release at some point, as well. Also, Fumi is one of my favorite characters. She's just so adorable and shy, but she isn't a doormat and knows what she wants. Miijhal fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Nov 29, 2011 |
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Nov 29, 2011 16:34
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Fumi is one of my favorite characters too, for pretty much those exact reasons. For being such a reserved person she really has a lot of quiet strength in how she deals with life and the world around her. Recent Aoi Hana events:I hope things can continue to be good in regards to her and Akira dating, I literally keep flip flopping on my assessment of the chances of it working out, hence + It says "A girl meets girl story that will set your heart aflutter" right on every title page though, so obviously I have nothing whatsoever to worry about. 
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Nov 30, 2011 03:33
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Right now, I think a lot of the tension in the story is a result of Akira not really knowing how she feels about Fumi, and struggling to figure out the nature of her relationship with her. I'd be pretty surprised if it didn't work out in the end, though. As for GIRL FRIENDS, there was a drama CD made a while ago, but other than that I don't recall any news on that front. Edit: Bleh, and it looks like Dynasty Scans is pretty much done for. Hopefully someone picked up Wife and Wife, since that was probably the only decent series to come out of the original Yuri Hime S anthologies. Miijhal fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Nov 30, 2011 |
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Nov 30, 2011 03:44
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Miijhal posted:
It does look like a group called payapaya is continuing on with Wife and Wife and also Sasameki Koto, which was the one I was most hoping to see Dynasty finally get caught up with. For all its faults and even though its pacing sometimes made glaciers seem downright speedy I still like that series. I've read the ending since someone translated that and posted it, but I'd sure like to read all the lead up to it. Digging through my history I think I figured out that Morinaga is doing something a bit more with Kisses, Sighs and Cherry-blossom pink and I just got confused by her similar looking charcters.
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Nov 30, 2011 04:28
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Its been a long time but finally a new Oresama Teacher http://www.mangareader.net/oresama-teacher/64.
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Nov 30, 2011 18:08
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Apparently the DVD for the live action Paradise Kiss movie has been released, and completely amazingly it came with English subtitles included.  This news is based on a subber who posted about it on the live action trailer I had stuck up on my youtube account, so I'm not positive on its accuracy but in any case, the film is on DVD/blu-ray now.There's a trailer for Funimation's English dub of Kuragehime out now too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPUv_x13TeA I like Tsukimi's voice a lot actually, really not digging Kuranosuke's dub voice though. a kitten fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Dec 2, 2011 |
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Dec 2, 2011 04:55
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