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Nate RFB posted:I recently read through the available chapters of a manga called Yandere Kanojo. It's about a deliquent girl who falls in love with a normal guy, but has to hide their relationship keep her reputation intact. If that sounds like Onidere to you, that's because it's pretty much the same. Except for me personally, I dropped Onidere after a couple of chapters while I found this to be pretty endearing. It's not all dawwwwww but there are a lot of good moments. Yandere Kanojo constantly tries and fails to be funny, but gets better when it goes for the drama or saccharine romance. Onidere constantly tries and frequently succeeds at being funny, but the handful of times it tries to be serious aren't worth mentioning. Really though, aside from the basic premise they aren't even the same genre.
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So the Bunny Drop anime is getting a US release, now I have to decide how annoyed with the author I still am, because I completely loved the anime version (and the first half of the manga), but completely hated the manga's ending and to a lesser extent all the volumes after the 10 year jump. So, on the one hand I don't want to give her money, but on the other the anime is pretty separate from her and it's downright amazing. Actually, even as I'm typing this post I realize that my ire has lessened and having a physical copy of the show is starting to sound quite appealing. I'm only just past the first volume of Taiyou no Ie and I'm definitely liking it a lot, I like that it's not simply a romance story but also about belonging and family. The art is pretty cute too. == Edit for more stuff I just stumbled across. I never actually watched Sailor Moon on Toonami but my girlfriend and I would watch it on some random cable channel after work everyday back in '96(or so). Fairly recently I tried to re watch it and it's amazing just how much of it, at least at the beginning, is the same thing over and over again. It's still kind of fun, but it goes like 10 episodes before What sparked this whole paragraph was finding this in my twitter feed: Toonami Sailor Moon Promo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcnpsG6TdOw Lastly I also found this short essay on the yuri genre and how it's developed over the past 40 years or so, especially the use of all girls' schools and the repeated storyline of There is a girl, she likes another girl. The other girl likes her. They like each other. The end. It's a pretty neat little mini-history. a kitten fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Apr 28, 2012 |
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a kitten posted:So the Bunny Drop anime is getting a US release, now I have to decide how annoyed with the author I still am, because I completely loved the anime version (and the first half of the manga), but completely hated the manga's ending and to a lesser extent all the volumes after the 10 year jump. So, on the one hand I don't want to give her money, but on the other the anime is pretty separate from her and it's downright amazing. Think of it as not helping out the original author, but helping out NISA release more awesome anime! as they constantly score some of the great stuff that would never make it here otherwise. Supporting titles like AnoHana, Usagi Drop, and Kimi Ni Todoke just might make them consider other greats like Chihayafuru! Here's hoping!
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The Black Stones posted:Ha, that's a good point they've brought over some pretty great stuff and I really do want them to keep doing so. Plus the anime completely owns.  I just finished the first chapter of Cherry, a seinen romance manga that I stumbled upon.  So far it's a pretty delightful story about a 19 year old dude in some tiny rural town who meets and falls for a beautiful girl who is preparing for an arranged marriage. The art is clean and expressive and while it doesn't seem to be breaking any new ground the story looks like it should be fun to follow. I might be biased a bit towards liking it because it directly references the move The Graduate and I happen to think that's a pretty good film. Hopefully it won't turn to poo poo as it progresses. (e: I like it, it's serious without being grimdark drama-y, it's cute without being cloying, adult but not skeezy or pornographic and there's a yakuza dude who is also a Gundam nerd) I also read Shiroi Heya no Futari: Our White Room or The Couple of the White Room.  Which is a shoujo yuri manga published back in 1971, about two girls at a prestigious all-girls school in France. It is melodramatic as all hell and has a Bad End but I still recommend it because the art is great, that old school shoujo look is pretty cool (those eye sparkles!  ) and even if you couldn't give less of a poo poo about yuri it's still pretty interesting from a historical perspective. It's only around 80 pages long so you can read through it pretty quickly too.E: added link. a kitten fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Apr 30, 2012 |
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Also in Usagi Drop news, someone has started scanning another volume which I didn't know existed. The only chapter from it scanned so far is pre-time jump and available here.
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Mura posted:I just started reading Hiyokoi. I think it's worth giving a read. Cheers, I took you up on this recommendation after feeling that the series I had been reading prior was stagnating. Hiyokoi is precious. It's not as off-putting as I thought it might be to have another female protagonist whose most salient character trait is "extremely shy," and the warmth of the male love interest is winning me over. I'm also glad to see there is some character development going on, with the female lead wanting to break out of her old habits. Not to mention the artwork is adorable! I love seeing the little chicken avatar appear over Hiyorin's head. Reading it on the bus is always a mixed bag of social reactions, though 
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May 1, 2012 02:42
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In chapter 46 of Kuragehime, everyone goes completely bananas.
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Magikarpal Tunnel posted:In chapter 46 of Kuragehime, everyone goes completely bananas. Best protest ever. Hanamori and Jiji have been stealing a lot of scenes lately. Also a new Seiyuu-ka. More cuteness, also a confused male lead who has to think he's in a BL manga by now.
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I love this thread. I've been introduced to so many good series thanks to it.  I think Kuragehime is my favorite, I'm disappointed I didn't check it out sooner!a kitten posted:Sailormoon stuff If you enjoy the more plot-oriented episodes, I would seriously recommend checking out the manga (and it appears they're pretty cheap on amazon right now too!). They actually started re-releasing them last September, and it looks like number 5 is coming out next week. The plot moves a lot faster and it's a bit more darker than the anime (well, as dark as Sailormoon can get ). It does have its flaws, I think there's more character development in the anime, but I still enjoy it more than the show.
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Holy poo poo, new Hiyokoi http://www.batoto.net/read/_/100567/hiyokoi_v7_ch25_by_shoujo-crusade
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Toradora! is apparently now available on Hulu, so if you haven't seen it or just feel like re-watching it, now's your chance. I'm sometimes surprised to find that I like that show as much as I do, it's probably because the characters actually grow and change over the course of the story. I really need to catch up on the Kuragehime manga, I loved the anime, but just haven't looked at the comic yet at all even though I'm sure I'll like it as much or more. I really should grab some volumes of Sailor Moon too, especially if they're cheap on amazon right now. The only print version of it that I read was a couple of issues in Mixx (which later became Tokyopop) way back forever ago. Googling that just taught me that Magic Knight Rayearth was a) in that same magazine, but I don't remember it at all and b) it's shoujo. Is it any good? I vaguely remember the name, but that's basically it. This was linked before by someone, but if you missed it and you love that old-school shoujo look: this tumblr has lots and lots of scans of shoujo and josei, mainly from the 70's and earlier.
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a kitten posted:
The anime is pretty dated and drags a bit, but was alright. The manga was definitely the better of the 2 I think, and I would really recommend picking up Darkhorse's rerelease of the series as you can pick it up in 2 combined volumes and you can really tell they put lots of love into them. I'd also recommend their CardCaptor Sakura books too, they're phenomenal.
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arisu posted:Holy poo poo, new Hiyokoi Eternal Heart does a better translation of this series, but it having been 4 months since the last update to this, I'm not going to complain. As for the chapter: It just looks mostly like a set-up for tensions to start building between Hirose and Hiyori. I think we'll be stuck waiting for the next few chapters for any real development, but if the last time they did this was any indication, they'll be translating the whole volume and dropping them all days apart. Based on the length of the chapters, I'm guessing this is a monthly series, so that probably explains the long gaps. The translators are probably waiting on the tankobons.
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Mura posted:
I'm hoping that we'll get to see Hiyori mature a little bit; maybe the rising tensions between her and her now-boyfriend as a result of the gossip about Nitobe will either cause her to stop putting Hirose on a pedestal, or realize she's better suited to someone that she's more comfortable with. Though, I think either of these two outcomes might be a little too progressive for a shoujo manga. Either way, I hope that Hiyori's best friend gets to find a little love too. So far, she and Hirose have been the most likeable characters in the story. GUITAR VILLAIN fucked around with this message at 20:39 on May 7, 2012 |
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So I know I'm late to the party...but drat I couldn't stop crying through Kanon. I'm not really one for getting all emotional, but drat if there isn't enough sadness in that for an onion to cry. A nice bittersweet ending, but with it all being online and having no TV my weekends lately have been nothing but 
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Oxphocker posted:So I know I'm late to the party...but drat I couldn't stop crying through Kanon. If you haven't done so already, you should check out Clannad. It's by the same studio that did Kanon. I honestly didn't like Kanon very much, but Clannad really floored me with how good it was, particularly season 2 (After Story). If Kanon made you cry, Clannad will probably make you flood your house with tears.  Watch it. Watch it for Botan.
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I really liked Kanon...going take a short break from anime for a bit cause this weekend was a bit much. I watch the whole series in two days.
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Marin Karin posted:If you haven't done so already, you should check out Clannad. It's by the same studio that did Kanon. I honestly didn't like Kanon very much, but Clannad really floored me with how good it was, particularly season 2 (After Story). If Kanon made you cry, Clannad will probably make you flood your house with tears. I enjoyed Clannad a lot, though I wouldn't say it's among my favourite romantic anime stories. The characters were engaging enough - some more likeable than others, all with their own personality quirks. The show does a fine job of balancing its humorous and comic elements. However, the main female protagonist, Nagisa, is extremely bland (a far cry from her parents) and very nondescript-cute, which causes the show to occasionally drag. I was personally hoping something more would happen between Kotomi and Okazaki, although during the story arc in which we see Kotomoi's nervous breakdown, it made me think she was no longer entirely stable. Still, I recommend it, as the first season at least is far lighter fare than Kanon and will not see you shedding any tears. I kind of wish I had seen it sooner so I could have jumped in on all the discussion on the SA thread, which is pretty much dead now.  Though I have not seen the 2nd Season
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GUITAR VILLAIN posted:I enjoyed Clannad a lot, though I wouldn't say it's among my favourite romantic anime stories. The characters were engaging enough - some more likeable than others, all with their own personality quirks. The show does a fine job of balancing its humorous and comic elements. However, the main female protagonist, Nagisa, is extremely bland (a far cry from her parents) and very nondescript-cute, which causes the show to occasionally drag. I was personally hoping something more would happen between Kotomi and Okazaki, although during the story arc in which we see Kotomoi's nervous breakdown, it made me think she was no longer entirely stable. 2nd season is tear shedding central, whereas Fuuko's arc is about the only tear worthy part of the first. Also, Kotomi's arc is almost a direct port of her route from the game, with references to Okazaki loving her replaced with considering her a good friend. Blhue fucked around with this message at 23:38 on May 8, 2012 |
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Shoot. I feel like I owe it to myself to watch After Story, but I don't want to get all depressed over my stories again. The last time that happened was when I saw the notorious Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien. Jesus, that was  for weeks after the fact. Granted, that was seven years ago, and I'm probably more mentally prepared for something like Clannad After Story now, but still...Maybe I should just play the drat game and make the story go the way I want it to
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Yeah, After Story is the payoff of Clannad. It completely overshadows the first season and is way, way, way better. The game is alright too, but it takes a lot of annoying effort because you can't go to After Story in the game until you complete like, everyone's routes. Towards the end on the characters I didn't care about at all, I just basically fast forwarded through the whole thing.
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GUITAR VILLAIN posted:Shoot. I feel like I owe it to myself to watch After Story, but I don't want to get all depressed over my stories again. The last time that happened was when I saw the notorious Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien. Jesus, that was Really what I said for Kotomi's arc could be said for everyone's arc in the anime except for Kyou/Ryou and Tomoyo since their stories don't work without Okazaki falling for them and as such they get extra episodes devoted to their endings. And there's one story arc entirely absent from the anime, other than that the anime is completely faithful to the game and simply watching it instead saves you a lot of time spent alt tabbing to a guide/failing to figure out how to get Misae's goddamned orb of light.
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Blhue posted:Really what I said for Kotomi's arc could be said for everyone's arc in the anime except for Kyou/Ryou and Tomoyo since their stories don't work without Okazaki falling for them and as such they get extra episodes devoted to their endings. I thought the anime handled its ensemble cast rather well. Now I understand why. Thanks for the info, Blhue and arisu -- you've saved me a lot of time from investigating the visual novel, I'm sure. I was just planning on getting into that medium after checking out the thread on them; maybe this is not a good one to start on. I'm planning on seeing After Story at some point; right now I'm making my way through Fruits Basket. More on that later. Regarding Oxphocker's mentioning of Kanon, I'm wondering if there are substantial differences between the older show and the remake? I only saw the older one, and it's been quite a long time since then.
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If I had stopped after watching Clannad I doubt it would have left much of an impression on me, it was decent, but it didn't really resonate with me all that much. After Story pretty much knocks it out of the drat park though, overall I still feel like it's a flawed work, but even with those flaws it still occasionally pops into my head out of the blue and messes with my emotions. There's no way that After Story would have had as much of an effect if I hadn't watched the first part either, so if anyone happens to think they should just skip to the second season: don't.
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New Hiyokoi. Two new Hiyokois, to be precise. Looks like I was right when I said they're doing it volume by volume. Looks like the arc is about over, resolved with Hiyori friend-zoning Kou. Mura fucked around with this message at 20:24 on May 10, 2012 |
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Mura posted:New Hiyokoi. Two new Hiyokois, to be precise. Looks like I was right when I said they're doing it volume by volume. Hey, look at that! Actual communication between the main character and the love interest when something is wrong or bothering them! I'm looking your way, Kimi ni Todoke.
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arisu posted:Hey, look at that! Actual communication between the main character and the love interest when something is wrong or bothering them! I'm looking your way, Kimi ni Todoke. Yeah, it's a big shoujo trope to have things get derailed by misunderstandings or poor communication. It's pretty refreshing to see a series just cut right through the bullshit and have the two leads just talk to each other. That said, I'd still read Hiyokoi even if it had twice as much bullshit situations like that, just because the entire comic is basically in manga form.
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I was pleasantly surprised with these latest two chapters. Like most of the people here, I'm glad to see that there's some semblance of a real relationship in the works here (communication, acceptance, and one thing that no other romantic manga or anime has ever seemed to feature, "trust"). And as always, the warm personalities of the main characters ensures that I don't have any reason to NOT like this series. I'm still hoping Ritsuka will find someone she likes, though!
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Does the main character in Hiyokoi get better? I read about 15 chapters, and she's pretty insufferable.
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I'm gonna be a horrible person and plug something I translated in here.  Husky and Medley is a manga adaptation of 2ch thread from around 2008 or so about a girl trying to get with her classmate with the help of the internet. What sets it apart, aside from it being (sort of) nonfiction, is that it actually goes past that point. The whole thing is a realistically entertaining and downright adorable look into the life of a high school kid and her girlfriend. I reread it just recently and decided to fangirl over everyone remotely willing to listen so forgive me if I sound like an idiot right now but it's something I'm extremely proud of being able to share with the english-speaking world because god dammit it's just so awesome.http://mangafox.me/manga/husky_and_medley/ Incidentally, this is where Sweetiex2 comes from, for those of you into Vocaloid. So yeah go read it read it now.
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Pollyanna posted:Husky and Medley In that case, thank you for translating it! I really like it. It is extremely .
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I read that a while back and really loved it. Just how "true" it is doesn't really matter, what matters to me is that it feels pretty true. Thanks for translating it, it really took me by surprise because I figured that any story that was based on any internet postings was probably going to be either just porn or completely stupid (or both). Instead it turned out to be a really nice, cute little story. I had no freaking idea that DixieFlatline did a vocaloid song based on it and I like a bunch of his(?) other songs. So, thanks for that too! a kitten fucked around with this message at 23:21 on May 11, 2012 |
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Pollyanna posted:I'm gonna be a horrible person and plug something I translated in here. Read it all in one go. Great read, thanks for translating it!
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Pollyanna posted:I'm gonna be a horrible person and plug something I translated in here. That was really cute, thanks!
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MrLonghair posted:Math Girls... By the way, Alexander O. Smith is involved with this.
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"if I can touch your thighs, can i touch your nedved?" is not the kind of thing I expected to read in a Yuri series. Not that I'm complaining. I'm beginning to think it might be worth having a separate yuri thread at this point, considering how much it pops up here. I could probably get an OP written out fairly soon, if it sounds like a good idea. Maybe with a title along the lines of "The Sempai Admiration Club: Yuri and Girl's Love Thread"?
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