For Better or Worse, Speak a few Words

Bakuman ch167! ~Nonsense and A few words~

Nonsense is true. 

The effect of the blog and its scandal continues with some really horrible rumours and defamation. 

I was interested in seeing how Azuki was holding up against all the horrible things on the net but we only got to see her in this chapter standing up for Ririki Kitami. Although I wanted her to reveal ~at least to us readers~ that she is bad to the bone, all we got were tears and an apology. Q: Do we believe her??

Ashirogi-sensei had the meeting with the anime staff and Mashiro requested Azuki as voice actress which was met with the expected. Although the producer was against the director decided the place will be assigned via audition. Sooo, not really written in stone. Glad Mashiro stuck to his guns ~Takagi is the worrier~.   

Seems that editor Hattori is nervous in the background, especially knowing the Mashiro-Azuki love story. The tale seems to have been heard by some editors, passed around, got to Fukuda who thought it was familiar due to Aoki Ko story, called Aoki, then called Takagi for the full briefing. His reaction?? PRICELESS. 

I am not too sure of how Mashiro feels about all these people knowing, but he might not be too keen on letting the world know, as Fukuda plans on telling in a radio show! 

Q: Good? Bad? How do we feel about this method? Will it make it better or worse? 

ummm, Fukuda Fight-o?!


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Introducing: Girls of the Wild's

In comparison to my time with manga and anime, my time with manhwa in mainly webtoon form is much more recent, and significantly less. I have introduced and raved over Noblesse and recently introduced TAL . You can follow these on EG-Scans.

On this note, I wish to introduce Girls of the Wild's.

Wilds high, it has a history of 42 years as a fighting specialist all girls private highschool meant solely for the elite. The place Wilds-League is held, the most popular event in the country, the only place in the world where teenage girls have brutal fights with their lives.

This year has been changed into a mixed gender school. The only male student? Song Jae Gu, who has been granted a full 3-year scholarship regardless of grades. Being someone who had to spend every moment working or taking care of his two younger siblings, he accepted.

However, the scholarship was granted with the sole condition he does not leave. And after meeting Queen, bloody champion of Wild's-League, drenching her in coffee, calling her a "Monster" and getting caught while she was taking a shower... that could prove fatal. ~MangaUpdates~

I don't know how to explain it...but it is awesome! Now I am no fan of Harem but this also falls under Action, Martial Arts, School Life, Shounen, Comedy, and Drama. And rightly so.

I especially love the Martial Arts aspect of these girls- no, no, its no Holyland but definitely cool enough- they are GIRLY but FIERCE. They will literally FIGHT for their love. 

The art is splendid and if you know the artist of "Pet Diary" and "Nineteen Twenty One", it the same Kim Hye Jin / Zhena. 

I seriously enjoy this webtoon. The main character, the male, Jae Gu, doesn't do the "SHOUNEN" and show great power / unknown fighting ability. In fact he's against fighting and can't, regardless of the extent of damage, both physical and emotional, he receives.

Considering how much Jae Gu has been through, caring for his younger siblings on his own, working, and dealing with bullies, the word 'wuss' can't and should not be used to describe him. However, his lack of response can sometimes get you frustrated. This now gives the GIRLS of the Wild's more of a chance to fight and protect him, which is cool in its own right.

100% recommended. If not for the story then definitely for the art! Read it on Webtoonlive.

Let me know what you think!

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Rumour Has it!

Chapter 166! ~Rumours and Articles~

How petty are some people?? Seriously, like YOU had a chance.

"I've just thrown away all the CDs and DVDs Azukyun was in..."


"I'm gonna sell all of Ashirogi's comics."

Well the article proved to be the scandal it was expected to be.
As much as Hattori-san tries to convince them that its okay, and its within their rights to request a voice actor/actress for their project, I don't think it will go down that well considering how people are boycotting Azuki's work too. This would be the salt on their petty wounds.

I can't see the production people agreeing and so the scandal will continue for a bit. How will they overcome?! All we need now is for this Kitami Ririka to show how manipulative she is and prove she wrote it on purpose.

Still I'm glad they're so beautifully headstrong. 

  Mashiro+Azuki, FIGHT-O!


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BLEACH RETURNS! ~Although it probably shouldn't have~

The title explains it.

After 4 weeks Bleach returns and "charges into it final arc!!" with "an extra large colour cover and 22 pages!!"

Is 22 pages a lot? Because if you don't consider the covers, its actually 19 pages of story.

Its title: 'FINAL ARC: The Thousand Year Blood War"

Sure, when it says FINAL, it hits hard, but at the same time I wouldn't want BLEACH to get as bad as it has been this past few months. My opinion on the Fullbring arc is no secret...it was CRAP, and served no purpose.  If it ended there, it'd just be depressing.

Good things must come to an end but a GOOD end.

And that's what I hope this arc would provide.

1. Be better than ever.
2. Be definitely longer than the Fullbring arc but not necessarily as long as the Aizen storyline. 
3. End on a good note. Like not depressing.
4. Also please, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, answer the un-answered! Like the story behind Ichigo's dad, the so-called Zero squad, and the Royal Family, and that Key Aizen never got, etc.

SO, what did we learn from this chapter.

NOTHING. 

The first 4 pages, in colour, took place in the research squad realm and looked important to the story but I didn't get it. For some reason disappearing Hollow is bad. ¬ ¬


But we do know that a certain party is involved, they were introduced as 'Them, and them alone.' Nice.

The rest was like blah blah blah....I am Ichigo...suspicious shadow appears!
The end.

There was TOO much talking between characters they introduced then killed off. ~One died for sure, not sure about the boy~

It's much too soon to judge the arc but this 'Them' better be the zero squad or I'll screw. 

Happy reading! Let me know what you think/expect?!

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Introducing: TAL

TAL :

They walk like ordinary people, they talk like ordinary people but in fact there is nothing ordinary about them since they can materialize an image they have on their mind... They call themselves Chachaoong which also means Shaman and they do not know how or when they came to this world. It is now a time for their current king to choose the future one and so he did by choosing Yu Jin an ordinary human...? Many of the Chachaoong can not tolerate a human ruling them and now the poor Yu Jin not knowing what suddenly hit him, is trying to avoid the Chachaoongs who are trying to kill him! ~EASY GOING SCANS~

Okay so other than the GREAT Noblesse ~which I have spoken of elsewhere~ there are few webcomics I really enjoy. One of those is TAL.

The story is interesting, the battles have yet to be mind-blowing but are nicely done, the art is really good, and the characters are slowly building up and are lovably cool. Its funny where it needs to be too!

I do recommend checking this out, and most of the projects over at Easy Going Scans, since they're all pretty good and of high quality.

Its currently scanlated to chapter 29 so not too much to catch up on.

Anyways, here's a quick intro to some characters:

Our main guy Yu Jin :

He is what you would call frugal.

his hyung, Mu Young:

My fav character. Total sweet badass.

and his bodyguard, Ei Mae:

One of the 9 TALs.

The TALs I believe are the top of the chachaoongs, chosen by the current king, the first ever chachaoong- Jack: 

KING Jack O'Lantern

They're many other characters so far, like: the chachaoongs after Jin's life, Jin's school friends, Jacks' servant, and 3 other of the 9 TALs introduced to us, but that's for you to go check out.

Happy reading! Let me know what you think!

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Bakuman Ch.165! ~ Practising and Charging up~

I called it last week.

That Azuki would either be:

• too busy/booked up : solved by her asking for no work till summer, 
• she would fail the audition : solved by the fact that she is obsessed with Ashirogi Muto work and is good at what she does. 
• Will have to go head-to-head with Ririki : we shall see...

But who knew the drama would come from a random fat otaku bastard. ~and Ririki who can't mind her own business~ 
EDIT: NOT RANDOM. JUST DIDN'T RECOGNISE.

What's next is too obvious: SCANDAL! Boyfriend gets Girlfriend gig in his anime. Auditions rigged! 


This will be awhile, but I'm glad Azuki would be getting more story time.

Azuki FIGHTING!


Do you think she'll get it or will they elongate this dream and forever postpone the wedding??

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Catch Up Winter 2012

A quick catch up on this season.

What I'm actually watching, and in order of how I like them:

1. Natsume Yuujin-cho (So lovely and calm)
2. Chihayafuru
3. New Prince of Tennis (Would have been first but I read the manga)
4. Moretsu Pirates (This shocked me too, but its really good)
5. Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou (COMEDY!)
6. Brave 10
7. Area no Kishi 
8. Aquarian Evol
9. Inu x Boku SS 
10. Bakuman S2 (Only this low because I read the manga)
11. Recorder to Randoseru (Should have been a full-length feature instead of Baby, Please Kill Me)

A lot??

I don't think so. 

Plus 6-10 are in danger of being dropped, because I noticed I'm being less and less bothered to watch them...because 6-9 bore me and I read 10. 

How would you order this season anime??

P.S. Its snowing. :)

xoxo