Name: Chronos - Deep Author: Aikawa Yu Genre: Drama, Josei, School Life, Supernatural Released: 2010 Status: Ongoing
Plot:
Nanasawa Io lost his family in a mysterious fire and after that has been living alone - without any friends or relatives. There's a weird rumor wandering around the school about Io: What ever he touches or watches, dies. Actually some little pets had already fell drop dead after him touching them. Io gets to know a group called the Titans, member of which was in his school in order to find Kagetsuki and destroy them. Kagetsuki are people who have become possessed by malicious shadows. And Kagetsuki might be closer to Io than he ever thought...
Character: Nanasawa Io ~ He's an outcast and disliked by all other students. He lost his family when he was younger and feels heavy guilt over it. Io has a black hair and sharp eyes. Even though he's not liked, he's not a bad person.
Why you'll read this?
I'd add shonen up there and maybe even action to the genres. But let's just let it be like this. :) It has too few chapters but maybe later will come more of the translaters are nice people and they've got enough time. But this is really good promise, I'd say. Story has an interesting plot even though you can quess things quite easily. Also the art is nice. I'm really sorry, but I can't actually say much about this manga because it's been a while since I last read this one. All I can remember is that this is good and hooking. So you should give it a shot if you like unnormal stuff and bishies as maincharacters. ^^ Also, if you're a boy, I'd say that you like this. It has a great story just like I meantioned.
Name: 1/2 Prince Author: Yu Wo Artist: Choi Hong Chong Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Gender Bender, Romance, Sci-fi, Shoujo, Shonen Released: 2004
Plot:
It's a year 2100 A.D. and Feng Lan makes a bet with his twin brother of playing a reality virtual game "Second Life". The girl steppes into an interactive game and decides to play as a male character with nickname 'Prince'. Reason for that was to bet to not to use her feminine side to survive in the game. But because the game is full of enemies like wolfs she needs to unite with other players she meets in the game. Will Feng Lan survive in this cruel and realistic game?
Character: Feng Lan/Prince ~ She's a strong willed and a little guyish girl who wants to show his brother the female power. In reality she has brown hair but in the game, where she's a boy, she's an elf, her ears are pointed and her hair is blond. Many girls in the game seems to be attracted to her good looks.
And there's many other character who I decided to left off because there'd be too many to tell about.
Why I recommend this one?
I fell in love with this serie right away! I think it's a Chinese Manhua because of the names (not so sure) but I was quite surprised how good this was. Before this I had only heard bad things about Chinese manga. So don't always believe the rumors. The idea of this serie is brilliand and distinctive. The game they're in is like some kind of fantasy world with mythical creatures mixed with modern game world. To tell the truth I felt like joining them myself but then again I wouldn't be so sure if I'd be able to stop the game. Maybe I'd be too attracted to it. So now I had an idea: What if the main character doesn't want to quit the game because of all those friends and comrades she has met this far. This makes me going trought all the pages like crazy and holding anxiety to know what happenes next.
And we can't forget humor! This serie is full of it and I just love the way the author has expressed it. There's so many reasons to read this one.
WARNING! Even though this MMV doesn't contain that much spoilers, you should still watch it carefully.
I thought this was one amazing video of this serie so try watching this. You'll see how amazing the art of this is.
Sorry for my English everyone. You know that that English is not my native language. Not even the second one. But I'm giving my best with these presentations. Thanks for you attention everyone <3
Name: Otomen Author: Kanno Aya Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life Released: 2007 Status: Ongoing
Plot:
Masamune Asuka is an otomen. In other words he's a guy who likes cute stuff, reads shoujo manga, likes sewing and loves sweets. Unfortunately his mother doesn't approve him being himself because Asuka's father left home when Asuka still was little child, because his father wanted to be a woman. This is why Asuka's mother wants his son to be manly. Well, Asuka is the champion in kendo and is descriped as a manliest man of the school. But luckily he found a girl who he loves and who accepts him as who he is and a friend who actually uses Asuka as his model for his shoujo manga serie. This way Asuka starts little by little accepting what he likes until someone has to make it even harder...
Characters: Masamune Asuka ~ He's a girly boy, who practices kendo and is thought as the most handsome guy of the school. He's good at cooking and has a bad habit to buy everything cute. Asuka has a silver gray hair and sharp eyes. (Sry, don't remember the last name) Ryo ~ She's a manly girl, complete opposite of Asuka. Maybe that's the reason they get along so well. She doesn't know how to cook or sew but she's good with woodworks. Also she can do karate, thanks to her strict and very manly father who doesn't allow any weakness. Ryo has dark hair and is descriped as pretty.
Read? Me? Why on earth?
Let me explain! This is complete opposite of normal shoujo mangas. In this one the girly and shoujo heroine is a boy, Asuka. And the real man is a girl who is showed lesser in the serie. Usually in shoujo manga you have as a main character a female but this time it's a male which is extremely refreching. And romantic isn't in spotlight in this serie even though it has it, but most of the time the manga is focused on Asuka and his way to accept himself and some people around him. The more fun this serie makes his male friend (whose name I can't remember, sorry my horrible head... T__T) who uses Asuka as his model for his manga serie. And the reason for this is because Asuka is more feminine than any other girl. All the best moments consists of people calling Asuka Ryo's wife or a little kid calling Asuka his mum and Ryo his dad. This just so weird and at the same time so freakin' cute that you can't resist reading more of this awesome serie.
Also this is a story of how being different is okay and amazing thing. You should just be yourself. No matter what gender you are or what you like, tell that to people. Even though some of them might not understand you, there's still always someone who understands and likes same things. I've experience with this kind of things so this story really touches me. (Living in small town is just so freaking hard...)
Btw, if you don't like waiting and you've read all the chaps up to 21 or something, you can find more chaps on other pages. ;) Just type 'Otomen manga online' on google or some other searching engine and you'll find many links with more chapters on them. I highly recommend this serie for all shoujo lover and also all those yaoi lovers. ;) Even though you can't find any boys love in it, you can find so many hints instead that.
WARNING! Contains some spoilers? :) So be careful while watching~
This MMV is so nicely done that it's better watch it. Plus it tells a lot of the serie and so on. I don't take any credits of this or any other video that I'll share or I've shared. ^^
Name: Seven Days Author: Tachibana Benio Genre: Drama, Romance, School Life, Shounen Ai, Slice of Life Released: 2007 Status: Complete
Plot:
Seryou Touji is known of his dating for a one week and then braking up. Still any girl doesn't seem to hold a crudge over him. Shino Yuzuru, a senpai of Seryou, is known of his beautiful face and a graceful way of drawing a bow in archery club. One day Shino suggests for Seryou about dating him in that week as a joke but the boy takes it seriously. That way two boys start dating and a little by little get to know eachother better.
Characters: Seryou Touji ~ A lazy and willful boy who dates one girl for a week to find out if he'd fall in love with that person. Despite his reputation he's actually really gentle and sensitive guy who any girl doesn't seem to hate. Even though they were told "I'm sorry, I couldn't fall in love with you... let's brake up." Seryou has black hair and usually he wears a school uniform. He's from a rich family and is Shino's underclass man.
Shino Yuzuru ~ Despite his beautiful appareance while doing archery he actually has a pretty nasty and straightforward personality. That's the reason why all the girls he has dated has broke up with him. Shino has brown hair and he's from a normal family. He's Seryou's senior by one year.
So why you should check this one out?
To make it short: this manga is one of the best shonen-ai that I've ever read! It doesn't need to be yaoi to be good boys love. Actually I liked this just for that reason that there wasn't any sex in it but some hot kissing scenes and cute confessions instead. Well, you can see at the beginning of the manga that those two are going to fall for eachother but what esle could you wait from a shonen-ai? Still I find it a lot different from other same genre love stories. This one doesn't progress too harshly and hastily but just slow enough. It feel pretty much natural for me how they find themselves attracted towards other party. And let's not forget the personalities of the main characters. These two are just so easy to indentify with. More plus comes to the fact that this manga is complete! But unfortunately you can't find it from mangafox, even so you can still find it from the other pages if you search with google.
WARNING! This contains some spoilers! Plus it doesn't tell everything about the serie.
But still i thought this is such a great MMV. Better watch it or... :D
Ps. I'm sorry! I know that I promised that I'd update even once a week, but I've been kinda busy. I promise that now the summer is coming up I'm going to update at least once a week. Next week might be an exception because I've got an exam week so... maybe after that then. ^^ And I thought that friday would be good day for updating. It's gonna be weekend after that after all. Well, that's kinda all of it. Thanks for your attention. And sorry for all these grammatical errors. You know that I'm not from any English speaking country. :)
Name: Chronos - Deep
