Suzumi loves manga.
Top two faves:
1) Fushigi Yuugi
2) Ayashi no Ceres

Favorite mangaka:                     

Watase Yuu-sensei!!!!!

And so, here's a little info on the greatness of her series, with more to come. I won't say much about FY except it rules and it's popular.

Ayashi no Ceres- almost as wonderful as FY IMO. Some prefer it. Not much to say, go to ayashi.net. Very dark, but there's still comedy, romance, adventure, action, wonderful charcters, a great plot, interesting story, important and deep themes, great art, and everything else you could want. Oh, and cute guys.

Appare Jipangu- Two volumes and more to come, a great comedy series, always very funny and touching. Yusura, a 15 year old girl goes aroung extinguishing saddness.

Oishii STUDY- one tankoubon long. Great comedy and everything else, like always. Ringo is a smart girl who is snubbed by her peers (people can be so mean-esp. in high school). One day, her mom gets her a part-time job tutoring the younger brother of a really cute and king guy at her school. But the job turns out to be a lot harder than she thought... there's also a gay bar (long story). The first chapter introduces Ringo's troubles, the characters, the gay bar and other situations, and gives hope for Ringo. The second chapt. focuses on the relationship between the two brothers, and the third gives way to a really neato romance.

Shishunki Miman Okotowari- 3 vols. A really weird series with comedy and drama, and uh, themes of incest (thus making it weird: "Aneki, suki!" "Dame, Kyoudai na no!" "Demo..suki"). Watase-sensei's first series.

Kiss me de minto- this girl has a crush on her teacher (yuck. Kono sensei wa hentai nee). A cute romantic comedy, sort of. Genseika- sort of a horror story. I thought it was really neat. Chiya or whatever her name is finds that a bunch of people are dyinng around her, and there's this flower. Fuzakeru Romantic(??Gotta check on this) is about a girl with a sucky love life who tries to jazz things up with a magic locket, but it's not so easy to go from being a loser/shoujomanga heroine-wannabe to actual shoujo heroine (I think I relate with this girl too much). But it ends up being another cute comedy, so it's good and not too depressing. Funny as well.
There are other stories in it as well. I'll get to praising it later.

Musubiya NANAKO- lots of neat stories in here, including part 2 of a hilarious Nakago story. Perfect Lovers is a short story about a couple that breakes up right before going into a parallel world. They have a good-bye kiss, and then are arrested for kissing a member of the opposite sex. Kana (the girl) finds herself married to a woman and the guy's married to a man. More later.

Watase-sensei rules




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