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Hearts Day and short manga reviews

February 14, 2012 at 8:18 pm | Posted in Alice 19th, Anime/Manga Impressions, Portrait of M and N, Reviews | 3 Comments
Tags: Alice 19th, Portrait of M and N

A happy hearts’ day to everyone!!

It’s been a long while since my last post… sigh I know, the previous was added the last day of 2011. I wasn’t even able to greet everyone a Happy Chinese New Year (it’s Hatori’s year, year of the dragon, if you read Fruits Basket manga). Been very busy that I don’t even know when to have a real break…. But the semester is still far from over, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to post something for the rest February. I guess I’ll be posting next during March. Arrrrggggghhhh. I can’t wait for summer vacation. But I’m required to summer classes so yeah. I have only about two weeks of real vacation.

And this post is only a very short update on what’s been happening with me since 2012 started. I don’t know when I’ll have a real post.

Portrait of M and N

Since I have very little time to make my own synopsis of the story, here’s a copy-paste from Wikipedia:

Mitsuru is beautiful, graceful and admired by many people, but she has a weird problem—a single, violent movement against her can get her begging sweetly for more! Her nickname M, also stands for masochistic.

Natsuhiko, is a guy who found out Mitsuru’s secret on their first day of senior high school. Even so, he has an equally bad problem—the mere glimpse of his reflection can send him into a flying fit about how beautiful he is! He is nicknamed as N for narcissistic.

So I just want to share that I’ve started reading Higuchi Tachibana’s ‘Portrait of M and N’. It’s a really good story with very pretty and unique characters. Mitsuru is very pretty and Natsuhiko is soooo handsome, I really like him! Nastuhiko cares for Mitsuru much; it’s just so sweet…

Bad thing is, the scanlations available are only up to volume 2. Plus the Tokyopop release is only up to volume 5 (I think). So I won’t be able to read the last volume, that’s chapter 6, not unless I learn to read Japanese. It’s just tooooo bad.

A longer review will be posted once I get my real vacation  :) . Because I just love this manga I’ll make a review of it ^_^

Alice 19th

Another copy-paste from Wikipedia:

The story follows Alice Seno, a fifteen-year-old girl forever in the shadow of her older sister Mayura, who achieves in everything she undertakes. At her school Alice becomes known as “Mayura’s little sister”. Older girls, judging Alice too meek to retaliate, torment her relentlessly.

Alice harbors a deep affection for Kyô Wakamiya, a handsome upperclassman and a member – with Mayura – of the school archery team. On the way to school one day, Alice rescues a white rabbit from the road despite the danger to herself, but she is rescued by Kyô and receives from the rabbit a bracelet with a single red stone. The rabbit she saves, however, is no ordinary rabbit. The rabbit reveals her true form to Alice and introduces herself as Nyozeka. Alice is told that she is destined to become a Lotis Master. The Lotis Masters use the power of words and communication to enter the Inner Heart of others. It is a powerful ability to be used carefully as Alice soon finds out.

Using the power of the Lotis Words, which reveal themselves to be in the form of runes, Alice accidentally makes her older sister disappear during a dispute over Kyô, whom Mayura had begun dating. Alice then must use the Lotis Words to try to bring her sister back from the dark. She is joined by Kyô who proves to have the Lotis powers as well, and by Frey, another Lotis master who has trained with the masters and arrives with the intention to marry Alice. Unfortunately, Mayura has been taken by the power of the Maram Words, the dark reflection of the Lotus Words. Their only hope lies in Alice and Kyô becoming the legendary Neo-Masters to discover the lost word binding both Maram and Lotis.

I’m not really a fan of Yuu Watase, well, mainly because I haven’t read or watched any of her works. I don’t really mind reading her manga either, but Alice 19^th caught my attention because it’s ALICE (my all-time favourite classic story ^_^ ) and Wikipedia said that it’s the only Yuu Watase work that is Western-themed (yes, I know Fushigi Yugi and a bit of its story, but I haven’t watched or read that)

I can’t really say that I like Alice 19^th as much as I like my minor favourites (shoujo excluding Cardcaptor Sakura and Gakuen Alice because those two are my major favourites; when I say minor favorites I mean La Corda d’Oro, Shugo Chara, and the likes). I’m kind of assuming that the romance in Alice 19^th is Yuu Watase’s style of romance, but I can’t be sure. Well, I don’t like that style, to start with. The lotis stuffs are also not that interesting.

To be honest, I can’t think of something that I like about Alice 19^th (except for the title ^_^), so up to now I haven’t done reading it… I also don’t think that I’ll be a fan of Yuu Watase…

And like what I said with Portrait of M and N, a longer review about Alice 19^th will be posted soon .

Manga Acquisitions

I acquired a lot of manga during the month of January… most of which I haven’t read yet. Titles include: Fruits Basket (volumes 16, 19, and 21), Gakuen Alice (volumes 1-8, 12, 13), and Cardcaptor Sakura omnibus 3 (published by Dark Horse Manga). Will be posting photos, and review of the 3^rd Cardcaptor Sakura Omnibus next time ^_^

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I suppose that’s it for the month of February folks ^_^

xoxo,
AlyssaMihara