Julie from Manga Maniac Cafe suggested that I read Versus in order to shrink my major backlog. After reading the blurb on the back of the book, I found out this is a music manga! But could it possibly be as good as Nodame Cantabile?
Monthly Archive for March, 2007
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Out of all of my recent manga acquisitions and backlog, I chose to read Stray Little Devil first. Why? Because the cover is really freaking cute! Any other reasons? Not really. I know you’re not supposed to judge books by their covers, but do manga count?
In the short time that Basugasubakuhatsu has been around, it seems the site has seen quite a bit of popularity. One of the perks of being a semi-popular anime site is that companies will occasionally send me their titles to review. Basugasubakuhatsu started off as an anime first impressions site, but I guess it’s more of a review-centric one now, at least, during the months that new anime aren’t starting in Japan.
Anyway, while I was out of town, I got a pretty huge care package from DrMaster Publications and CMX Manga. I’ve had a backlog of stuff to review for a while now (and I’ve been getting through it) but now the backlog is ridiculous.
I stacked all of the anime and manga that I haven’t reviewed yet, and it’s pretty much the Great Wall of China, except in anime and manga form. Some of these are my own purchases (Nodame Cantabile, Keroro Gunso, Niea under 7, Haibane Renmei) but most are review copies. Don’t forget, I also ordered those 10 DVDs from RightStuf not too long ago… Yikes.
Now I’m asking for your help. Is there anything in particular in this wall that you’d like to see reviewed? I’ll try and do the requests first if there are any. There are a few DVDs that I can’t quite review yet since I don’t have the previous ones in the sets. If you can’t make out what the titles are from the picture, lemme know and I’ll write them out. But that’d take about as long as writing a few reviews…
This is the fourth and final part of my Spring 2007 anime preview. In it, I take a peek at Terra e…, Romeo x Juliet, Lovely Complex, Lucky Star and Kaze no Stigma.
Terra e… (To Terra)
Terra e (or To Terra, or Towards the Terra) is a classic manga that was just recently released by Vertical Inc. They probably couldn’t have timed it better since the anime will surely spark interest in the manga too.
It looks like Terra e will be an old school sci-fi action anime. Hopefully there’ll be some new school hotness added too. The story has to do with psychic kids and the dream to return… to Terra. I’ll probably watch this because I’ll be reading the manga anyway. Plus the website’s graphics look way slick.
Part 3 of my Spring 2007 anime preview contains facts (or made up lies) about sola, Princess Resurrection, Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku wo, THE SKULLMAN and Nagasarete Airantou. Can you separate the fact from fiction? I can’t!
sola
At the time of me writing this, there isn’t a translation anywhere for the plot of sola, and I’m finding it hard to translate myself since the text on the website is embedded in the image instead of actual text. Here is what I got without using a dictionary (because I’m lazy):
Something about a first year high school student who is a boy who likes “the sky.” And ummm, then something about a present, and something something “gothloli.” Sounds interesting all right! I’m guessing “sola” is referring to the “sora” (sky) in the anime description. But I could be wrong.
Other than that, the character designs do look good, and anidb says it’s a collaboration between the writer(s?) of Kanon and Da Capo. I’ll be watching because it looks pretty for now.
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