Manga: Karin / Chibi Vampire (Halloween)

Hello everyone,

How are you doin’? I wish you are fine, and your life is quite or relaxed.

As in one of my past posts, I’m really tired, and want to take a rest; I had more problems that I thought I would have on the past weekend. ºдº  (problematic and gross)

            Anyway! As everybody knows, Halloween is near, maybe you're preparing your costume to wear on that famous date and planning a party or planning to attend a party. I hate Halloween ¬_¬, but I bet you love it or at least like it,  so today I’m going to present you a Japanese Comic about vampires, OѡO but no the typical story of vampires, and not of the normal vampires that everybody knows: KARIN(かりん , In America is best known as Chibi Vampire) created by Kagesaki Yuna:

       Maka Karin is a cute, cheerful, friendly, high school girl, who loves sunshine, cooks with garlic, and has a part-time job as a waitress. Everything in her life is pretty average, except for one thing, Karin is a vampire. She lives with her parents and two siblings who are also vampires. But among them, she's different. Once a month, she experiences an intense bleeding from her nose, because her body overproduces blood; so if there's a person near, she doesn't take the blood from the human, instead she give him/her blood. If things are done right, this can be a positive experience that benefits the victim as much as the vampire. 
However one day as school she meets Usui Kenta, the new student, and gets the feeling of a nosebleed. Also he gets suspicious about her, can he tell that she is a vampire? Karin must keep in secret what she and her family is from human society.

It seems like she is always involved in problems and that she never know how to do things right!

          As in the summary can be seen, this is a very funny manga, it is filled at first with comedy, and some volumes later with romance(a romedy as my friends call it, the romantic-comedy). e.a What's fun at first, is obviously Karin's nosebleeds, then her reactions when Kenta approach her, and when her vampire family is introduced(the most funny character of her family is her grandmother, also the Maka family is really random xD). What caught my attention to read this manga was the fact that Karin was different of other vampires, because her family was like any other vampires that can't be in the sun, eat or smell garlic, and drink blood.

The genres of this manga are Comedy, Drama, School Life, Shounen, Romance, Supernatural, Fantasy, and Adventure. The story environment is principally based in Karin High School and working life at the beginning, and as the story develops it focuses more on Karin relationship with her family and Maka's family history(which is really interesting and complicated). The romance is seen, as I’ve said before, as story develops, and everything is because both of the ones that become the main characters had a secret in common. :3

            As other mangas, this comic have an anime, but the cartoon is not really based in the story, it have a lot of Ecchi, so some things are seen in anime as sexual oriented, and not in the innocent way that are seen in the manga. Also if you prefer to watch the anime, it is shorter in comparison to the manga and, as YamaNade, doesn't tell the complete story, which is really sad because this story have a really beautiful ending. When I was reading the end of the manga I was all excited and almost crying(it looks like I'm not a fanatic ¬¬ ), I loved this manga, it became one of my favorites after I read the end, even this is one of the few Asian comics I've read and aren't still ongoing. So I highly recommend you to read it, you'll not regret reading it.


Thanks for everything,
I wish you'd liked it,
sorry for taking so much time in finish this post, I had a lot of homework.

 Goodbye everyone,

Have a nice Day,

GBU all!

Karin anime 1st ending:

Manga: Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge

こんにちわみんな！(Konnichiwa Minna!)

元気ですか？(Genki desu ka?)

いつもよう、私はあなたに大丈夫な望む．(Itsumo you, watashi wa anata ni daijoubu na nozomu.)

Today I'm going to present you another manga, right now I'm in a Japanese-like-mood, xD , also, I'm happy as in the past week, because today there were just 2 homeworks (Math and English), so I read a chapter of the Spanish class book "Cómo Agua para Chocolate" and then I played 3 games at the JA Titan game, and I lost all of them. That was frustrating ¬¬ .

         Anyway, the manga that I bring today to present you now is ‪Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge (ヤマトナデシコ七変化;  you can call it YamaNade, is way much shorter) created by Hayakawa Tomoko. This manga have different names at America and Europe such as The Wallflower, Perfect Girl Evolution(PGE), My Fair Lady, The Perfect Lady, etc., the closest translation to the literal meaning is "Various changes to become the ideal(perfect) woman(lady)", :3 as the title says, it is about to turn a girl into a "perfect lady": 

         In a gorgeous, spacious mansion, four handsome high-school boys live there, renting the house to a widow rich woman who is always traveling searching for a new love. Suddenly, one day she offers to give them the mansion rent for free for three years if they manage to turn her wallflower niece (which was going to become the lady's heir) into a "perfect lady", but if they failed, the rent price will triplicate. However, the four bishounen did never imagined what kind of girl they are going to meet, and how problematic it will be to deal with her because she wouldn't want to change because of the trauma she have since middle school after being rejected and called "ugly" by the boy she confessed, and now had become a gloomy, agoraphobic, horror movie lover, fashion-illiterate reclusive girl, who tends to break into explosive nosebleeds whenever she sees anyone attractive; this was more than what they expected, they needed a miracle to succeed in their mission for the free rent…

         This story is really interesting: full of comedy, also of romance. At first what would make you laugh is the reaction the bishounen had when they saw Sunako(the lady's niece), and then of what they do trying to turn her a lady and integrate her into the high society life, or what she does when she is excited or angry, her reactions are also really weird and funny. I love this manga almost as much as One Piece, is really one of my favorites >-< . The genres of this comic are Shoujo, Harem, Slice of life, Comedy, Romance, and School Life. The plot gets more and more interesting as chapters passes and it is not the typical comedy or stupid love story you will always see, you can't even be sure if there is really love, but in anyway you will have a good time reading this manga, thou it is a bit large. :D

         There’s also anime and dorama of this manga, but is much shorter and haven't obviously the whole story that you might misunderstand something; the manga have published right now 112 chapters of at least 40 pages each, and the anime have a little bit more of 20 episodes. I don't know much about he dorama, but when I just watched the first episode I didn't wanted to watch anymore, it changed the original mangaka's story :S (example: the rich lady had a son, which in the manga isn't true, because then the heir of all her richness would be the son, not the niece). Also in the manga, the mangaka tells you some of her experience and tells you about her little cute cat, which she adores really much (some of her experiences will make you want to make a facepalm, the reasons have to be inferred from what you may read).

Well, that's all for now, I wish you liked this post.

Have nice and relaxed weekend, (mine is going to be stressful)

Goodbye, GBU!   ^.^　ありがとうございました！

Sunako hits Kyouhei. Takenaga, Yuki and Ranmaru tries to stop her.

Mangaka: CLAMP

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Hello everybody!

How are you? As always I wish you are fine.

On Tuesday finally the second partial exams ended, and I was really really happy because that day there were no homework T^T , and I read the whole day and watch DEXTER. I was really, really happy.

         Anyway, today I'm going to introduce you another topic which I'd never mentioned before, well, I'd mentioned it before, but not really deep as I'm going to do in this post…      MANGAKA!!! ^-^

         When you were younger maybe you watched in TV those animes like Cardcaptor Sakura, RG Veda, Chobits; or have heard about Code Geass, xxxHoLic, Tsubasa, Kobato, Clover, X/1999, Clamp School Detectives, Magic Knight Rayearth, Tokyo Babylon, Blood-C, Wish, or The One I Love.

If any of those heard somehow familiar to you, well, those animes and mangas were created or illustrated by CLAMP.  :D

            CLAMP nowadays is a group of four Japanese Mangaka women, they're well known all around the world. Their mangas and animes are available in most of the countries and have reached a very diverse audience as they have published comics in multiple genres and themes (from childish and comedic to much more dramatic and teen-rated). OɜO

         This Mangaka group banded together in the late 1980's, and started with thirteen members, some of them were Okawa Nanase/Ageha(leader), Apapa Mokona, Nekoi Tsubaki, Igarashi Satsuki, O-Kyon, Nanao Sei, Sei Leeza, Hishika Soushi, Akiyama Tamayo, Inoue Yuzuru, Nakamori Kazue, and Oumi Shinya.

         Before they began creating works as CLAMP, some members created Doujinshi series: Captain Tsubasa and Saint Seiya. They stopped publishing those doujinshi in 1987 and started to work in the manga in which they debuted on the market, RG Veda. However, when the manga was accepted by Shinshokan's(a publishing company) Wings magazine, the group had already went down to seven, and the other members left the group in the early 90's(many of their most famous series were released in that decade), leaving the group with just four members:  Nanase(leader), Mokona, Nekoi, and Satsuki. They are the members that continues in the group until today, being them whom we know as CLAMP, whom switch roles for the work and publication each series.*.*

 

            As I've mentioned before CLAMP published comics of several genres and that had caught an also diverse public, but also, CLAMP's manga drawings are distinguished by its diverse visual style that changes according to the audience to which they're intended and are highly detailed (detailed hair, heavily stylized eyes and human figures, elaborate clothing). Another characteristic that they have in the drawings is that they frequently features one-eye characters or characters that lose their sight in one eye and then, something comes later on to supplement the loss in vision, this may be inspired from Okawa poor right-eye vision. In their stories there's the common idea of soul-mates or couples that are tied together by fate, disregard of gender or biological age. In some CLAMP mangas you may see that they just don't treat themes superficially, they do also have some hidden critics or purposes in their stories (a critic to government or to society, etc.), and that had made some of their publications to be censored by government or other organizations.  OwO

            Besides all things that have happened to CLAMP, the group continues to be successful nowadays, and the series they produced in they early years continue being a sensation to the to the audience, also some of their stories had become legends in the anime and manga otaku world. :)

I wish you had liked my post,

I wish you all to have a nice day, GBU,

Good bye, and good luck　:D　ありがとうございました！　

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