Manga: Dawn of the Arcana/Reimei no Arcana

Hello Again, everybody!
I wish you’re fine, now that I’m sure everyone has come back to classes again, so we have to wait until Easter or Spring break, and then until summer vacations, yeah!

Anyway, today I’m going to present you another manga, Reimei no Arcana, which have the description below. And I’m going to say thanks to Anonymous(I don’t think that any of them would be reading my blog, and I hope none of the world governmental organization would read this)because of what they did by hacking the FBI webpage and some business official webpages too; though I know this might have some economic impact in short or long term, but I’m still thankful because the FBI closed our beloved webpage MegaUpload(including the other MegaPages, in Mexico we called it MegaTodo, xD), and if you know someone who works for this organization say thanks from my part(I’m nicknamed Hanabi No Shoujo or Hada389). The past weekend I wanted to go to the city center walking through Monterrey Streets with a poster saying’ “Anonymous, Thank You, Muchas Gracias” XD. I’m really crazy, also if you know any of them say also thanks from part of the club El Divino Culto de la Sagrada NUEZ (The Divine Worship of the Sacred NUT) from which most of its members (Shushus, Onya, and Nattos) agreed with me on doing that but none of us could do so.

This past weeks I’ve been living without computer, and I discovered that I’m more addicted to mangas than I thought, I just recently discovered it is for me like a drug, TT_TT this is sad. And if I managed to survive without reading mangas in computer is because a friend of mine lent me some mangas like Pandora Hearts, and my mother finally allowed me to buy a Shounen Jump Magazine(which I didn’t wanted to read until I knew I needed to do so, but on Monday I finished reading the magazine :S). Yesterday I read a whole manga volume number 5 of Pandora Hearts in the bus on my way home (Peripheral route 206).
However, leaving that aside, let’s begin with Reimei no Arcana.

DAWN OF THE ARCANA Manga
Original name: 黎明のアルカナ (Reimei no Arcana)

Pronunciation: reimei no arukana
Story created by Toma Rei
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Harem, Historical, Romance, Shoujo
Released in 2009
Magazine: Cheese!
Publishing company: Shogakukan

Summary:

(From Baka-Updates) Sharing a single island, the countries of Senan and Belquat have been enemies forever. At times their bouts of war are briefly stilled by a royal marriage between princes and princesses of each land. But such unions usually end in blood and the battles begin anew. Our story takes place during the most recent time of potential peace with a marriage between Prince Caesar of Belquat and Princess Nakaba of Senan. The two are nothing alike and Caesar's possessive ways seem likely to damn the relationship. But Nakaba is no delicate flower and the people of Belquat may have bitten off more than they can chew.

 

(From manga scans pages) "On that day, I became the enemy's possession," Nakaba thought as she stood there, knowing her destiny was to be married for convenience to keep the peace between her country Senan and Prince Caesar's country, Belquat.

Between the two countries there has been a constant war for 200 years and Nakaba has become a sacrificial goat for her country despite the discrimination to her red hair and to the 'sub-person' (half-human, half-animal) Loki, who is her only friend and attendant at Caesar's estranged palace.
But what will Nakaba do when she foresees an event pertaining to Prince Caesar's demise? Will she save him? Or let him die in return to all the hate directed towards her by the people of Belquat?

By today, January 25, 2012 it is still ongoing and has released 9 or 10 manga volumes.

This Manga have a beautiful story that caught you since you start reading until you finish the last released chapter that you will want to read more chapters and maybe wouldn’t be able to sleep well because of thinking what would happen next inside the story (at least that happened to me). And is interesting how its character evolution in personality as the story passes, and also how the story environment change a lot when war was going to begin. I don’t want to say much, because then I think I’ll be spoiling the story.

Thanks for reading, have a nice week and weekend. GBU, goos luck!

PS: the summaries were taken from MangaFox, MangaHere and from Baka-Updates (BU staff. "Reimei no Arcana ". Baka-Updates Manga. Baka-Updates, 2002-2012. Web. 20 Jan. 2012. <http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=40067>.) I don’t own any of the pictures or other media information in this entry; all the rights go to their respective owners. Sorry for any grammar or spelling mistake, I’m still learning English.
Eat Healthy, consume more fruits and vegetables, and buy pockys (they are delicious).
This has nothing to do with mangas, but I think it is interesting, so I’m posting ‘bout it: In some country of Latin America, someone was found dead in their house. According to the autopsy, the person died on Christmas and nobody notices the absence of the person until someone missed that person which was on January 13. I think this is really sad, to die alone and not having anyone to remember you, also someone commented “FOREVER ALONE: being one, how far can it get?” (Something like that, but obviously in Spanish). 

Manhua: Knight Princess

Hi everybody!!!

How are you all?, I wish you are all fine and healthy ^ᴗ^ (I’m sick right now ¬¬)

            Today, in difference to the other days, I'm going to finally present you a Manhua from China, remember that also Vietnamese and Thai comics are called Manhuas. :D

The Manhua I'm going to present you today is… Knight Princess(Qishi Gongzhu; 騎士公主; 骑士公主) also known as Cavalier Princess, written and drawn by Cen Xiao Jing.

Qui Shi Gong Zhu first volume cover

The environment in which this story is developed is a beautiful and fantastic world created by its Mangaka, in the palace of a country named Bocinia with an Arabian architecture and dressing, but at the same time with oriental traditions from China:

            Yanshi is a girl that had wandered with her father for fourteen years, and just recently has discovered that her mother is actually Bocinia's current queen, she was separated from her when she was just an infant. Now, in order to see her mother, Yanshi and her father enter the palace, but not in a normal way: she entered disguising herself as a boy, working as bodyguard, and her father crossdressed, working as a maid; however, she never thought that she would run into the Princess of Bocinia, and then become her bodyguard by mistake… OɜO

Principal characters as children

            The genres of this Manhua are Shoujo, Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Historical, Romance, and Gender Bender.  With regard to the characters, in the beginning is just Yashi and her father, when they finally got into the palace more characters take place in the story, some of them also becoming very important in the developing of the plot (like Abelie, Salsuke, and Archie), making romance take place in this story.  e.a

            This Manhua caught my attention since the moment I saw the summary from the a manga web page, this is the first Manhua I had read, it is really interesting, a good story with good drawings, and also it caught my attention because the drawing style from this Chinese comic looks somehow like the drawing style of Tanemura Arina(a japanese Mangaka), it made me remember Sakura-hime Kaden, xD .  The story is really cool and beautiful, since you start reading it, you won't stop reading it. >-<

If you are interested in Asian Comics, this is one of the best options to start, because is really short, sadly it is short because the Mangaka had some personal problems and  was in a emotional depression  –_– ᵁ , so they stopped to release the comic, and the end of the story was published as a novel, and you can find various translations of the summary of the end at Mangafox.com forum(Knight Princess Important News, page 8).

 

The two princess and their knights(names from left to right):
Yashi-Salsuke , Archie-Abelie

Thanks for reading, I wish you had liked it,

Goodbye, GBU, have a nice day~! :3

Manga: Hadashi de Bara wo Fume

Hello everyone!   :3

All for Money. 裸足でバラを踏め Volume 1

        Today I'm going to present you another manga, this one is Hadashi de Bara wo Fume(裸足でバラを踏め; literally Barefoot Stepping on Roses, but better known as Stepping on Roses) created by Rinko Ueda, this is other of my favorite mangas; I recommend it because it have a beautiful story, at first is just the sad story about a poor girl, but then it becomes a dramatic and romantic story.  ❦

      This manga about a girl that lived at the Meiji Era(at the time of the imperial restoration of Japan, when the country started to open up to the rest of the world) named Kitamura Sumi with her non-blood-related sisters and brothers. Her older brother always left her with the children to go to work(most of the times he lose the money at bets), also they have a huge debts and one of her little brothers got sick recently. On day, in order to get money and protect her brothers, she went wandering on the streets trying to sell herself for 2 thousand yen(actually ¥3 million) to pay all the debts, but nobody seemed to want to buy her at that price. She was going to get hit by a drunk man when a young rich man appeared and saved her, accepting to pay the 2 thousand yen. Both of them rode a taxi to his house, where he proposed her to be his wife, but he would not love her nor she was to fall in love with him, he asked her "Are you willing to throw all your love away for money?", "I'll throw it all away!". ❀

        I liked it because the heroine shows strength, not just that time, even a lot of times more, she suffered and threw everything away just to protect the people dear to her. The manga have really good drawings, and as you keep reading the story becomes and more interesting. It's genres are Shoujo, Romance, Historical, Drama, Psychological, and Slice of Life. Each chapter have more than twenty pages and have less than 80 chapters released by now, so you can read it fast.   :D

It is all for today, have a nice day, good-bye, GBU.　さようならみんな！　^_^ 

Manhwa: Lingerie

Hi everybody,

I wish you do remember the terminology, and if you are thinking “wut u talkin’ about?” then please read the preview post :D , sorry if I’m being a bit rude :P

Today, I am going to present you the manhwa Lingerie created by Seo Yoon Young, it’s genres are Shoujo, Fantasy, Historical, and Romance. This is one of my favorites manhwas, even thou is short, it is really cool and interesting, sadly it is new and just have a few chapters T.T

Lingerie’s background is of Korea in the past. It is about lingerie designers. The father owns the shop, his daughter is the principal character(the girl in the picture), there’s a little cute brother(really he was a teenager), and the rest of the employers, models, also a hot guy that works for the family as servant :B

The plot begins just as you could see a common shop, selling their products, a crowd of customers, the store trying to get famous and gain lots of money; but as the story is developing it introduce you the characters personal life and past, that’s what makes it interesting, some internal problems in the shop, and also there’s romance(it includes the main and external characters). I can’t say more about the story, because it is still short, and if I tell you more things, then I’ll be telling you everything. :D

The manhwa story is cool, and also the drawings are good, the enviroment of the story is nice, and the structure of the story is also well done. The beginning wasn’t really interesting, but as I continued to read it I was fascinated. I recommend it.

Everybody have a Nice Day, and good-bye, GBU. :3