Manga: Hourou Musuko, The Transient Son

         

Hello everyone!

      Sorry for not posting for sooooo long, this is a really fast post as I decided to started it today and ended it today when usually for a recommendation about any comic I take at least two days, and approximately 6 to 9 hours at all. 

Anyway!

Let me introduce you this cute manga which was really of my liking: *o*

Hourou Musuko

Original Name: 放浪息子

Alternative Names (English): The Transient Son, The Wandering Son

Author: Shimura Takako

Released in 2002

Magazine: Comic Beam

Publishing Company: Enter Brain

Genres: Drama, Gender Bender, Slice of Life, Romance, School Life, Seinen

Summary:

Fifth grader Nitori Shuuichi is a rather feminine boy who looks good in girl's clothes, enjoys things like baking, and tends to have mostly female friends. He and his sixth grade sister Maho transfer to a new school, where Shuuichi ends up sitting next to Takatsuki Yoshino, a tomboy that he gets along well with. Soon, they both discover each other's secrets, and find that they are not so different; in fact, they are very much the same.

Neither Shuuichi nor Takatsuki can tell anybody their secret....

By today July 26, 2012 this manga have 111 chapters, 14 volumes released, and is still ongoing.

            I started to read this manga just a few hours ago instead of finishing cleaning my room, I was a bit bored and I didn’t wanted to work on my IB projects, I thought that reading manga would be interesting, but I wanted a story different from what I usually read. I like gender bender, but before I just have read stories of girls that acted like boys, but I thought that to read stories about boys like girls would be interesting. So I entered a manga page and wrote  ‘gender bender’ on the Search bar. A really large list showed up from female and male gender bender.

            I started to read the titles, and see the pictures of each comic, then read the descriptions; some of them had just been released, so then I started to also look at the status of the comics. 

            I read two One-Shot mangas, I read the Daughter of Devil manga (from The Evil Vocaloid Music saga) which hasn’t been completed, and saw some mangas that I’ve already read (I’m planning to make recommendation of those in the future).

I saved some mangas in my list ‘To read’ but this one caught my attention, so I say, ‘why not read it now’ .

          Once I started to read it I couldn’t stop, I really loved the story. Because at first they introduce you children, but those children grow up, and you can see how they become teenagers. Also it is really interesting because the Kids as they reach puberty, they are in searching of what they are and what they want to be in the future, they commit some stupid mistakes that I’m sure most of us did at that age: have they fights, have romances, and everything that can happen on that part from the road of life.

          In the description of the manga just Nitori-kun and Takatsu-chan are mentioned, the girly boy and the tomboy. But there are other characters almost as important as them, whom without them, the story would be also meaningless. Those other adults and children help Nitori and Takatsu to keep up going on what they wanted to be and do, some of those other characters are or were the same as them. Also the families from all the characters have influence in the story, because in case of Takatsu, her mother wanted her to be feminine; while in case of Nitori, his family didn’t matter if he was boy or wanted to be a girl. The same happens with the families of the other characters. Some of those families, I think I would like to have a family like that, that would cheer for you and let you be what you want (I like to wear boys clothing and act like a boy sometimes, but other times I want to wear skirts, dresses, and be feminine. So I wanted to cut my hair like a boy and buy a wig).

          The drawing are good, thought is not the kind of drawings I like the most. I told you the story is really good, I haven’t finished it, but I loved what I’ve read. Sadly I can’t say anymore about the manga because I don’t have more information, as I just started since a few hours ago. But I REALLY, REALLY recommend you to read the story, it is really good!!!!

Well, I’m really excited by now, I think that after posting this I would be able to calm down. I wish you had liked it.

どうもありがとうございました！ ^_^

みんな！　良い一日を！ 

I wish you to have a really nice upcoming weekend,

to be healthy,

to be happy,

to be successful.

GBU a lot!

Good Luck! (if you believe in luck)

PS: here I leave you some pictures from Daughter of the Devil manga, if you has already watched the musical videos, and know the story of The Evil Vocaloid saga, read the manga. If you haven’t seen any of them yet, then read the manga and watch the videos. The manga makes you understand some things that are not clear or not even mentioned in the videos.

The Evil Saga, Main Part, videos in Chronological Order

Part1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1DWJYe2JJ8&feature=related

Part2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4XEiHs9lIc&feature=fvwrel

Re_Birthday  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmHjCPV0TX0

Complementary to Evil Saga

Daughter of the Vengeance  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6CWuQm6nb4

Daughter of Green  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b2KwE2wac4

Prince of Blue  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2mjjQQsQFM&feature=related

Manhua: 1/2 Prince

Hello everyone!

In this post I'm going to present you another Asian comic, but today as different of the other latest post this one is about a Taiwanese Comic, they are also called manhuas, and this one is named ½ Prince.

First, as cultural reference, I've noticed that usually Asians call half and write as "½" people who change from girl to boy or from boy to girl(as other example, Ranma ½).  And well, this is a very fun and interesting story (as most comics I've recommended you, xD). Believe me, once you start reading it you won't stop reading it until you reach the last released chapter and you'll be laughing like crazy most of the first chapters. Well, here is it:

cover of the
1st book of the novel

       ½ Prince

Original Name: ½ 王子

Pronunciation: Èr fēnzhī yī Wáng zǐ

Story created by Yu Wo and drawn by Choi Hong Chong

Released in 2004

Magazine: Dragon Youth Comics(龍少年 Lóng Shàonián)

Publishing Company: Tong Li Publishing

Genres: Gender Bender, Comedy, Adventure, School Life, Shoujo, Shounen, Action, Romance, Sci-Fi, and Harem.

                  Summaries:
 

     From MangaFox:  It is the year 2100 A.D. and humans have invented a virtual reality game called "Second Life". Feng Lan, due to a bet with her brother, vows to beat him in the game without using her feminine charm to attract others to help her. Thus, she becomes the first transgendered character in "Second Life" - in other words, she is the only person who has a gender in-game opposite from hers in real life. As her popularity rises due to her looks and bloodthirsty skills, can she keep her identity a secret from her loved ones and friends?

From The Little Corner:

It is the year 2100 A.D., and humans have developed a virtual reality game with a realism level of 99%. Feng Lan, due to a bet with her twin brother, vows to succeed in playing the game without using her "female benefits." Due to this, she becomes the first and only female to play as a male character in "Second Life." As her infamy rises as a bloodthirsty warrior, can she keep her identity a secret from her real life acquaintances whom she has beaten up?

 
   From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
 …The protagonist is a 19 year-old female student named Feng Lan, who is challenged into playing the nearly arrived game Second Life by her twin brother. As the first person to log into the game, Feng Lan is given a wish which she uses to give herself the privileged of creating a male avatar whom she names as Prince. In game, she strives to prove to her brother that she can be a capable player.

By today March 14, 2012 the manhua is still ongoing. The manhua is based on a Taiwanese novel with the same name.

The comic, apart from having a good story, also have good drawings (there’s bishies :P) and it is not much different from the original story, though the drawings of the manhua might not be as good as the drawings of the novel covers.

There might be many characters, and maybe you would want to do a character map. The chapters are not commonly released, so if you read it and reach the end, you’ll have to wait at least 2 and half months to read the next chapter (that’s somehow tiring and frustrating).

The novel have already finished, so if you want to read it, you can read it complete, there are not original Englis translations, the novel is just in Chinese, but you can find some fan translations.

Thanks for read; I wish you had liked it.

GBU, good-bye, have a nice week!

PS: Sorry for not posting for many weeks, but on those past weeks I had a lot of homework and projects also my computer hard-drive stop functioning, again. So I need vacations or classes break to go again to the US.

And as I had a lot of things to do, I barely could read the updates from my favorite Asian Comics and I couldn’t read any new manga, except for Psyren from which I bought a Shounen Jump magazine for $90 MX and some classmate from Escucha lend me Pandora Hearts manga volumes from 1 to 7(I read them on the bus on the way from school to my house, xD).

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the pictures used above, neither the information given in the summaries. All the right goes to their respective owners.

Manhwa: Love in the Mask

Hello everyone,

How are you?

As always, I wish you're doing fine, and healthy (I'm sick again);

but now I'll make you another question and is…          

have you ever been in love?, had you ever dream or known of an impossible love? … 

if it is yes, or maybe, then I will recommend you to read the cute manhwa that I bring to show you today: Love in the Mask.

I decided to post about this beautiful manhwa because on Tuesday(Feb 14) it would be Valentine's Day or Day of Friendship and Love, a day in which everybody(or most people) wants to be in love, or find somebody to love, or be with the beloved ones. And as the title and the summary below says this Korean comic is a love story:

Love in the Mask Manhwa

MangaFox or EatManga

Original Name: 가면속의 사랑

Pronunciation: gamyeonsog-ui salang

Story created by: Han Yu-rang

Released in 2009

Magazine: nnim

Publishing Company: Kkonnimm

Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Action, Harem, Martial Arts, Gender Bender, Tragedy, Mistery

Summary: Hyun Bin has to live surviving as a man. Fate has come to trap her compassion in a mask like a bird blazing only in it's cage...

From various Asian Comics pages: Hyun-bin grew up under the cruel hand of street gangsters, selling gum in the subway with her little brother. However, after an unfortunate event, Hyun-bin runs away and is taken in by a businessman to be trained to become a bodyguard. However, she must hide that she is female, and pose as a man. And so, for eight years, she grows up as a cold, male bodyguard. But is this how she'll be forever?

From Tinte: Suh Hyun-bin grew up under the cruel hand of street gangsters, but after her little brother dies, Hyun-bin runs away and is taken in by a rich family to be trained to become a bodyguard. However, she must hide that she is female, and pose as a man. And so, for eight years, she grows up as a cold, male, and bodyguard. It looks like she'll be this way forever--until a fateful encounter with Lee Yun-ha shakes her very foundations, and leaves her conflicting with herself, as her feelings of love clash against her feelings of duty.

By fall/autumn of 2011 the manhwa was already completed.

This story will make you cry a lot, believe me. The story is sometimes so sad that you'll feel bad for the main characters. Is a really good story, thought the drawing are the one that my friends usually call "generic manhwa", except the end, which I classify as typical Mexican dramas ending.

If you start read it, you will be so fascinated that you won't stop reading it, not even in the ending even if you already have theories of how the story will end.

This story does also have the common element in Korean stories: Business, gangs, a pretty poor girl and a rich handsome boy; but it does also have another fact which is what caught my attention and it is the gender bender, from after reading this story I got a certain fascination for reading gender bender stories, xD.

Another thing is that this Korean Comic has many characters that if you want you can do a characters' map.

I wanted to post about this manhwa since the past semester, but I couldn't first because my computer became trash, and then because it was on the US. But by this manhwa is by which I got to know many other Korean Comics as it was on the top or most popular list, even if it wasn't the first one I started to read. Also I wanted to publish of it now because there's had been many weeks since I published an entry with information of a manhwa. 

Thanks for reading; I wish you'd like it, have a nice upcoming week, GBU a lot. Good bye. :3

PS: I wish you could be with someone on Feb 14, and not be a Forever Alone on that day.

Manga: Iris Zero

Hello everyone,
Sorry for not posting on the past two weeks (I think it was two weeks), but my stupid mac doesn’t work anymore and I’ve been living without internet or computer for long time T-T. I've just been living by reading novels and sending text messages with the cellphone, without mangas, manhwas or Facebook games. For me it was maddening because there were lots of social protests and other social issues here in Nuevo León México, and i didn’t have mean of communication except cellphone! Yesterday I said “I’m getting insane” while laughing in front of the bathroom mirror, I was really driving insane!!!!!
Anyway..., leaving that aside...

From today onwards I’m going to post the summary and recommendation of Asian Comics in another way, ‘cuz I’m finally in vacations and the blog doesn’t matter for my school grade anymore, yeah!!!!! So the English teacher won’t check it anymore and I can also make entries in Spanish. If you want to read the comic just click the name of the manga. Here it is:

       IRIS ZERO Manga
Original name: アイリスZERO(アイリス・ゼロ)
Pronunciation: airisu zero
Story created by Shiki Piro and drawn by Takana Hotaru
Genres: Mystery, Psychological, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Seinen, Supernatural
Released in 2009
Magazine: Comic Alive
Publishing company: Media Factory


Summary: In a world where every boy and girl has a special power called Iris, Toru who, as a result of not having any kind of special power, was bullied from a young age, lives by his motto: "low exposure”, “to live without standing out." But his peaceful school life changes when he receives a certain "Confession" from the schools most popular girl, Koyuki. His motto begins to shake!!
The school fantasy story that shakes the heart begins with their meeting.


By today, 15/December/2011 it is still ongoing and have released 5 manga volumes.


      Well, as you’d read, this manga is about people with powers called Iris(it is futurist, and according to the story kids were born with iris since 21 years ago, but when it started the chance of having Iris was .1%), and this comic genre is classified in fantasy, mystery and supernatural, most of the people would think it could be something really extraordinary, but no, it is just based in a normal high school, and it is completely about high school(teachers, students, grades, school groups, etc.). Thou it is based and all the stories are developed in or are about high school issues, it is really interesting because sometimes reading comics from amazing things or people doesn’t let you appreciate what is around you in your normal life, sometimes you could wish to have an amazing life or something really extraordinary in your life too. But, by reading this manga, you can change your way of thinking and perception about the world as it is about high students life (I’m think most of the people that read this blog is still student).
The main character, Toru, does also have an interesting way of thinking, which is another factor that can make you like this manga. His motto of “low exposure” have maintained him keeping him out of meeting people or befriend them, but as Koyuki started talking to him, a lot of problem arises and he met other people with whom he became good friend later.
Sorry if i'm being redundant.
      I liked this manga because this semester was really crazy, and in International Baccalaureate, the classes weren’t boring as they were in Bicultural, also there were lots of problems another issues with my classmates as they weren’t before, Iris Zero made me think more about it, and about life as it is right now. I really liked this manga. I’m really grateful that a friend recommended me this manga. So I also recommend you to read it, and I’m sure that you will also like this Japanese Comic.
Thanks for reading,
GBU,
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Have a nice weekend!



PS: I don't know who wrote that summary but I found it in different manga webpages.

Manhwa: Delinquent Cinderella

「Cinderella lost her parents when she was a little girl and had to live with her stepmother and stepmother's two daughters. Her stepmother saw her as a maid and made her clean all day.

Until one day, the king wanted to choose a wife for the prince and he invited all the single ladies to attend the party. Cinderella couldn't go because she had to do all her chores. 

When Cinderella cried, a fairy godmother appeared.  The fairy godmother used her magic wand to turn Cinderella into a beautiful girl with a sparkling pair of shoes. The fairy godmother turned a pumpkin into a carriage, 4 mice into 4 white horses, a horse into a driver and a dog into a person to be Cinderella's assistant.

"You have to come back before midnight, everything will turn back to the way it was." advised the fairy godmother.

That's when Cinderella smiled and said:

"These glass slippers are really inconvenient. Could you change them into sneakers for me?…"」

Hello everybody,
once again, how are you?
as always I wish you're doing really well.
      I'm sure you'd noticed that in this post I put the usual introduction after a brief story, xD, also sorry for not posting the past weeks. I didn't post anything, neither finished this entry because I had a lot of things to do because the final exams and projects are coming, and right now I just had finished the 3rd partial exams, so I'm really busy. sorry. =_=
Anyway, getting back to the subject, (since the past week) I bring you a new Manhwa to introduce you, it is called Delinquent Cinderella(불량 신데렐라), created by the famous Korean Mangaka Hwang Mi Ri (she's one of the korean mangakas that had created more comics than other, also she's the first author whose manhwas I'd read). This manhwa is really interesting, is based in different towns in South Korea and also it isn't a romantic love story, instead a it have more of the korean gangster and business life(those aspect seem very important in most of the manhwas), but not really romantic, at first instance, there's not love, it is just used as an appearance:

         Nan Hui is a girl that lived on the countryside, in an apparently pacific life with her school friends, until one day she's caught smoking again in school, and sent off to the city by her grandmother to live with her mother and her nasty step-grandmother.

Since the moment she reaches to Seoul, the first thing she wants is to cause problems. There she found a drunk boy that was being hit by other 5 guys, she rescues him. But the ungrateful Gong Myeong didn't appreciated her help, so she stomped on his arm and ran off, expecting not to meet him ever again.

Anyway, Gong Myeong results to be Nan Hui's classmate and her step-brother best friend, which afterwards devises a plan with her, "We’re not going to really love each other. We’ll be a contract couple to get what we both want.”. He lost the girl he loved to Baek Jae Ha(Nan Hui's brother) and she wants to obtain favor from her step-grandmother.

However none of them expected to see al the problems that would come in the future, then what would happen if Nan Hui's best friend, who is in love with her, comes to the city? and how much complicated things can get if Gong Myeong's half-brother falls in love with her?

"Can this bad prince give this bad Cinderella her glass slipper? Will love blossom between these two bad personalities?"

    The genres of this manhwa are Shoujo, School Life, and Romance. The little brief story of the beginning is the beginning of this manhwa story. This is one of the first manhwas I did read, so if you're starting to read Korean comics, this is a good alternative to start with, because this one is easy to read as it has to be read from left to right(as the American comics), also because this comic contains the principal elements of most manhwas that represent Korean life, those which I've mentioned before: gangs, business, rich handsome boys, and a pretty poor girl.
If you're trying to know more about manhwas, it is convenient to start first with this kind of Korean comics, it will help you to find later which kind of stories do you prefer, and which kind of style do you like the most, additionally, to tell the difference of drawings and mangakas between manhwas.

Sorry for giving a really bad entry, but my fucking computer is not working properly, everybody would think that they're viruses, but no, it can't be, because i bought a Mac, so i need to go to the store and change it, for that i need to go to the US, which is 6 hours away from here, also the highway is not safe because of the narcos. Also sorry for the gramatical and spelling mistakes, but i won't return to correct them. just to open a single program takes like 10 minutes and to open google takes like 30 minutes, to open googledocs take like hour and half, to write down three words take me like 1 minute, to open a folder it take 3 minutes. my computer is really slow, even slower than a little snail :$

Thanks for reading,

I wish you to have a nice week,

GBU,

Goodbye, and thank you so much for being patient.
I planned to make a really good post, but my inspiration got away from me as this stupid computer was really slow, please be comprensive, and understand that just to make this entry took me a week when i ususally make them in 5 hours(to make my choice of the comic, to choose the pictures, to write the text, read again the first chapter to make the summary, etc.)

Please comment -_-, gomennasai, sorry

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: