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.

More Japanese Terminology (found on FB)

Hello everyone,

How are you?

I'm sure you are somehow happy because it’s already December. 

That means that Christmas is coming! yeah!!!!(obviously if you're going to attend to parties, or you are going to travel, or receive gifts)

          Anyway, leaving that aside. Yesterday I found in a Facebook group called OCGM,NL(Otakus, Cosplayers y Gamers de Monterrey, Nuevo León/Otakus, Cosplayers, and Gamers of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) an interesting picture explaining more terms people who doesn't know about Japanese culture critic or misjudge sometimes(at least here in Mexico). the picture is in Spanish, but I'm going to explain in English what it says below.

Ok, here I go...

"This is not just comic, is 'Manga' Ò_Ó

This is not a cartoon, is 'Anime' Ò_Ó

This is not a costume, is 'Cosplay' Ò_Ó

This is not fetishism, is 'Moe' Ò_Ó

This is not lesbianism, is 'Yuri' Ò_Ó

This is not perverted, is 'Hentai' Ò_Ó

This is not erotic, is 'Ecchi' Ò_Ó

This is not pedophile, is 'Lolicon' Ò_Ó

This is not incest, is 'Kinshinsoukan' Ò_Ó

This is not gay, is 'Yaoi' Ò_Ó

This is not bloody, is 'Gore' Ò_Ó

This is not a bipolar girl, is 'Tsundere' Ò_Ó

This is not robot, is 'Mecha' Ò_Ó

This is not drawing, is 'Doujinshi' Ò_Ó

This is not schizophrenic girl, is 'Yandere' Ò_Ó

This is not sexual aberration, is 'Eroguro' Ò_Ó

This is not a sexual videogame, is 'Eroge' Ò_Ó

This is not Chinese, is 'Japanese' Ò_Ó

And the most important: I'm not a freak; I'm an 'Otaku'.

If you're proud of being an otaku click 'Like'. "

         Well, as you had seen, the term bloody and gore in English is really related, if not, the same. The only diffenrence would be the pronunciation. But in Spanish those are really different things, so it was written like that, XD

         Another thing,  the terms tsundere and yandere, which are very common in mangas, i didn't explained them in my first post. as it is mentioned at the picture, Tsundere is a term for mention a bipolar girl, and Yandere is used for call 'schizophrenic girl'. Tsundere is just used in that way, but Yandere is more refered to milti-facetious girls instead of schizophrenic girls.
        The term Moe is used to refer to girl, to 'the ideal type of girl', kawaii girls. It is usually used on cute and a little bit weak, clumsy girls; with a hot body, and a nice voice.(At least this is my perception.) That's why it is somehow a fetichism.(check this to know more about this word).
         Kinshisoukan is another common terms, specielly for those who like ecchi and hentai, but as I don't like incest I usually don't use it. :P
         Lolicon is used as we use the term Lolita Complex in the western world, to refer to ecchi/hentai of young girls and pedophile of those who like those genres.

         The rest os the terms that can be read upward, had been explicated in my first post of all, so if you have any question you can read it clicking here or you may ask leaving a comment.

Thanks for reading, Arigatougozaimashita!

GBU, have a nice week.

Sayounara Minna!

PS: right now in this computer I'm not able to write in Japanese. -_-

How did I got to know Asian comics...

Hello bloggers!

And everyone, how are you?,

as every single time before I wish you are well and healthy, XD

right now I'm somehow happy because yesterday was the last day of classes, but that doesn't mean that is my last day of the semester, which is really sad T_T

I do also watch anime when I should be doing something else

Anyway! Today I'm not really going to introduce another Asian comic, because all the pictures and information I've been collecting is on the stupid mac, right now I'm using my brother's and father's computer ¬,¬

and on Saturday I was checking how many words my computer could write in one minute, and oh! surprise! it wrote approximately from 5 to 8 words per minute, I checked that while trying to leave a message in Facebook at a FB group wall(to do so, it took me 26 minutes :S).

I need to change my computer, and the guarantee is from the US, but it could also be possible to change it here in Mexico as a Best Buy was opened on the past weekend :D

      In this post I'm going to still talk about Asian comics, but not like in the past in which I make a recommendation, xD

instead today I'll talk about myself and how I got fascinated by Asian comics, obviously of how much I like them and how did i got to know they existed :P.

      First of all(before talk about myself), the way most of the people in the Western world get to know the Asian comics is by Anime and Manga(Japanese cartoons and comics). Japanese culture is really advertised by American and European TV channels. Here in Latin America the Japanese stuff come from the US(and maybe from Canada), if in the US something results being popular, it does come to Mexico or Colombia(countries in which TV stations make the translations/dubbed) and then to the rest of Latin America. (I don't know the situation in Europe.)

Shugo Kyara!(guardian character). Amu and Ikuto

      Obviously that's the way I got to know Asian comics. In my life, when I was younger(12 years), I usually spent time in the internet chatting on MSN or watching videos on YouTube. Once I was watching a video of Winx Club there(I was a huge fan on winx), and in the video it have scenes of Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew(Mew Mew Power), Mermaid Melody(PichiPichiPitch), Winx Club, and Shugo Chara! *o*

I had already known of all those animes and I didn't care for anything except Winx Club, but Shugo Chara! caught my attention and I started to search for more videos of shugo chara on YouTube and tried to watch the anime. When I found the first episode subtitled, I watched it, and I loved it. From there I started to watch anime, knowing it was Japanese Cartoon and not a "Chinese cartoon" as everybody would call it in Mexico(here anybody or anything that have Asiatic features or characteristics is called "Chinese"). :B

Death Note manga

      A year passed until I started to watch another anime, which is really popular, but I actually think it sucks, NARUTO. I started to watch it on summer when I was 13 when my brother was watching TV, I was passing by and found it interesting. Some months passed until I started to watch more anime, it was when I was finishing my first year of middle or secondary school and I discovered I had a cousin which was otaku, but with whom I never talked with. She introduced me to this world by recommending me more animes to watch: CLANNAD, Rosario+Vampire, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles(which two years later she told me to never read :/ ), and many others.

As time passed I watched those animes she recommended me, and obviously I started to watch more by my own way. I got somehow caught and becoming more interested in those, as Japanese anime stories weren't as repetitive as Mexican stories, not even in love, and those didn't always have a happy ending(some were more realist). ^_^

      I didn't started to read manga until the next year, in which by May(I think so), I was watching NARUTO Shippuden, and I found most of the anime was a filler, so I started for search for the original story in the manga, and that's how I just started to read to know more about NARUTO, and also because the manga had more episodes than the anime.

The Sexy Simpleton Manhwa

Sometime later I found some manga webpages(which some are listed at the very bottom of this blog) and started to read some mangas of the animes I watched first, as Rosario+Vampire(I usually call it by its original name, Rosario to Banpaia). From there I started to read more and more mangas, until it came the moment in which I didn't like to watch animes anymore, in the same way I preferred to read many books instead of watching movies or TV. :D

It was when I was 15 I found the existence of Korean comics, in which I did also got fascinated, the first story I read was Love in the Mask, it was in the HOT section of most manga webpages and the picture and summary make it looks interesting. As in manga, I started to read manhwas in that way until I discovered more and more. Some mangas and manhwas were recommended to me by school friends whom I didn't knew they liked to read Asian comics, and watch anime. :X

      The first time I read a manhua was briefly described in Knight Princess post, because it was the first time I read a manhua because I thought it was from a Japanese mangaka whose stories I liked, and I discovered it was really Chinese until I read the name of the author. This happened when I was in second semester of High School.

      Right now, I'd read many stories, still reading some ongoing series, and have in waiting list many others. All this began four years ago, and I wonder why I feel like it happens way much time. I started with Shugo Chara! when it was October in my first Middle School year, now I'm almost 17 and finishing my 3rd High School semester. :)

3:00 am Danger Zone Manga

      But anyway, that's how life is. I wish you had liked to read my story. Maybe other time I'll publish some social conflicts most of the fanatics to Asian culture face with society, the most problematic is Parents and Friends(in which you discover who really is and who really is not your friend, and who does easily accept it, and who not).

Thanks for reading. have a nice weekend, I wish you had liked the post, GBU, goodbye.

(Sorry if something that's written in the post doesn't make sense in English, I'm still learning, xD).

PS: People, don't stop eating or making your chores for reading. It is not good for your health. I'm saying this because I'd done this while reading some really interesting mangas and manhwas. .-.

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: