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Why is it that it seems like the more mature a shoujo/josei manga gets, the more evil the main guy is? And after a few chapters when you are really sure that the writer is sick in the head for having the girl fall for a total sadist, they intro guy #2, and guy #2 is super cool, and yet you know she isn't going to choose him. I guess it's the fact that they want to make conflicts, but isn't there any other way to make your male lead a hottie and introduce conflicts into a story than to make him a rapid-fire super-horny rapezors machine?

Formula writing is reeeeeeeeeally lame. I am reminded of why I hated Hana Yori Dango. I mean, I like a good cold guy in a series, and I like a guy who's a little bit sneaky, and I don't mind a sparing dash of kichiku on my megane, but I feel like I have seen this plot so many times....

Guy: *traps girl in a room* I'll make you mine! *sex*
Girl: Iya! No, don't touch me there! Ooh! I like it! A little to the left! Wait, no, I HATE you!
Guy: *makes some snide comment and goes back to normal*
Girl: *sees him with other girls*
Guy: *comes back to her* You want some more? OKAY 8D *traps her in a room and repeat*

Intersperse this with one/more/all of the following:
a) One of them getting pushed down a flight of stairs
b) One of them has suppressed memories of a childhood trauma
c) a lot of slapping and screaming "NOOOO!"
d) guy licking something, like a knife
e) family tragical dorama
f) guy also macking on other guys
g) we see a lot of the girl's underwear (and yet never the guy's, he is going commando under his school trousers) and nipples

And there you have it, your very own Flower Comics mature shoujo manga! Lucky lucky you!

"Schizophrenic, (I bet this was actually psychotic and is a translation error) likes to make fun of me, the prince with the bad personality. He is always making me dizzy and everything centers around him. But I am so strongly attracted to him!" --Desire Climax vol. 7

I was cleaning some boxes in our garage and I found.... my old Houshin Engi cd's!!!! NO WAY!!!!! Yonekura Chihiro ftw!

Kimi o shinjite II DE-SU-KA?

I'm putting this on the iPod like NOW.

[Made this list for linking when posting on comms like garagesalejapan, sorry f-list for the long post.]

Looking for these items at a reasonable price:

Japanese manga: (no English manga pls)
Lovely Complex
Kiss Yori mo Hayaku (vol. 4 and up)
Ouran HS Host Club
Nodame Cantabile
Rurouni Kenshin large re-release books (anything after vol. 5)
Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei (vol. 4, 11, 12)
Hime-chan no Ribon

Anime on DVD US Version Box sets:
YuYu Hakusho
Ouran HS Host Club
Rurouni Kenshin (cannot have "that it is" in the subs?)
Honey and Clover

Japanese PS2 Games:
Crimson Empire
Hime Hibi
Little Aid
Arcobaleno
Panic Palette
Nodame Cantabile

CD's:
Anything by Yuki
Nodame Soundtracks
Asian Kung Fu Generation: Fan Club (and most other albums or singles)

I can pay Paypal but prefer trade for equal value-- I have stuff on Ebay right now so have a look. I can cancel items that have no bids and trade them to you.

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Available for trade:
-quite a few books of Japanese InuYasha, Naruto, Yakitate JAPAN (ask me for specific vol #'s)

-Ururun Quest for J PS2 and artbook
-Hiiro no Kakera for J PS2
-Hiiro no Kakera 2- Hisui no Shizuku for J PS2
-Atelier Violet J PS2 game, artbook, and walkthrough book 3 pc set
-Pokemon Pearl & Fire Red (cart only)
-DS Wi-fi Connector
-Octomania for US Nintendo Wii

-a real pair of hand-woven monpe from Kyushu new with tag (pics available)
-a really sweet BoBoBo no BoBoBo bento box NWT. (Koyasu Takehito fans, hello :D)

Thanks in advance! (>o<)/* Please comment here or e-mail me directly at shiruru at gmail dot com. Comments are screened for privacy.

YASUNORI-KUN AWWWWWWWWWWW.

That was a very cute story and a great ending. Yasunori-kun, I don't care what anyone says to you in the game, you're so badass megane :D

I liked Koutaro's ending too. He looks freakish but he's a nice kid and he's sweet. I liked how he's always trying to do what's right. Katsuhiko.... hmm. I wanted to slap him around for his stupid attitude but the part with him sneaking around the house in the middle of the night did give me a little bit of dokidoki. I like him better than Ryou in the last game anyway. This is Ishida Akira at his angry sexy best. I don't like it when he's playing the more wussy voice (like in Tokimeki GS).

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I have a ton of anime and games stuff on Ebay right now if anyone's interested. Need $$$.

So I realized, whilst shopping for new games for my birthday (yay), that I have a shopping pattern. No matter how crappy the game I end up gravitating towards something.

-Anything Ueda Yuuji is in (Kimagure Strawberry Cafe aka slapped together cafe sim with awful awful 70's K-mart music)
-Anything Morikubo Shoutaro AND?! Sakurai Takahiro are in (Fantastic Fortune 2 aka beautiful but impossible game)
-Anything Inoue Kazuhiko is in (Kaitou Apricot aka terrible horrible very cheap sound and art)

Anyway. So this is the list of games I'm thinking of getting:

Princess Nightmare still looks super fun.
SoraYume　Finally a mystery game instead of rabu-rabu!
Hakuouki Zuisouroku
Panic Palette
Himehibi - Princess Days
Petit Four　　Looks funny
Ouran High School Host Club - loved the anime and the voices, and the game is supposed to follow it with three new characters, so I can't really see what could go wrong even if there were lukewarm reviews on My Neoromance. They were probably just trying to sell their own games anyway... and I'm not so into NeoRomance's games. :/ I get disappointed by them every time.
Edel Blume　Nahaha I like that bat that follows your cursor on the site. :D
Arcobaleno　Looks funny
L2 Love x Loop (GAHHH THE ART STYLE SO PRETTY!!!! I want this game the most. It's the most creative and different looking. Naturally cause I want to get Kain. HAWT.　Chai isn't so bad-looking either)

Games I'm so not interested in no matter what anyone says:

-Love*Revo- it is a game about a hugely fat girl (100 kg is hugely fat? oh god) and some guys decide to make her over by making her lose weight and diet? Creepyyyy, I don't like the colors and character designs either. Kind of weird looking
-Real Rode- looks boring and cheesy. No tinterested in any of the characters. The art's by the same artist who did Love*Revo and therefore I give it thumbs down.
-Will o' Wisp- the characters don't seem that interesting
-drastic killer- I hate the opening song, reminds me of Weiss Kruez... and... ew. A little too ero for moi. Thx.

OH SNAP ASHIYA KILLED EVIL GRANDMA!!!!

NICE!

And is it just me or does Ryou look absolutely silly when transformed? If I were a bad guy in this game I'd be laughing too hard to fight.

Okay, I have now gotten everyone's ending but Ryou's-- am on the way to getting his. Will finally finish this game soon. And just in time, I heard #3 is coming out apparently.

Looks-wise I liked Suguru the best, I always love the sweet guys with glasses, and for once the "older guy" isn't so old that he's gross or creepy. He's very attractive and sweet and polite, and yet his story's level of complication (gawd) and plot twists kept it interesting to an extent. I would have like to see more fighting with him though....

Story-wise Mahiro still rules the roost (no bird pun intended). He has the best seiyuu, the best emotes, and the most hilarious lines. From the short-guy syndrome to the rude snippy comments (yet somehow I don't find his comments as annoying as when Takuma insults Tamaki.... maybe it's because it is so obvious that he's acting?) to his total falling in love with the heroine as the game progresses. He's really an outstanding character. I felt the most interested in his story line. And yeah, it is true, anytime a really, really cool cool guy says 俺の女に手を出すな to the bad guy, it gets my brain melting. He is the coolest person in this game imho. :)

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This is a good game, yes, but it could be better. I heartily recommend that if you liked this game, that you try the Mizu no Senritsu series. The Japanese level is much easier, and there is so much less needless blah blah and battle/run away/battle/run away.

Looking forward to #2.

From: Kiss Yori mo Hayaku (English title: Faster Than a Kiss)

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I don't care what anyone says. I hate oden, and B does too. I had to eat it once at one school on Wednesday and it was barf nasty and made me feel sick, and then I hate to eat it at the other school again today. It is gross. Today I lied to the teacher and said I felt sick to my stomach and couldn't eat much. After eating the little bit of oden that I did have to eat, I really did feel sick. Barf. I hope we never have to eat it again.