• ♪: 「白いカイト」／Ｍｙ　Ｌｉｔｔｌｅ　Ｌｏｖｅｒ

I’m SUPER CRAZY OBSESSED with 『Ｌｏｖｅｈｏｌｉｃ』 now. I read it twice in a row and I’m still staring at random pages in it now. I can’t stop flailing madly over it, but it’s totally AFHDSJAASF!!!1 HAWT!!! /incoherent

Drool-worthy artwork notwithstanding. Eh, I suppose I’m just very weak against the 彆扭受 or 女王受 type HEHEHE. Nishioka-san is SUPER HAWT in glasses! ← 眼鏡フェチ？！

And I want to steal his cameras. Including the poor dropped Leica.

Dai-chan is the 溫柔攻？忠犬攻？ I actually think he’s kind of 腹黑… And his one-shot(?) back story was SO SADDDDD. (I admit I didn’t care too much about Nishioka-san’s back story and skipped most of it. )

To be honest though, I liked the first volume much more than the second volume. I don’t like the second volume much at all. Kimura was ugly annoying. And I didn’t really like the whole “move to Osaka and be exclusive to me” thing. Maybe because I find the original premise more err… 萌え？

I was looking at some (colour) image from 『Only The Ring Finger Knows』 when it suddenly struck me that ASFJLGJKSDFA!!! The random(?) tall guy in the image looks like AGKFJHAHDSF HIGASHIMA-SAN OMGWTF. *massive head bang* How do I say it… it’s OMG THE EXPRESSION. And the HAIR. And um, the fact that he’s taller than the inevitable 大爺 Yuki clone. And practically exuding Higashiyama-san vibes ← What are these?!

… I’m reading way too much into this 小田切せんせい＝ＫＯ thing, ugh.

(The image isn’t re-useable so I can’t put it here but if I manage to find another version… )

OMG AHAHAHA I just realised that the mangaka of 『ホス探へようこそ』 also drew a WONDERFULLY SLASHY set-in-a-bar manga! *fangirl mush* I think the artwork looks nicer in 『マティーニ攻略法』 and the characters are ♥!!! My only complaint is that it’s FAR TOO SHORT. But I like Mr. Oblivious!Kousaka-san and poor morally tormented Owner-san and his younger brother. And the main character is such a CUTE PUPPY DOG. ♥ And of course Shinobu is SO PRETTY. ♥ I could read a 100 volumes about them FUFU.

And I shall have no guilt over /////-ing 『ホス探〜』 people any more WHEE!

I ♥♥♥ 穂波ゆきねせんせい STORIES！！！ She’s done the illustrations for many BL manga titles. I like her art style. It’s not pretty and detailed or elaborate, but it’s simple and comfortable. I’ve only read a few of her titles but there hasn’t been one I’ve disliked yet. There were some I thought were okay, but also some that were just… ASFDGJSKFS! FLAILS.

The first one I read, back when I didn’t know who she was because I don’t usually pay much attention to authors unless I read something absolutely SQUEEWORTHY and decide I absolutely have to stalk the writer, was 『微熱革命』. It was cute and sweet and fluffy and had the fantasy/supernatural elements I’m so fond of. I still like it and the story has stuck with me.

I’ve read 『凛！』, the archery story, which I thought was okay.

And also 『君には勝てない！』, which I LOVE TO ITTY BITTY PIECES. I read it online, practically ran down to my local comic shop to buy it, and re-read it constantly. IT’S HILARIOUS! I really don’t care for the main character and his seme, so I tend to skip the chapters that centre around them but I like 三木 AND 北条. A LOT. They’re a lot more interesting than 雄飛 and Mr Glasses, who are really quite boring. 三木 practically epitomises the words 女王！受 and I always like the 女王 type characters so it was inevitable that he’s my favourite character. And 北条 is so… my pace?

My current love is the series with 『ビーナスＫＩＳＳ！！』 (they seem inordinately fond of exclamation marks, but oh well ) but I’m definitely missing stuff. Will flail more on it later if I manage to find everything.

I finished 『君の向こう側』. It’s a (relatively) short BL story full of misunderstandings and insecurities, mostly from Shou. *whacks the poor boy* He has such a… 彆扭 PERSONALITY OMG. And he’s SEME WTF. Although honestly, I don’t think I would be able to read seme!takashi x uke!shou, it’s just… UGH WRONG. Somehow. Maybe for the reason below, AHAHAHA!

The story is okay, but I like it because I can 代入！代入！代入！ I know it’s crazy obsessed bad fangirl practice to do so, and it’s really NOT like I purposely go around looking for manga to 代入 ← Um, really?!

But Shou and Takashi and the story in general really, really, REALLY remind me of um, 大爺二爺. I didn’t think so right from the start, but the more I read it… well, it could SERIOUSLY BE PART OF THE 三部曲。 Takashi is even, you know, kind of 聖母 (if you squint really hard)… but I didn’t say so. And it’s I don’t know, the characterisation in general really, I can really see 大爺二爺 from the 三部曲 era in this. And OMG THE HAIRSTYLES. There is resemblance there and you can’t tell me it’s not true!

… And the manga dates back to 1998, so there.

Sin is SUCH A BRAT! And Evilice is really too lenient… or should I say apathetic? Indifferent? And somehow this is so ADLGKHLASD PERFECT! SQUEEEEE.

Um yes, that’s all I have to say about volume one. I’m off to continue my re-read!

I ABSOLUTELY ADORE GOTHIC-Y (HORROR) STORIES!!! And I’m still mourning the non-existence of 『Ａｌｉｃｈｉｎｏ』 volume 4. I’m still waiting for it after the comic shop guy cheated me that it was coming (in a week! ) and it never turned up any where. GRRR!!! I definitely think four volumes is too short because there were many, many unanswered questions and er… the plot really hasn’t moved much, but I’d take completed to incomplete any day. So yes, still waiting for volume 4!

Korean manhwa, 『Ｈｏｒｒｏｒ　Ｃｏｌｌｅｃｔｏｒ』, is definitely the kind of story I enjoy. I don’t read much manhwa, mostly because they aren’t as accessible as manga and I don’t understand/read a word of Korean and… I dislike those typical cliched Korean drama type stories where poor saintly A hates/likes rich jerk B who is supposed to marry rich bitch C who likes making poor A’s life even harder and somebody has to have a car accident/life-threatening disease, or something like that. But 『Ｈｏｒｒｏｒ　Ｃｏｌｌｅｃｔｏｒ』 is LOVELY. The artwork is gorgeous, if you like impossibly thin people with stick limbs, and very detailed. The story is interesting and SLASHY. Evilice and Sin, if you ignore the WTF-ness of their names (), have me glued to the pages waiting for some fanservice. They’re not as heart-palpitation inducing as those two from 『Ｖａｓｓａｌｏｒｄ』 (but very few are as truly dysfunctional as those two ), but intriguing nonetheless. I did have a problem understanding the general flow of the story a little though, something that re-reading will hopefully help! It was a bit hard telling who said which bit of dialogue and I think it’s read from left to right across the page (which took me a while to figure out ), so a re-read is essential!

• ♪: 「ノクターン」／平原綾香

『Ｃｒｏｑｕｉｓ』 was SOOO SWEET!!! (I read it online ) It was all fluffy and funny and cute and cavity-inducing. I actually like the side stories better. The two parts of 「ボクの初恋について」 were really bittersweet and left me wishing they had ended up together. The two main characters are stereotypical (the nerdy glasses wearing guy and the obnoxious popular guy LOL! ) but they’re endearing and I was sad they missed their chance to be together. SNIFF.

• ♪: 「Ｓｅｃｒｅｔ　Ｃｏｄｅ」／ＫｉｎＫｉ　Ｋｉｄｓ

I ♥♥♥♥♥ 『Ｊ Ａｌｂｕｍ』!!!!! FLAILS MADLY. Words cannot express how much I ♥ this album, especially in comparison to the previous album. I don’t think I’ve ♥-ed an album so much since 『Ｇ』 or maybe 『Ｈ』. *melts into pile of incoherent fangirl mush*

That is all.

I feel SAD. The archive of all things Fandorin and smutty with a side serving of plot has DISAPPEARED from the internets. It was the (meagre) source of my Zurov/Fandorin smut, and it’s GONE. Only a few months after I discovered it. Which seems to only leave 「Chasing Titania」 as far as the English speaking (non-existent) fandom goes. I AM VERY SAD. I adore 「Chasing Titania」, but it’s short. I’m a long, multi-chapter fic kind of person, so that’s more like an introduction only. I suppose I can rely on my imagination for the rest, but it’s rusty.

I still think Zurov met his end FAR TOO EARLY and just when I was beginning to like him. SNIFF. And I liked Charles (Paladdin) too, so the ending broke my poor glass fangirl heart. 『Turkish Gambit』 is still one of my favourite books from the series (although I haven’t read the entire series). I liked the bantering in the Journalists’ tent before things got too serious. Mademoiselle Barbara and her ideas of modern ladies (like not having their hands kissed in greeting HAHAHA ) was fun.