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Ploughed my way through the 900+ pages of John Irving’s last novel Until I Find You – not his best in short - main problem I think is simply its length, it could possibly read much better if it was about a third shorter. There are some trademark-Irving themes to this story; it was on the...

Big Brother. Celebrity or otherwise. It was after becoming pathologically addicted to one of the early BB several years ago that I vowed to never to get sucked in by it again and waste so much of my time gormlessly watching a bunch of people not do a lot on my TV screen. Try my best to...

Another one of Kyo from Fruits Basket - this time a slight more arty black-and-white from the manga (volume 4 if you're curious)

Thought I drop this in here for what it’s worth. Just came across a review for this over on ANN - sounded intriguing. Manga entitled Dolis (Die Todliche Dolis) – doesn’t explicitly say its Shojo, but the mere mention of the ‘romance’ word (albeit in what sounds like a less orthodox...

Ahh...Miwako...got it slightly wrong...its actually her sister Mikako who's in the prelude (they are very alike afterall!) - something called Gokinjo Monogatari or Neighbourhood Story Wikipedia is the source of all my knowledge - the link gives you a run down on Ai Yazawa; you can follow the...

Glad to provide some entertainment :wink: ...Sounds intriguing. I guess Yuki does have purple eyes so I suppose there is a sense of continuity there.

Yes you did…and I did…I’m indebted :wink: You said I’d like her other work too when referring to Nana - I now presume you meant PK, I was slightly dismayed to find out that these were the only these two to be licensed/officially-translated. There is a an earlier short series that is a...

I’ve come across a couple of new characters to possibly aspire to: The cool and calculating Alex Rowe – captain of the Silvana in Last Exile...or... The equally cool (but in a different way) and stylishly dressed George Kiozumi from Paradise Kiss. Now it’s a tough choice between...

Paradise Kiss - 5 Volumes Gone into more detail on the shojo manga thread Like I say there, don't be put off by the fashion theme like I was initially - it focuses much more on the character development and interaction.

Bit of a backlog of viewing from the last 2 weeks or so… Lapped up the 12 episodes of Paradise Kiss – really enjoyed this, gone into more detail on this thread if anyone wants to share some thoughts on it. Bunch of discs continuing series I’m part way through: Haibane Renmei vol.2...

(Not entirely convinced in of the logic of this thread – perhaps it would be better off with separate titles after all – but onward undeterred…) Paradise Kiss – been loving this over the last few weeks – cheating slightly here as it’s the anime that I have watched - but I feel I...

RahXephon disc 2 – the plot’s thickening, slowly unfolding, one of the two, or both if that’s possible. After the impressive opening 4 episodes on the first disc here we get a couple slightly more straight-forward battle/conflict episodes and then two that delve a bit more into the...

Not a show but a film - caught myself watching this cheesey american kids movie on tv this morning whilst having nothing better to do called "Snow Day" A freak overnight snow storm means all the schools are shut so the kids have the day off to have fun frolicking around - all except for the...

Was feeling depressed after another week of failing to generate any income from currency trading - so the logical thing to do was go to FP and get 3 mangas for £15: Tokyo Babylon vol. 4&5 - plugging the gap to complete the series of 7 & vol. 3 of Nana.

Fruits Basket disc 3 – there’s a couple of episodes where the plot seems to drift a little, but then this series has never been about any major plot line, much more about getting little insights into each of the character’s past and their interactions with each other in the present. You...

Clamp’s Tokyo Babylon vol. 1-3 – suppose this is getting quite old now, having been made all the way back in 1991. First two volumes start out quite gently, a little episodic perhaps, but its enjoyable enough stuff and there is some nice interplay between the three main characters. Things...

Only just working my way through disc 3 of the anime, so I’ve got some catching up to do, specially as I think I read that the anime only goes as far as volume 8 of the manga. Long looking forward to getting my hands on the manga (when I can afford it) and delving into the characters in more...

Talk about turning into an anime/manga character…he IS his anime/manga character! [sarcasm]…All flock to Jackson Hole in Tokyo and worship at the feet of Koichi Sato![/sarcasm] Well, maybe try a Jackson burger at least...

Well…never thought to look up a ‘formal’ definition...but there it is. Seems like a fair summation of what my finger was struggling to be put on – doesn’t sound so bad, so long as its taken in small doses – perhaps everyone could benefit from a little humorous and/or romantic...

Difficult to put you finger on what actually constitutes 'fluff ' – I'm sure it's out there somewhere, just waiting to ambush an unsuspecting shojo reader – maybe it already got me and I don’t realise it :shock: I was testing out my shojo-tolerance over on Ice Kunion (you should check...