Koe no Katachi (A Silent Voice) - Oima Yoshitoki [Review]

Title: Koe no Katachi (A Silent Voice)  

Author: Oima Yoshitoki

Genre: Drama, school life, slice of life, romance

Publishing year: 2011

Volumes: 7

English edition

Price: $8 USD

Volumes: 7

Publisher: Kodansha Comics

Translator: Unknown (If you know, please tell me)

Year published: 2015

Rating:

★★★★★

Hello! I recently knew about this manga because of the animated film that was a success in the Japanese box office, I really want to watch it now that I finished reading the manga.

            Koe no Katachi tell us the story of Shoya, a kid that tries to defeat boredom every day,

Shouko introducing herself.

suddenly there is a transfer student in his class, Shouko Nishiyama, she is deaf. Everyone in the classroom starts to bully her, especially Shoya. They ignore her, write mean stuff to her, consider her a burden, and break her hearings aids. One day the principal confronts all the students because Shouko’s mom has complained to school about the missing hearing aids, and they are really expensive. In that moment everyone accuses Shoya as the responsible and the bully, and turn their backs on him. He starts getting bullied by his old friends and now he knows what Shouko felt, but he still hates her because he thinks everything was her fault. Shoya and Shouko have a fight and she is transferred, but he is still being bullied by his classmates. In middle school he is isolated because his ex-classmates told everyone he was a bully; even in high school he still has no friends. Shoya wants to kill himself, but before that he looks for Shouko to apologize to her for everything he did… both will start a journey of friendship and forgiveness, and Shoya will try to give her the things he took from her, to give her the type of school life and friendship she could have had in elementary school.

            Everything I described in the synopsis happens in the first chapter, so it´s not a spoiler at all. I really don’t know where to start with this manga, there are several interesting things in it and I liked it a lot.

Annarasumanara - Ha, Il-Kwon [Review]

Title: Annarasumanara

Author: Ha, Il-Kwon

Genre: Mystery, Drama, Romance, School life

Type: Manhwa, webcomic.

Publishing year: 2010
Rating:
★★★★★

Hello~ two weeks ago I finished reading this Manhwa, web comic, or whatever you want to call it, and I was really looking forward to write this review.

            Annarasumanara tells us the story of a girl named Yoon Ai, she is living some hardships, she

Yoon Ai in the amusement park.

lives alone with her little sister and they barely have something to eat every day, that’s why she wants to become an adult as soon as possible, to escape from poverty. In her school there is a rumor about an abandoned amusement park and a magician who lives there that can make someone disappear for good. One day she meets that magician who asks her: "Do you believe in magic?"

            I think that the synopsis is somewhat misleading of what this manhwa is about, I thought I would find an interesting romance/school life story with some mystery, nothing else, but what I found was a story that made me reflect a lot about my life.

Hirunaka no Ryuusei (Daytime Shooting Star) [Review]

Title: Hirunaka no Ryuusei (Daytime Shooting Star)

Author: Mika Yamamori

Genre: Shoujo, School life, drama.

Publishing year: 2003

Volumes: 18

Rating:

★★★✩✩

Hello, today I want to talk about this manga a friend of mine recommend me. This manga has got kind of popular lately, it will even have a live action movie (I don’t recall where I read that), but it’s still unlicensed in the US and it seems it is because it’s not that popular in Japan.

Suzume Yosano

            Hirunaka no Ryuusei tells us the story of a girl named Suzume Yosano, she has lived in the countryside until she’s forced to move to Tokyo to live with her uncle. The day she arrives at Tokyo she gets lost and meets a peculiar dark haired and stylish boy that helps her to get to her uncle’s house. When she starts school, it turns out that that boy is her new homeroom teacher. After a while, Suzume falls in love with her teacher, Satsuki Shishio, but things won’t be easy because of their forbidden relationship as teacher and student.

            To me the plot of teacher-student relationship seemed really interesting, I’m not familiar at all with shoujo manga when it isn’t a comedy too, and this one didn’t seem the typical story of high school students that fall in love, so I gave it a try.

Manga: Ouran High School Host Club - Bisco Hatori [Review]

Title: Ouran High School Host Club

Author: Bisco Hatori

Genre: Shoujo, School life, Comedy.

Publishing year: 2003

Volumes: 18

English Edition:

Price: $7 USD

Publisher: Viz Media

Translator: Unkown. (If you know, please tell me).

Publishing year: 2011

Rating:

★★★★★

I watched the anime adaptation of this manga long ago, but even though I know a lot of people who watched and liked it, they never made a second season, that’s why I decided to start reading the manga, I wanted to know how things ended.

            Ouran High School Host Club starts when a girl named Haruhi Fujioka enters as a scholarship

Haruhi dropping the vase. 

student at exclusive Ouran High School, on her first day she will find a mysterious “music room” that works as a host club. In the host club she meets six super rich and handsome boys who mistake her with a boy because of her looks… then she accidentally breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to the club. Haruhi will have to work as a host to pay back the vase… and that’s where everything starts, she will live interesting experiences as part of the host club, good and bad ones. The other members will have to protect Haruhi’s secret when they discover she is a girl, this to avoid anyone else of knowing and to keep letting her being part of the host club.

Seven Days - Tachibana Venio and Takarai Rihito [Review]

Title: Seven Days

Author: Tachibana Venio (Author), Takarai Rihito (Artist)

Genre: Shounen Ai, School life, Drama.

Publishing year: 2007

Volumes: 2

English Edition:

Price: Vol 1: $ 7.95 USD  Vol 2: $6.12 USD [Digital only]

Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing

Translator: Melissa Goldberg

Publishing year: 2011

Buy it: Vol 1. Vol 2  

Rating:

★★★★★

Hello~ today I review one of my favorite shounen ai mangas… well, it is my favorite one. I read a lot of yaoi and shounen ai manga (in case you don’t know they’re about boy x boy relationships), so you will see a lot of reviews of that genre in this blog. If you don’t like that genre, or are not comfortable with it, I recommend you not to read this review.

Shino Yuzuru.

            This story is about two high school boys, Shino Yuzuro, a third year student, and Seryou Touji, a first year student. One Monday morning, Shino asks Seryou to go out with him at the school entrance. He asked him out as a joke, Seryou is well known to go out seven days with the first person that asks him on Monday, it doesn’t matter the gender. Seryou becomes the perfect boyfriend those seven days and in the end he always breaks up with the person in Sunday. Shino doesn’t take their relationship seriously… but that may change.

Orange - Ichigo Takano [Review]

Title: Orange [オレンジ]

Author: Ichigo Takano

Genre: Shoujo, slice of life, school life, drama.

Original run: Mar 13, 2012 to Aug 25, 2015

Volumes: 5

English edition:

Price: 18.99 USD each Omnibus, there are only 2.

Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment

Translator: Unknown. (If someone knows, please tell me).

Year of publishing: 2016
Buy omnibus 1: Amazon

Rating:

★★★★★

The main characters: Kakeru and Naho.

This was one of those mangas I didn’t want to read. I’m not a fan of shoujo or slice of life genre, but recently I noticed this manga got popular and I read a lot of comments saying it had a sad story. That was enough to catch my eye. At first I wanted to watch the anime before reading the manga, but after noticing the manga was complete and had few chapters, I changed my mind. I had no idea what it was about, but reading it was a good decision.

            Orange tells us the story of Takamiya Naho, who, in the spring when she was 16, receives a strange, but detailed letter from herself, ten years in the future. At first she thinks the letter is a prank, but then the things written in the letter actually happen, including the new transfer student that sits next to her in class, Naruse Kakeru. In the letter, her 26-year-old self tells her 16-year-old self that her biggest regret is that Kakeru is no longer with them in the future, and asks her to watch him closely.