Review & Suggestion

Share about animes / mangas that you think are good here.. You can also give some review about some series you have watched / read..

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Title: Shugo Chara!
Author: Peach-Pit
Type: both
Audience: K+
Good Points: Rare idea with magic girls genre just like CCS. Where else will you find "egg" that contain your dreams? The drawing is good too. There are a lot of good morals too.
Bad Points: I feel that the some parts of the love stories are not really suited for children (romance between elementary school girl and senior high school guy - kinda pedo for me -. and also unconditional love between siblings)
Personal Comments: This story sometimes tells me something that I didn't notice before. The first love story is also cute. It's kinda nostalgic for me who has already been in high school...


Title: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Author: CLAMP
Type: both
Audience: T+
Good Points: Plot twisting just like what you expected from CLAMP. Makes you can't stop waiting for the next chapter to see what will happen and why "something" is happened. And also CLAMP-ish beautiful artwork in shounen style.
Bad Points: Too many characters. You should know some of CLAMP's works. (especially Card Captor Sakura and XXX Holic). Not suited for kids since there are a lot of tragic story here.
Personal Comments: At first I didn't like this series since I believed it changed Sakura and Syaoran's image. But then, after a while, I started to think that these Sakura and Syaoran are really the different people for Sakura and Syaoran of CSS and they are just coincidentally have the same name (though there is no coincidence but fate - quoted from Ichihara Yuuko - ) So it's just like "this is this" and "that is that". -also quoted from Ichihara Yuuko-
The anime and manga are slightly different (especially the last episode of the anime in season two) The anime version of the story is lighter, probably because it was made for the younger audience. I suggest you watch the OVAs (Tokyo Revelation and Shuraiki) if you're a dark story lover like me..

Oh I'll give this a try~!

Title: B.O.D.Y.
Author: Mimori Ao
Type: manga
Audience: T
Good Points: It has a really intereting plot idea - Ryoko is in love with a boy, but it turns out he's a host! The artwork is really pretty, every character is gorgeous. And there's all these warm fluffy moments that make it a true shojo romance.
Bad Points: It does fall into many cliches of shojo romance, including exams, the fever, etc.
Personal Comments: This story is just so sweet~

Title: Monkey High
Author: Shouko Akira
Type: manga
Audience: T
Good Points: Another really cute shoujo love story! It never fails to make me laugh. It's also interesting how Haruna and Macharu are the same height, which isn't common in shojo.
Bad Points: It's not to different from other love stories.
Personal Comments: It's so cute! The cast is so funny to watch~

Title: Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
Author: Amano Akira
Type: both
Audience: T
Good Points: Contains a lot of creative and and unique ideas and plot. Where else would you find a mafia based anime mixed with some sci-fic and fantasy? The battles are awesomely done too.
The characters are also very unique and you'll be surprise as to how much they've matured throughout the series. Of course, their personalities and such are still the same, but they all learn something new and improve bit by bit on not just their fighting ablities, but how they work together as a Mafia family and on the way they veiw things as they overcome hardships.
The music is also good! Love the opening and endings and Hibari's creepy entrance music pwns! xD
Bad Points:The anime takes a bit too long for the main story line to start. This causes some people to drop the series before it gets to the good part. Also, the art is somewhat bad in the first few manga chapters, not to mention the characters looking a bit wierd in the first few episodes too, but it all improves big time later on.
Personal Comments: When I first started this series, I thought that it was really hilarious, but I was impatient for the fighting to start and even ended up skipping some episodes. However, the characters are what made me not loose hope of this seires maturing. I honestly just fell in love with the characters. Come on! Where else will you see a whimpy maifa boss known as Dame-Tsuna (no good-Tsuna) who matures over time and becomes gorgeous when in hyper-dying will mode(his fighting mode), a hot-headed bomber who is the self-proclaimed right hand man of the boss and a naive baseball idiot who thinks the mafia is all a game, but ends up maturing into a honorable swordman?
Also, the I like the part that they don't stick fillers in the middle of a fight or something. They only have fillers at the end of each arc. They are also pretty hilarious and fun too.
Overall, I just love this series more and more everytime I watch it and it just keeps getting better!