Series Review: Kono S o, Mi yo! Look at this S (このSを、見よ [Kono S o, miyo])

What if you had a curse/blessing (depending on how you see it) that make the opposite sex crave for you? To men, a tempting offer but to women, a curse. This story tells the situation of an adult male having a birthmark on his bum that has the power to make women crave for him in a sexual way. The catch? The women must still have their period or else, it won't work. How does it get "turned off"? The woman just needs to have sex with the guy to avoid further sexual frustrations and wet panties. Still with me? Good! Let's review this!

Kono S o, Mi yo! Volume 1

The mangaka; Kitazaki Taku, has been published with multiple titles since the late 80s. I don't know much about the guy but from what I can see (which is barely scratching the surface), he's drawn a lot of ecchi stuff. I don't have anything special to say since I haven't read anything from him except for this title. I will read the stories "prequel" because this story is unique. I'll get to it. Just click that "READ MORE" and hope you'll be satisfied with this review.

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Warning! This title contains mature themes and nudity. 18+

Now-Reading 10: Sweet-Delinquent Girlfriend(ヤンデレ彼女[Yandere Kanojo])

This is what a shounen romance should feel like. A heart-warming story between a yankee; a delinquent, and an ordinary guy who fell in love after their first encounter with each other. It’s cheesy at times but it feels more shoujo than any shoujo I’ve read so far. It’s not filled with drama but is filled with happiness.

Yandere Kanojo Volume 1

When a gag manga gives you something bigger than gags and comedy, you know that you’re reading a jewel of a story. I will apologize for fangirling about this series because I’m falling in love head over heels with this series because it’s so light and lovely, it feels like I’ve found the one I want to be with. She doesn’t look outstanding, she might swear a bit here and there but overall she’s just a really nice girl. I met her when I was browsing a certain manga hosting site, looking for a gag manga and she looked like a fun manga to read. She describes herself modestly but she’s so amazing and unique, she should be licensed. As of now, I’m still enjoying her company but we’re going to go through a long distance relationship soon. I hate it but I have to endure.

The mangaka’s pen name is Shinobi which translates to ninja. Her works are mostly 4 koma gag manga and all share the same kind of art style. She is prolific in that she works on two versions of Yandere Kanojo; one for the magazine and one for online publication. Her other works are “Nekura Musume to Internet (Miss Depressing and the Internet)” and “Musuko no Yome (My Son’s Wife).”

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Weekly! UQ Holder 27 & 28: Touta vs. Nagumo (刀大vs.南雲 Touta vs. Nagumo) & Numbers, come! (ナンバーズ、来る Nanbāzu, kuru)

With Karin gone, who is going to defend Touta?! His answer to this situation is to run but he quickly becomes cornered by anti-magic military guys. Just when he was about to run out of hope, a familiar face shows up. Ms. Yukihime; a.k.a. Evangeline A.K. McDowell, shows up in front of Nagumo and the henchmen. Joining the fray, we are introduced to other UQ Holder members, beating their opponents as they do!

Weekly Shounen Magazine 16 & 17 2014

Previously on: UQ Holder 26: The fight between Touta and Kaito has ended. However, the immortal hunter; Nagumo, has been ordered to do overtime. He fights Karin and almost gets defeated until he uses his secret weapon. He teleports Karin to the moon.

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Weekly! UQ Holder 26: Karin's Crisis (夏凜の危機 Karin no kiki)

The fight between Touta and Kaito has ended. However, the immortal hunter; Nagumo, has been ordered to do overtime. He fights Karin and almost gets defeated until he uses his secret weapon. He teleports Karin to the moon. Whoa. Did I read that right? The moon?! How can that be possible?! The moon?! THE MOON?! Do you know how far the moon is?! I don't know the answer. That's why I'm asking you.






BTW, UQ Holder Volume 1 is out and I can't wait to pick it up! I'll go and visit the nearest bookstore and flip through some pages and see how it looks like! Happy face!

Weekly Shounen Magazine 15-2014

Previously on: UQ Holder 25: Touta suppresses the Magia Erebia, granting "Mercy" upon Kaito. In their final showdown, they arm wrestle. Both of them weakened, they fight with their sheer willpower and with only pure strength and heart, Touta beats Kaito and wrecks the building they were standing on.

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Weekly! UQ Holder 25

Touta suppresses the Magia Erebia, granting "Mercy" upon Kaito. In their final showdown, they arm wrestle. It's like that one filler episode in Naruto where the Raikage and the Hokage arm wrestle and the Raikage wins for is speed but it's turns around and the strong person wins this time. Who could that be? Also, there is a little teary moment in this chapter so don't be hating on it because of that.

Previously on: UQ Holder 24: Touta becomes totally consumed by Magia Erebia. Completely obliterating Kaito with sheer strength and battle intuition. Defeating and immobilized, Kaito is ready to die an honorable death in the hands of a worthy opponent.

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Monthly! Clockwork Planet 1: RyuZu Yourslave

This series began serializing way back in September 2013 and they only decided to translate it recently so I'll just put this on my list of series to review every month. As the title says, humans are living in a Clockwork Planet because Earth is finished and can no longer be habitable. Earth looks like Saturn now because it has a Gear-Ring around it and it has floating cities that are made from gears. It's like a clock. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that we have automatas in this story. Steampunk innards with human skin, these automatas would turn you into a Hideki loving her Persocom named Chi (reference: Chobits by Clamp).

The art is totally modern and shounen in a lot of ways. If you watched last year's anime titled "Unbreakable Machine-Doll" and liked it, this might appeal to you. If you like robot looking like humans that are totally loyal and will do anything for their master, then go ahead and read this. No, perv, not those kinds of orders.

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Weekly! UQ Holder 23 & 24

Battle! Touta and Kaito fight in this instant movement showdown! Touta is slower in instant movement but makes up for it with his battle senses. Kaito is a veteran fighter and faster. Ultimately ending in a draw, Kaito goes to super sonic speeds to beat Touta. However, some dark aura is emanating from Touta's body. What could it be?

 

Weekly Shonen Magazine Issues 12 & 13 2014

Previously on: UQ Holder 22: Badass Touta kicking Kaito-san's (Mr. Werewolf) butt! A romance developing? Kuroumaru carried like a princess while regenerating his lower body (d*ck not included. Yet.) Ms. Karin comes just in time for a team match up! An instant movement showdown is about to begin!

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Monthly! Amagi Brilliant Park 1

This is one of the new series I'm picking up and it's a monthly! The story is quite unique where it looks like it revolves around a theme park "Amagi Brilliant Park" (hence the title). The theme park was a built during the *bubble economy of Japan and it has been a mess after the burst. I'll get into more details but for now, all you need to know is that it's a theme park that looks run down. No "guests" and no people around to enjoy their time. What is going to happen?

Monthly Dragon Age March 2014 Issue 3

(I did my research!)

From the colored splash page for this series, it says that they need to get a lot of people to go to that run down theme park. The time limit given is about 2 weeks so for someone in high school in his third semester, that's a lot of things on his plate (it's third semester, finals come rolling in).

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Weekly! UQ Holder 22

Touta coming back from the fight, OP. Somehow Touta can read minds? He also figured out that Mr. Werewolf is actually Kaito. It's an instant movement showdown! Can this get any faster?!

I'm sorry that this is their cover for this week's Shonen Magazine. Also, since it's not serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump," I will not be using Viz Media's covers for their digital magazine.

Previously on: UQ Holder 21: Ruki doing his best to protect the village. Mr. Werewolf was about to kill him when suddenly Touta wakes up from his peaceful slumber with a new power up! Also, Kuroumaru tried to rescue Ruki but was only able to do an assist due to his current.... uhh... situation. Touta's arms are covered in dark stuff which looks like magic and even the blind swordsman says that it's some kind of magic; Magi Erebea (which is from Negima.)

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Weekly! UQ Holder 21

Badass Ruki, spinning Kuroumaru torso and an OP Touta! Ken Akamatsu does it again! Rejoice for more action and mystery!

Viz Media

Previously on: UQ Holder 20: Kuroumaru and Touta reunited albeit, immobilized by their enemies. We learn more about Ms. Karin's past. She defeats Chao XingZai after she transforms into her superior form. Meanwhile, Ruki halts Mr. Werewolf's attack and tries to defend both Kuroumaru and Touta.

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Review: The Wallflower Volume 1

1 mansion, 4 bishounen, 1 girl, 1 goal to "free rent." Four gorgeous teenage boy are tasked to do the (almost) impossible, to turn Sunako Nakahara; a macabre-loving girl, into a proper lady. Tomoyo Hayakawa really made something funny and beautiful with this title! Here you go, The Wallflower Volume 1!

You have just read the whole plot of the story. It's funny and it's definitely shoujo (hmm, just google "Free! Iwatobi Swim Club" so you have an idea), but guys, don't be discourage, there is still something for you here. Maybe a lesson about not calling girls ugly? Come, come, don't be shy!

Manga in the Mail: 23

Miwa Ueda, her work on Papillon (Hana to Chou = Flower and Butterfly) is just amazing. It was the first shoujo manga that I've ever fallen in love with. Now, I'm on the hunt for her work Peach Girl, both the original release by Tokyopop and the re-release by the same publisher (the only difference is that the first one was flipped [meaning that they were mirrored and read from left to right instead of right to left.])

 

Manga in the Mail: 22

This is a record breaking package. Yep. I thought 17 was the biggest, until this hulking package came this morning. 28 volumes of random manga. Yeah! I know! 28 volumes! Awesome isn't it? I'm so happy to see this package!

I'm hoping I can go beyond this number of volumes in one package. That would probably be far into the future. List of all volumes are inside, so come on down!

Weekly! UQ Holder 20

Hey! It's this week's UQ Holder fix! I'm not sure about it being this week's UQ Holder or last week. Feels like this was the chapter for last week. Whatever. Get on with it, right?

Viz Media

More fan-service for those who didn't have enough of Karin-san's bathroom scene with that uhh.. Chinese guy. Yay for more fan-service (BTW, without areola and nipples, girls look like mannequins. Seriously.

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Review: Toradora! Volume 1

Long awaited review? Really?! I can't believe you guys! Sorry for the wait though! Yeah, it's the manga adaptation of the light novels. Surprisingly, it's nearly the same as the anime adaptation!

Fun fact: The author thought about the title and tried putting the characters' personalities. Tiger and Dragon, the "tora" part is Japanese for tiger, the "dora" part is the shorthand for dragon in romaji (I know little about the Japanese language but I know that they have a "western" style syllabic system for "western" words.)

Weekly! UQ Holder 19

Sorry, I'm breaking the cycle, here's a Weekly! post instead! Enjoy!

More inner monologue from Kuroumaru. More conflicting thoughts about his friendship with Touta.

This is a full-on 2-in-1 battle between Kuroumaru and the bad guys. What's gonna happen with our gender-less main character?

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Weekly! UQ Holder 18

Here's the second chapter release of UQ Holder from some manga streaming website. Again, if you haven't checked out my wishlist post about this title, click here!

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How do you fight against immortals? Not easy huh? Also, must be hard to be friends with them, they don't age (in terms of looks) and they can't die while you are so vulnerable. Must be painful for the immortal huh?

Weekly! UQ Holder 17

Some manga streaming website just released two chapters of this title the same day they released Naruto so I'm going to post two separate posts instead of making one to make it more consumable. Longer posts tend to get boring at times (I know, I know) so I'll chop this into two bite sized posts. UQ Holder by Ken Akamatsu, if you haven't read my wishlist post on this, click here!

UQ Holder Volume 1 (Japanese)

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Review: What a Wonderful World Volume 1

I got this title recently (if you were reading my past Mail posts then you would know about this) and I've been conservatively pacing myself through this amazing title. This is truly a WONDERFUL manga!

If you read my Mail post about this, please, disregard that. I found a treasure. I hit the mother lode. This title is amazing. Listen to some The End of Evangelion soundtrack while reading this so you can feel the review more. Tearing up is allowed. The feels are intense.

Review: Battle Vixens Volume 1

Here's the review for the full-on fan service manga! That's all I need to say right? Wait. Do I need some kind of hook?

Warning! This volume contains mild nudity and explicit language!

It contains ~115 or so pages of actual content. The remaining ~50 pages was a story that happens in the same universe but outside the main story; a side story if you will. There's not much material to work on but I'll make it... somehow.