Lets begin with:

1000 Years of Snow

This is by the same author as Ouran Kokou (Hatori Bisco-or Bisco Hatori...) but it's more serious. It revolves around Chiyuki a 17 year old girl with a heart condition that acts like a 'time bomb' and could kill her at any moment. By chance she meets Touya, who is a vampire who refuses to drink human blood because, he says, that humans are disgusting. The whole blood drinking thing is different everywhere but here, when a vampire turns 18 he chooses a human partner to drink blood from, the two of them then live together, or not I dont know, for 1000 years. It's really good and has some really funny parts and some great side characters including a boy from Chiyuki's school named Satsuki and Touya's bat familiar, Yamimaru, who is awesome! Look for it here!! >> <<

Lovely Complex

This is a really cute manga by Aya Nakahara. The main character is Risa Koizumi who is really tall, by japanese standards anyway, and Atsushi Otani, who is short, by anyone's standards. They have a wierd hate-hate relationship, in that they're always arguing a la "Shut up Shrip" "You wanna say that again you titan?" style. They are actually kind of close and the students at their school actually think that they are dating, which they both deny. What else? Oh yeah, what happens when Risa actually develops a crush on Otani? Well, you'll just have to read to find out! It's so funny and has some really hilarious parts but at the same time pulls in a lot of teenage insecurities. Props to the scanlators! Click here!! >>< href="http://www.stoptazmo.com/">StopTazmo is the best place to look. I'll go see if they have a button. You have to join but it takes a second and it's free.

Special A

This is so great! I love it so much! It's by Minami Maki and is so so so good. The main character, Hikari is the daughter of a working class carpenter who attends an expensive school, basically for rich kids, for one reason, to defeat Kei, the only person in her life she's ever lost to, and it happened when she was 8 years old. Her school separates the students into classes A thru' F based on their grades. The seven best students in the school are entered into the Special A class, which gets it's own uniform and even it's own school building. Hikari is number two in the school so she's in this class along with Kei, who is number one. We also meet the other members of the special A class, and they're all insane mind you. It's so great. I cant recommend it enough! You can download it here >><<

Spiral

Anyway. This one is by Kyo Shirodaira. It's a mystery manga that centers around Ayumu Narumi, a high school freshman. He lives with his sister Madoka, who is a Detective for the police. His older brother, Kiyotaka, dissappeared leaving only the message that he was going to search for the Blade Children. Since then Ayumu and Madoka have been living together, trying to figure out what the Blade Children were. Things are shaken up one day when Ayumu is accused of pushing a girl off the 5th floor balcony at his school and it turns out that the murder is connected to the Blade Children. Did I mention that Ayumu and Kiyotaka are both piano geniuses and mentally brilliant too? Yeah. Ayumu helps Madoka solve the case and soon other cases pop up that connect to the Blade Children. Enter Hiyono Yuizaki, the president of the Newspaper Club and expert snoop. She finds herself drawn to Ayumu's genius and pulled into the mystery of teh Blade Children. I got this one at stoptazmo.com but the latest chapters are available at http://minna-scan.net/, they dont have a cute lil button tho...sorry!

okay, more manga reviews soon!

Labels: 1000 years of Snow, Lovely Complex, Manga, Special A, Spiral