Wagahai Wa Yome de Aru

Volumes: 1 Complete

I was kinda confused when I read this scan. I thought this was a short series about a high school girl married to a writer but it's actually a series of oneshots. The high school girl story is one of four. The way that it was described with that one story only seemed like it was a series.

Anyway...

"I'm His Wife" Nako meets an author named Hii-kun at the bookstore, they start going out and then soon get married. It kinda bothers me that an adult would ask a high school girl to marry him. She wasn't wise beyond her years or anything like that, she was what you'd expect from a high school girl, a child. She even mentally says that she's missing out on stuff because she got married young. She gets interested in a high school classmate named Saigou-kun and goes out with him.

"Love Mates" Natsuki has been suffering from nightmares and she wants to roommate to keep her company. Turns out her roommate is a guy named Ootani. She's a little uncomfortable about this.

"Children Salad" Oda Akira is a man hoping to become a nursery school teacher. The problem is that kids are afraid of him, and he doesn't like kids very much either. There is a bright friendly high school girl who also works at the nursery. This author has something for older men/ high school girls.

"The Flower Language Of Lilac" Serina is a tomboy and class clown. She doesn't want to be identified as a girl. Nothing makes her more happy then to make others laugh. But Toyohara might get in her way by telling his own jokes.

All the stories are cute but really lack depth, which what a lot of oneshots suffer from. It's just more of oh I'm in love with this person for no reason kind of thing, except "Children Salad". I really liked the art. My favorite was the authors soft tones in "Love Mates".

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Volume 1

Fujoshi Kanojo

Volumes: 4 ongoing

Mutou sees a beautiful older girl girl named Ameya at a jewelry packaging shop, and he begins to work there part time to get to know her better. They eventually hook up and he confesses to her. She tells him "I'm a fujoshi, do you change your mind?" Motou doesn't know what a fujoshi is so he tells her that he doesn't care and wants to be with her. That's where the fun begins.

Fujoshi is basically a fangirl, who loves male/male homoerotic relationship (yaoi). Ameya takes an innocent shounen manga and forces Mutou to make it a BL (boys love) fanfiction. He of course hates it at first but later on he begins to really enjoy writing it.

There is a lot of fangirl vocabulary that I didn't know about.
Megane Danshi : A guy who gets hotter when he wears glasses. (Mutou)
Tuna Uke : A fish boy who is the submissive one in a male/male relationship.
I really feel for Mutou, half the time I don't know what his girlfriend is talking about.

The artist of this series is Shinba Rize who is known for yaoi manga. People who make yaoi manga make beautiful art, why is that? I love the expression of the characters, especially Ameya. The transitions are really well done too, reading this manga is like watching a show.

Download: Scans by J-SiS
Fujoshi Kanojo Volume 1
Fujoshi Kanojo Volume 2 Ch 5
Fujoshi Kanojo Volume 2 Ch 6
Fujoshi Kanojo Volume 2 Ch 7

Koko Ni Iru Yo! Volume 1-4

volumes: 5 Complete

Sumino is a very shy girl which no one seems to notice. She lets her voice be heard anonymously over the internet via a blog. Her only friends are Black Rabbit and MegaPIG who comment on her blog. Then the two popular guys take notice of her existence and it gets a little less interesting after that.

Even though Sumino starts out weak and pathetic, she does try to break out of her shell. And she does show more strength as the series goes on.

I find it rather annoying that the two guys Hinata and Teru seem to be fighting her affection, when I don't find a good enough reason to do so. If she's "plain" why would you be going for her. It's just not explained clearly. I was rolling my eyes throughout the latest scans.

The characters are made to look cute but at times they all look the same, just with slightly different hair styles. The screen tones seem to be overdone at times. Their profile view makes their heads look narrow.

Download: scans by nagareboshi

Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4 ch 13
Volume 4 ch 14
Volume 4 ch 15

Futari Ecchi For Ladies

Rating: Adults
Volumes: 2 Complete

Futair Ecchi for Ladies is for Katsu Aki. Futari Ecchi For Ladies is the most sexually explicit manga that I've ever read. This is the sequel to the original Futari Ecchi, known as Manga Sutra in the US but this time it's in the point of view of Mokoto's wife, Yura. Why didn't I read the first one instead? It's goes on for 41 volumes, that's too much sex for me to handle. I heard it gets really repetitive after the the third volume. I stuck with this 2 volume mini series.

You would think a manga involving a lot of graphic sex wouldn't have anything much to it, but it does. It brings up issues about infidelity, the importance of women sexually needs, talking to children about sex and so on. I loved that there were little pie charts and surveys of real Japanese women about their love/sex lives. It's very educational and eye-opening.

score: It's not completely scanlated but I'm going to give it a score anyway 4/5

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Volume 1 // mirror
Volume 2 // mirror

Bokura no Ibasho

rating:everyone
volume:oneshot complete

Bokura no Ibasho is a oneshot about the early beginnings of a band called WaT from Teppei Koike's point of view. The illustrator of this manga is NAKAHARA Aya who you might know as the mangaka of the popular Lovely Complex.

Teppei just moved to Tokyo and is part of a talent agency. He is overwhelmed by his new classmates who also work in show business and seem so far ahead of him. A boy named Wentz Eiji who also works at the same talent agency become roomies and discover that they both love music. They make a rash decision to play out in the streets but sadly no one pays attention to them. They work harder at their confidence and guitar skills. At a camp they make a original song about how they felt when they were singing on the streets "Boku no Kimochi". Time flies by and they are all of a sudden well known and have a lot of fans.

Here is a youtube video of WaT performing Boku no Kimochi and you can see Teppei is crying. I guess he remembers what he went through to get to where he is now.


The art is very nice. Manga Teppei looks like real Teppei, I'm not sure about Wentz though. The backgrounds are really well done.

I would guess that you would have to be a WaT fan to really enjoy this manga. I'm not a WaT fan at all but Teppei's story really touched me.

rating: 4/5

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