My Little Sister Can't be this Cute

My little sister can’t be this cute, Ore no Imoto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai, Oreimo, by Tsukasa Fushimi is a manga, light novel and most recently an anime. It’s about a pretty young girl who is pretty much perfect, and her normal average joe brother. Kirino and Kyosuke have never had a good relationship but one day Kyosuke finds an anime DVD case in their living room, and an adult video inside! We later find out its his little sisters Kirino’s and when she finds our her brother has it she lets him in on a little secret, she’s a huge secret otaku. From that point on Kirino confides in her brother about her secret but also bosses him around as a form of affection.

Oreimo(for short, wiki) is a cute brother sister anime that I think most people could appreciate. Its pretty ironic that Kirino likes little sister adulated themed games but acts like she hates her older brother, you see her be a bitch and her brother deal with it to make her happy trying to be the best brother he can, I had a lot of fun watching this because it was just easy going and fun and really cute :} haha

Sadly that’s all there is to it, not really a plot or much of a concept but its cute
Grade=C+ purpose in life, but a B+ for entertainment!

Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun

Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun! or My neighbor monster-kun! by Robico This manga, now also an anime is quite awesome I'd say. This series is about Shizuku, a young woman who only cares about her studies and has no other interests whats so ever. One day she is asked by her teacher to deliver homework to another student who has been missing school. In doing so she is attacked by the student, Haru, because he thinks that Shizuku is going to drag him back to school but in reality could not care less. He mistakes her uncaring attitude for friendship. From then on, hes attached to her where they try to figure out if they love each other or not.

This series is awesome. Its a good mixture of Shojo, slice of life, and comedy. the perfect drops of each. Its a hilarious series!! Anyone with a sense of humor will enjoy this manga and anime, I know I did. Right it is my favorite easy. So go for it! an easy A straight up!

Genshiken

Genshiken, by shimoku kio, is a manga and anime based off a college otaku club in Japan. The main character, Sasahara, seems to be a shy boy unwilling to make his love for anime and manga( and some perverted games ect.) known to anyone but decided to join the otaku club at his school in hopes to make some new friends. Actually genshiken doesn’t really have a main character, it just starts off with this guy. It also doesn’t have much of a plot or story line, its just about following this group of otakus and their little otaku adventures haha but I sure enjoyed it, to get some of the jokes your going to have to be pretty knowledgeable of certain shows, mangas, and games, but its just a really fun manga, I want to watch the anime too but I haven’t gotten around to it.. Uh yea! If you’ve ever read ‘drama con’ (about otakus at a con: but american) you’ll like this too, the hardships and lives of the obsessed, what they go through, its mostly a comedy but it has little splats of romance here and there are just right, lots of cosplay too haha fun stuff :}

I’d say its worth reading, its known for a reason you know
Grade=B

Bakuman

Bakuman, written by Tsugumi Ohba and drawn by Takeshi Obata(Same duo for Death Note!) is a GREAT manga/anime about two boys, Takagi a brilliant writer(and person all around), and Mashiro a wonderful artist who collaborate starting in the 9th grade and decide to become Mangaka’s!(people who can live off of just doing manga)

Its’ pretty easy to explain haha with twists of romance, comedy, drama and its quite the ‘Slice-of-Life’ a really fun manga to read with some great characters and a lot of inspiration behind it. The story does a good job of expressing these guy’s passion to follow their dreams and stick it through. Also, its super fun in the fact like a sports manga it has a lot of knowledge to share! I’ve learned a lot about the manga process and how its all put together (names, manuscripts, blah) and also about Shonen Jump! If it was all true at least haha but like I said, its fun. So try it :}

I’ve also been watching the anime, Just came out this spring! And it follows the manga and I like it just as much haha

Grade=B+

FLCL

FLCL, Furi Kuri, Fooly Cooly, the original animation written by Yoji Enokido and manga written by Hajime Ueda is a science fiction series that has been known to be quite crazy and a little perverted. FLCL is about Naota, a boy who seems to live a boring life claiming “Nothing amazing ever happens here, everything is ordinary” talking about his home town of Mabase. Until one day when he is ran over by a mysterious woman, Haruko, on a Vespa and hitting him in the head with her Rickenbacker 4001 guitar then all hell breaks loose when strange things start happening to Naota, like robots emerging from his head and fighting him! Even worse, Haruko Haruhara who ran him over starts to live at his home and seems to favor Naota very much, fighting the robots that come from his head, and always getting closer to him. The first robot that comes from Naota’s head is defeated and kind of settles down, then being known as Canti, who also starts to hanging around Naota’s house doing odd jobs for the family and when trouble starts up he can turn into a weapon with the help of Naota can shoot bullets and provide to be quite useful. Sometimes. The series is focused on Haruko’s battle to find Atomisk, the Pirate King, who has the power to manifest entire galaxies, which is a power Haruko desires.

Can you tell its hard to explain such a concept weird anime? 

It is 6 episodes of excellence. This series was what got me addicted to anime/manga in the first place so my passion lies here haha but from what I’ve learned from all my research over the years and living on FLCL World Proboards when I was 13 was that FLCL was pretty much an experiment anime, a ‘just for kicks!’ but intended for adults. The production company(FLCL production committee, Gainax, Production I.G, and Starchild Records) had no clue it would ever become as big as it did. It was only 6 episodes for heavens sake! Haha but that’s the good thing about FLCL, you know that it was pure and made for enjoyment and not for money, it doesn’t have the movies and the ova’s and the millions of run-on episodes, its no money sucker, it’s a Fooly Cooly! 

Its fun, its silly, its has great character, every character you will get to know because its such a successful short series, your gonna have to watch it a few times, maybe even high once or twice to get the full effect, but most people who give it a try will enjoy it. PLUS it has great music! The Pillows are fantastic, the entire series has The Pillows music within it, man their great…
Grade=A+ :}

Mirai Nikki

Mirai Nikki, or Future Diary by Sakae Esuno, is a pretty interesting concept for a manga, its got the sense of a novel but you know, with pictures :} so it revolves around Yukiteru who would rather write down every little thing that goes on around him/to him in a cell phone diary then hang out or make any friends but besides not being interested in having any friends hes a pretty normal high school student. His cell phone diary’s name(imaginary friend) is Deus Ex Machina, yea hella complicated, but one day Deus asks Yukiteru if he’d like to play a survival game with eleven other players where the winner becomes the next Deus, who is kind of like God. In order to win all the players need to be eliminated or their phone needs to be destroyed, the last one standing wins! To make this all possible each player has some sort of phone(or communication device) in which the future is somehow told. With Yukiteru, his phone ’random diary’ tells him what will happen to him every minute or so; each players phone/diary tells a different type of future. When all the players are assembled by Deus he announces that player One, Yukiteru, is who he believes to be the strongest player, and from that point on he is the biggest threat and most targeted and in order for him to win the game he must team up with another player. Player two, Yuno, is a popular pretty girl who is in love with Yukiteru, she stalks him constantly and partners up with Yukiteru. Her phone is a ‘Yukiteru Diary’ telling her everything that happens to Yukiteru every few minutes, which is completely useless to just Yuno by herself but teaming up with Yukiteru and his ‘random make them a very unbeatable duo. Yuno is a fearless and clever character who would do anything to protect Yukiteru, while in the beginning hes a huge wimp that always needs to be saved by Yuno, as we get further into the series we see Yukiteru grows more courageous and starts to realize that his life is really on the line in this game and also that Yuno is all that she seems to be, with secrets leaking out ever crack she missed.

I’m sorry the summary is so long but with Mirai Nikki I just want to get it right, there are a lot of little details I had to sneak in there because the main points wouldn’t make sense without them!

This series is pretty interesting(I know I said that in the beginning too) and a little confusing, you have to make sure to keep up, it’s got the cover of a cute uncomplicated manga but its nothing like haha I’d say this is on of the cooler manga I’ve read, I haven’t stuck with it because I started it sometime last year and kinda stopped for a little bit and when I was craving it again OneManga.com had gone down(the manga part at least) and my current site doesn’t have as much as a variety as OM did, but I’ll hit it up again soon, reviewing it and reading about it again is really sparking my interest all over!


If your looking for a manga that is pretty much completely different than anything you’ve ever read with a good read along with it this is it, and it also has two side stories, Mirai Nikki: Mosaic, and more recently Paradox, where in Mosaic the story follows two other Diary Holders and helps fill in some plot holes in the main story line, while Paradox is a bit more confusing focusing on Aru, who is a non diary holder a classmate of the two main characters and a clever boy who has a likeing for Yukiteru obviously causing Yuno to hate him and Murumuru who is Deus Ex Machina’s second in command and both of their intentions on going to the alternate universe. I don’t want to spoil anything… so I cant exactly explain Paradox into full depth haha
Grade=B- (because its so darn confusing)

Hana Kimi

Hana Kimi, or Hanazakari no Kimitachi e is a shojo manga by Hisaya Nakajo. It centers around a girl from america named Mizuki and her love(fan girl love) for a high jumping track star named Sano; but when Mizuki finds out Sano has quit high jumping she decides to go to Japan, start attending his school, and talk him into high jumping again; the catch, he goes to an all boys school where Mizuki has to chop off her hair and live her life as a male to keep up her new persona and win over Sano’s heart, but not without dealing with a few haters, love triangles, and usual shojo/high school cliché’s.

I like the twist that hana kimi has to it, the fact that she is technically a boy in everyone’s eyes is pretty funny to me, and how another one of the male main characters, Shuichi, starts crushing on his guy(supposedly) friend Mizuki and he thinks he’s turning gay and goes through a bunch of teen life crisis’s! sucks buts its pretty cute. This shojo of course is cliché but it’s a lot more creative then other ones, and has a lot more ‘moves’ in it that most shojo’s haha

I’ve watched like the first three episodes of the hana kimi live action drama, but I kinda thought it was lame, the person who played mizuki was a real guy, AND he was a completely average joe guy, not cute at all. My girly side did not approve! Haha
But if I don’t count the drama cuz I just wasn’t feeling it the manga is pretty good(for a shojo).
Grade=B+