Manga Purchase: December 7th - 31st

• Dengeki Daisy Volume 3 -- Kurosaki Delight!  Love him!!!  5/5
• Kamisama Kiss Volume 1 -- The first chapter is pretty weak, but it gets better. 3/5
• Arisa Volume 1 -- This starts off pretty innocently as a story of twin sisters separated by divorce.  Then one day the rebellious sister goes to visit the good sister and spends a day at school in her shoes.  Things go off the tracks from there beginning with the good sister's attempted suicide.  This got surprising intriguing towards the end of the first volume.  4/5.  Note of caution:  The English licensing isn't stable and as if now only volume 2 out of a 6 total available volumes out now are scheduled to release in 2011. 
• Eensy Weensy Monster Volume 1 -- See my earlier review of this charming series. 5/5
• Gakuen Alice Volume 14
• VB Rose Volume 11 -- Flashbacks to when Yukari and Mitsuya first met that tease the edges of BL.  Part of me wishes it was something a little complicated like that...but...that's not the story.  Still, it feels a little like a cop out.  It looks like the translator and English adaptation writer were trying to use "hipper" language.  I think it was overall successful, though, a few phrases read a little weird.  4/5
• Skyblue Shore Volume 1 -- See my earlier review of this boring first volume. FAIL. (No link to purchase.  Save your money for something better.) I hope this series doesn't influence whether the author's other series "Orange Chocolate" gets licensed.
• Ghost Hunt Volume 11
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New Manga Purchases: Nov 10 - Dec 7, 2010

• Honey Hunt Volume 6
• Skip Beat Volume 22
• Ouran High School Host Club Volume 15
• The Gorgeous Life of Strawberry-chan
• The Super-Cool Life of Strawberry-chan
• Library Wars Volume 3
• Butterflies and Flowers Volume 5
• Your and My Secret Volumes 5, 6 and 7
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New Manga Purchases: Oct 23 - Nov 9, 2010

• Chobits Omnibus 1 (Clamp) -- 720-pages! Contains color pages! It's very nice!
• Chobits Omnibus 2 (Clamp) -- 688-pages! Contains color pages! It's very nice!
• Clover Omnibus (Clamp) -- 512-pages! Contains color pages! It's very nice!
• Cardcaptor Sakura Omnibus 1 (Clamp) -- 576-pages! Currently on sale for $13.49 on Amazon -- This omnibus contains Volumes 1 - 3, along with a lot of beautiful color pages.  It's big and high quality.  Most of the sound effects and dialog that is not in bubbles are left in Japanese with the English translation close by.  In a few cases no translation is provided which is a little frustrating.  Anyhow, if you've never read Cardcaptor Sakura, please do.  It really is delightful.  It reminds me of the many daydreams I had of being a magical girl when I was about 8 or 9-years old.  Oh, and the color pages are gorgeous! Some of them look like the artwork used for the introductory pages from its magazine serialization.  I highly recommend buying this if you are a Clamp fan or a fan of the series.  5/5
• Yours and My Secret Volumes 3 and 4 (Ai Morinaga)
• V. B. Rose Volume 10 (Banri Hidaka) -- Ageha goes shopping with Arisaka mom, Ran, and learns about Arisaka's sad childhood.  I wanted to slap Ran.  Anyhow, it's a good read.  3.5/5
• Apothecarius Argentum Volume 7 (Tomomi Yamashita) -- out of print, but you can still buy copies from used book sellers through Amazon.
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A note about the omnibus additions:  The Clamp omnibus editions from Darkhorse are wonderful!  They are high quality and contain color pages with lots of original artwork.  These are truly great printed manga experiences!  I hope to see more Omnibus editions of manga series in the future.Source URL: https://aminefairy.blogspot.com/search/label/purchases
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New Manga Purchases: Sept 23 - Oct 22, 2010

• Penguin Revolution Volume 7 -- A pleasant end to a pleasant series. 4/5
• Blood Alone Volume 4
• Apothecarius Argentum Volumes 5 -8 -- A great read! 5/5
• Maid Sama! Volume 6 -- still skipping pages to the good stuff. -- 3/5
  
• Dengeki Daisy Volume 2 -- What not to love about this series? 5/5
• Natsume's Book of Friends Volume 4
• Black Bird Volume 6 -- heheheheh
• Stepping on Roses Volume 3 -- guilty pleasure 3/5
• Honey Hunt Volumes 1 -5 -- As much as a guilty pleasure as "Hot Gimmick" 4/5
• The Lizard Prince Volume 1 -- I didn't finish this volume because it was too juvenile.  This would make a great starter manga for 8 - 11-years old crowd. 2.5/5
• Makami-sama Iu Toori Volume 1 (Japanese Language)
• Black Butler Volume 3 -- 5/5
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New Manga Purchases: September 2010

• Shinobi Life Volumes 1 - 5 (5/5) -- HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.  YOU MUST OWN THIS SERIES TO READ IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.  IT IS A DRUG!!!
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Apothecarius Agentum Volume 1 (5/5)
• Stepping on Roses Volume 2 (3/5)
• Alice in the Country of Hearts Volume 4 (3.5/5)
• Butterflies and Flowers Volume 4 (3/5)

If you are interested in purchasing any of these books, please consider purchasing them through the Omari's Sister Amazon Store.  The first 5 volumes of "Shinobi Life," "Alice in the Country of Hearts" Volume 4, and "Stepping on Roses" Volume 2 are all currently discounted!

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• Vampire Knight Volumes  1 - 8 (Volumes 5 - 7 Purchased!)
• The Wallflower Volumes, 1- 5, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, and 16 (Volumes 13 and 14 Purchased!)
• Rasetsu Volume 1
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New Manga Purchases: Week of August 15, 2010

• "Rasetsu" Vol. 1 -- This is a spin off of "Yurara."  In this series Yako from "Yurara" returns and starts working for a small exorcist company.  The company's main talent is an 18-year old woman who happens to strongly resemble Yurara.  The ghosts they exorcise are run-of-the-mill and the side characters are very one dimensional.  I can't recommend this series based on this first volume because there are much better series with similar themes.  These series include the original series "Yurara," "Her Majesty's Dog" by Mick Takeuchi, and "Ghost Hunt."  2/5
• "Afterschool Charisma" Vol. 1 -- I'm so sad about this one.  The premise is GREAT!  It's about a school filled with the clones of notable historic figures and one seemingly normal guy.  But then that premise is rammed down the reader's throat and then pounded into the reader's head with a jackhammer to make sure we understand these are clones of famous people.  I think a little subtlety would have been nice.  The quiet moments when Kamiya is with Freud and Hitler (of all the famous people to clone...) are quite nice.  The rest of it, though, is schlock.  I think it also would have been nice to get rid of the obvious villains and the glaring lack of ethics of those villains.  I guess I felt this series could have been a whole lot better if it stuck to the nature vs. nurture question and gone with it in that vain.  So what if Marie Curie wanted to play music and be in love with the school's founders son?  That could have been interesting. Oh!  The most excellent thing about this volume was the "All Mighty Dolly."  I wants one badly!!! It's soooo cute!!!  2.5/5  I really feel that this one is a matter of taste, so if the premise sounds good to you, you might want to check it out, especially if subtlety is not your cup of tea.
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New Manga Purchases: Week of August 1, 2010

• Vampire Knight, Volumes 5 - 8
• Skip Beat, Volume 21
• Otomen, Volume 7
• Black Bird, Volume 5
• Dengeki Daisy, Volume 1
• VB Rose, Volume 9
• Gakuen Alice, Volume 12
• Flower in a Storm, Volume 2
• Dengeki Daisy (Japanese language), Volume 6
• Chimua Port (Japanese language)
• Hana to Yume Issue 17
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New Manga Purchases: Week of July 4, 2010

• Mixed Vegetables, Volume 8
• Ouran High School Host Club, Volume 14
If you like Ouran, I recommend that you get this volume because the translation is closer to the actual Japanese and different in some parts than what's available in the scanlation.  This is especially true for the situation in which Haruhi is kidnapped.  This volume covers chapters 62 to 66.


• Natsume's Book of Friends, Volume 3
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New Manga Purchases: Week of June 27, 2010

• La Corda D'oro Volumes 11 and 12  -- 3/5 the story moves glacially and there's lots of filler extra stories (they aren't very interesting).  I do recommend this version over the scanlation for better image quality and smoother English.  It was interesting enough, though, to make me want to go back through the Lala magazines I have to catch up to the current chapter.  Perhaps I'll write up some chapter summaries.
• Two Flowers for the Dragon Volume 6
• Kaichou wa Maid-sama (Maid-sama!) Volume 5
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New Manga Purchase: Week of June 6, 2010

• "My Girlfriend is a Geek" -- 1/5
  
  
  Ugh..., this manga had a promising title, but then shot itself in the foot.  The running gag in this series is that the main character's girlfriend is into Shounen Ai manga and pushes her manga fantasies onto her boyfriend.  My brain simply screams out that no man with an ounce of self-respect would get wrangled into the situations the main character does and any sensible onnaotaku who wants to have a productive and mature relationship with a man knows to keep manga and anime SEPARATE from real life.   With that in mind, the whole situation seems forced for the purpose of being at the edge of titillation without actually being Shounen Ai.  Putting that aside, I have the sneaking suspicion the English version is heavily censored and watered down.  It read like something for a 13-year old as it tip-toed through the matters of being a Fujoshi.  I can't even pretend I understand the "Fujoshi" thing, but I get the feeling this manga series doesn't do this particular group of geeks justice.  Regardless, I couldn't get through the entire first volume.  1/5 for being LAME. Stay away from this steaming turd.  (Also, this version put out by Yen Press has typos...sigh...)
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New Manga Purchases: Week of May 2, 2010

• Otomen Volume 6
• Black Bird Volume 4
• Flower in a Storm Volume 1
• Trinity Blood Volume 12
Last Week:

• V. B. Rose Volume 8
• Za Hana to Yume ("The Hana to Yume") Issue 6/1/2010
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New Manga Purchases: Week of April 25th 2010

• Trinity Blood Volumes 10 and 11
• V.B. Rose Volume 8
• Betsuhana Issue 6/2010
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