Here's my most recent purchases:
- "Gakuen Alice" Volume 15 -- One of my favorite volumes and the best sports arc in any series I've read so far 5/5. I can't read the tiny font Tokyopop uses for the outside of bubble dialog, though.
- "Portrait of M&N" Volume 4 -- so cute, yet so strange 4/5 (Go Hijiri Ringo!)
- "Aion" Volume 1 -- Yuna Kasesaki's new series. It's no where near as good a "Karin" but it's an entertaining read. There seems to be some demographic confusion with this series. The situations and the language indicate high schoolers, but the characters are drawn like 'tweens. I found the disconnect disconcerting. 2.5/5
- "Mistress Fortune" -- I read the first chapter in Japanese back in 2008 and I wasn't impressed. I'm still not impressed and found myself rather upset that anybody thinks it's normal for a 14-year girl to have DD sized breast and weigh 84-lbs. That is mind poison! Also the fact that they drink a lot of sugar water to get their powers was upsetting. I got a few pages into the second chapter before I had to put it down. The drawing are beautiful and the book comes with a nice poster inside, however, I can't recommend this book for purchase and I think this book would be especially poisonous to any impressionable tween. Every other series by Arina Tenemura is MUCH better than this sinker. 1/5
- "Black Bird" Volume 7 -- Chocolate sauce chapter!!!! 5/5
- "Stepping on Roses" Volume 4 -- it's so bad that it's kinda good...2/5/5
- "Black Lagoon" Volume 1 (for Hubby)
- "Natsume's Book of Friends" Volume 5 -- so nice before bed...5/5
- "Gunslinger Girls" Omnibus 1
- "The Black Gate" Volume 1 - 3 Omnibus -- It's good, but it's not something I'd typically read. I'm slowly working through it as a "bathroom reader". I think folks who like slow developing shounen series will like this. 2.5/5
- "Arisa" Volumes 2 - 6 (Japanese Language)
- "Zettai Heiwa Daisakusen" Volume 4 (Japanese Language)
- "Ouran High School Host Club" Volume 17 (Japanese Language)
- "Nemurenu Kishi ni Hanataba wo" (Japanese Language)
