Latest reading list

There's a manga series I just finished reading, which is Negima!. This series was very interesting and fun to read, and it had me excited in suspense many times. The story is about a ten-year-old Welsh boy named, Negi Springfield. He was a wizard that graduated from the wizard academy, and was the first to graduate at a young age. He was also the son of the famous most powerful wizard who was known as the 'Thousand Master', Nagi Springfield, and the one who Negi admires the most as a role model. Negi was assigned by the academy to attend an all girls middle school as a teacher at Mahora Academy in Japan, and keep the fact that he's a wizard a secret from everyone who isn't involve in the magic world. On the day he begins teaching as homeroom for class 2-A (containing 31 students), he became very popular with the girls because of how cute he was. And so, the story continues with his life by improving his abilities, gaining new allies, and constantly avoiding the mob of fan girls. This was one of the most popular series by Ken Akamatsu, who also made Love Hina, and this series sequel (which I'm still reading) UQ Holder.

Recently read graphic novels

Recently I've been reading a manga, which I am totally enjoying called Seto no Hanayome (translation: My Bride is a Mermaid). The plot is very unique and the story line is very crazy and humorous. The story is about a typical middle school boy named Nagasumi Michishio that goes to summer vacation with his parents to visit his grandmother living at the Seto Inland Sea. One day at the beach, he started drowning and when he was about to pass out, he saw the figure of a mermaid and suddenly woke up at a rocky shore. That night, while he and his family were passing their time normally, they had a sudden visit from a pretty girl named Sun Seto (and who's face Nagasumi recognized that were the same as the mysterious mermaid that saved him) that out of the blues asks Nagasumi to marry her, saying to take responsibility to what happened during the afternoon (which causes a big misunderstanding with his parents). Then a group of three suspicious men appear telling the family to accompany them to their base, saying that their boss/the girl's father would like to meet them, which the parents concluded to the situation that the girl is the daughter of a yakuza (mafia) leader. When the men escorted the family (with exception of the grandmother that was left alone) to a cliff by the sea, they where thrown to the sea and the men (which suddenly had fish tails) started pulling them to their base. At the base, they meet the girls parents which explains the situation of that if a merfolk's true form is suddenly seen by a human, the merfolk has to be executed. But there was a exception to the rule, that if the human were to merry into the merfolk's family, there was no need to worry about their secret since he/she are part of the group. Nagasumi later decides to take responsibility after noticing all of the efforts Sun was putting and all the risk she has taken because of him. The father is the the type that's super overprotective of his daughter and is totally against their marriage and is constantly in pursuit of taking Nagasumi's life. Soon, Sun decided move to Nagasumi's house at Saitama to prepare herself for her new life with him. From then on, thing gets crazy with: Sun's family suddenly taking over the school's faculty so they can watch over Sun. The appearance of Sun's childhood friend and famous pop idol Lunar Edomae, which almost brought the school to the brink of destruction all because of her petty rivalry towards Sun, and many more craziness later on. Also, I want to point out that the merfolks and other seafolks can change their form depending on the moisture of their body: when they're dry, they'll have legs or take human form/shape at most; and when they get wet with water, they'll turn to their true form from legs retuning to fish tails or others to turn back to the sea creature of their race (like a sardine, makarel, tuna, octopus, conch, shark, and orca [btw, this list does represent for some of the characters of the series]). The series also has a anime adaptation which already has a English dubbed version.

Reading list

I've recently been reading a manga series called Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic. The story is based on a combination of the tales inside the 1001 Arabian Nights like Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp, Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves, The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, and etc. The story is about a young boy named Aladdin, a traveling boy who is trying to discover his past, and his companion Ugo, a jinn (jinn=genie) living in Aladdin's metal flute. During his travels, he met and befriended a boy named Alibaba, and a young girl named Morgiana, a former slave who was freed from her chains by the latter and a descendent of a hunting tribe with super human strength and abilities called the Fanalis. The three of them become close friends has many adventures together. I really am enjoying the series with all its humor, suspense, conflicts, and its very interesting contents of the events that happens in it. By the way, I recently found, while looking a movie to watch on my laptop, the movie Barefoot Gen with English dubbed. I just wanted to let you know about that last part of thin post.

My latest reading list

I recently finished reading some mangas which I really enjoyed. They were Medaka Box, an interesting story about a super talented girl named Medaka, that became the student council president after entering high school while she and her friends at the council try to keep the peace in the school from different enemies. The other one (which I decided to ranked it number one in my top ten favorite mangas) was Binbougami ga!, a super fun story about a girl with overwhelming good luck and a poverty god assigned to take her fortune energy, and both are always fighting or arguing. It has a lot of gags, slap sticks, and a lot of funny parody cameos from other series. Both have an anime adaptation that are already translated (Binbougami ga! title was re-written for the English version to Good Luck Girl!).

Maus

Maus was an interesting book(s). The story is set around the time of WW2 at Poland (like all WW2 stories and movies), but with the difference that all of the characters are personified as animals. In the story, it was made that the people from each country where designed as a different animal, like Poland are mice, Germany where cats and so on. I didn't enjoyed the second book very much, because of the tragedies that happened in the story. For some reason, when I was reading the book, I kept thinking of Anna Frank.

Blankets

Blankets was quite a serious serious story. At the beginning, I was having trouble understanding what was happening and telling apart the present with flashbacks, but I soon manage to keep up with the story. I found the story not very thrilling and was quite dark and suspenseful, but it wasn't at a level I couldn't read which helped at managing to read through it all. I liked the character designs, because the gestures and expressions where easy to read, helping me understand what they where feeling. The other thing that made keep reading the book was probably because I felt a little sympathy for the main character's situation (but not in a way that I would relate to him).

(P.S.- I couldn't find the other book, A Contract with God, in the library.)

Little Nemo

This post is about the book of Little Nemo. At the beginning, I had trouble understanding what was happening in the stories, but after a while I started understanding. I notice that all of the stories ended with a panel of someone in bed, telling us that almost everything that's happening to Nemo were all dreams. I found it to be good, but the stories didn't interested me.