Anime/Manga Review: No. 6

 Manga Ongoing | 11 Episodes | 2011 | PG | 8/10

*drumroll* It's the first ever combined review! Yay!

First off, a quick summary. No. 6 (pronounced "number six") is a series that is about a boy named Shion who lives in a utopia where everything is perfect and, being one of the especially intelligent people, he is allowed to reap all of the benefits of living there - a large home, security, education, basically anything he could possibly ever need. Until, one day his whole life changes when a bleeding boy named Nezumi (meaning "rat" in Japanese - quite a motif throughout the series) comes into his room and tries to strangle him.

Suddenly, Shion and his mother are stripped of their life in the high class neighborhood of No. 6 and are moved down to where the normal people reside which, mind you, still isn't all that bad. Four years later, Shion runs into Nezumi again after the government attempts to take Shion. Now, he must live in the awful "West Block", waiting for whatever it is they need to do. 

Manga Review: Suki; A Like Story (すき。だからすき)

3 Volumes | 1999 | CLAMP | 10/10

The title literally translates to "I like you, that's why I like you".

This is my first time reviewing a manga so please forgive me.

Suki, simply put, is a manga about liking. Simply, honestly, innocently. Hinata Asahi is a sixteen-year-old girl with the maturity of a little child. She lives alone in a giant house, and one day, someone moves into the house next door that has been empty for years. It turns out that this man is also her new homeroom teacher - his name is Shiro Asou. He is tall, dark, and according to her classmates, handsome. 

As Hina gets to know him, she slowly falls in "like" with him until it fully blossoms into "love" as he "does all of her favorite things" like holding her hand and eating dinner with her. 

However, there is something sinister going on behind the scenes... who is this man, and why are their fates so intertwined? 

Wonderful Discoveries!

Hello there! I just stumbled across an awesome manga series yesterday and I just had to post about it!

It is called Mysterious Girlfriend X (or 謎の彼女X in Japanese). It has the strangest plot: Akira Tsubaki (17) and Mikoto Urabe (17) are joined together by a "bond of drool". What??? This happens because one day, Tsubaki tastes Urabe's drool after she has fallen asleep at school. He then develops a terrible cold that wont go away. Urabe shows up at his house and makes him taste her drool. He is automatically cured. Now, every day they must meet so that Tsubaki can have some of this drool, in order to not be sick. He starts liking her and asks her to be his girlfriend. 


Sounds like the weirdest and stupidest thing ever, right? Well, this manga is definitely unique. The art is very different (especially in the very beginning). Everything looks hand drawn and even the style is unique. I've never seen any art like it before. 


Anyways, I am not going to go into it too much because I don't want to ruin it for anyone, but if someone is looking for a fresh series to read, please check it out! I love it! I can't wait for the anime of it to come out in April! Ahhhh!!


You can find the scanlation here.


Please check it out and tell me what you think! I don't think everyone will like it as much as I did, but I certainly was glad I found it. 


Sincerely dedicated, 
Otaku R


(And okay, I will admit. It is a slightly ecchi manga. But innocently so! 7 volumes in and they haven't even kissed yet! Trust me, it's not that bad.)

First Impression: Death Note, Blood +, Faster Than a Kiss

Hello, so I thought I would stop by and give you my impressions of the few anime and the manga that I am currently into. Just a few brief summaries of each.

Death Note（デスノート）- 37 episodes | 2006 | PG-14 | 4/10

Currently Watching/Reading

So, like any other fan, I like to watch multiple anime at the same time... that doesn't sound right. I'm not sitting there with three computers simultaneously broadcasting three different animes. You get the picture.

Anyways, if any of you are interested I am posting a list of the anime that I am currently watching, (it will be located at the sidebar to the left ->) and so if any of you want me to do a review or first impression of one of the shows on the list, I will be more than happy to do so! Please just let me know by leaving a comment or contacting me. I obviously will be updating this as I finish shows and start others.