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   not much manga for me, pretty much spend most of my time on Harry Potter.   
      
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   Twin Spica #3-4   
      
   remember we are talking about the art on this one?  in the end of book   
   #3, Yaginuma did mention that he is not good at drawing character faces   
   but excell at everyday objects, the art does give you a warm and fuzzy   
   feeling like YKK, (soft and gentle.) but IMO his characters set up are   
   even better than his background drawing, because it has a story w/   
   "focus" and you tend to get involved more, instead of just being an   
   observor for YKK,   
      
   I don't know if the short stories in the back of each volume are real   
   story of the author or not, if it is then it is really sad and   
   melancholy, or he just has the heart and the sensitivity of a teenage   
   girl.  :)  for some reason it just remind me of Shinobu in UY movie #4   
   ^^;   
      
   should crack my top ten by the end of the year...   
      
   Detective School Q #19   
      
   the end is almost here, (or for the magazine serial, already finished.   
   probably in #21, 22?)  so they pretty much start fullfilling each of the   
   foreshadowing and explain the background history, and in reality, a   
   better story structure than K1 case book because of the story "focus" on   
   one central theme w/ one central antagonist (organization) which bind it   
   together, and because it did not drag on endlessly like Conan, (#50 and   
   counting!  that is a title I probably will drop and will only go back to   
   read the ending, hope I am still alive by then :)   
      
   Negima #10   
      
   the chapters which feature Yue, Setsuna, and the kissing Negi are   
   especially good.  Yue is becoming my favor one in the supporting   
   characters.   
      
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   Fruits Basket #17   
      
   I already read most of the internet spoiler about this one, so I wasn't   
   surprised or anything, (pretty much make the anime obsoleted?) the only   
   observation I can say, is the further the story progress, the more   
   disappointed I am getting,  not to mention the change of character   
   design made it quite ugly in comparsion to the earlier volumes, the   
   stock of this one IMO is dropping rather rapidly, which increase my   
   beliefs that not too many long shoujo are good shoujo, they simply don't   
   know how to do dragging arc as well as shonen do.   
      
   I probably will drop this one and stop reading it, it is not like I   
   can't guess the end, or more importantly, care about those characters,   
      
   Tenjoh Tenge #13, Air Gear #10   
      
   art is very nice, but the story is really....  well, what story?   
   bascially, you just got a skeleton hidden behind the nice looking   
   clothes (artworks) w/o any body on it, they don't make sense and have   
   holes the size of moon craters,   
      
   did I mention the art is nice?  ^^;   
      
   School Rumble #8-9   
      
   no comments. :)   
      
   Monaco no Sorae #21   
      
   the end of the "big fight", which last 2 volumes, and some bookkeeping   
   in the end, book #22, which is already out, is the end of "part 1", but   
   w/o a resolution to the romance, so this one has 40+ volume writting all   
   over it just like Nozomi Witch.   
      
   Suzuka #3   
      
   again, none of the story devices are anything new, but the art work are   
   consistent and nice, but more importantly, the characters are consistent   
   and nice, (no flakes.) I might start to semi follow this one like Pastel   
   and Kagetora.   
      
   Katsu! #15   
      
   in typical Adachi fashion, there has to be some final twists and turns   
   right before the end, rather forced I might added, because never once do   
   I believe the romance is not going to last just like near the end in   
   Touch, which is why while Touch is a better story, H2 is more   
   suspenseful,  what I heard on Adachi's latest Cross Game also mean that   
   he is reusing another one of his "infamous" old story device, again, got   
   to give him credit, he can get away with it,   
      
   PS, OT, Harry Potter and the HBP   
      
   I think the extremely painful to read #5 made this one much easier to   
   swallo.. er, follow, the shorter page counts and more compact storyline   
   make the "flow" much better, but then, just about anything is better   
   than #5, and really, #6 is incomplete because it is just half a story to   
   setup  #7,  so if #7 did not deliever, (or at least, deliever what I   
   expect it to deliver.) then I will be very disappointed on both 6 and 7.   
      
   but for now, for me, best volume is still #3, then 4, 6, 1, 2, 5.  in   
   that order.   
      
   most favor male, Lupin, female Luna, best character Snape, (only   
   character with any depth and complexity at all.)   
      
   fearless prediction for #7   
      
   Uneel naq Tvaal, Eba naq Urezvbar, Arivyyr naq Yhan, rgp,  cerggl zhpu   
   tvivat.   
   Uneel jvyy yvir, orpnhfr uvf tveysevaq vf Tvaal jub arrqf uvf erghea,   
   abg Yhan jub haqrefgnaq qrngu nf V unir ubcr.   
   Uneel, QNQN grnpure.   
   Eba, xrrcre sbe uvf snibe ceb grnz.   
   Urezvbar, Rys npgvivgvfg.   
   Crggvterj jvyy qvr gb gur nqinagntr bs gur tbbq fvqr gb shyysvyy bar bs   
   gur sberfunqbjvat.   
   Qenpb jvyy yvir orpnhfr ur jnf nyernql fnirq ol Qhzoyrqber naq Fancr.   
   Fancr jvyy qvr orpnhfr ur vf n TBBQ THL, naq ur jvyy qvr gb fnir Uneel.   
   (Qnegu Inqre nalbar?)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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