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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
        Just finished reading "Whispered Words" formerly known as   
   "Sasameki Koto" volume 1   
      
        This is either Yuri or shojo ai.  Either way it is fine stuff.   
        We have Murasami ace karate star aka "Violence" Murasame.   
        Kazama on whom Mururisame is fixated.   M. gave up karate   
   as K. did not think it was cute.  But they are best friends.   
        When M. gets too upset by K.'s antic she works out at the   
   dojo her family owns which estate is where she, her father and   
     brothers live.  And we have the standard events, back to home   
   town to visit graves, culture and sports festivals.   
        We have numerous cute girls on whom K. become fixated from   
   time to time.  One is a very cute German girl and young karate star.   
   One of the girls on whom she is fixated for a while is a boy in their   
   school.   
        A radical feminist rich girl who is very competent, thank you ,and her   
   girlfriend of whom the family does not approve due to class line violation.   
        Hilarity and minor heartbreaks ensue.   
      
        Now you anime fans can find "Sasameki Koto" anime, a season drawn from   
   the rather long but too short manga.   
      
        The anime is too short too but still 13 episodes are better than none.   
      
        The manga is by Takashi Ikeda published by One Peace Books out of NY   
   and printed in Canada.     
         I got my copy of the 1st volume from TSRI but I   
   am having trouble restraining myself from tearing out to the Nihon Machi   
   Kinokuniya manga shop and getting volume 2.   
      
      
        bliss   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)