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So basic premise is a princess - Yona - on her 16th birthday witnesses her cousin/childhood friend/crush - Soo-Won - kill her father/the king and so runs away into the night with her other childhood friend and loyal bodyguard - Hak. From there she decides what to do and chooses to seek out the legendary four dragons and also picks up a genius pretty boy along the way to ensuing adventures!

Now imma tell ya’ll right now that this is my absolute favourite manga out there and even the anime isn’t half-bad and is a good way to jump into the manga. There’s adventure and ... mystical/fantasy/magic elements that get introduced piece by piece in a way that you can’t know how it’ll all work together. Mizuho Kusanagi is quite masterful in how she has constructed this story, built up this world and the mythology surrounding it, but still manages to make things flow, even after several years of serialisation. Often stories can get lost through time.

It’s also supposed to be shoujo, but it really doesn't read like a typical shoujo books. That said, the romance element of the series has been one of the most well constructed build-ups I've read in a series. There's no rush, and the relationship is one of mutual trust and appreciation, but also utter dumbassery because both main leads are idiot fools in love. Like only the best love stories are...

The mangaka is so clever in how she develops characters and treats basically every main “villain” or “antagonist” as grey because there’s always a backstory. Particularly the main antagonist - Soo-Won. And also the way she develops the relationships between the main cast - the Happy Hungry Bunch (inside joke) - is a gradual building of trust and love through various sweet and VERY PAINFUL storylines, while making it witty, charming and exciting to behold. I could go on but this is just an amazing series and Kusanagi-sensei knows how to rile up a crowd.

Really good, definitely give it a read. At this time, it's ongoing and a really good point in the story (ch 191-ish??) to binge-up to, so we can all experience the wild ride!

A high school fujoshi - Serinuma Kae - is hit with a tragedy in her favourite anime, and so loses a lot of weight and become super hot, thus attracting the attention of four guys and one girl.

Verrrry shallow premise... but the first half of the story is actually pretty compelling, if very fatphobic.. Kae is someone who just does not give a flying DAMN about her weight, and is out here living her best life loving anime and watching BL, and I'm all for it. She's living the life I wanna live.

Then she approached by these people who are suddenly super into her because ... she dropped a whole lotta weight and is suddenly super attractive.. not the rep we were hoping for when it came to bigger women.. That said, I really liked up to the point before she chose who she actually liked of the five (she chose the one I shipped her with so victory to me).

The mangaka took care to show that while initially their reasons were shallow (well 3/5 of them anyway), each of them fell in love with Kae for her character, and found her interesting as a person, and not just as a pretty face.. and also while not understanding her otaku/fujoshi hobbies, still tried their best to support her (even if it resulted in her imagining them in various BL situations) and accept her, though it can be argued in the beginning was them trying to win her favour...

You get very frustrated with Kae right after she chooses who she chooses (or at least I did) but she kinda comes back from it…mainly because the person she chose is super cute and sweet about everything (again I'm biased bc it was my ship).

That's really the best part of the story..the fact that all these characters who would have otherwise NEVER hung out together, are united in their feelings for Kae, but themselves become really good friends. When Kae finally makes her choice, the SUPPORT! Even after getting rejected, they all took it so well, and I loved that whole scene. Even by the end of the story, they were all still good friends, even if they'd gone their separate ways, and showed up when it was important.

So yeah character relationships were great even if the story and the depth of the characters were relatively average.

I really enjoyed reading this one... it starts off a little slow, but you get really hooked as the world gets more complex, and the relationships develop...

The romance between Kureha and Ukyou was subtle but exponential, and I do appreciate a soft love developing between a fight-y couple... and the dynamic between the mains is pretty complex, even if the overall story got a little confused at times...

Definitely a love story with not love-triangles… no no. Love chains. Rings upon rings of people who like people who no longer like people who actually never liked people who are in love with other people. But the ... writing is great, the characters - Kureha’s main besties: Ukyou, ChouChou and Chigaya - are funny, and have a lot of great development throughout the series and being in an AU with beasts and various kingdoms (since they’re the various princes and princesses of their respective beast kingdoms), there’s a lot of interesting plot lines that get explored.

The ending... look I'm not saying it was bad... I'm just salty and demand a do-over..

Life Senjou no Bokura” by Tokokura Miya…slice of life/romance/yaoi, only like 5 chapters long, some sexual content dotted here and there but otherwise…

PURE AF

I cannot stress enough the gentleness of this story…it’s short, sweet, takes you LITERALLY ACROSS THE ENTIRE LIFETIME OF THE TWO MCs (Akira and Yuuki) and I was lowkey tearing up at the end…basic premise is two high schoolers meet while playing the line game (imagining you’re on a tightrope or whatever and either side is a huge drop with spikes at the bottom or you’re crossing a shark infested ocean - the two scenarios they use in the story actually) and ... obviously when y’all meet on the same line, it becomes a stand off on how to get around each other without falling, but they do this cute hand-holdy spinny thing and go on their merry way… this happens several times, they fall in love, and then their life continues on with this recurring theme…



One exceptionally frustrating moment in their late 20s notwithstanding, this is just a delightful story of first and lasting love blossoming over the years and the ending gets at ya I swear…I personally feel the length was probably just right, though maybe one particular moment seemed a bit rushed so maybe could have a little bit more on that but what can you do…

MILD SPOILERS ABOUT THE ENDING (it's me ranting, sorry, not very well constructed review, it's one of my mine from a different site)

I watched Kimi no Na wa back when it came out… and I finally rewatched it again earlier this year… and the ending still messes me up…
Cinematically, narratively, symbolically, perfect way to end this film… but my emotions don’t know that!!!

The raw, incessant need for MORE… I don’t think any other piece of media ever left me so wanting like Your Name, and it has not changed in three years…

Anyway yeah still such a goddamn amazing movie, amazing visuals, solid story, freaking beautiful ... love story… the tension, the pacing, all so fantastic… Watching the scene, where they finally knowingly meet, for the second time, I got so anxious bc I love that scene but I did not want it to end, and THE CUT THE CUT IS SO DAMN COLD AND CRUEL AND YOU JUST WATCH THE PEN SUDDENLY FALL TO THE GROUND THE DIRECTING CHOICE WAS BRILLIANT BUT IT STABBED ME RIGHT IN THE HEART!!!

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But that friggen ending… I have and will continue to have a love-hate relationship with the ending of this film until Shinkai Makoto decides he’ll do a friggen OVA or something just to see Mitsuha and Taki finally having a face to face, sit down conversation about everything that happened and who they are now WITHOUT the threat of an impending meteor, or the time constraints of twilight, or the threat of losing their memories of each other… IN THEIR OWN DAMN BODIES!!!

Anyway rant over. I’ll just stew in my 2016 feels trip because Kimi no Na wa can do that to ya…