Thinking about covering Please Save My Earth too? =)

It’s on my TBR pile, figuratively speaking. :) I’ve read the first couple volumes but haven’t bought more. That’s going to have to be a library borrowing since I can’t afford all those right now. :)

From Far Away finished around 2000 I think, but the others are very 80ies indeed. She hasn’t changed her style much for the newest series, but I’ve always liked it. Swan, on the other hand, as 70ies shoujo, is an acquired taste, which I have acquired ^^.

Chizumi & Fujiomi
Chotto Friday
Hoshi no Harmony
Miriam
Onnanoko Wa Yoyu
Otogi Moyou Ayanishiki

I know a lot of people don’t like the look of 80s shoujo, but I just love it.

Estara, I went to Borders last night and sampled From Far Away and immediately bought the first seven volumes. I was up until 3:00 am reading all of them, and am eagerly awaiting the opening of the store so I can go back and get the rest. Thank you so much for recommending this series. I love it!

Wohoo! And here I was just searching through my archives to entice you into the story even faster.

If you’d like some of her scanlations (those I have are a Western Romance and two school romances – very much 80ies style), drop me a line. Her heros and heroines do look alike but she has a very unique way with the side characters, comedy and drama and so far everything I’ve read has had a satisfying start, middle and end – which isn’t the norm in shoujo books, I find. I wish they’d license more. *sigh*

I hope they license her backlist as well, she has so many great short stories and small series!

Estara, I went to Borders last night and sampled From Far Away and immediately bought the first seven volumes. I was up until 3:00 am reading all of them, and am eagerly awaiting the opening of the store so I can go back and get the rest. Thank you so much for recommending this series. I love it!

I put in a vote for a review of From Far Away (it slipped through the shoujo stack gaps, I guess) by Kyoko Hikawa.

LOL, the shoujo stack is several feet tall and a few columns deep. At this point a Chevy pickup could slip through the gaps. ^__^; I’ll get through it someday. Really.

But would you believe I’ve not heard of From Far Away? I’ll pick up the first couple volumes. It sounds good. Thanks for the recommendation. :)

Do jump back into Basara. I don’t recall exactly where vol 15 is in the story arc, but the ending of the story is as full and rich as the rest. You just keep learning more about the characters to make them all understandable, even the worst.

I dropped out of Red River around vol 6-7 I think. IIRC the heroine was getting on my nerves. Does she grow any?

I started on Basara long, long time ago, got lost somewhere around vol. 15, and then well just gave up on it. Now the great series has reached its final destination, more or less, I might jump back to where I was before. (I might have to go back to the very beginning to appreciate the work to the fullest.)I am going to re-read Red River before I do that however.

P.S. Demon Ororon depressed the heck out of me too. The thing is that I had bought the ultimate collection Ororon for my tween daughter who immediately went ” why have you given me this manga to read, MOMMMM!What are you trying to tell me here?” Well, I still think it is a great work of art.

LOL, I’m not a Gundam fan either. I like SF, but not the robots. Although now that I think about it Samurai 7 and Gankutsuou had mecha too, and I liked them.

I think Funimation picked Ouran up and are supposed to start releasing this year. I hope they don’t screw it up. I’m looking forward to having the DVDs (I’m one who buys series she likes after seeing the fan versions). I think the animation in Saiunkoku is comparable to Ouran btw.

I like shounen too. This past weekend I caught up on my Naruto and Addicted to Curry, and read more Slam Dunk, and started Eyeshield 21, and read whatever I could find of Shion no Ou (though I think that may be seinen). But I love romance the best and read lots of BL to give me something lovely to dream about. ^__^ (I also read The Demon Ororon and it depressed the heck out of me, so I needed an influx of men in love. I overdosed on Youka Nitta. Yum.)