Manga Reviews~

Soooo, this idea came to me this morning, and I thought that it'll be quite interesting to do~ I'll be posting manga reviews occasionally (probably every two to three weeks)from this entry onwards~ :D

First up: Katekyo Hitman Reborn!


Chinese name: 家庭教师REBORN!

Basic Summary:
One fine day, Sawada Tsunayoshi(or just Tsuna)'s mother decided that he needs a home tutor to help with his work, and thus, hired one.

However, he didn't expect to have an assasin as a tutor. What shocked him more was that this assasin-tutor was barely one-year old.

The little assasin, named Reborn, was hired by the 9th head of the infamous Vongola mafia family to train and prepare Tsuna for his role as the 10th Vongola boss. Apparantly, the 9th boss was Tsuna's grandfather.

Poor Tsuna had no choice, actually, no matter how unwilling he was. Thus, Tsuna's long and dangerous road to being a mafia boss begins...

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Another focus point of the story is the weapon of choice used by Tsuna(though unwillingly most of the time). It's call the 'Dying Will Flame', that appears after a person is being shot by the 'Dying Will Bullet'. Basically, if the person had any regrets when he was shot, the Dying Will Flame will appear on his forehead and he'll come back to life with MUCH GUSTO to fulfill his wish. After doing so, he'll return back to normal. However, if that person doesn't have a regret, he'll just die after receiving the shot.

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Is it Good?
Well, to be honest, I wasn't very sure about it at first. I've tried reading it a loong time ago (downloaded the first chapter and such), and I didn't like it. ^^;; Apparantly, the front volumes (from vol 1 to vol 7)are full of random stuff/crack/jokes/plain silliness, and I think the main purpose is to introduce all the characters(including characters that will be important later on in the story...). At the beginning, Tsuna was a SUPER WIMPY fellow that I kinda dislike him...^^;;

In the end, I skimmed through the first 7 books and reached the 8th volume...in which the REAL plot starts, and much serious fighting ensues. And from there, I give the manga at least 8 marks for the excitment~

What about the art?
As you can see from the picture above, it's the kind of art that I like~ XD Reborn! is a shonen manga that's drawn by a female artist, thus you'll get lots of lean and handsome guys, some pretty girls, and some odd ones to show that the artist CAN draw.

Final words
I'll really reccomand it to anyone who likes a unique story~ I like the mafia gist of it as well as the element of something like magic/chakra amongst the real-life weapons. On the other hand, DON'T WATCH THE ANIME. :x the anime doesn't do the manga justice at all. *huffs*

MARKS: I'll give it 8/10~ (really wanna give 9/10, but I have to keep in mind how I had crawl through the first 7 volumes to get to the exciting parts...)

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p.s: READ IT!

Various stuff~

Am goin to queue for the last installment of the Harry Potter series later on~ Honestly though, I'm not all hyped up about it as I did in the past...=_=; I think I kinda lost the passion for HP after OoP...in fact, I've only read Half Blood Prince ONCE, and that's it.

Still, since it's the last book, it'll be the last chance to queue up for it, thus I'm not missing it. After all, Harry Potter did bring much entertainment to me in the past, especially the first three books, which are more light hearted and funny.

I've read some spoilers online already, though I'm not sure if they are real or not. It's stated that it's 100% accurate though, cause the poster even put up photos of the book pages and stuff (though I didn't manage to see any photos ._.).

(which means that after posting this, I'm goin to sleep. XD;;)

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I finished the game logo, but Cash is like ':/ it still needs more work.' *sighs* I'm so damn pathetic and useless. *headdesk*

I'm soooo getting a frigging D for my attachment. *depressed*

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Damn tired today actually, cause I stayed up till 2am to send the AIMF vid to Chin Teck. =__= That woman owned me a favour now~ >D

Kept myself awake in the office by reading lots of manga scans; mainly 'Princess Princess' and 'Reborn!'.

Started Reborn only yesterday, actually. Haven't find a favourite character yet though (Lambo is damn hilarious while Hibari is quite handsome in a sense. Tsuna is too wimpy for my taste though. I hope that when he gets stronger and more sensible in the future, he'll be cooler~)

It turned out to be quite interesting...despite my initial doubts about it (I've read chapter 1 a few months before and didn't like it, cause it was really retarded and Tsuna is so pathetic that it's almost painful to read on)though I think the first few parts were there to introduce the characters. It didn't really touch much on the plot, which involves turning Tsuna into the Vongola Boss. After spoiling myself from wikipedia, it's revealed that the story will get more interesting down the road~ :D I'm at volume 3 now...and there are at least 12 volumes...sooooo yeah, still got a looong way to go. XD;;

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I'm confirming doing Hosokawa Gracia for EOY~ Oichi was apparantly taken up, and even though acktosh says he doesn't mind duplicates, I mind.

Went to read up on her in Wikipedia and realised that she's the daughter of another character in the game~ LOL

Her costumer doesn't have any armor, which is a good thing, but she has alot of small details like decorative knots, fabric patterns and accessories that are quite....challenging. I'm going to start searching and buying materials this weekend though...>_>

Am also planning to sell stuff for EOY...though that's not very confirmed, since I've no idea if the booking of the booths is the same as last time... ._. I'll be doing Reborn! and Shippuden bookmarks~ and maybe I'll pull out my old D.Gray Man bookmarks to sell as well.

Means that I have to start work on them now if I want to survive school term. x___X;;

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By the end of this year, I'll be juggling cosplay, my personal fanart stuff, CO and school together...x__X Wish me luck! There'll be many songs for CO, and I have a bad feeling that I might have to play the difficult parts.......and there's school with the portfolio module and minor projects +__+;; (website! *dies*)...and high standard cosplay for gracia, cause my group are made of perfectionists.

X__x Feels like IMPENDING DOOM already. Urgh. I do hope I can survive this year to graduate next year.................. @__@:;

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...My colleague actually wore Sasuke's costume to work today.

..............Sasuke, as in, UCHIHA SASUKE from NARUTO.

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I reckon that he got his costume online (those ready made costumes)...and it looks horrid.

*headdesk*

Did I mention that this colleague is a Sasuke fanboy? !_!;; He's totally obsessed with Sasuke (and SasuSaku).

............my poor eyes >.>

OKAY~ finally got a tagboard running thanks to Damien's help~ :D I'll just have to search for a nice blog skin and I'm done~

x_x it rained in the morning, so I was caught in the rain when I got to Tanjong Pagar. :x Luckily, I brought my hooded jacket, so I didn't get really wet or anything. My pants front was nearly drenched though, so I spent around 15 mins standing in front of the fan in my office, and ended up having to cope with COLD and DAMP pants for the rest of the morning...

Conclusion: Rain water makes your clothes smell if not dried properly. =__+;;

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Asked about my salary and they kinda...forget that I start work on 28 May and not 28 June. =___+;; So yeah. Informed the admin person about it already (amy; she's a really nice person :D) and she said she'll transfer money into my account...

.....>.< I'm finally getting my pay~!

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Been slacking at my work these days AGAIN...though I have to buck up soon cause I have to finish the damn logos by this week. x__X;; Ganbarimasu!

Had been watching Hana Kimi(japanese version), and it's really different from the taiwan version's. Taiwan's had more.........funny moments, I guess. Both are good, and since the japanese version is still at the beginning (ep 2), I'll wait awhile before saying which one is better.

Watched Eternal Summer as well......annnnnd.........it's not as sad as I thought it'll be (though I felt kinda sad for Shane when Jonathan told him about the teacher's order). The smex scene isn't much but there's lots of emotions there, so I'll give it thumbs up for that.

Had been reading Claymore and Princess Princess's manga as well, and the sad thing is that I can only read it at work cause my lappy likes to lag these days. x___X;; Damn, need to start burning out things again.

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Was also looking around at the cosfest photos...and well, I had to say that the standard has increased, compared to last year's...though there are still MANY horrid ones. =__=;;

I'm around 80% sure that I'll do Oichi from Samurai Warriors 2 for EOY...neesan said 'if you want to do, you have to guarantee that your costume will be done by EOY, cause EVERYONE's going to debut there'. XD;;

On the other hand, I wanna do Nabari no Ou as well!! >_>! Will have to do it next year though...x_x I need to find people. Urgh.

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Feeling sleepy now....*__*

First Post(again)

...Okay, so I decided today that it's been a while since I've updated my blog (though my livejournal remained very active as ever). Logged in and realised that my old blog has disappeared (or maybe, I've used the wrong account D:).

In anycase, here's my new blog, named 'Rabbit's Corner' cause I can't think of a better name right now. Will change it in the future if I ever get an inspiration for a better name.

I'll try and update this as often as I can, though I won't guarentee anything...if I manage to get the hang of updating in this blog, I'll probably update more often...still, my livejournal will be my main journal.

So yeah, I'll have to go and research on how to change blog skins and stuff........again. --.--

p.s: how do I put in a tagboard? D: *blogger-idiot* That's probably why I never liked using blogger, and used livejournal instead...

p.p.s: Let's hope that my next post won't be months later.....:x