TITLE: Sakura no Mori no Sakura no Yami (“Darkness of Forrest of Cherry Blossom”)
AUTHOR: KIHARA, Toshiye (Toshie)
MY EVALUATION: B(Very Good)
Short but profound. Taste of delicate beauty of Noh plays.
STORY:
It was late 15th Century. Shuka was a leader of a small bandit group in Kyoto, capital of Japan in Muromachi era. Though he had been living a self-indulgent life since he was pushed [...]
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Sakura no Mori no Sakura no Yami
Posted in Historical (Japan), K-, SF/Fantasy, tagged kihara-toshiye, shojo on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shi to Kanojo to Boku
Posted in K-, SF/Fantasy, tagged 1990's, kawaguchi-madoka, shojo on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Title: Shi to Kanojo to Boku (Death, Her and Me)
Author: KAWAGUCHI Madoka
My Evaluation: C (Good)
A bit similar to Akaku Saku Koye and the movie Sixth Sense, the expression of the sorrow of leading characters is very good.
Story:
Matsumi was a young boy with very keen ears. He heard what people said to themselves, as well as the [...]
KOSAKA, Tomoko
Posted in Historical (Japan), Historical (other regions), K-, tagged kosaka-tomoko, manga, shojo on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I started reading Kosaka’s works very recently. Finished so far are “T.E. Rorensu (T.E. Lawrence)” and “Awo no Maharaja (Maharaja of the Blue Stone)”, as well as first volumes of “Hana-bana no Utagoye (Songs of Flowers)” and “Bengara Goshi no Iye (A House with Red Grilles)”, and all of them are real gems.
Although Kosaka established [...]
OBAKE TANGO (“Tango, My Dead Fiance”; or “Tango the Ghost”)
Posted in K-, SF/Fantasy, tagged kuramochi-fusako, manga, shojo on November 27, 2006 | 2 Comments »
AUTHOR: KURAMOCHI, Fusako. (Fusako Kuramochi)
WHY GOOD:
Kuramochi’s talent of minimalistic style shines in this short story of a highschool girl’s love. The tension of the last pages is superb.
STORY:
Ako has had two fiances in her life. The first was Tango, a boy just as mischievous and as homely-looking as Ako and her good playmate, but he [...]
Ankoru ga Sankai (Three Encores)
Posted in K-, Modern/Contemporary, tagged kuramochi-fusako, manga, shojo on July 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
AUTHOR: Kuramochi, Fusako
WHY GOOD (Kuramochi’s works at large):
Well, let me talk about the traits of this author’s works as a whole, before talking about the title above.
First, Kuramochi is a very aggressive artist in terms of the expression method of manga. Each of her stories deals with love of boys and girls, the ubiquitous theme [...]
Anjeriku (Angelique)
Posted in Historical (other regions), K-, tagged kihara-toshiye, manga, shojo on June 2, 2006 | 4 Comments »
AUTHOR: Kihara, Toshiye(Toshie)
WHY GOOD: This is an authentic good-old shojo manga — all the main characters are with big round eyes in which stars shine and surrounded by gorgeous lashes; the story takes place far out of the real life, such as in Louis XIV’s palace; and the heroine is loved by (a) handsome, rich, [...]
