Switch Girl

Name:	Switch Girl
Alternate Name:	Switch Girl!!
Year of Release:	2007
Status:	Ongoing
Author:	Aida, Natsumi (Story)
Artist:
Reading Direction:	Right to Left
Genre:	Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life

Reccomended: yes!
Chapters: ch 34  ongoing as of 9/11/2011

Summary:
TAMIYA Nika is a beautiful, outgoing, popular high school girl. She has just the right look, just the right fashions, and is everyone’s friend. What everyone at school does not know is how hard Nika works to keep up this perfect image, and what she is REALLY like at home. When not at school, Nika is a scary, sloppy, tight-fisted girl who wears glasses, an ugly sweatsuit, and has her hair pulled back into unattractive buns. She lays around playing video games and reading manga. Her attitude is bossy and cranky, and she travels far out of her way to shop where she won’t be recognized. (and then someone recongizes her! a handsome guy whos got an off swicth as well. i shorten it. so scroll down to the bottom of the page to see rest

Review:
overall: 7.8/10 premise 9/10 follow through 10.5/10 ending: ongoing so yet to be determined
now this is sort of a shojo written  by a tom boy.... No a shojo thats more of a sienen or shoenen. Anyway this manga is really hilarious! I can see myself as her sooommmee times. Its very clever and original too. But it is still a shojo, just a more crude sense of humor that is really funny. but the humor can get alittle gross at times. I really do feel like the first 30 chapters were more seien or whatever  and they shojo side came back after. This manga is defaintly relatable to girls though. i think a guy would enjoy it. I find this manga refreshing because the main girl is'nt weak,she's silly and outrageous.
why a 7.8?
i look at the review and think its a little but thats only cause i really enjoy it. it's a 7.8 because there really isn't that much plot but its really not boring! its fun to read but not compeling. its hilarious and good for a shojo but not FREAKIN AMAZING.

RED RIVER / Anatolia Story

other names: Anatolia Story, Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori

Categories:	adventure, drama, fantasy, historical, mature, romance, shoujo, supernatural
Author:	Chie Shinohara
Artist:	Chie Shinohara
Original Publisher:	Shogakukan
US Publisher:	Viz Media
Start Date:	1995
Chapters:	Complete - 28 Volumes, 97 chapters?(theres more though)

  Reccomend: yes!!!!!
RATING:
overall: 9/10 premise 10/10 follow through 10.5/10 ending: 10/10
Summary:
Yuuri, a modern day teenager who just has gotten her first kiss, is suddenly whisked away to ancient Anatolia where an evil queen wants her for a blood sacrifice. Luckily, the timely intervention of Prince Kail saves Yuuri from the queen's grasp. For now. Kail promises to send Yuuri back to her home, but the queen's persistent schemes to kill them both, plus their growing interest in each other, keep those plans delayed

Review: 9/10 a fav <3 <3  <3 and its got epilogues!
Lemme just say one thing about this story. WOW. God its good. I mean its also about as historically accurate as a fictional story can get. And yes some is out of the rulers of egypt are out of order but man... i used this infromation in my egyptology cause and the teacher was impressed with my knowledge. Also another thing man does she get kidnapped. But i guess if your in an era when slave trade is super common then whatever but jeez. Its hilarious, the number of kidnappings and the manga itself. But getting back to the story, its a wonderful story full of twists and turns that you are able to keep up with. There is drama there, but not too much drama. Not the bad drama where the man couple splits up and gets together and repeats the process. In this manga you don't get the bad highschool drama. These characters she comes up with are full of princely characteristics and flaws. You get mad at the character you love but not because he/she is acting out of their character but because that is who the character is. And the way Shinohara is able to make the villian you hate to death, actually get a little pitty from you is amazing. She is able to turn the evil queen into a 3 dimensional character that seems real. This manga at times though.... it is defiantly a little strange, so just roll with it. It is the most unique you'll ever read i think. And be careful don't get to attached to some characters... You'll see what i mean. I want to someday, when i have the money, buy the last of the volumes of the series.

kiss/hug

Genre/Categories:drama, romance, school life, shoujo
Author:Mitsuki Kako
Artist:Mitsuki Kako
Original Publisher:Shogakukan
Start date: 2007
Chapters: 14 chapters complete
Would I reccomend?: yes!!
Reviewed:dec 2011
rating
overall: 8.8/10 premise 8/10 follow through 9/10 ending: 8/10
Summary

Ryuu, a super-business-like transfer student from England with black hair and blue eyes just arrived! During the night of the Tanabata festival, Ryuu and Yukino became attracted to each other at first sight. He then declares, "You will be mine!" This brought confusion to Yukino, who has zero experience in love. But could she actually be falling in love?

Reveiw: 8.8/10
Another cute romance story from Mitsuki Kako! Its short and sweet! As usual. Its about the rich guy falling in love with an ordinary girl situation, but this time he is not snobby and he is the one who made his own money. that was not a very good sentence.... He earned his own wealth! And the main girl yukino is not a wimp! Which is really refreshing. Because we've all read that manga, she crys about how no one will accept her. And then theres a fiance somewhere waiting to come in as soon as they get serious. This is the complete opposite. She goes through a tiny phase of i really don't know his world scene but gets over it with common sense? What a shojo girl not crying because shes not good enough for her rich man? Blasaphmy! i did not spell that right. Refreshing story with no drama.
Why an 8.8?
WELL i feel that the story could've gone a little deeper in some ways. the rich boyfriend named ryuu was supposed to stay a year. this story is only 13 chapters, i felt she could've gone more in depth. Yes he leaves a little earlier but in the story they mentioned seasons changing. But if shortening the story is what kept it from cliche shojo then its fine.

Ai Hime ~ Ai to Himegoto

Ai Hime ~ Ai to Himegoto
Categories:drama, romance, shoujo
Author:Kako Mitsuki
Artist:Kako Mitsuki
Original Publisher: Shogakukan
Magazine: Betsucomi
Start Date: 2006
Chapters: 13 chapters complete! 3 Volumes (not in USA )
Can be found: mangatraders, mangafox, tenmanga, manga reader
overall: 9.8/10 premise 9/10 follow through 9.8/10 ending: 10/10

Summary

On a day of blossoming sakura, Mao, by chance encounters a handsome sleeping man. Once awakened, he unexpectedly gives Mao a kiss. Yet, as fate would have it, it turns out that the mysterious stranger is actually her uncle - though not by blood. He is the chosen caretaker that Mao will be living with during the school year. But how will Mao handle her blossoming feelings for her (not-blood related) "uncle" (just wait!!!! don't be scared) while living with him? Will either one of them be able to cast aside social conventions to be together?

Review: 9.8/10 (favorite <3<3) please read it! i love it!
Now just wait! Wait a minute. i know, uncle right? sounds creepy super creepy! But its not. Hear me out! Shes never known him! Never seeeennnnn him! okay so lets get this uncle thing out of the way. Cause he didn't even grow up with her father really. Her father was in his 20's when they ADOPTED the uncle. The dad was out of the house already... so okay this manga is short and sweet! 13 chapters and no, "does he love me? kyaaa! im so jealous of that woman in his life im going to go cut myself!"

Now this is a shoujo, so it has maybe one or 2 moments that can be cheesy. But its also mature for a shoujo. I love her drawing! But she tends to draw hands funky. This manga is great if your looking for a manga that won't take up too much time to read! it even has an epilogue which i love! Its super cute and a nice paced romantic story. Super nice love story!!!
Why a 9.8?
As much as i love this manga there are tiny bits that are kinda weird. But i'll over look them. I love to reread this manga. Which i think i'll do now!

Just to let you know the sites that have the current translations are not the same good quality anymore. and some of the pages are outta order. so far manga traders is the best....

Hana Kimi Manga

  
or: Hanazakari no Kimitachi e
Categories: comedy, drama, gender bender, live action, romance, school life, shoujo, sports
Author/artist: Nakajo Hisaya
Chapters: complete scanlation 145 chapters
Media: drama yes millions
RATING:
overall: 8.5/10 premise 7/10 follow through 7.9/10 ending: 7.5/10
Summary: Japanese-American track-and-field star Mizuki has gotten herself to transfer to a high school in Japan...but not just any school! To be close to her idol, high jumper Izumi Sano, she's going to an all-guys' high school...and disguising herself as a boy! But as fate would have it, they're more than classmates...they're roommates! Now, Mizuki must keep her secret in the classroom, the locker room, and her own bedroom. And her classmates--and the school nurse--must cope with a new transfer student who may make them question their own orientation...

Review:  overall: 8.5 /10 (one of my favorites!) <3 /
                ending: 7.5/10 (not the best but the side stories help it)
Probably one of the best uses gender blender there is.  Its funny! Very funny for shoujo.  For something that can get pretty cheesy fast they keep it up beat and soon your sucked in. 
(I have over 12 volumes of this manga and an art book. I plan to buy the rest!) 
please excuse the embrassing fan girl in me....
This manga starts off a little slow but you need to stick with it, until you meet the amazingly gay and handsome Dr. Umeda that where things get good. its only about eight chapters you need to get through so do it! I super reccomend this manga its cute in every way. And unlike most shoujos at one point you get tired of the 2 not getting together but in this story they really can't get together. They want to but if they do.... Gahh! i won't spoil it. now if you read the english volumes you miss a wonderful side story that goes into the future after the story. so buy the volumes and then look for the side stories! or ask me cause i have them! all of them!
so why an 8.5 out of 10 if i love it so much? Well the fact that this author does not really know american culture. Its to the point where its a little annyoning. Also the ending was done a little haphazardly. She could've ended it more smoothly. Its like hmm i can't really explain but you're left defiantly going okay well i hope theres an epilogue. so look for the side stories! it'll defiantly rap up the story for  you very nicely.

Meru Puri -or- (The Marchen Prince)

GENRAL INFORMATION:

Author & Artist Hino Matsuri
Categories: comedy, fantasy, romance, shoujo or shojo
Status:Chapters: 22 - completed scanlation by-VK, TTexts,SweetLunacy . 4 volumes in english and jap.
ANIME/ DRAMA: NO/NO
Where you can read: onemanga.com, mangafox.com, buy it at borders, basically everywhere
RATING
overall: 8/10 premise 9/10 follow through 8.9/10 ending: 9/10
Summary / hook: All high school freshman Airi Hoshina ever wanted was to someday live in a cozy home with a loving husband, and find joy in the little things in life. As a result, she makes it her daily mission to get to school on time because school legend has it that the longer one's non-tardy streak is, the better boyfriend one will find. But just when her daily routine is working like clockwork, an occurrence of fairytale proportions threatens to disrupt her grand plan.

Review: 8/10
This manga is probably the 5th manga i have ever read and i can easily say one of my favorites. This manga was what got me really into manga. i believe the reason i llove it so much is because of the cover and the story. the story is very unique and very different. but it is all believe-able. It is hilourous and when the manga ends you get a sneak peak of their future, but i almost makes you want more. oh well.....
Now this is about a magical prince (aram don't ask for the last name there is no way i am even going to try and type it) who is cursed by his elder brother, and so to escape his elder brother who is trying to kill him he goes to the none magical land, our land.
The couple, Airi and Aram, are very cute toegther. Eventhough one is 15 and the other is 12( i thought in the manga he was much younger.. i went to look and no one knows not even my friends) thats a 3 year difference, not so bad on paper but think about it..... but only after the manga do you think wow when he was little that was werid. Oh well. the best part is since he is 12 (or whatever age) he is very cute and is very clear with his feelings. but the hardest part for the fan girl is picking which character she (or he) thinks is the hottest... the little aram is sooo cute that it makes things very hard. plus theres guys like raz and his other brother.. Juliel? start with a j.. they are all sexy in their own right.
Also since he is 12 and in love he loves kissing Airi, but since he's aprince he doesn't know about the process of baby making and doesn't understand his own feelings sometimes. And airi has trouble with her consious, because sometimes i believe she feels like a pedophile. Its funny and romantic and cute.

Kaichou wa Maid-sama! or in english Maid-sama!

GENRAL INFORMATION:
(I would like to say i reviewed this around 2009 it is 2011 and i am still reading it. i have bought the release volumes that tokyo pop released before they colasped)
also note i have followed this since the very first posting of chapters.
Author & Artist: Fujiwara Hiro
Main Genre: shoujo or shojoAlso Classified as : comedy, romance, schoollife
Current status: still being scanlated by potato otaku there are . 13  volumes Chapter 64 scanlated chapters and 8 english volumes out right now published by tokyo pop.
ANIME/DRAMA: yes 1 season , there will be a 2nd!  :3/NO
Sites You Can Read Them on( you can click these links):  mangafox.com, potato otaku

rating: 9.5 out of 10( i have to restrain my self i love this to much)

Back of the book Summary (kinda):
Ayuzawa Misaki is the boy hating student council president of the former all-boy school, Seika High School. In order to protect the girls, she battles the boys everyday to keep the girls safe (and boy do they need the protection). And in her spare time she secretly works at a "Maid Cafe" to help her sickly mother put food on the table. But when the most popular boy from school, Usui Takumi, finds out her life becomes a lot more complicated! We Usui keep her sercret? Will she be able to keep leading this double identity of a polite Maid and the boy hating student council president?!
What are you going to do Goshujin-sama?

REVIEW!!!! PART 1 talking about my love for this manga.

(CAUTION MAY CONTAIN SPELLING ERRORS!) can you believe this thing does not have spell check!
This my first review yay! So please bear with the formatting! Right now its really bugging me that i can't make the cover as small as i want T-T . Oh welll!
Now I love this manga so much i bought it after reading online. Oh kay so personally i really really love this manga because of the femenism, the story is so very very cute, its super funny, annnnddddddd the LEADING MAN / LOVE INTEREST IS SOOOOOOOO SEXY !!!! >///< CAN YOU SAY EYE CANDY? OR EYE DRUG? XD.... *calms down* Anyway this is a shoujo but it has lots of comedy! You know how in some manga, the 2 characters take forever to get toegther, and they go back-and-forth until its chapter 90 and then they finally confess to each other. and your like "yess!!! i final get to see them toegther" and then the manga ends, without knowing how the relationship between them went or one of the 2 has to leave, and you don't even see them toegther! and your like what a waste of time! WELL NOT IN THIS MANGA! okay time for the real RW

SPOLIERZ: PLEASE GO TO REVIEW PART 2 IF SKIPPING!

well theses 2 get toegther in chapter 32! and i know for a fact that we are going to see them toegther a lot more >///<! and the part that confuses me the mostis that we don't really truely know if they are toegther! the act like it but still!! ahhhhh!!! its killing me!

REVIEW PART 2 getting down to business

Main characters

-leading leady : Misaki Ayuzawa- an insanely kind person to her friends, she enjoys helping people in genral. hates men because of her father. She very hard working, and energentic.
-leading man :Takumi Usui - a mysterious person who is insanely smart, insanely athletic, and prefers to observe people. he is very good looking. did i mention very mysterious?

This manga is quite unpredictable and not your typical shoujo manga. the main character is very Likeable and smart. But there are times when the reader realizes how dense she actually is. In the first chapter we can see Usui's and Misaki's devloping feelings for each other. but unlike in regular shoujo the Mangaka makes sure to show the reader that Misaki is full capible of protecting herself and yet shows that Misaki secretly likes being protected/saved by Usui but is embrassed to show it.
This manga shows how tuff a girl can be but makes a point that she will always be a girl who can be swept off her feet by a guy she thinks she 'hates'.(and when a girl hates a guy in a shoujo thats a red flag shes gonna fall in love with him.) i love to seeing her reaction when Usui fallows her around like a puppy dog. The chapters that have been release show Misaki's past and how she learns to become more tolerent with men. Also we see how her relationship with Usui and other progresses. Through out the chapters we see Usui become more envoled with Misaki romantically. But the secrets about his own life are yet to be relivealed.
This manga is quite refreshing, funny, and addicitve. it is fast paced and at times (very very rarely) your like wat random! But it is soo damn good!!!! and at certain times you feel like falling out of your chair! read and you'll know waht i mean*wink wink* XD don't be afraid i'm just being silly! a silly ninja! I RECOMMEND YOU GO AND READ IT NOW!!!!

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Hana Yori Dango or Boys Over Flowers

GENRAL INFORMATION:
Author &Artist: Kamio Youko
Categories: anime, comedy, drama, live action, romance, shoujo
Status: 242 Chapters - completed scalation, and completed volumes in english
ANIME/DRAMA: NO/ YES: KOREAN, JAPENESE, TAIWANESE, AND MANY MORE.

Rating: 4.5 (started good but just kept going for far too long)

Summary:Although Tsukushi Makino is from a poor family, she attends an elite school for the super rich, where her life has become intertwined with the "F4," the ruling boys of the school, in a whirlwind of love and confusion!

Review:
Okay just let me explain the rating. Hear me out. Okay this manga is very very popular. It received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo. Made into a bunch of dramas. But i do not like it one bit. Please let me finish. this manga is long. very very long. you have to put alot of time and energy into this manga. alot of time and energy, its fricken 242 chapters!
Now i used to like it, thought it was interesting. a different take on shoujo manga i mean it kinda pretty much started the rich boy falls in love with the maid genre.(by the way shoujo can be spelled shojo or shoujo)But when i say different its really only for the first 3/4 -1/2 of the series. don't get me wrong the first half was good. but after that i couldn't take all the predictable drama that started happening. i mean at lest for a 100 chapters i could predict the outcome. And sometimes i would skip chapters and know exactly what had happened even though i didn't read it. it was so predictable. and sometimes i like predictable. like if a girl gets kidnapped i want that sappy scene right after her crush saves her. But the predictable stuff in here was the bad one that just annoyones you. It became a predictable outlandish shojo manga.

SPOILERZ (THERE NOT REALLY SPOILERZ BUT R.) IT WON'T REALLY EFFECT YOU JUST READ IT.

For example a rough out line of the second half . they broke up, the main guy changed after they broke up, they got toegther, weren't allowed to see each other, the guy she started to like first liked her now, even though she does not like him, mother does not like the girl, he loses his memory, she almost leaves and never comes back, she comes back, then they finally get toegther hurray, they go away toegther, and then bam! oh guess what the main guy (dango i'm pretty sure) has to go away for 4 years. AND YOU NOE WHAT SHE SAID??? I'LL WAIT FOR YOU! and SHES NOT EVEN ANGRY!okay well, i get why she said that because what is she supposed to do?say," no take me with you!" i know shes not allowed to go. but she did nothing it was completely out of her character
but what really gets me angry is the fact that after 242 CHAPTERS I DON'T EVEN GET TO SEE THEM HAPPILY TOEGTHER! NOTHING! NADA! ZIP! DID-LE-LY SQUAT! not even a little after story! ahh wait i'm sorry i was wrong they had a little sidestory. it took place a year later! and they didn't even do anything but just yell!okay they kissed, and i'm gald they didn't get all lovey-dovey but really nothing?! and you know what the chapter ended "i have 3 more years to wait. " i didn't even get to see them happy toegther! it was a complete let down.

beast master review

GENRAL INFORMATION:
Author & Artist: Motomi Kyousuke
Categories: comedy, romance, school life, shoujo
Status: 9 chapters - completed scanlation by:Aerandria, Serenus Dreamers
recomendation: read! it 8.5 out of 10

where to read? : manga reader and fox

Summary:Yuiko Kubozuka is a high school girl who loves animals. Unfortunately, animals hate her and flee from her whenever possible. So when a new classmate, Leo Aoi, turns out to be a scary guy who resembles a wild animal than anything human, she is intrigued. Not only because Leo has an affinity with animals which she envies, but also because he isn’t the wild animal that he seems to be. He seems to hide a very sweet disposition behind his scary features.
Or so she thought. The truth is revealed when they are attacked and Leo immediately behaves like a wild animal and gets violent like a blood-thirsty animal, just to save Yuiko.
Will Yuiko be able to tame this wildest of all animals or will he be just like the others and flee from her? Or the better question, will she flee from him?

My review?

absolutely cute and adorable. its quick short and some what refreshing. i haven't reread it yet meaning if your bored you'll enjoy it. 

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up and running.

HELLO the internet, the non-existant reader,well this is the first post of my new internet review site. this is attempt #2 of a review site. so bascially i've read tons of manga.... tons of manga... the hours i will never get back from reading some of the cliche dirt, or investing time and passion only to see it dropped by the scanlators... :(( so i will be up and running soon about 10-5min. just a little note/rant; i would love to get this site a little popular but if it doesnt happen thats understandable but i would love to have a little following. everyones' got a little bit of a ego.