It's a 2013 manga by Tagura Tohru, still on going. It's a shounen-ai (or BL aka boys love), set in a normal japanese high school. Being a BL, I know it's not for everyone's tastes but it's not visually explicit and it is a really beautiful story, I strongly suggest it! 

Plot: Hasegawa Yuiji finds out his classmate's secret: Yoshinaga Yamato is gay. He also notices Yamato has a one-sided love. Little by little, they get closer and get friendly, Yuiji realize Yamato is a cool guy and hangs out with him more often, trying to help him with his troubles and all.. 

Conclusion: If I had to describe it in a few words I'd say it's a 'pretty love-friendship story'. The two main characters, Yamato and Yuiji are so different but both so cool you'll fall in love with them for sure and wish them the best. This manga really convey everyone's feelings to the reader, in such a soft and real way, it's hard to explain.  

Conclusion *with mild spoilers* : How can you not read a manga with that plot and such handsome characters? I mean, I liked all of them, though they're all VERY different -both phisically and personally. I was honestly quite surprised for a lot of reasons: the first one being Tomoka. She is a girly-girl but is unexpectedly strong and feisty. Another one is that there is the possibility of love, even between two girls in a non-yuri (girl x girl love) manga. I actually rooted for them, I knew it wasn't in the cards -since it was clearly a shoujo- but still.. I thought I'd be interesting and cool. Lastly, I wasn't sure who Tomoka would end up with because, at some point, it looks like they all kinda like her. And that's another unexpected thing, I would have swore she'd end up with my second choice (comment if you wanna know who) but nope. Still, I'm happy anyway cause I like all of them after all.

Real conclusion is I loved this manga a lot! 

Just one bad point: the ending is kind of abrupt? I expected at least two other more chapters, or at least an extra one. Instead, it just suddenly end leaving you hanging for more. But that might be because I didn't want it to end lol.

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That's it for this time, please let me know in the comments if there you read them or there's some manga you're loving lately!

Kyoukai no Rinne (Circle of Reincarnation) is a 2015 anime and the latest Rumiko Takahashi's creation, from the manga of the same name. It's a comedy / shounen type, the anime is currently on its third season.

Plot: Rinne is a shinigami who lives on earth and has also a regular life as a student. His identity is a secret until Sakura Mamiya, a fellow classmate, finds him out. She can see spirits and such because she was 'spirited away' as a mistake when she was a child. From then on, they two of them, along with his black cat contractor, will collaborate to send spirtis to the wheel of reincarnation, so they can be reborn.  

Characters: 

During the series we'll meet a whole lot of new characters, some friends some rivals or enemies (lol) which will make the story even more fun and messier.

We have Rinne, the serious over-zealous type of guy, who lives for his shinigami work and is so poor that he can't think of anything else. With him lives Rokumon, his black cat contractor who shares his pain of poverty and would do anything for him

On the other hand, Sakura Mamiya is a normal student except she can see spirits; she seems a little emotionless but is kind and cares about Rinne and Rokumon.

Then we'll get to meet the 'rival', someone who remids me so much of Ryoga (but has the appearance of Miroku), which is Tsubasa Jumonji. He's an exorcist, so he can see spirtis and fights them but has a different -and harsh- approach to it compared to Rinne. After meeting him and Sakura, for whom he has a huge crush, he slowly changes and tries to understand spirits a little better. 

Another intesting character is Tamako, Rinne's granmother, a famous shinigami which looks eternally young. She rarely changes expression and seems sweet, except when someone refers to her real age and calls her 'grandma', like Rinne.

She married and loved a human and lived with him and their nephew Rinne until he died.

The cause of Rinne's misery is his father (and Tamako's son), Sabato. He's the reason Rinne is so poor, because he's repaying all the debts his father made using his name. Sabato has a shady business, his wrong-doings are the cause of many characters' unhappiness, like the ones below here.

Neverthless, he doesn't stop at anything to get what he wants which is to say, money. Though he seems like a bad guy he is quite comical himself, always getting his son into trouble and tricking him. We don't know much about him other that that and what happened to Rinne's mother.

I won't go into details about the other characters or I might spoil the story too much, not that there are major development anyway lol. The story is such that even if you miss an episode you'll be fine, since every episode is mostly auto-conclusive.

Conclusion: Definetely watch it! If you know and you're a fan of Rumiko Takahashi's past works (Ranma, Inuyasha, Maison Ikkoku, Lamù, etc) you'll love Kyoukai no Rinne too. It's a perfect blend between Ranma and Inuyasha, in my opinion, taking the fantasy world but keeping the atmosphere light and comic. Wheter there's a serious event, it'll turn into a mess with the interruption of the other (silly) characters.
This is a different kind of shounen, it doesn't involve deathly battles and super strong enemies, it's fun, has a good background story and great characters -all silly and different from each other-.
Maybe we'll get some more intense episodes along the way (and I'd really like for a strong enemy to appear, forcing all the characters to cooperate), just don't save your breath for it, hehe.


Also I cannot wait for romance to between Rinne and Sakura to bloom! Though I have the feeling I'll have to wait a long time for that..

As always, here's the opening 'Oukaranman' by KEYTALK! Beware, the opening makes the anime looks very serious, don't get fooled lol. By the way, I love this song!

Time for another k-drama review! This time I'll do a first impression-first episode type of thing, and who knows, maybe I'll continue with all the other episodes too. Anyway, before giving out too much, here's some infos. Strong Woman Do Bong Soon is a JTBC 2017 korean drama, with a total of 16 episodes, just recently completed.

Plot: Bong-Soon was born with superhuman strenght, this power has been passed down every generation to the women of the family only. While this power may look like a blessing it has a curse too, it must not be used for personal benefit or something bad will happen to the holder. One day while trying to stop some thugs, she is seen using her powers by a young man and several children. That man is Min-Hyun, the young CEO of a gaming company, she'd want to work for. Oddly enough, he tries to hire her.. to be his bodyguard! 

Since she needs money and a job, she accept. All the while, some strange murders occur in her neightbour and her childhood friend, Kook-Doo, a policeman who takes his job very seriously, is investigating it. She is in love with him but he doesn't notice her feelings and has already someone else. Neverthless, he worries about her and isn't too happy about her (work)relationship with Min-Hyuk. 

Conclusion:  So.. To tell you the truth I approached this drama full of hope. I was fresh from watch 'Weightlifting fairy Kim Book Joo' -which I loved- and I thought it must be something with a similar theme. Weeell, not really. 

I realize it's just the first episode, so I'm gonna give it one more try and not be too harsh. Honestly though, I was a little disappointed. Even though the characters are well developed, they fall a little flat. The plot seems a little bit too obvious and calls for a love triangle between the 3 main characters right at the beginning. Where is the element of surprise? As for them, I really like Kook-Doo, he is oddly weird but very serious at the same time and just cool. Not so much Min-Hyuk who looks really childish and arrogant, not appealing at all to me. As for Bong-Soon..annoying. I had high hopes for her, she had it all: cute, cool power, interesting background. But she seems a little bit too arrogant and again, annoying. I hope it's just my impression on the first episode though. 

The 3 actors together at the press conference, from the left: Park Hyung-Sik, Park Bo-Young and 

Ji-Soo. 

Like I said it's just a first impression and maybe I'll change my mind in the future, so stay tuned for the other reviews! 

We are well in 2017 already and I decided to revive this blog once more, so what better way to start than the column 'Manga of the month?'. This time I'm talking about some manga I've been reading for a while and especially loved last month.

The first one is 'KIMI TO BOKU' is a comedy/slice of life manga by Hotta Kiichi, started in 2008. I'm sure it's already well known since they recently made an anime out of it (which I'll review later). 

Plot: 'Kimi to Boku' ('You and I') tells the story of 5 highschool friends, all boys, mostly of which have known each other since they were really small. The cool/weird twins Yuuta and Yuuki, the grumpy Kaname, Shun nicknamed 'Flowery boy' for his love of cute things and the last one to join: Chizuru, a lively half-japanese transfer student.

Every chapter is a story of its own mainly focused on one or plus characters, their daily life at school and (rarely) outside, sometimes discovering their past or having some weird adventure. 

My take: I love it because it's really amusing and perfect to realx, don't expect drama or anything like that! But don't worry, this manga will hook you up anyway. Another positive point have to be the characters, you can relate to them because they are so different one from the other and have so many different layers. Their friendship is so genuine and sweet! Somehow it makes me nostalgic for things I never even experienced, it's good like that! 

Second manga I want to recommend is 'TOMO-CHAN WA ONNANOKO' a 2015 comedy/romance by Yanagida Fumita. 

Plot: This manga revolves around Tomo, a highschool girl who is in love with her clueless childhood friend Jun. Tomo tries to confess to Jun, the problem is that he doesn't see her as a girl. That's because Tomo is boyish, violent, loves sport and used to spar with Jun when they were little. Luckily, her friends, Misuzu and Carol, will help her become more 'femminine' and let Jun notice her.. or will they?

My take: This manga is simply hilarious, it's not your typical shoujo where a plain girl becomes super girly and gets an harem of boys..forget that. Tomo's efforts to conquer Jun's love are embarrassing and fun, always ending up miserably. Not to mention her sidekicks, which are my absolute favourites: Misuzu and Carol, both are just comedy gold, one completely opposite to the other, their skits are amazing.

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Anyway, these are the new manga I recommend, both still ongoing. Let me know if you knew them, liked them and your favourites! :)