Hmm, I've seen Kare Kano twice now. The first time I watched it right another school anime, possibly kanon, and because I loved that so much I really did overlook KK. I've since gone back and watched it again, and enjoyed it a lot more. I think because it's one of the older mangas it can seem quite cliché, but a lot of the stereotypes within it are responsible for some of my best loved manga characters elsewhere. I can't help but feel without KK we wouldn't have had Narusegawa from love hina. I've yet to read the manga, but it'll be a while before I do anyway, I have to finish reading Ai Yoro Aoshi first and complete Tsubasa Chronicle too.

Yawn.

I'll never finish the books I mentioned above at this rate. I've just bought the FLCL manga as it's fairly short, but how can I describe it? Errrrm. It's like a Drug trip quite frankly, I've seen the anime and thought THAT was weird enough. Next to the manga though it looks positively tame. The art style is like nothing I've ever seen before either, all warped and "scratchy" like it's been drawn by a talented 5 year old. I enjoyed it though.

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On Kare Kano: clearly your tatses are quite different to mine, ive only read a bit of the manga series and havent seen any of the naime but it is the first manga series ive gotten bored with. there is some humour, some nice bits and some sad bits but all in all i cant say i feel compelled to continue the series, especially with such a massive list of books to get through already.

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Oh that's a shame. Can't really change your opinion but I loved this manga so much. I bought the first volume...read it...and then bought the remaining 20 One of my all time favourite mangas.

Okay, so...I gotta a bunch of mangas I'd ordered today ^_^ most...actually I think all of them are some form of Josei romance/drama mangas. I'm liking these more nowadays. The shoujo stuff gets boring after a while and I was never that much into shounen manga to begin with.

Anyways, listy:

Paradise Kiss (yeah, I love the artwork and George is hawt)
Mars (got the 10 remaining volumes! I didn't think I'd like at first but so hooked now. It's interesting as I don't usually read psychological stuff)
Aromatic Bitters (recommended to me...we'll see)
Made in Heaven (accidents, prosthetics, self-discovery...sounds cool)
and the first two volumes of Kimi wa Petto (another recommendation...though it sounds weird ... )

So...when I have time ( ) I'll start these. In the mean time, I finished volume 14 of W-Juliet ... as in I finished it all! Wow. Um, the series. Let's see, fun, cute and very light-hearted. Not very realistic (but it is a shoujo manga after so I wasn't expecting it to be) but plenty of 'awww' moments and a happy ending. Cute fluff...not sure if I want to read the sequel yet.

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Made in Heaven (accidents, prosthetics, self-discovery...sounds cool)

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Ooh. I hope not...that would be a waste of money...

*checks*

Nope, no connection ^_^

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If it's got prosthetics, then if there was a relation it would be... fairly dodgy, I think.

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I finished volume four of Bleach a few nights ago. I get volumes five and six tomorrow if she remembers to bring them.

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On Kare Kano: clearly your tatses are quite different to mine, ive only read a bit of the manga series and havent seen any of the naime but it is the first manga series ive gotten bored with. there is some humour, some nice bits and some sad bits but all in all i cant say i feel compelled to continue the series, especially with such a massive list of books to get through already.

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Oh that's a shame. Can't really change your opinion but I loved this manga so much. I bought the first volume...read it...and then bought the remaining 20 One of my all time favourite mangas.

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There's a fair bit more than romance in KK. Didn't you see it?

Its as funny as Azu Dai in parts, sometimes funnier, and it has a good slice of angst and drama too.

I also loved the art style and the wonderful use of symbolic images that run throughout it. How many high school animes have full love making scenes in them? KK manages it in real style.

But yeah, if romance alone isn't your thing you may wish to watch other stuff.

Did you try Haruhi? That has romance but it's slanted in such a different way that it doesn't seem like romance for most of the time. The humour takes centre stage in that series and the simple weirdness is fun to unravel too.

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Yeah.

So like, while I admit there is a wee bit of romance in the show, I certainly hope you're not implying that Haruhi like Kyon. It is highly suspected yes, but that's hardly the reason for Haruhi's attraction to Kyon.

The novels explain it more clearly: when school just started, Haruhi did ask Kyon if they had met before. Inreality, while Kyon obviously denies it, there was a point in the story where Kyon goes back to the past, and discovers that he had a hand when Haruhi had painted that large hieroglyphics on her middle school grounds (mentioned in ep2), and that he had introduced himself as "John" (or some other name, I only read the translation). At the same time, he also truthfully admitted to being a student of that school.

Haruhi chose to go to that school simply because she was looking for people like "John", or at least a possibility of a less mundane life, as deduced by the adult Asahina. And Kyon bore a very strong resemblance to him, although it slipped Haruhi's mind as time passes (for Haruhi).

The Closed Dimension episode could've gone two ways: Haruhi likes Kyon, although she herself may not be aware of it; or, Haruhi strongly believes that Kyon shares her attraction to the not-so-mundane occurrances, which he once did.

But since Haruhi herself never admitted to it, and the episode "Someday in the Rain" was never in the novels, hence simply a creation of the anime studio and thus should be excluded from the reasoning, it cannot be assumed conclusively that Haruhi actually has feelings for Kyon.

Now that was a long and useless rant. Oh, go read the novels, people, it's at Baka-Tsuki, go search for it.

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Haruhi never admits her feelings in the anime either, which is what I like so much about it. As soon as Nagato mentioned a big blip in the earth's energy field three years ago and Asahina said her bosses couldn't detect back in time more than three years ago I decided that in a previous incarnation of the world Kyon and Haruhi had known each other. They may have known each other countless times, in countless previous incarnations and each time Haruhi receates a world in which they will meet and the anime merely focuses on the one time it works.

That's just a guess, it makes me feel nice to think that may be why she is like she is.

Its clear she likes Kyon from her actions throughout the story, right from ep.2 where his classmates are stunned that he's the only boy she'd ever said so many words to. Her hair style is another clue (on two occasions). But in the same way Haruhi does not understand lots of things, she's in denial about her feelings for Kyon too.
While it's a pity that anime directors feel the need to change things from the novels (but you show me a film or TV show director who didn't do that) I also dislike it when people say "the anime is wrong because it doesn't follow the manga/novel/cereal packet/cat food/whatever."

An anime adaptation is a different artform, it caters to a slightly different audience whose attention span is subtly different simply by the type of media, things do need changing and you get two equally valid versions of a story as a result.

In some cases, mind you. In some cases it fails big time, but with Haruhi I think the anime works just fine.

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There's a fair bit more than romance in KK. Didn't you see it?

Its as funny as Azu Dai in parts, sometimes funnier, and it has a good slice of angst and drama too.

I also loved the art style and the wonderful use of symbolic images that run throughout it. How many high school animes have full love making scenes in them? KK manages it in real style.

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i am reading yu yu hakusho. not really as funny as the anime they aired on ctnn but still pretty good.
basically this kid called yusuke gets killed when he pushes a little boy out of the way of a speeding car.then the reaper, a pretty girl called botan who rides a canoe paddle like a broom stick, tells him since the spirits werent expecting him to die so bravely he can come back to life, but only if he acts as earths new spirit detective.

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Sounds like Bleach. A nicer version of Bleach. Where Ichigo isn't such a sourpuss.

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please dont compare it to bleach, i hate it when people do that.
its much nicer and funnier.
oh wait you just said that....

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Good Morning Call (I found new chapters <3) and Ouran.

School Rumble.

And I have just seen the most scary picture of Sawachika Eri.

Yeesh...

Tsubasa Chronicles. And I was reading something on the latest manga on the Tsubasa forum... OMFG. I know the biggest secret on Fai.. But if I say it, you'll all kill me because.. OMFG.. I'm still a little confused by it but.. Doesn't really surprise me but..

edit; O understand everything now.. Want to say badly.. x.X I know all about his past and his being there and everything related to him since first chapter he's been in.

Hint to Past : YUUI

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I must've missed the love scene in the KK manga, I just can't remember it at all. Pah! I like what Saddles is saying about Haruhi meeting Kyon in previous incarnations because I'm not sure the anime pulls it off as clearly as the novels. A good example is in the 1st/2nd episode of Haruhi where she asks Kyon if she'd met him before. Kyon answers "no" which is true from his perspective, but later on in the novels Kyon goes back in time a few years and ends up being the one responsible for the white-line drawings on the school field. I think most of this gets revealed in the next series anyway, as it's mainly based on "The vanishment of Haruhi Suzumiya" .

I've been reading Keroro Gunso, A.K.A sergeant frog. Lets just leave it at that.