SNAFU

Who here likes Fanfics? Well, I know I do :) This is like the best of both worlds right here for all of us nerds (and I say that lovely). SNAFU Comics is like a fanfic and a manga combined. I have been reading these comics for years now and I just sadly noticed I haven't mentioned it yet.

There are twenty two comics listed at the moment - I am unaware if they will post any new ones. I am not going to lie, Grim Tales is my favorite <3 

Take the time to stop and peek at the website if you haven't already~

http://www.snafu-comics.com/

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Reimei no Arcana

Reimei no Arcana by Toma Rei was defiantly an interesting and funny manga. I can't wait for the next update on mangasky.com. I recommend this manga for those readers who are searching for a good comedy/fantasy manga.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Romance, Shoujo

Summary: 

"On that day, I became the enemy's possesion," Nakaba thought as she stood there, knowing her destiny was to be married for convenience to keep the peace between her country Senan and Prince Caesar's country, Belquat; two neighbor countries on a island. Between the two countries there has been a constant war for 200 years and Nakaba has become a sacrificial goat for her country despite the discrimination to her red hair and to the 'sub-person' (half-human, half-animal) Loki, who is her only friend and attendant at Caesar's estranged palace. But what will Nakaba do when she foresees an event pertaining to Prince Caesar's demise? Will she save him? Or let him die in return to all the hate directed towards her by the people of Belquat?


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Sumary found on Mangasky.com*

Yaoi?

On another note I haven't been able to find a really interesting yaoi manga lately... not even a good fanfic although I wasn't looking that hard. I want something just as awesome as You're my love prize in the viewfinder (or Finder Series) by Yamane Ayano, Dog Style by Montoni Mondoru,  or Ai No Kusabi by Rieko Yoshihara.

Any recommendations?


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Shinryaku! Ika Musume

Shinryaku! Ika Musume (or Invade! Squid Girl) is by Masahiro Anbe and has an anime adaptation by Diomedea. I have only watched the anime on Netflix but I am thinking of reading the manga to see the differences, because there always are differences between the anime and manga. I wonder why that is...? Anyway, that anime was just as fun and silly (maybe even brainless) as the summary explains below. I thought it was a nice break from essays for my classes lol.

Genre: Comedy, Slice of life

Summary:

Squid Girl is a girl from the sea who possesses squid-like tentacles. She vows to invade mankind as revenge for its pollution of the ocean. Her first task is to make the Lemon beach house, owned by the Aizawa siblings, her base of operations. However, when she accidentally breaks a hole in their wall, she is forced to work as a waitress to pay off the damages. Thus, Squid Girl begins her life on the surface, learning new things and encountering many curious visitors to the beach house.


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Summary found on Wikipedia* 

Update~

Hey manga readers~

     So an update with myself (and of course a manga or two as well ;3 ). I am not going to lie, I haven't been reading manga or watching anime lately. Randomly, we were reunited at three o'clock in the morning one Monday night/ Tuesday morning and I'm hooked again. Big thanks to Naruto, Bleach and lastly my curiosity.I was sad to see they didn't that much further from when I had last read both sometime in 2012.
     Anywho, thanks to Manga2u.com (which the link is on the right hand side of this blog) I have been looking into a lot of Shoujo and/or adventure mangas lately (and maybe my own love-life is aiding it on...). I have also watched a few animes I will be posting :)

So be on the look out for some new post and thanks for keeping up with this blog,

Nerd In Heels~

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Long time no talk~

Hello all readers~
It's been far too long  =( I got swallowed up by multiply things in my life reading manga and watching anime had to go on the back burner sadly but hopefully I can find some free time to get back to it - as well as my personal writing...


Thanks for putting up with me and continuing to look at my blog,
Until next time~
Nerd In Heels

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Needless

     Needless by Kami Imai is a manga ( 16 volumes so far) and anime ( 24 episodes) however I only saw the anime. Like always the manga sounds so much better and I think for all interested in Needless they should read the manga instead however Needless is on Netflix for those who have it. The cute drawing style was what first attracted my eye and after reading the summary I thought it could be interesting.
    I have to admit I fell asleep on this anime and when I woke up the battle was still taking place leaving me completely bored. I lost interest in this anime not too far from the beginning however I thought I wasn't giving it a chance. Bottom line: I didn't fully enjoy it even after watching all 24 episodes.

Genres: Action, Sci-fi,

Summary:
This anime is set in the year 2130, 50 years after world war three. The war has left a crater where Tokyo once stood - a place now filled with contaminated rubble. This spot (called "The Black Spot") has no electrical power and is seen as a dark patch from outer space. The Black Spot eventually becomes populated by outcasts - some of whom, as a result of the contamination, gain various powers ("fragments"). Those in possession of such powers/fragments come to be known as "Needless".

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Summary found on Wikipedia.com* 
Can be watched on Netflix 

Speed Grapher

Speed Grapher is an anime series created by Gonzo and was later made into a manga by Tomozo. To put it plainly, this anime was kind of boring. I thought it would have so much more going for it. The main character, Tatsumi Saiga (age unknown), was uninteresting and his "power" could have had more thought added to it like the other characters throughout the show.
Also his relationship with the female lead, Kagura Tennōzu (15 years old), left me feeling odd. He looked too old for her and it was a recurring theme throughout the episodes: their huge age difference.
So no, this will not be an anime or manga I will be looking into again in the future.

Genres:  Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

Summary: 
 Speed Grapher follows the exploits of former war photographer Tatsumi Saiga, who investigates a secret fetish club for the ultra-wealthy called the Roppongi Club. He tries to photograph the club's "goddess," a 15-year-old, exploited girl named Kagura, but is discovered. As he is about to be killed, Kagura kisses him, granting him the ability to destroy anything he photographs. Saiga soon discovers that Kagura's body fluids, like her saliva, in combination with a certain "virus", can give people bizarre abilities relating to their secret desires, fetishes, and obsessions. Club members strive for the honor of becoming "gifted" via Kagura's power. Saiga soon becomes entangled in this secret underground society and the powerful and corrupt Tennōzu Group mega-corporation that operates it. He attempts to free Kagura, a move that puts the two of them on the run from the Tennōzu Group and blood-thirsty members of the club with bizarre and often horrifying special powers.

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Summary found on Wikipedia.com
 
  

Ai No Kusabi

Ai No Kusabi, written by Rieko Yoshihara, is one of the most popular yaoi mangas out there. If you believe yourself a yaoi fan all the way I hope you have at at least heard of it. Well, it was first serialized in Shousetsu June between 1986 - 1987 and released in a hardbound novel in Japan in the 90's. 

Wikipedia:
"The novel was partially adapted into a two-episode original video animation by Anime International Company, with the first episode released in August 1992 and the second in May 1994. In November 1993, an audio drama entitled Erogenous Dark was released focusing on a time period left unexplored in the original novels. A new thirteen episode OVA adaptation, also from AIC, was scheduled to begin releasing in Japan in the spring of 2010, but was cancelled for financial reasons. The project was picked up again and is scheduled to release in January 2012.

The novel is licensed for an English language release in North America by Digital Manga Publishing which published the novel over a eight volume series, with the first released in November 2007 and the sixth in July 2009, with the final volumes scheduled for release in summer and winter of 2012, respectively."

 Here's a little AMV I found to get me all hyped up for the remake however I'm sure it'll end just the same as the first one TT3TT (Just a small warning: this is Yaoi). 

Setting: 

Ai no Kusabi takes place on the world of Amoi, which is ruled by a computer named Jupiter. Jupiter has introduced a number of strict social rules to society. Among them, social status is determined by hair color, blonde being the highest, down to black or dark brown as the lowest. The Blondies, genetically engineered by Jupiter, are the highest social class and occupy the capital city of Tanagura. They travel to the satellite pleasure city of Midas, which has an independent slum area called Ceres. Under Jupiter's restrictions, the Blondies are sterile and forbidden from indulging in sexual activities. They keep "pets" (adolescents in their late teens) for about a year, for purely voyeuristic purposes, before discarding them. Further emasculation is seen in the "Furniture", adolescent boys who serve the Blondies.

Contrary to popular belief, the hair-color caste system only applies to those working in Tanagura and not in Ceres. The true separation is between those genetically created in a lab (those in Tanagura) and the "mongrels" formed the natural way (those in Ceres). However it was written in the novel that Tanagura manipulated even the natural births of Ceres, ensuring that its population did not grow by restricting the number of female births to 1 in 10.


Summary:
Riki the Dark, a slum mongrel without an ID number, leader of the gang Bison and therefore considered the lowest of the low, one day meets Iason Mink, a Tanagura elite Blondie, the most powerful man in the city and Jupiter's favorite. Iason saves him from being killed by a gang and Riki tries to pay his debt by offering his body to Iason. Instead, Iason makes him his pet and takes him from the slums to live with him. Riki leaves his gang behind without an explanation.

Iason keeps Riki, who is bound to Iason with a penis ring, as his pet for three years. This causes a lot of rumors and commotion amongst the other Blondies. Not only is Riki considered too old to be a pet but he is a human mongrel, which is frowned upon. The other Blondies question Iason and his motives, yet Iason refuses to give up Riki whom he has grown very attached to. Iason's friend, Raoul, warns him that Jupiter does not approve of this relationship but Iason refuses to listen.

Riki hates his new position, having formerly been a proud leader, and begs Iason for his freedom. Iason grants him a year of freedom and allows him to go back to Ceres, the slums. Riki is welcomed back into Bison and returns to a normal life. He has changed, however, and is unable to forget the time he spent as Iason's pet.

(Spoiler alert )

When the year passes, Iason decides he wants Riki back. Through his former furniture Katze, who is now a black marketeer, Iason arranges for Kirie, a young member of Bison, to set a trap and catch the gang. This ends with Bison being arrested. Riki is freed and told to return to his master.

After Riki returns to Iason, he learns of the taboos Iason has broken to keep him and of how Iason has protected him from the fate of former pets which end up being sold to brothels. Iason even decides to grant Riki a bit of further freedom by allowing him to work with Katze in the black market.

Guy, Riki's best friend and former pairing partner from Bison, finds out about Riki's position as Iason's pet and becomes enraged. As a result, Guy decides to get Riki back from Iason. He kidnaps Riki to Dana Bahn. Riki tells Guy that he will never be free of Iason as long as he wears Iason's pet ring. Guy therefore removes Riki's pet ring by giving him a penectomy.

Guy contacts Iason and arranges to meet him in Dana Bahn. Iason, thinking Riki is in Dana Bahn because of the tracer in the pet ring, meets Guy there. Iason tries to get Riki back but finds out what Guy has done. After attacking him, Guy sets off bombs that he had planted in Dana Bahn with the intention of killing Iason to set Riki free. Riki appears to stop Iason from killing Guy and get them all out of Dana Bahn. Reluctantly Iason helps Guy and they head towards the exit.

As they approach the front gate, an explosion wrecks Dana Bahn. The gates collapse and slice Iason's legs off just above the knee. Riki is forced to leave him there while he takes Guy out of Dana Bahn. Riki sees Katze, who has been waiting outside after Riki contacted him, and tells him to help Guy while he returns to Iason.

Iason is surprised to see Riki come back, despite what he had done to him as a pet. Riki sits down next to Iason and offers him a poisonous Black Moon cigarette that Katze had given to him, and they both perish in Dana Bahn together, much to everyone's grief.

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Summary and information found Wikipedia.com*
AMV made by LovelessAloisFujoshi and found of Youtube.com*

3,o0o~!

     Three thousand page views and counting! I'm so excited and happy right now ^^ Thank you so much for keeping up with my blog~
     I will be posting up new mangas and anime's soon but with college starting in September, work, and summer only being two months long I'm finding it hard to put time aside just for my blogs. I'm debating removing my hermit crab blog only because I've lost interest with it (Chloe is still alive and kicking ^^) however this blog will live because my manga/anime is my "life" lol.
     Also, please leave suggestions for me in the comments or see my full profile to email me the manga/anime and author so I know I'm looking at the right one.
     Thanks again for helping me get to 3,000 views on my blog~ Have a great 4th of July <3

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Rabbit Doubt

Rabbit doubt (or Doubt) by Yoshiki Tonogai is a horror manga that might not be for everyone. I first read this manga years ago on Onemanga.com I believe. I was sitting on the edge of my sit waiting for the next chapter to come out only to see my guess as to who the killer is was wrong each and every time.

The manga was first serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan on July 12, 2007 and ended its run on February 12, 2009. Square Enix also released the first volume on December 22, 2007 and released the fourth and final volume on February 12, 2009. The series has continued with a sequel, titled Judge. (Wiki) 

 I have not read the sequel personally only because I didn't know there was one until now.

Genres: Mystery, Horror, Psychological, Thriller

Summary:  

Doubt revolves around a fictional cell phone game called "Rabbit Doubt", in which the players are rabbits in a colony; one of these players is randomly chosen to act as a wolf infiltrating the group. Each round, the rabbits guess which is the wolf as the rabbits are eaten one-by-one until only the wolf is left.

In the story, four players of the "Rabbit Doubt" game Yū Aikawa, Eiji Hoshi, Haruka Akechi, Rei Hazama and a non-player Mitsuki Hōyama meet to relax together. They are knocked unconscious and awaken in an abandoned psychiatric hospital to meet Hajime Komaba and discover Rei hanged. The group find Rei's cell phone and realize that they're playing a real-life game of "Rabbit Doubt". To survive, the wolf, described as the liar, must die.

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Summary found on  Wikipedia*

Ai Yori Aoshi

     No, way;I remember this manga/anime~! I can't believe I found this on Funimation's channel on Youtube.com uploaded this ^^ I just wanted to share really quick because I haven't posted anything in a while.

Ai Yori Aoshi  is a Japanese seinen manga written and illustrated by Kou Fumizuki and serialized from 1998 to 2005 in Hakusensha's Young Animal. It is a love story between two characters who haven't seen each other in years but were once childhood friends. (Wkipedia.com)

Genres: Romance, Comedy, Drama, Harem

Summary: 
 
Kaoru Hanabishi appears to be an average university student, but in reality, he's the eldest son of Yūji Hanabishi, the head of the Hanabishi Zaibatsu, and was set to take over the zaibatsu after his father retired. His mother, Kumi Honjō, and his father never married, making life difficult for both him and his mother. Kaoru's father died when he was five years old. Since then, Yūji's grandfather, Gen'ichiro Hanabishi, took Kaoru under his wing and began educating him for the eventual succession. Yet Kaoru never felt at home in the Hanabishi family and left to live alone in self-imposed exile after his mother died. Day by day he felt alone, thinking that he was living life with no reason pushing him on.
There was, however, a person who loved Kaoru so much that she had to do whatever was necessary to be with him.

Her name is Aoi Sakuraba. Aoi is the only daughter of the owner of the Sakuraba Kimono (Dry Goods in the manga) Store (later renamed to Sakuraba Department Store). Kaoru's family and Aoi's family had accepted for Kaoru to marry Aoi, but after Kaoru walked out, the marriage was canceled. Both families had a friendly relationship and Aoi had been in love with Kaoru from the start, which Kaoru was unaware of. The Sakuraba family had already been searching for someone suitable, but Aoi was unwilling to marry someone else and walked out, chasing Kaoru.

Both were freed from their families' affairs, but did not know how to make their living. Miyabi Kagurazaki, who had been looking out for Aoi, offered the two a way. Aoi and Miyabi would live together in a grand western style summer house owned by the Sakuraba family and Kaoru would live in a house for servants next to it. This would prevent a scandal, much like the one that had made Kaoru's life difficult, as the two would be living separately. But soon, Kaoru's friends, who just happen to be attractive females, took residence in the house, and it quickly became a dormitory. Very soon, Aoi became a landlady of the dormitory.

(Spoiler for some who haven't read/watched this manga/anime) 

Kaoru eventually comes to terms with his painful past by confronting the Hanabishis. Later, Kaoru's half brother attempts to gain control of the Hanabishi Zaibatsu by marrying Aoi, but Kaoru meets her father who accepts Aoi's relationship with him, foiling his half-brother's plan. The series ends with Kaoru and Aoi having their long awaited wedding.

Ai Yori Aoshi on youtube

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Suggestions?

     Do you have a manga or anime that you love and want to see it on this blog? Please leave a comment or email me with said manga/anime (plus the author) and I'll post it up :3 See my complete profile for my email and leave your name so I can put it in the post as well~
 

Webtoons

     My general opinion of webtoons is pretty simple, I don't care for them. I have tried reading many; different genres and plots, but it doesn't matter. Whenever I read a "chapter" (which almost always consists of six long pages) I feel like a child was written it. There isn't really a plot, the author is trying too hard to be funny, and the characters are bland. To be blunt, I feel like it was waste of time to even try and read it.
     That is just my opinion though and if anyone has found webtoons that are in fact interesting please let me know. I'm starting to feel that webtoons is a wasted "genre" on Mangafox.com.

A Certain Magical Index

A Certain Magical Index by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura is a manga I'm sure I read before. Scrolling through FUNimation's channel on youtube.com I came across it and from just reading the summary I knew I did. It was interesting and I felt like I was opened to a different world (even though it similar to our own).

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci- fi

Summary:
 
In a world where magic is as real as science, high-school student Kamijo comes to the aid of a young nun named Index. She's on the run from a magic society that covets the massive library of forbidden knowledge stored in her memory.

Watch it here on Youtube.com :3

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Update: Ryuu Wa Tasogare No Yume O Miro

Hey readers~
You have no idea how happy I was when I went on Mangafox.com and saw that chapter 4 to Ryuu Wa Tasogare No Yume O Miro had been posted up ^^ Just in case no one else knew I decided to post that information up here.  I put the summary up for this manga about a month ago, I'll leave a link to it here: Ryuu Wa Tasogare No Yume O Miro summary~

Mobile Manga Reading

     Travel a lot? Want to read your favorite mangas on the road but don't want to carry the whole entire series with you? Then, if you don't already now about it, let me tell you something awesome~ Mangafox.com actually has a mobile version to there website located at the bottom of the page in tiny print.
     I am not sure if other sites are doing it too but in my opinion they should; get with the times! This mobile version works great on my phone, not a lot of ads that take over the screen and such but sometimes the print is too small for me to make out which pisses me off. I know its not mangafox but the groups who are posting these chapters up to blame - and at the same time I love them because if it wasn't for them there wouldn't be such a thing as online manga reading. ::Sigh::
     Anyway, the site itself is mangafox.mobi/ and I hope this has help and/or made you as happy as I am with its discovery~

2,000 views~!

     Yay to over 2,000 views~!! Thank you guys so much, it really makes me want to make as many new post as I can ^^

     Lately I have been slowing down on the manga and watching more anime or reading fanfics (which I was playing with the idea of starting a blog for that as well - we'll see~) while trying to get some much needed work done. But worry not, manga is still the love of my life lol. I actually just finished reading a new one - or new to me - that I found while searching up information for a new story idea and will post it up here in no time.

     On a different note, isn't it awful that FUNimation will no longer be available on Fios? I don't know what to do with myself! Yes, I watched a lot of it on Youtube.com but I will miss it on my tv (~_~) I think the letter I got in the mail said it will stop airing on 3/15/12... so sad TT~TT   

     Okay, enough tears. Thank you viewers again~! See you in the next post ^^

Naruto / Bleach

Of course I couldn't have a blog like this and not have Naruto or Bleach on it. Two of the most popular mangas out right now, and for good reason. They both have animes, however, I prefer the mangas. Both are on almost all of the manga sites online though I will list below a few.

These mangas are sold in almost every bookstore so there is no excuse not to buy it and available online to purchase as well.    


Summary (Naruto by Kishimoto Masashi):
Genres- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Martial arts, Shounen, and Supernatural.

In another world, ninja are the ultimate power–and in the village of Konoha live the stealthiest ninja in the world. But sixteen years ago Konohagakure was attacked by a fearsome threat–a nine-tailed fox demon which claimed the life of the Hokage, the village champion. Today, peace has returned, and a trouble making orphan named Uzumaki Naruto is struggling to graduate from the Ninja Academy. His goal: to become the next Hokage. But unknown to Naruto and his classmates, within him is a terrifying force . . . The Nine-tail fox...

Summary (Bleach by Kubo Tite):
Genres- Action, Adventure, comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural
Ichigo Kurosaki has always been able to see ghosts, but this ability doesn't change his life nearly as much as his close encounter with Rukia Kuchiki, a Shinigami and member of the mysterious Soul Society.

While fighting a Hollow, an evil spirit that preys on humans who display psychic energy, Rukia attempts to lend Ichigo some of her powers so that he can save his family; but much to her surprise, Ichigo absorbs every last drop of her energy.

Now a full-fledged Shinigami himself, Ichigo quickly learns that the world he inhabits is one full of dangerous spirits and, along with Rukia, it's Ichigo's job to protect the innocent from Hollows and help the spirits themselves find peace.

Both Mangas can be found on Mangafox.com and AnimaA.net but please buy a copy. 

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Anatolia Story

Anatolia Story (Red River) by Shinohara Chie is an older manga but that doesn't mean anything at all. Its great plot and character building will really pull you in. Genres are Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Mature, Romance, Shoujo, and Supernatural.

I'll just say flat out that I'm a sucker for time travel stories, whether good or bad I will read them to see where they are going. I didn't have to worry with this one; this manga was great!

Summary:
Yuri lived the peaceful, average teenage life until Queen Nakia drew Yuri across time and space into the ancient Hittite Empire to use her as a sacrifice! Yuri meets many different friends throughout her journey to find a way home, but when the season of the North Star comes, enabling Prince Kail to send Yuri home, can she make it back, or have her growing feelings for Kail become too much? Check out Anatolia Story to find out!

On a sad note, this manga has been uploaded and removed from almost all the manga sites I do look at before buying the book. But I see it is on Manga2U.com and Mangareader.net; for how long, who knows...
However, as always, I recommend this for your manga collection. I have seen it in many bookstores and on Amazon.com.

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