Showing posts with label Hikawa Kyouko. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hikawa Kyouko. Show all posts

Friday, 24 January 2014

Manga through the eras + Sorry I've been MIA


Hello readers, I haven't been posting since I've been on two 1 week long trips (sorry I didn't cue anything) and I've been playing otome games like a mofo.
I also fell into a personal slump so I didn't want to force out crappy posts for no good reason. This blog is more of a hobby than anything.

I still have been reading manga so I'll short list some of the new manga series I've picked up below.
  1. 1985 - Cipher by NARITA Minako
  2. 1987 - Boku no Chikyuu o Mamotte (Please Save My Earth) by HIWATARI Saki
  3. 1990 - Viehmannin wa Utau by YAMAGUCHI Miyuki
  4. Hadashi no Aitsuby TAKADA Rie
  5. 1999 - My Sweet Dragon by SAKAKI Yuuka
  6. 2005 - Tenkuu Seiryuu by YAMAGUCHI Miyuki
  7. 2007 - Ten no Ryuu Chi no Sakura by SUMOMO MOMO
  8. 2010 - Scarlet Palace by YI Huan
  9. 2010 - Mairunovich by SATO Zakuri
I felt like it was appropriate to put them in chronological order since the 80s manga were definitely interesting but really draggy at times though after reading a review of Cipher, it all made sense. It was written for 80s teens (and Japanese teens at that) where time traveled slower and people actually went outside to have fun. I really enjoyed 80s manga like Miriam (1983) by Hikawa Kyoko if you're into investigative cowboy adventures.

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Manga Review: Kanata Kara


Name: Kanata Kara aka From Far Away
Author & Artist: Hikawa Kyouko
Chapters: Approx.  70 - Finished
Genres: Action,  Adventure,  Comedy,  Drama,  Fantasy,  Romance, Shoujo,  Supernatural

Plot: 
Walking home from school one day, Noriko is innocently caught up in a terrorist bombing. Rather than being blown to bits, she finds herself transported to another world; a world in which darkness seems on the rise, as its powers desperately search for a being known as the Awakening whom it is said will awaken the Sky Demon. She finds this new world to be dangerous and overwhelming, and Noriko has little choice but to throw her lot in with the mysteriously powerful man she encounters upon her arrival. The enigma of this world and her role in it will gradually unfold, but first things first: Noriko must learn their language!

Review:
This has got to be one of my favourites. It's a solid manga with nice, clean art from the 90s.

Noriko is your average Japanese school girl who's thrown into a pretty dangerous world. She does everything she can that's within her limits and doesn't get bogged down by the fact that she really can't help anyone fight off demons or the enemies. She doesn't sit around and wine, and when she gets captured she thinks calmly about the situation and tries to desperately escape. I could have easily seen her become a Miaka from Fushugi Yuugi...