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Saddletank
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NC - I have no idea! I suppose the only people who would are girls who've been to all-girl schools as well, but I can imagine that a lot of this is exploded out of all proportion because its a manga and aimed at a certain demographic. There's straight fan-girl stuff in some other manga, such as Kare Kano where Soichiro has a huge girl fan club as well. I presume most of it is made up and just a stylised thing to emphasize what the character is like.
I was totally surprised at Manga Fox putting an 'adult themes' label on it because there are no adult themes in the anime certainly; it is more a coming-of-age or slice of life story, it just so happens to involve girls who like girls rather than girls who like boys.
In the anime there is just one single kiss and no-one takes any clothes off at all. Oh, and some holding hands *gasp*
I just wonder if the manga goes further but having read it up to concurrent with where the anime ends I can't imagine from its sweet innocent style that there's going to be any smut or fanservice at all.
A boy-meets-girl story that had one kiss in it wouldn't be rated as 'adult themed' so why a lesbian story?
As to the anime I think its better than the manga; a few scenes were subtly tweaked and slanted just a little to give more edge and character emotion but in ways that you can see only a skilled anime director would think of while a more parochial manga author wouldn't.
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husky51
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Kazegami
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A few BL animes/mangas are set in all-boys schools, similarly. Sukisho and Gakuen Heaven... And in others that aren't set in school, there's barely a female in sight. Like Saddles, I assume the reality's skewed a bit to accommodate the author's ideas.
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I've been reading this shoujo manga that had a generic storyline, until half way through the first chapter. XD
Y'know, the 16-year-old girl who has never fallen in love. Reads shoujo manga and wants a romance like in her favourite one. Her friends laugh at her and people call her a loser for reading such a lame manga. Then in pops a new and hot transfer student who takes her heart in a second, as well as everyone else's..
Except, we soon figure out he's a delusional lunatic who is the mangaka of the series she likes who is an extreme pervert and has been stalking her and retrieving her thrown out love letters from her trash bin in her room. And follows her around while drooling and snapping photos of her and giving her silly nicknames.
But oh my god, this scene, when she finally thought he was human. XD He suddenly made this face and snapped a picture of her.
http://mangafox.me/manga/kimi_ga_suki_to...01/c002/41.html
It's also funny since even if she's a generic sort of character, when she got upset at him during one part she went all dark and said "That pisses me off". Bahaha it's funny.
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Oh I see, fair enough I was just wondering. And ahaha oh dear, no Saddles it definitely earns it's adult title somewhat in the manga. Thus far there isn't really anything tooo bad but several of the characters are seen naked, there is talk of sex and certain R-rated antics occur between characters (though you don't actually see it happening, or haven't yet anyway). I'm still sticking with it because the general vibe is still pretty sweet and innocent but it certainly isn't completely clean.
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Saddletank
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Oh, well, you've read further than me. I have only just begun the main characters' second year at school.
BTW the anime ends at the end of the 1st year, so nothing remotely iffy in that at all, just lots of relationship angst, family in-fighting and such. I think I may have said above its more like a slice of life story.
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husky51
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Kazegami
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OneManga is the one I always used to use, but I think it's been closed down. I use MangaFox now when I do want to read something.
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husky51
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fenkashi
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I read the end of Bokura Ga Ita finally. It has been so many years. <3 ;_;
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I use Mangafox too Husky I find it the easiest thing to do, since it's fairly difficult to get my hands on some of the newer mangas coming out.
It's also handy since if you make an account you can bookmark where you're up to in the manga and it lets you know when chapters have updated etc.
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fenkashi
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Oh, Batoto is a good one, Husky.
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husky51
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D.Gray-man, still. It's up to 215 chapters now, I think. This stuff's getting confusing. And Allen cries too much.
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Can you[who reads manga] give me a list of some decent Manga
Which are must read
like ghibli movies
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quote: Originally posted by saviour2012
Can you[who reads manga] give me a list of some decent Manga
Which are must read
like ghibli movies
Monster.
Best psychological manga I have ever read.
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Saddletank
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Kare Kano. Miles and miles better than the anime and really dark towards the end of Arima's story.
Be warned: 21 volumes.
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husky51
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quote: Originally posted by Saddletank
Kare Kano. Miles and miles better than the anime and really dark towards the end of Arima's story.
Be warned: 21 volumes.
21 volumes means how much
i heard one volume is like a telephone directory
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its a uniquely Miyazaki film, one only he could make and its uniqueness places it beyond being easily critiqued.[About Porco Rosso] taken from a quote of Saddletank and Orphic Okapi
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