It has been the nature of anime fans to compare romantic pairings in anime shows. I suppose that one trademark of a great romance anime is that people would always be comparing that their favorite pairings in such anime – … Continue reading →
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The May issue of Bessatsu Shounen Magazine has announced that Jin Kobayashi, the mangaka of School Rumble, is currently working on a new series called “Ichiro Heian!” (translated as Have a Safe Trip!). Not much... Related posts:To Love-Ru’s Mangaka To Launch New Manga! Fullmetal Alchemist’s Mangaka to Start New Series This April High School Of The Dead Gets Anime Adaptation!
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You know, School Rumble just hasn't been treated very well as a franchise, has it?   In Japan, Kobayashi-sensei doesn't resolve certain plot threads from what I understand (though one could say that there are resolutions made in the 1-volume School Rumble Z).  Del Rey fell very far behind the Japanese releases and ended up releasing its last volume (whether it is the final volume for Del Rey or
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スクールランブルSchool Rumble Manga 14-16 Omnibus --> BUY FROM RIGHTSTUF! ^_^I'd been waiting a while for the next installment of School Rumble from Del Rey. Fortunately, getting three volumes worth at once helps fill the spot.Summary/Synopsis: Things start with a ski trip for Eri, Tenma, Akira, and Mikoto with Tenma showing unexpected skills while in Central America, Harima finds a village full of
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For School Rumble fans, there is a breath of fresh air… It seems an special one-shot chapter of School Rumble was published in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine March issue. Kobayashi Jin’s new full-length series was announced to be serialized in the magazine. Now We wonder whats the strategy behind this move…to fix the ending, that shocked fans? Source: Natalie [...]
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School Rumble Volume 13 <--BUY FROM AMAZON!Summary/Synopsis: Tenma pretends to be Eri for the omiai and Harima, who's pretending to be the prospective husband, is more than happy to go along with this. Eri gets the omiai called off but isn't happy to learn that Harima has been helping her. However, she's forced to deal with Harima when Akira and Mikoto learn the details of recent events and
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Also, Trigun Maximum 12 and Golden Days 8 of 8. Toshokan Sensou: Love & War © Yumi Kiiro & Arikawa Hiro/Hakusensha Published in Indonesia as Library War - Love & War by Elex Media Komputindo Most Wanted manga this batch—by a hair on Harima Kenji's chinny chin chin—is School Rumble volume 5, which introduces us to Lala Gonzales, an exchange student who kicks a*se in Lucha libre wrestling. She
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Naruto © Kishimoto Masashi/Shueisha It sez 2009 10 28 on the downloadable STO file, but komikelex clarifies that Aoyama Gosho's Detektif Conan (Meitantei Conan) volume 55 is slated to hit bookstores and newsstands on the 30th. In this volume of the quintessential shounen tantei manga, we have the so-called leader of the Shounen Tantei-dan Genta accused of roughing up a foreigner, after said
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Pandora Hearts © Mochizuki Jun/Square Enix Upon coming of age, ducal heir Oz Vessalius is thrown into a sempiternal prison known as the Abyss for crimes unknown. Fate conspires to have him meet Alice, an Abyss denizen. Can the pair escape continued confinement in the Abyss in Mochizuki Jun's shounen fantasy manga Pandora Hearts? Elex finally releases the first of the GFantasy manga that were
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スクールランブルZI've not read School Rumble beyond what Del Rey has currently published. However, for some reason, I felt compelled to give the sequel manga School Rumble Z a try. I'm not exactly sure what Kobayashi-sensei was trying to accomplish with this one-volume manga, but I'm not sure he really succeeded in his initial plan and after the apparent abrupt end to School Rumble, I'm not sure he
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School Rumble Z Volume 1 Chapter 9 (manga)スクールランブルZ Chapter ♮9 "Patch Adams"SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Yakumo goes to the United States, where she is met by Tenma. Yakumo is impressed that Tenma knows how to drive and speaks good English. Driving to the hospital, the two sisters catch up with us learning that Sara and Harima are both roommates of Yakumo. Tenma teases Yakumo a great deal about
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Kuroshitsuji © Toboso Yana/Square Enix The asplosion of new Elex manga about gave me a heart attack — not to mention a deaf ear from my own Urusai! squeeing. The loudest Kyaaa~!, of course, was reserved for Sebastian, the Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji) who WANTS to debuts this August. (Upcoming manga listed lifted from the August Komikologi.) Elex August 2009 "Executive Summary" A more modest than
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Tireujeongi © Ra InSoo & Son ChangHo/Daiwon C.I. A strange aperture beckons brothers Ed and Alphonse Elric with the hope of restitution, even as the revolutionary transmutation circle nears completion in Fullmetal Alchemist volume 20. [Adapted from Amazon's volume 20 description (VIZ Media edition)] Meanwhile, in School Rumble—volume 1 of which streets next Wednesday—Kobayashi Jin-sensei
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School Rumble Z Volume 1 Chapter 10 (manga)スクールランブルZ Chapter ♮10 "Goodbye Again"SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: It is time for Tenma's class to graduate, so Yakumo and Sara get ready to leave while Eri makes sure Harima attends. At Yagami High School, Akira lets out the news that apparently Mikoto and Hanai are going to be sharing a room in a boarding house come spring, something they deny. This
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School Rumble Z Volume 1 Chapter 08 (manga)スクールランブルZ Chapter ♮8 "Secret Society"SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Karen is waiting for the late Imadori arrive for thier movie date and when he does, he's hitting on another girl and takes a beating from said girl. After the movie, Imadori again hits on another girl and again takes another beating, forcing Karen to carry him off. Karen is unable to say
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School Rumble Z Volume 1 Chapter 07 (manga)スクールランブルZ Chapter ♮7 "Madagascar"SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Karasuma and Tenma go on a date to the Tokyo Dome to hear Lala in concert when Napoleon (Harima's pig) arrives to tell him of a space monster attacking. Karasuma excuses himself, leaving Tenma to call Yakumo to come to the concert. Karasuma becomes the giant "Karasuman" and attacks this giant
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School Rumble, Volume 12-->BUY FROM AMAZON!Summary/Synopsis: At Tenma's birthday party, she's declared queen and gets to command her friends to do one thing each, including making Eri eat natto. Yakumo gives Harima a present since his birthday is one day off from Tenma. Harima gets summoned from the party to help "Nijō-jō-sensei," aka. Karasuma, in his latest manga. This is the ultimate irony
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Suzumiya Haruhi episode 8 was released and it sent shockwaves to the whole internet. Despite that, I took sometime to find out some information about the ending of School Rumble Z manga and it was shocking. For some, the ending has a final resolution, others just don´t accept the fact on how it ended. Here [...]
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Bad news for School Rumble fans. It seems the manga ends. Jin Kobayashi has ended his School Rumble Z high school romantic comedy manga in the June issue of Kodansha’s Magazine Special on Wednesday. Kobayashi drew a poster to commemorate the ending. He had just launched this manga spinoff of side stories in August, one month [...]
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夏のあらし��� Episode 01(Summer Storm) SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: YASAKA Hajime lives in his grandfather's home with a girl named Arashi. Hajime is a genius and has created Ichigo Bakudan (Strawberry Bomb) for his independent school homework -- a strawberry on the outside but filled with the peppers and wasabi on the inside. Arashi decides the name should be "Cutie Strawberry-chan" and that's what
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