Review review review~

I visited my cousin yesterday. She was just discharged from the hospital and staying at a hotel in Orchard now. I took the opportunity to visit her and at the same time drop by Kino to get Pandora Hearts 8D

...to find that they only have the chinese ones.

OTLLLLL

I don't think they'll release the english ones anytime soon. Just like Kuroshitsuji. WHIIINNEEEEEE.

Nevermind. I got myself 3 vols of World Embryo instead. I wanted to get Yozakura Quartet as well but I can't find vol 1. I'm gonna be broke anyway >.> My brother got Mushishi 3, Getbackers ?, Ar Tonelico 2 (Japanese).

I spent like... 4, 5 hours in the hotel room reading? @_@

Watched Ben 10: Race Against Time on the tv for a while too.

Anyways, time for another review of the latest manga I read~~

-Pandora Hearts
-World Embryo
-Mirai Nikki

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+Pandora Hearts+

The first time I saw the cover, the character resembled Loki from Matantei Loki Ragnarok so much that I thought the author was also Sakura Kinoshita. Apparently it's not. The art style of this manga is better and with much less simplification, compared to Matantei Loki Ragnarok. ITS THE ART STYLE THAT I'VE BEEN AIMING FOR SINCE FOREVER. Nghhh. I'm gonna stalk this author.

Oz Bezarius, 15, next heir to the royal Bezarius clan, encountered events during his coming-of-age ceremony that would change his life forever. Ambushed by his hypnotized servant Gilbert, he was captured by the Baskervilles and thrown into the Abyss, a prison that seems like something from another dimension. The Abyss reminds me of the N-field in Rozen Maiden. Random things just appear and float around there. And there's darkness everywhere. There, Oz met Alice, a powerful Chain taking the form of a girl. Her true form is a monstrous black rabbit. Chains are monster-like creatures that pop out here and there in the Abyss, eating souls. Just like those beings in Shakugan no Shana. Alice was a totally different Chain, with emotions and actions akin to that of a normal human being. She had awoken in the Abyss with no recollection, and after searching the Abyss for her memories in vain, she decided to escape the Abyss in search of her missing memories. She made a contract with Oz, and both escaped the Abyss with her power.

The rest would be spoilers so I'll stop here.

What was the great sin that Oz committed for the Baskervilles to want to lock him up in the Abyss so much? Will Alice ever recover all her memories? Why did she lose them in the first place? What was the true connection between her and Oz?

Thankfully, the series is still ongoing.

+World Embryo+

I started reading this because it's from the same author as Chrno Crusade. And I *love* Chrno Crusade. The design of the main character also caught my attention.

The Kanshu are creatures that travel by electromagnetic waves. When cellphones start ringing together at the same time in an area, chances are that area is in the range of a Kanshu. People who pick up their cellphones and listen to the sound of the Kanshu will be infected by it, and turn into Kanshu themselves. They'll be like zombies attacking other people.

Riku Amami, 16, student and orphan, went to his old abandoned orphanage in search for his elder sister Amane who was missing for 2 years. Apparently he received a photo of her on his cellphone with the orphanage indoor garden in the background 2 days ago, hence he went to look. He encountered a bunch of hooligans instead and was rescued by Rena Arisugawa and Yohei Takebe. Not long after, one of the hooligans was infected by Kanshu and went on a rampage. Several other Kanshu began to arrive at the building. Riku, separated from Rena and Yohei, escaped into the indoor garden and was almost killed by a Kanshu when there was a sudden flash of light. The Kanshu crumbled into dust and Riku found a giant cocoon which he believed was his savior. He took it back home.

Some time later, the cocoon hatched and out came a baby girl with red and white hair and strange ears that looked a lot like his sister Amane when she was young. She was named Nene cause that's the only thing she could say back then. So Riku and his mom decided to take care of her and raise her.

What followed was another Kanshu attack which released Nene's powers. Riku was turned into a Kanshu - except he still retained his human form. He just had white and red hair and incredible strength. With that, he managed to protect Nene and himself from the Kanshu attack. He was captured by NEFT after that, an organization that researches Kanshu to find the source of infection and eliminate it. People infected by the Kanshu have up to 72 hours before they lose their sanity and turn into wrecking monsters.

Read the rest yourself :)

I'm so in love with Riku's Kanshu-Jinki appearance~~ *swoon*

Who or what is Nene exactly? What does the future hold for Riku?

The series is still ongoing.

+Mirai Nikki+

I was discussing with my brother about the recent trend of psychopath teens butchering their friends in anime/manga and he suggested that I read this before I read Highschool of the Dead or Battle Royale. I'm just very into psychological thrillers and things like that :) Why do you think I love Deadman Wonderland and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni lol. I even watched all 4 Saw movies even when I'm not supposed to ^^

Yukiteru Amano, antisocial student, declines every offer to mix around with his classmates. Every day, every time, he writes in his cellphone diary of events taking place around him, claiming that writing in his cellphone diary and his imagination is all that he needs. He's also very into darts. He has a friend called Deus Ex Machina, Lord of Time & Space, whom he thinks is imaginary.

One day, Deus turns his cellphone diary into a Future Diary. It records down events taking place in a day, even when the events haven't taken place yet. At first Yuki took it as a joke, but found out it was true. He was horrified to discover that Deus wasn't just his imagination afterall. He was real, and a God, therefore able to live in people's imaginations.

Deus had picked 12 people as Future Diary Holders to compete and take each other out. The last survivor will he his successor and will be the next Lord of Time & Space. The identities of the 12 will not be revealed and they're supposed to use the powers of their diaries to help them. Since the diary is the Holder's future, destroying the diary will destroy his or her future, meaning he or she will die. Yuki, unaware that he was a participant at first, managed to change his future and averted his Dead End by killing the 3rd Holder before he himself was killed, with the help of the 2nd Holder, Yuno Gasai. Yuno is his classmate and his stalker. Her diary is called the Yukiteru Diary, which reveals Yuki's actions every 10 mins for the whole day. That's what I call an ultimate, psycho stalker. And yes, she's a psychopath. She'd KILL anyone who harms Yuki. And she's very skilled. Yuki's diary is called the No Difference Diary, which shows the events taking place around him.

The Diary Holders are able to change their futures depending on the actions they take. For example, if their diary shows that they'll encounter an accident, they have a choice whether to evade it or to go along with it. If they evade it, the future will change accordingly in the diary, and if they don't, the future will be as how the diary predicted earlier. If a Holder is going to die on that day, the diary will reveal how he or she dies and ends with a "Dead End" entry. A Dead End means that any other alternative paths that the Holder tries to make to evade death is shut. It will then take a miracle to turn the tables and escape the Dead End.

In short, it's a whole mess and jumble of predicting moves and changing your fates in a battle to trap and kill each other. This is gonna be fun @w@;;

Please don't read if you can't stand psychological thrillers with psychopath teens and kids butchering people. It's something like Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, just more... modern and confusing? I can tell this is gonna be more tensed and exciting compared to Higu 8D

The series is still ongoing.

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Well that's it for now :3

I'm gonna continue reading Mirai Nikki for a while and then go sleep. I didn't study today oh no :( I have Emaths mock exam tomorrow and I'm not sure if I have Physics as well. Ngh.