RoseMary's manga / #Older Female(80)

Ahh that was beautiful! Truly beautiful and heartfelt! But the ending honestly left me a bit unsatisfied, hanging...because I wanted to see a bit more of them after that. Especially going back, then, at the beginning! Like, in the very first page, we saw a bit-older Fuyuki going back to the hometown after 10 years, so what did he do in those years when he moved to the city and what will he do after returning back home? What happened to Chinatsu...did she follow the music path like Fuyuki thought she would or what? Did something happen to her maybe? And other things like that...Somehow it felt like some things were left hanging...Man, I want to know! Why did Kitagawa-sensei rushly ended it like that? Personally, I'd even have gladly welcomed if there was a sequel with a-bit-older Fuyuki and Chinatsu. It was too soon to say goodbye to these characters...I'd have loved to accompany them a bit more... Anyway, it's a bit of a pity. It was so nice and all while reading, also with such beautiful scenery, but the ending left a sense of incompleteness behind. It was still really good, but in the end I couldn't give it 5 stars. Enzo from "Hotman" appears in a few scenes here as a teacher at the elementary school the protagonists of the story, Chinatsu and Fuyuki, go to. Towards the end, Nanami appears as well, saying to Chinatsu she had transferred to the school here before her to recuperate better in a place with clean air. So the story is set a few years after the events of Hotman. At some point, maybe when Nanami's condition gets better, Enzo and Nanami will probably transfer back to their homeplace, where we see them in fact at the very end of Hotman, after the 10 years time skip.

// Brother x Sister // - Too bad it's hentai...I like it, but I would have been more interested in a proper plot, as it started out well, but it's a pity that it's all sex...it gets boring like this. I'd have loved this story with these characters if things developed differently at a slower pace, I think it would have been really good. Yeah, I really wish there was a non-hentai version!

1 Volume (Cancelled) - Sadly it seems it was cancelled...it seems it's finished with 10 chapters.

// Complete //

Adapted to JDrama

2 Volumes (Complete)

[From DokiDoki] Marion is a young schoolboy who prides himself on his adherence to a philosophy he calls "realism". Because of his distain for emotional display, he ignores anything remotely akin to affection. But when Marion is entangled in a romantic affair with an older courtesan, his rationalism is revealed to be little more than a cover for his own emotional immaturity. Learning to love, Marion blossoms under his older lover's care but unfortunately, Marion has yet to learn the true price of the affair. Anime movie: youtube.com / watch?v=59jcPt3HY1I - Beautifully done!

.•✬[]✬•. Densha Otoko / Train Man series - // Based on a True Story // A real-life thread on an Internet forum got so popular that it became a phenomenon in Japan and was adapted into many different types of media. > An otaku guy intervenes to help a beautiful lady who's being harassed by a drunk man on a train. Then, the woman thanks him for saving her and unexpectedly even asks for his address! A few days later, he receives a package from her, a thank-you gift. Not knowing what to think and do about it, he posts a query on the Web asking for advice... > Well, it wasn't exactly my kind of story or a story I generally would love to read, so I honestly wasn't wholeheartedly into it and so maybe I found it a bit boring because of that, but I read it all till the end and I appreciated it overall! Even if it isn't a fav of mine, it was definitely a really good story, justly deserving a high rating - 4 stars for me! It was well-structured, developed in the right portions throughout these three volumes; it had some beautiful romantic scenes with a very nice atmosphere during their dates and the conclusion was satisfying, wrapping the story up nicely! Oh, and I really liked the old-style drawings, which gave a vintage vibe to the story! 4 manga adaptations came out in 2005: > mangago.me / read-manga / densha_otoko_ganbare_doku_otoko / > mangago.me / read-manga / densha_otoko / > mangaupdates.com / series.html?id=6344 (not scanlated) > mangaupdates.com / series.html?id=6875 (not scanlated) Live-action Drama & Movie