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as far as Manga goes I like to read Death Note and BO-BO-BO!
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To be honest, I think I've read more manga than I've seen of anime XD I can't name all the manga I have, but here's a list of them all.
Though my favorites at the moment are Sailor Moon, Fruits Basket, Ouran High School Host Club, Death Note, and +Anima.
I hated DearS and Sorcerer Hunters. WAY too much fanservice, and I got those manga without even knowing they had any
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I've been reading manga for a few years now... For shonen, I'm currently into Karakuridoji Ultimo, D.Gray-Man, Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, Kuroshitsuji and Fairy Tail. :U And I'm semi-following Air Gear and Sket Dance.
What else...? Well, my very first manga was Tsubasa. And I started reading xxxHOLiC around the same time so I guess that counts, too.
My favorite manga of all time is Shaman King, though. <3 I've got 22 volumes of it so far... Only 10 more volumes left to collect! I also hope to collect its Kan Zen Ban if it ever gets translated into English... I also want the Mentalite BADLY...! OTL
Currently collecting Shaman King, Tsubasa, xxxHOLiC, Death Note, Mahou Sensei Negima!, The Wallflower, Tenipuri, Yotsuba to!, D.Gray-Man and... other embarrassing manga.
(LOL, everything I like is so mainstream. OTL)
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K_V_N wrote:
I'm new to manga reading. A friend of mine transferred the whole six gigabytes of it on my laptop. I have already read one of them - Love Hina. I lack words to describe how I felt when I read it and when I finished reading it. Saying shortly, I was happy when I read it, and I was sad when I finished reading it. I also have four or five other manga books, and I'll read one when I finish watching "The twelve kingdoms."
Lol, when me and my mates were young (7-ish) we thought Love-Hina was gross (it was in our library) because there were some naked girls in it. But I enjoy reading it now, as well as fruit baskets~
I also have the Phoenix Wright manga. It's awesome, especially the ramen shop one
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I love Battle Royale; gory, sexy, funny and drama all roled into one. Perfect series for me.
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Also it is sort of embarrassing to have people look over your shoulder to see what your reading only to see a naked woman fucking the shit out of some guy or have people ask you why you are reading backwards.
Nothing.
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K_V_N wrote:
I'm new to manga reading. A friend of mine transferred the whole six gigabytes of it on my laptop. I have already read one of them - Love Hina. I lack words to describe how I felt when I read it and when I finished reading it. Saying shortly, I was happy when I read it, and I was sad when I finished reading it.
I stopped reading Love Hina. I read Negima (by the same guy) before it, and I was so disappointed when I realised that both were pretty much the same (both have a guy living with a bunch of girls, there's one girl that the guy becomes attached to more than the others. They also have the same type of characters.) Unoriginality annoys me..
I've read manga for about 5-6 years, since my brother forced me to get Dragonball out of the library. I'm mostly into Shonen - Dragonball, Black Cat, Yu-Gi-Oh etc. Black Cat's probably one of my favourite manga of all time ^^
I also like slice-of-life manga, like Azumanga Daioh and Yotsuba&! (both by Azuma Kiyohiko).
But Shojo seriously freaks me out. I've never understood the appeal of Fruits Basket. And then there's stuff like Guru Guru Pon-chan which is freakishly stupid (sorry if anyone likes it.) I also don't like anything by CLAMP - I just don't like their art style, which is a shame, because I liked the story of xxxHolic (well, what I read, anyway.)
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Chloebabes wrote:
DearS was similar to Chobits.
I love Battle Royale; gory, sexy, funny and drama all roled into one. Perfect series for me.
I love Battle Royale; gory, sexy, funny and drama all roled into one. Perfect series for me.
Yesss. Battle Royale was excellent.
My favorite version of the story, with the novel close behind (I wasn't a big fan of the movie). Kiriyama was always my favorite!I've been reading a lot of manga lately myself, and my favorite genres are psychological, seinen, horror, and yuri. Some of my personal favorites are Monster, 20th Century Boys, Battle Royale, Pluto, MPD Psycho, MW, Maka-Maka, and Fushigi Yuugi.
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I used to be really into manga, but these days my collection consists of random volumes of GTO, Yakitate Japan, Sumire 16 and 17, Yotsubato!, the redrawn Azumanga Daioh volumes, and random doujinshi(Mandarake is a place you all wish you could go to |D). Whatever else, I look up online for analyzing various styles I can try practicing and so on.
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In the past I loved Death Note, Buso Renkin, NANA, Fruits Basket, and Secret Sweethearts.
I need more Case Closed manga.
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I was all over the place, some Shonen - but not everything, mostly YuGiOh! - several Shoujo things, slice-of-life, drama, etc, etc. Recently, I'm going for horror as well. Boy was Another creepy! Then again, that big reveal in that thing was kinda dumb as it was completely out of nowhere.
I got the first four volumes of Fruits Basket and it was nice, mostly followed it in Daisuki - bought Daisuki mostly for Skip Beat! - but eventually lost interest in it. It took way too long, things got complicated and kind of boring, too. I read the last chapter and some information on the in-between stuff and.... meh.
Similar with Kare Kano, actually. Started reading it, lost interest and lost contact with it. Reading up what happened, I'm wondering why the mangaka suddenly decided to write story after story after story after story about the minor characters that barely had any limelight in the first place. I mean, if it's about the Kareshi-Kanojo main character couple, I wanna read about them.
In general, though, I lost interest in majority of Shoujo Manga.
It's the same thing over and over again, following the same formula and that is just really boring. I mean, how many times do I have to read about a girl getting her first kiss stolen from this jerk-from-school who turns out to be a really nice guy, after all? Or even her cousin/childhood friend turning up and saying they've loved her for a long time.
Although some Shoujo Manga I still read.
Say I Love You is my favorite. Screw Megumi, I don't care about her, I'm glad they are focusing on Mei and Yamato again. I like the way it focuses on how they act in their relationship, with each other and their friends.
I also read Kyou Koi who Hajimemasu, although... I really, really, really want to slap Tsubaki. What a f***ing doormat! But I kept going, it also focuses on the trouble in relationships and growing in it.
Although I'm seriously wondering if I should give up, considering what Kyouta says on this page! What the hell? It sounds like he's saying, "How dare my girlfriend be happy when I am not around!?"
What a dickweed...
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Emiko Gale wrote:
Oh my! I am currently reading the Say "I love you" anime...And I like it so far. One of the characters looks similar to Dahlia.
???
Oh right, Aiko!
Yeah... I love that manga. It isn't the typical exaggerated or stupid things going on. Heck, for the most part it goes into the characters, their previous experiences, reasons why they act now they way they do. And, for the most part, the relationship between Yamato and Mei is really believable - Mei being rather introverted can cause small things to become a big deal, but mostly to her. The way they talk to each other, especially when they say how something bothers them what the other does, it's the way couples talk to each other. That's what I love about this manga! The couple talks to each other!
It's not the case of, "I saw my boyfriend with a girl in a random, entertainment-filled part of the city! I will now give him the cold shoulder and continuously say that Nothing is wrong!"
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CatMuto wrote:
Emiko Gale wrote:
Oh my! I am currently reading the Say "I love you" anime...And I like it so far. One of the characters looks similar to Dahlia.
???
Oh right, Aiko!
Yeah... I love that manga. It isn't the typical exaggerated or stupid things going on. Heck, for the most part it goes into the characters, their previous experiences, reasons why they act now they way they do. And, for the most part, the relationship between Yamato and Mei is really believable - Mei being rather introverted can cause small things to become a big deal, but mostly to her. The way they talk to each other, especially when they say how something bothers them what the other does, it's the way couples talk to each other. That's what I love about this manga! The couple talks to each other!
It's not the case of, "I saw my boyfriend with a girl in a random, entertainment-filled part of the city! I will now give him the cold shoulder and continuously say that Nothing is wrong!"
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In that case I am looking forward to watch the rest of the anime. This is the one anime I don't plan to spoil, and I must admit that nothing is predictable.
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Anyway, Princess Knight is about a girl who is raised as a prince due to a law that prevents women from ruling the kingdom. Certain players hungry for the throne (such as the Duke, who just happens to be next in line) have suspicions about the prince's true sex and are constantly scheming to bring the truth to light. But should they get their way, is that the end of it? (Pfft... come on, you know better than that.)
You can tell Princess Knight was heavily influenced by Disney, not just by the story, but by the character designs as well. The main character, Sapphire, looks like the love child of Snow White and Betty Boop (I'm told Mr. Tezuka was a fan of Betty Boop as well). Except for the occasional curse, it's pretty rated G, which is interesting with all the references to Heaven, Hell, Christianity, and Greek/Roman mythology. (Some of it tends to be far-fetched, but y'know, it's part fairytale...you either go with it or you don't.) I'd recommend it if you have a love of shoujo manga/anime, or even if you're just curious about manga in earlier days.
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Emiko Gale wrote:
CatMuto wrote:
In that case I am looking forward to watch the rest of the anime. This is the one anime I don't plan to spoil, and I must admit that nothing is predictable.
Anime?
...Oh that thing has an anime, right. I remember my colleague mentioning it at one point, when we were talking about manga. Well, I haven't watched the anime - I'm focusing on the manga. How is the anime? Does Mei still have those cute, dead eyes that seem to always look upwards?
Speaking of manga, a few months ago, I stumbled over Glass Mask.
I heard about it vaguely at times, then decided to read it. It started in 1975, so some of the stuff shown is pretty old and it is extremely heavy on clichés and things that are supremely predictable. I've re-read the entire thing twice now, there are moments I like to read over and over, because I enjoy reading them.
The drawing style is extremely shoujo and can be a bit off-putting... heck, those eyes still freak me out at times. And whenever there's a new play going on, we have the obligatory Maya (or Ayumi) has trouble getting into her role, a few chapters focus on the normal way she does it, then she does something spectacular or unusual and, Bam!, she understands the role and is pretty much perfect when playing it.
But we're getting to the Crimson Goddess (Kurenai Tennyo) stuff now, which is really interesting. Well, obviously, since we've spent about 35 volumes of the damn manga jizzing all over how awesomely awesome that play is.
What I really like about the manga, though, is that you can see how the art became better and better.
Heck, look at Maya from volume 1 and then from volume 38 you barely recognize her. Okay, it helps that she grew up from a 13 year old and is now about 18 - 20 years old... but the evolution of the art is amazing! I believe the series was on hiatus for a long time and was just recently started up again.
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Emiko Gale wrote:
The animation is really nice, and Mei does have dead-vampire-like eyes. And kitties, kitties everywhere.
I looked at a picture of the main chars in anime-style and it really looked boring... to me, Aiko was always a redhead and Asami blond. And Mei doesn't look quite as interesting, dead-eyed as in the manga...
I have a problem.
I want to re-read this manga that I stumbled upon a few months ago, but I forgot the title. It had to do with a kid being transferred into a school, but the teacher who takes care of him tells him that he actually came through a giant TV Screen that shows a parallel world, which is the kid's real home. The kid's interaction with his classmates and other people can end up influencing those people's parallel world counterparts and he's generally given a time-frame in which he can still fix things before terrible things happen in the parallel world - generally resulting in thousands of people dying.
Memorable parts of the manga are the Pocky Garden Patch, the kid always turning into a darker personality just as the time-frame given to him gets to the deadline and blatanly telling what a poor loser or idiot the opposite is and the same page used over and over and over again, whenever we get to the part of the chapter where the kid is called to the teacher, so he can be told how he fucked up the parallel world somehow. Also a pair of opposite-gender twins where the boy likes to cut off people's ears and store them in his cupboard.
I thought the title had Kuro or Para in the title, but I haven't found it yet.
I can't even remember the character names very well.
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CatMuto wrote:
I looked at a picture of the main chars in anime-style and it really looked boring... to me, Aiko was always a redhead and Asami blond. And Mei doesn't look quite as interesting, dead-eyed as in the manga...
Well I'll admit, the art style wasn't the most original I have seen. To me Yamato looked like Sebastion from Kuroshitsuji and Mei looked like Yuki from Vampire Knight. But I am watching the anime right now and it's lovely and feels more realistic than most slice of lifes that are all smiles and comic relief.
And the kitties, this time they look realistic and not too cartoonish, not that that's a minus for me but it caught my attention.
I think there is also a live action version...I could be wrong.
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Bad Player wrote:
Every manga I read either goes on hiatus or has the scanlation group die
I know how you feel...I wish NANA would come to a bloody conclusion already. :(
NANA has been one of my favorite animes ever since I was 14...Even though the it's an adult anime with adult situations that I couldn't relate to at the time...I'm even 18 and I still can't relate. Well, now that I think about it...I probably can now.
The animation was pretty, the characters were fleshed out and were realistic, and the story was nice and had some great symbolism. And this anime is probably how I started to find other females attractive. I mean I'm straight and all, I still find other females attractive and I couldn't deny how cute Nana Komatsu was and how smoking hot Nana Osaki was.
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The title of the manga is "Torikago Gakyuu (Birdcage School)"
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It was cool, kinda confusing and I couldn't predict things, which I loved. Most of the manga, I can predict what will happen and that just takes the fun away for me... but here, the reveal was so that I had no idea what it was, that was quite interesting.
In 1998, Sakakibara Kouichi moves to Yomiyama and lives with his grandparents because his father is on a business trip to India. Due to a collapsed lung, he misses the first day of his new school and comes across Misaki Mei. When Kouichi enters Yomiyama North Middle School and gets put into class 3-3, he sees Mei again, but quickly realizes that his class is somewhat weird. They act like Mei doesn't exist. Wondering if he's seeing things that really don't exist or if his class is just weird in that way.
Eventually, Mei explains things.
In 1972, twenty-six years ago, the honor-roll student Misaki from class 3-3 died. However, his classmates pretended that he was still alive and well, that he even graduated with them. This, however, resulted in something like a curse being set onto class 3-3 from then on.
Every year, there will be an 'extra student' in class.
This person is actually dead, but their memory and the memory of everyone around them as been altered so that they don't know that fact. Because that person exists in that class, the universe is instable and it results in at least one student dying every month for the entire school year, until graduation. To counteract this curse, the class has learned to pick one person from the class to ignore and 'become dead'. By ignoring that person, the inbalance is tricked and nobody will die all year long, as long as the chosen 'dead person' is ignored by everynoe in class, including the class teacher.
I think it's a pretty good manga, scary and keeping you on your toes. It's especially terrifying as the curse can also affect the students' families by up to 2 generations. So if you are the aunt, sibling or parent of a student, you are also in possible danger of dying at any given moment, if the curse is not dealt with through the above method. I haven't watched the anime yet, although I will when my husband is over, it'll be fun! Especially seeing some of the grizzly and disgusting death scene..!
Although I have to admit, reading the manga and getting towards the end blew my mind...
Spoiler: Huge spoiler for the end of Another!
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And I heard the anime sucked.
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Emiko Gale wrote:
I know about Another I just never watched it/read it because I am not a fan of the horror genre.
And I heard the anime sucked.
And I heard the anime sucked.
How can an anime with this art for characters suck? Okay, what I read from the anime is that some classmates - actually, several more people - get killed that never died in the novel or manga to begin with. And some of the deaths are very illogical or weird - dying from an anyeurism and then getting chopped to bits by a motorboat? Falling down stairs and getting stabbed through the neck by the metal point of an umbrella? Several of them are disgusting, but... eh, I guess that just makes the curse seem more terrifying.
I'm not a very big fan of the horror genre, either.
I can't play RE games or F.E.A.R. because of those reasons and I have my own limit of gore that I can look at - heck, one scene in the Another manga, I felt like I should stop reading cause it was disgusting - but here it sort of was done pretty well. At least, in the manga and I'm re-reading it right now, looking for hints for the above spoiler. For the most part, it actually sort of becomes more of a mystery at first...
Especially if you look at the english translation that guessed wrong about 1972!Misaki's gender and the main heroine being called Misaki Mei. To be honest, until the reveal of the entire plot with ignoring the classmate, I thought that 1972!Misaki is Misaki Mei and Sakakiba was really just imagining her being there.
Course, I was wrong.
Overall, I guess this is the type of manga I'd suggest to people - whether they enjoy the horror genre or don't. Although, like I said, to me it mostly felt like a mystery, once you get past the death scenes. And even those - except for one - are kinda... well, not that bad. One of them I find a bit hilarious since a character we've never heard about dies over the phone from a heart attack.
Then again, I have been known to have a very macabre kind of humor... *see my laughing at various things said in Katawa Shoujo*
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Well actually I guess I don't completely dismiss the horror genre because when I was in high school I was really interested in When The Cicadas Cry...And I was addicted to the death scenes even though some of them looked unrealistic...And I have to admit looking back they weren't too bad. I've seen worse in Mortal Kombat.
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CatMuto wrote:
Has anyone read the manga based on the light novel or seen the anime based on the manga based on the light novel of the mystery-horror genre called "Another"? I read the manga a while ago, in one go - I stayed up until almost 4 or 5 AM to finish it, although it's not that long. It's only about 20 chapters long or so...
It was cool, kinda confusing and I couldn't predict things, which I loved. Most of the manga, I can predict what will happen and that just takes the fun away for me... but here, the reveal was so that I had no idea what it was, that was quite interesting.
In 1998, Sakakibara Kouichi moves to Yomiyama and lives with his grandparents because his father is on a business trip to India. Due to a collapsed lung, he misses the first day of his new school and comes across Misaki Mei. When Kouichi enters Yomiyama North Middle School and gets put into class 3-3, he sees Mei again, but quickly realizes that his class is somewhat weird. They act like Mei doesn't exist. Wondering if he's seeing things that really don't exist or if his class is just weird in that way.
Eventually, Mei explains things.
In 1972, twenty-six years ago, the honor-roll student Misaki from class 3-3 died. However, his classmates pretended that he was still alive and well, that he even graduated with them. This, however, resulted in something like a curse being set onto class 3-3 from then on.
Every year, there will be an 'extra student' in class.
This person is actually dead, but their memory and the memory of everyone around them as been altered so that they don't know that fact. Because that person exists in that class, the universe is instable and it results in at least one student dying every month for the entire school year, until graduation. To counteract this curse, the class has learned to pick one person from the class to ignore and 'become dead'. By ignoring that person, the inbalance is tricked and nobody will die all year long, as long as the chosen 'dead person' is ignored by everynoe in class, including the class teacher.
I think it's a pretty good manga, scary and keeping you on your toes. It's especially terrifying as the curse can also affect the students' families by up to 2 generations. So if you are the aunt, sibling or parent of a student, you are also in possible danger of dying at any given moment, if the curse is not dealt with through the above method. I haven't watched the anime yet, although I will when my husband is over, it'll be fun! Especially seeing some of the grizzly and disgusting death scene..!
Although I have to admit, reading the manga and getting towards the end blew my mind...
C-A
It was cool, kinda confusing and I couldn't predict things, which I loved. Most of the manga, I can predict what will happen and that just takes the fun away for me... but here, the reveal was so that I had no idea what it was, that was quite interesting.
In 1998, Sakakibara Kouichi moves to Yomiyama and lives with his grandparents because his father is on a business trip to India. Due to a collapsed lung, he misses the first day of his new school and comes across Misaki Mei. When Kouichi enters Yomiyama North Middle School and gets put into class 3-3, he sees Mei again, but quickly realizes that his class is somewhat weird. They act like Mei doesn't exist. Wondering if he's seeing things that really don't exist or if his class is just weird in that way.
Eventually, Mei explains things.
In 1972, twenty-six years ago, the honor-roll student Misaki from class 3-3 died. However, his classmates pretended that he was still alive and well, that he even graduated with them. This, however, resulted in something like a curse being set onto class 3-3 from then on.
Every year, there will be an 'extra student' in class.
This person is actually dead, but their memory and the memory of everyone around them as been altered so that they don't know that fact. Because that person exists in that class, the universe is instable and it results in at least one student dying every month for the entire school year, until graduation. To counteract this curse, the class has learned to pick one person from the class to ignore and 'become dead'. By ignoring that person, the inbalance is tricked and nobody will die all year long, as long as the chosen 'dead person' is ignored by everynoe in class, including the class teacher.
I think it's a pretty good manga, scary and keeping you on your toes. It's especially terrifying as the curse can also affect the students' families by up to 2 generations. So if you are the aunt, sibling or parent of a student, you are also in possible danger of dying at any given moment, if the curse is not dealt with through the above method. I haven't watched the anime yet, although I will when my husband is over, it'll be fun! Especially seeing some of the grizzly and disgusting death scene..!
Although I have to admit, reading the manga and getting towards the end blew my mind...
Spoiler: Huge spoiler for the end of Another!
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I watched the Another anime, but don't know too much about the novel or manga (although I did see the novel in a bookstore once!). And yes, the deaths are very Final Destination-esque. But that just hammers in the curse, doesn't it?
For what you mentioned in the spoiler tag...
Spoiler:
Anyway, my two cents about Another: I wouldn't recommend it.
The first 10 episodes set up a nice spooky and mysterious atmosphere, and the twist is good-enough (although I'm not sure if it's quite fair xD), but in the final two episodes the characters just act so incredibly stupid that it ruined the entire series for me.
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Spoiler: Regarding the Spoiler of Another
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Spoiler:
Anyway, so it's settled: Another sucks
PS: Extended your spoiler tag, Cat (at the end of your post wasn't the worst stuff, but still stuff that (iirc) isn't revealed until pretty late, so)
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Speaking of manga, what about Hokenjitsu no Shinigami?
Or, the Deathangel of the Infirmary.
It looked weird, but it was comedy with some mystery stuff... I have to admit, I do wonder if it's weird that I find Hades-sensei rather attractive in his usual state. Although him with dark hair is also very pretty... But I haven't found the Scanlation working past chapter 58 up to now... Q_Q
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And I agree that the Another "spoilers" are kind of iffy, but I always prefer to err on the side of spoiler-tagging when in doubt. (Especially in plot-heavy or mystery stories)
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For example, Aerith's death.
I don't put that in spoilers anymore because... well, the game is 15 years old, everybody on the internet has mentioned it, so it's very, very hard to come across a person who has internet access and doesn't know about Aerith. If they really do not know about Aerith, I would like to ask them under which rock they've been living for so long...
Oh good, cause I wasn't sure.
See, I have come to realize that I have a very strange sense of things or people traits that I find attractive. Amongst, I recently realized that I seem to have a thing for older guys and especially if they are fathers or father figures... So I wasn't sure if thinking that Hades-sensei is hot would be weird...! I even like it when he does one of his creepy or scary faces.
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