Ngak disangka-sangka ternyata junjou romantica season 2 bisa juara ke-16 di anime grandprix 2009.
Apa yang mungkin menjadi daya tarik junjou romantica 2 y? Mungkin saja kisah cinta yang manis antara misaki sama Usami Akihiko <3

Cerita di junjou romantica 2 ini, masih bercerita tentang misaki sebagai tokoh utamanya.

tokoh-tokohnya yaitu:
Misaki Takahashi (高橋 美咲) & Akihiko Usami (宇佐見 秋彦) [pasangan]

Haruhiko Usami (宇佐見 春彦) [kakak usami akihiko]
Takahiro Takahashi (高橋 孝浩) [kakak misaki]

Hiroki Kamijō (上條 弘樹) <3 Nowaki Kusama (草間 野分) [pasangan]
*sebenarnya hiroki ini mantan pacar Usami Akihiko, lalu hiroki adalah asisten profesor Miyagi.

Yō Miyagi (宮城 庸) <3 Shinobu Takatsuki (高槻 忍) [pasangan]

Cerita junjou romantica season 2 yaitu mulai dari usami dapat penghargaan di penerbit marukawa. (pastinya udah tau apalagi yang udah baca komiknya)
Season 3 udah keluar silahkan ditonton
gendre: Comedy, drama, shonen-ai

What’s on the back: Misaki is struggling to pass his college entrance exams, and has taken up a tutor: the cool and sexy Akihiko Usami, who also happens to be a famous boys’ love novelist. At first, Misaki is disgusted by Akihiko, but slowly, Misaki realizes he may be develping feelings for the older man. And so begins the bumpy relationship of his odd couple, filled with comedy and pure romance.

Review: I decided to throw another Yaoi review at you guys. Junjo Romantica is one of the most popular in terms of Yaoi. The recent release of volume 10 even landed on the New York Times Graphic Novel Top 10 list. I was late  getting into Junjo Romantica, but I can see why it’s so popular.

In Author’s Pet (my last review), The main story was about an author and a student. Junjo Romantica, has that too, but a lot more steamier. Misaki is barely prepared to pass his college entrance exams, so his older brother recruits his friend to help tutor Misaki. Akihiko is an author of explicit boys love novels, accepted Misaki brother’s offer and became his tutor. Misaki soon discovered Akihiko’s profession and felt uncomfortable. But as time passes on, even though Akihiko is always up to mischief, Misaki finds himself falling in love with him.

Junjo Romantica consists of two story arcs within one volume. The second of arc is called Junjo Egoist. The great thing about this manga is that even though there are two separate stories in this volume, they somehow intertwine. Hiro was heartbroken by his first love. He was crying at the park when he met up with Nowaki, who tried to make him feel better. He later asks Hiro to help tutor him, but in truth, he just wanted to spend time with him. They both ended up with romantic feelings for each other. At first Hiro was confused of his feelings for Nowaki, because his first love still lingers. It seems like his first love is a hurdle he has to overcome.

The majority of BL manga has no plot, just a lot of sex scenes. How women write these stuff…I have no idea. But Junjo Romantica, actually has a story. I’m entertained throughout the pages of this volume. Honestly when I picked up this manga, I just wanted to see what the hype was. Even during a convention, if you don’t get it fast enough, they sell out pretty quickly. But after reading this volume, I can see why it’s so popular. The story is solid and you feel like you want to grow with the characters in the story. As of right now, my favourite character is Akihiko, whose persona I find very compelling.

The only thing that bothers me about this manga, is it’s art. At times certain panels looks too rough. The art itself is very sketchy looking and sometimes I have a hard time figuring out what’s going on because the author drew it too rough. Nevertheless, the art doesn’t really bother the story, it’s just my own pet peeves.

Final Thoughts: As of right now, Junjo romantica is climbing it’s way to the top of my favourite BL series list. I haven’t read too much of it, but I have the next 8 volumes in my TBR pile, so I’m looking foward to the character’s developments in the future. I also think that Junjo Romantica is a good starting point for people who are trying to get into the Yaoi scene.

Overall Grade: B+

Went to my tailor’s place this afternoon.

We’re finally going to start the project. I’m not even using my RM176 cloth because after contemplating a lot, I decided not to. It would’ve been a real waste to use the crepe side because the shinier side is really very pretty but just not suitable for my costume. I’m saving it to tailor other dresses. My tailor said that the amount of cloth can make 2 dresses But I have no occasion worth tailoring a dress for since the workmanship is quite a hefty cost when I can go to Telawi Street or Desa Sri Hartamas to get multiple dresses for the amount I’m paying to tailor one dress. There’s no function this year anyway so I’ll probably save it for next year because…

My cousin is getting married~! Congrats to Angel and Gary :3 Because of the both of you, I might get to skip a few days of school to go to Hong Kong next year to attend your wedding. And it would also be the first time attending a close family member’s wedding since I’ve only attended weddings of my grandparents’ niece/nephew/grandniece/grandnephew etc etc =A=  And I might be able to go shopping. Ahahahaha XD

I want to gooooooo but it’s not confirmed yet. It’ll probably be just my mom and I going since my sister will be in Australia for studies and my dad isn’t keen on traveling especially to major cities that are crammed and congested.

I’m gonna have an in-built petticoat in my cosplay dress *w* And I’m getting my wig soon. 8DDD

I’m glad that I didn’t go for Talent Hunt. I’m completely uninterested anyway. And why would I want to see people I don’t even like? I already have to tolerate them for 5 days a week. I  feel extremely uncomfortable around them so it’ll be pretty stupid if I went and felt miserable the entire time. SAY NO TO PEER PRESSURE. rotfl.

Vampire Knight you FAIL me. D: But you gave my friend and I a good topic to talk about.

My mom caught me reading Junjo Romantica last night.

Some new properties were licensed today:

Higurashi no Naku koro ni visual novel – This was picked up by Mangagamer, a company that specializes in translating doujin games. It’s definitely unexpected that the visual novel to the popular niche title Higurashi was licensed for a North America release. It’s scheduled to come out this Fall. Fans of Higurashi may want to try this out since the visual novel is what the entire franchise is based off of.

World Destruction: Sekai Bokumetsu no Rokunin – FUNimation announced today that they acquired this show. I don’t know much about the show to make any judgements on it but apparently it aired sometime last year and there’s a DS game coming out sometime next year. Also in other FUNimation related news, FUNi is launching a new site called “Shodojo” which is video portal / community type site similar to Crunchyroll. I don’t really know what to expect from it, but I find it kind of odd to start a new site when they already have the FUNimation online video channel.

Nozomi – Three new titles came out from Nozomi today. Junjo Romantica, Aria ~Arietta~ OVA, and Antique Bakery. I guess my predictions were right after all. It seems like Junjo Romantica and Antique Bakery are more targeted towards female anime fans, and I never was interested in Aria, but I’m sure there are a lot of fans happy right now.

Overall Anime Expo started off in a promising direction. We got some licensing announcements out of it and hopefully we get more as the days come. Here’s what you can expect later this week: Bandai has a panel tomorrow (Friday) and hopefully they will give us some good information. And I believe FUNimation has an industry panel on Saturday, so lets hope they saved the best for last.

Alright, so I deleted all of the previous posts because to be honest, they were stupid.

For those that don’t know, I’m Shini (Shini-chan on MAL), and I’d pretty much given up on this blog, but since Fall 2008 is just awesome as far as anime goes, I figured I’d blog the ones I’m really looking forward to.

Series I’ll be blogging:

Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka – amazing seiyuu cast. Just amazing.

Clannad ~After Story~ – a warning on this one. I am NOT a Nagisa fan. So I can’t guarantee an unbiased blog.

Toradora! – oh yes.

ef – a tale of melodies – been looking forward to this.

Skip Beat! – looks cute; heard the manga was really funny.

Nodame Cantabile Paris Chapter – well, it’s Nodame!

Maybe:

Kyou no Go no Ni TV (Today in Class 5-2) – I haven’t seen the OVA, but I’m hearing good things about it, so maybe.

Junjo Romantica – I saw the first season, but it isn’t really my kind of thing. /hides from mob of fujoshi

Heart no Kuni no Alice – An Alice in Wonderland spinoff for those that don’t know. It’s an OVA, reverse-harem, and has bishies, so why not?

Kuroshitsuji – Don’t know if I’ll get around to watching this one. I’ll watch the first few episodes maybe, and then we’ll see.

Tales of the Abyss – Maybe.

Vampire Knight Guilty – The first season was terrible. Absolutely terrible. I still have no idea why it was so hyped. I hear the manga is great, but I’m gonna hold off reading it until after watching this, for the sake of lessening the disappointment.

Kaname > Zero by the way.

And there you have it. Please don’t expect anything along the quality of RandomC, I’m not perfect d:

Para todos los amantes del yaoi, Moon Phase anunció que el sitio oficial de la serie de anime Junjō Romantica ha anunciado una segunda temporada para Octubre en Japón. La primera temporada y Junjō Romantica 2 (la segunda temporada) adaptan la historia “Boys-Love” o gay de Shungiku Nakamura. La primera serie se emitió de abril a junio de este año. La historia trata sobre diferentes parejas de hombres y sus vidas amorosas y cotidianas por igual.