Bakuman chapter 83, Bleach chapter 401 & Reborn chapter 287

Bakuman chapter 83



This was easily the funniest chapter of Bakuman so far. So Mashiro and Takagi ended up spending whole day following (...well, more like stalking) Hattori in order to find out about his weakness. (but the two ended up seeing some funny things as well as overhearing some encouraging words from him) Hattori and Iwase scene was totally hilarious. LOL (...and the two overhearing their conversation and trying to hold their laugh was even funnier) So it looks like Takagi finally got an idea for their next project. Let's see how things will turn out.


Bleach chapter 401


Aizen ended up embarrassing himself in the middle of his speech. LOL

So more of Aizen's 'mighty talk' and then Urahara finally shows up! (...but I'm kinda getting tired of this 'epic appearance' pattern in shounen mangas LOL) It was hilarious seeing Aizen getting interrupted by Urahara's sudden attack while evolving (as in Pokemon... LOL). I wonder what kind of epic appearance Yoruichi will have...


Reborn chapter 287



So not much happened other than seeing more of Vongola people and Shimon people together. (Does Julie like Chrome? LOL) ...and as expected, Enma is the Boss of Shimon. I have a feeling there's something fishy going on with Shimon people...


Oh and there's no Jump this week... Which means it's gonna be a boring week... TOT Other than these mangas I wrote about in this post, I follow 3 more series currently running in Jump by the way.

Pandora Hearts chapter 48

Oh darn, only 2 pages of Elliot... But since this chapter was pretty good overall(although not as good as the previous chapter which was a pure win in many ways), I was fine with it...


A little late post but anyway~ This chapter was mainly focused on Oz, Alice and Gilbert sneaking into Duke Barma's mansion to investigate about Isla Yula(aka the creepy dude who might be messing with the Nightray household).


Oz pretending to be Jack in order to deceive Isla Yula(who seems to be a big fan of Jack Vessalius<=yes, this is the official way to spell it). Wao, Oz... He was totally cool. >__<


Oz enjoying himself after making fool out of Isla Yula. Haha, he sure is one smart kid. ^O^


Oz is the king of drama. LOL His perfect acting led him to be successfully invited to Isla Yula's mansion. (LOL at Oz's face here)

Anyway I have a feeling there will be some plot twists in the next chapter. I think we might get to see Elliot's mother(who is also Gilbert and Vincent's step mother) pretty soon. I guess I'll stick around to blog more Pandora Hearts for now~

Ookiku Furikabutte S2 - ep 2

This was such an adorable and funny episode as usual. ^O^



Mihashi drinking too much to the point of his stomach going boingy... LOL LOL



My favorite scene in this episode. LOL Basically (due to Oki's advice)Abe tried to be patient with Mihashi without raising his voice when talking to him but obviously it was not that easy... LOL I can understand why so many fangirls are so into Abe Takaya. He is just a pure win. ^O^

Bakuman chapter 82 & Bleach chapter 400

Bakuman chapter 82


From right to left: Mashiro Moritaka, Takagi Akito, Nizuma Eiji, Fukuda Shinta, Aoki Ko(Aoki Yuriko), Hiramaru Kazuya and Shizuka Ryu)

Gosh, what a great chapter. So Hattori suggests that Team Ashirogi Mutou needs to come out with a serious manga with some serious humors in it'. I kinda get what that means. I like serious mangas with unintentional gags too. (Death Note has some so is Glass Mask<=this one has a LOT LOL and I love it) ...and Hiramaru's Otter 11 really looks like a great manga. (Why can't we have a manga like this one in Shounen Jump? -o-) Anyway Hiramaru was pure win in this episode. ...and it looks like Takagi got some clue when he looked at the post card from Hattori. Darn it, it's always painful to wait for the next chapter.


Bleach chapter 400


It looks like Gin is a huge fan of Dragon Ball Z.

So this was a pretty good action-packed chapter. It looks like Gin is pretty strong and his bankai's ability to extend 5 times faster than the speed of sound is quite fearsome. ...and most importantly Rangiku got her consciousness back and she saw Gin and Ichigo fighting!!! Since Komamura and Hisagi were involved with the battle against Tousen, most likely it's Rangiku's turn to shine. (Hell Yeah Rangiku) ...and about Aizen who is about to transform/upgrade, I'm not expecting much since as ridiculous as he is now, I'm sure it will be something out of this dimension again. LOL

Reborn chapter 286

Before I start, I have to note that from now on, I will not be blogging Reborn, Bleach and Bakuman every week. (Which I have been doing for a while) I'll cover all three mangas this week and probably next week also since all three of them ended with quite interesting development this week. ...and most likely I'll write about the upcoming Pandora Hearts chapter.

Anyway this was another good chapter. The fact that Simon family is such a small and weak family was kinda unexpected. ...and Hayato, Ryohei and Yamamoto's reactions at the news about Tsuna's inheritance ceremony was quite LOL. (Especially Hayato ^O^)


Tsuna daydreaming about marrying Kyoko. LOL (Wai~ Kyoko so pretty~ ^O^)


So Enma hates being involved in battles just like Tsuna. I feel sorry for him. (...and he got bullied again which made me sad)


After hearing cowardly words from Tsuna and Enma, Reborn hits some smash aces on the two of them. (Aww... Poor boys... But LOL it was drawn so funny...)


A new enemy shows up to interrupt the inheritance ceremony and Tsuna goes into hyper mode again. I hope to see Enma in action too.

Ookiku Furikabutte S2 - ep 1 & Spring 2010 new animes impression

Okay, I'm kinda late on this entry but anyway

KITA-------!!! ^O^

It's nice to see this series back again! ^O^ Oofuri season two(Ookiku Furikabutte ~Natsu no Taikai-hen~ as the full title for this season) started with a pretty good first episode with some nice slice-of-life moments.


Roka-san hidoi!!! TOT
Riou's older brother Roka is so mean! He called Riou a loser and said some horrible things just because Tousei lost to Nishiura... (But Riou kawaiiyo Riou LOL) He even asked Riou to get info on Nishiura using Tajima. I don't particularly dislike any character in Oofuri but I am not liking this Roka guy at all... -_-;


Mi-ha-shi!!! ^O^
Although Mihashi didn't have many lines in this episode, he was still pure win. Yonaga Tsunasa(Mihashi's VA)'s voice is just adorably awesome. LOL That soccer scene was so funny. (I bet Mihashi is not good at sports in general LOL)

Anyway I will try to blog this series from time to time but I cannot guarantee to write about it every week. But I want to blog about all the funny scenes involving Mihashi for sure. I love the new opening song by the way.


As for the new animes that aired this season, so far I've watched this one, Angel Beats!, K-ON!! 2nd season, Arakawa Under the Bridge and SD Gundam Brave Battle Warriors.

As for Angel Beats! I must say I'm kinda disappointed with the series... I expected something like Clannad(at least atmosphere-wise) but the first episode was not very good in terms of direction and characters. (...and most importantly, it wasn't particularly interesting despite the interesting setting it has) If this turns out to be better in the later part, I might pick it up again but for now, dropped.

I've watched the 1st season of K-ON! so I'm following the 2nd season also. I must say I'm still not very fond of this series but I don't mind watching since it's a light watch with frequent cute moments.(but as for 4-koma manga adaptation, I prefer Hidamari Sketch over this one) The first episode of the second season was a nice slice-of-life episode. Oh and I don't like the new opening. The ending is nice though especially the animation that goes with it.

Arakawa Under the Bridge is pretty funny. Some of the jokes were a bit overused but the first episode was entertaining in general. (I LOL'd so hard at that Kappa scene) ...and Kamiya Hiroshi did a splendid job voicing Kou. (It was so funny how he used various tones of voice for one character LOL) This series somewhat reminded me of Cromartie High School and Gintama. (...and Pyuu to Fuku Jaguar too, which hasn't gotten a TV anime yet) I'll definitely keep watching this one.

I don't have much to comment about SD Gundam Brave Battle Warriors. Each episode is only about 12 minutes long and the first episode was just so-so. But since it's a quick watch and I like SD Gundams(I've watched a few older SD Gundam series and I liked them all in general), I don't mind following this one either.

Reborn chapter 285

So Tsuna and Enma became friends for now. (Enma kawaiiyo Enma ^O^)


This scene was just so funny. Reborn's Tarzan cosplay was totally hilarious. (Ah, this was pretty much like how things were in daily life arc LOL) Poor Tsuna gets caught in the battle between Adelheid and Hibarin. LOL LOL

So in the end, Reborn reveals that the transfer students are from Simon family and they will attend Tsuna's inheritance ceremony as well. Now the thing is...will they get in Tsuna and other guardians' way? I guess we'll have to see about that.

...and naw, I didn't really like the fanservices used in this chapter. -_-;;; (But I found Koyo's nosebleeding scene funny LOL) Oh and Reborn got first in the ranking for this issue(the rank for the previous chapter I suppose), which was awesome. (I know One Piece was missing in this issue but it's still amazing, WAO)

Bakuman chapter 81 & Bleach chapter 399

Bakuman chapter 81



With Hattori's advice, Miura suggested to Mashiro and Takagi to try for a mainstream fantasy manga for the next serialization meeting so they did. But what the heck, the editorial department didn't even accept it for the meeting??? Now that the two only have one more serialization meeting to count on in order to stay with Jump, Mashiro and Takagi gotta come up with something really impressive next. So Hattori's motive was to let the two of them learn about different genres... I kinda see where that came from because I think they can combine some none-mainstream elements to a mainstream story to make a really good manga. Bakuman is probably the most fast-paced manga running in Jump. (At least from the ones I follow) Each chapter is full of character and story development. I must say story-wise, this is easily my favorite Jump manga right now.


Bleach chapter 399


Gin is bragging about how long his bankai can extend, LOL.

So nothing much happened except some more fights... Gin's bankai is...boring to be honest. It just extends longer while it looks the same as before. I wonder if he'll go resurreccion in the next chapter. Gin better gets more character development than Tousen because I know a lot of readers are looking forward to know more about him.

P.S. Gin and Walker(from Durarara!!) really do look similar. Hahaha... ^o^;

Random babbling of the day - Pandora Hearts manga

I finally got caught up with Pandora Hearts manga recently(up to chapter 47) and I must say it's getting really really interesting. There are so many things revealed during those chapters but at the same time, there are still many questions left to be answered. Mochizuki-sensei's art is getting more and more beautiful and I love how she planned out her characters so carefully.

...oh and I must mention that,




ELLIOT=TOTAL WIN ^O^

Haha, he sure is an awesome tsundere character. It's a shame that Elliot didn't get much appearance in the anime. Anyway it looks like he'll be one of the major characters in the next arc of the manga so I'm looking forward to it very much. (I'm thinking about blogging next few chapters~)

Bakuman chapter 80

Haha, Shizuka-kun is so hilarious! ^O^

So Shizuka-kun's True Human gets serialized while Team Ashirogi Mutou's KTM doesn't. I think the editorial department did that on a purpose so that Mashiro and Takagi can come up with even better names. (Another lesson for Team Ashirogi Mutou and their editor Miura: Don't be overconfident. ...something like that) It was good seeing Shizuka-kun trying to interact with more people too. Let's see how his new manga True Human does in Jump.

Bleach chapter 398

So Isshin and Ichigo did end up beating up each other but I was glad that Ichigo was able to get over the shock quickly and understood that Isshin had reasons to hide his identity as a shinigami.

...the best part in this chapter was of course,


Isshin showing his middle finger at Aizen while using kidou...






That was just a pure win!


Anyway, this chapter ended with Gin, who is about to show off his bankai. It looks like things will get more interesting starting next chapter. (Since Gin is much more interesting than Aizen as a character...)

Reborn chapter 284

What a fun chapter this was. ^O^


So basically we could see more of the new characters from Shimon middle school(We've seen all of them except Large the big guy). ...and there are 7 of them just like Tsuna and guardians. It looks like Reborn found out who they are at the end of this chapter so I'm looking forward to see how things will turn out. ...personally I'm not happy about how Hibari reacted to Adelheid's challenge.(<=she was more like blackmailing him) Is he going easy on her just because she's a girl? She's being totally rude though...(but it was nice seeing Hibari's WAO smirk) Not liking that Kaoru dude either. (Is he even a middle schooler? He looks so old... LOL) But overall, I really enjoyed this chapter and it was very funny also. ^O^



My favorite among the new characters is Aoba Koyo. Good look + Hilarious Character = WIN. It's so ironic how he looks like a typical prodigy and yet he's a hot-headed jerk like Ryohei. LOL LOL


Enma is still being EMO.


I kinda like the chemistry between Tsuna and Enma. Well, they have similarities and I bet Enma has sky flame like Tsuna. (I wonder if they'll have to fight each other... -_-;)


...and yes, they are so darn adorable. ^O^