the manga I bought after Animania

Yes I went to "Kings Comics" less than a week after Animania and bought more. I bought Volume 1 of "Naruto" and Volume 1 of "Imadoki". I mentioned these two in my previous blog entries. In case you were wondering where "Hana-Kimi" comes in Yunita bought her Volume 1 at this time. Which I borrowed from her the next time I saw her.

I COMPLETELY agree with Yunita that "Naruto" is better in manga form than anime. For one thing it is A LOT faster as a manga. One volume of Naruto spans over several episodes which I suppose could be because they need to create the suspense and fighting scenes as well as characters saying lines takes a lot more time. Plus one volume really does contain a number of scenes within it when you thinking about how much can happen within 7 chapters of a volume. Anyway, I love this manga it goes on forever though and since I do prefer the manga to the anime (I got the anime from Bianca's friend) I've been a bit wary when it comes to buying more volumes because I will end up broke... again. I don't watch the anime though because it'll ruin the manga. So since volume 1 I've bought volumes 2 and 4. I didn't get 3 because I already watched what happens in the anime. This is a great adventure ninja series with hilarious characters. The main character is ofcourse a young boy called Uzumaki Naruto who always causes trouble and in volume 1 has problems just graduating from Ninja Academy. Naruto actually has something powerful trapped inside him which makes most of the adults despise him. The children of the village have also learned to despise him from the adults without knowing the reason. I don't know what to include because I'm afraid to give away too much, so google "Naruto" if you want to find out more, but it's best if you just read it. I give it 4 stars for the manga, less for the anime (I won't specify how much because I haven't seen a lot of the anime).

Now for "Imadoki". As I have said this is based in a high school, that is Meio High School and is about friendship, love, family, and flowers. Tanpopo Yamazaki is an energetic and happy high school girl who goes to Tokyo to attend school. She takes a look at the school the day before it starts and crash lands while riding her bike into Koki Kugyo, he just happened to be planting a tanpopo (= dandelion) at the time. She believes she has found a friend already and will make many friends when school starts tomorrow. However things are very different the next day. The other students consider her a country bumpkin (not too sure about the exact meaning of that, I just thought it was a good description of her) and completely out of place at the elitist school full of rich kids. Plus the 'friend' she made the day before pretends the they never met. Well this is just the start of things but from here you can guess that her first mission at this school is to make Koki her friend. If you want to know where the flowers come in read it. Flowers definitely play a large role in this manga, sounds strange huh? 3 and a half stars I would have given it a higher star rating if I hadn't read so much manga already.