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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Change Guy




Change Guy is a Korean comic book about fighting and power struggles among the schoolboys. Yeah. Sort of street fighting...

The main character is Kang Tuji which because of one study, he become exchanging bodies with Choi Wusu. People who can exchanging body was found before in Ranma ½ and Kyo the evil eye. But the setting is different, if Kyo the evil eye take the setting of Japan's past history, then the setting of Change Guy is today's school environment.

Two contrasting personalities and then exchanged, certainly will lead to a new things which is very interesting.
Originally, Kang Tuji is a very bengal and a rooster fighting guy. On the contrary, Wusu Choi is a smart nerd.

This Kang Tuji (which in fact, Wusu Choi who is calm) get challenge from Hang Kang Ho to settle old grudges, which in the past, Han Kang Ho have been knocked out by Kang Tuji (original). Therefore, he want to take revenge.
The now-Kang-Tuji who do not have any expertise, was given one week to prepare for the battle.

On the way home from school, Kang Tuji meet Yu Sena accidentally. Yu Sena was apparently the daughter of Yu Jinhang who is the successor of the secret martial arts Gyukmundo. Yu Jinhang himself is the ninth successor of the Martial arts Gyukmundo who gets drunk because he has not found his successor yet. When he met Kang Tuji, Yu Jinhang regained his spirit again. Apparently, Kang Tuji have characteristics of the successor that he has been waiting for, and Kang Tuji started practicing Gyukmundo Martial arts.

Finally, the battle between Kang Tuji and Han Kang Ho is inevitable again, then the combatants were met.The fight was ended with Kang Tuji as the victory. And this time, Han Kang Ho acknowledge Kang Tuji`s power.

After the problems with Han Kang Ho finished, as nectar which always coveted by beetles, as well as Kang Tuji, always chased by the problem.
This time the source of the problem is the movement of Guryong, the school of athletes to the area where Ginsang high school, Kang Tuji`s school is located. The existence of this Guryong high school brings the inevitable conflict with Ginsang high school and other schools nearby.

Short story... there is a man named Ji Kang Hjuk who is famous for his skull emblem and he challenge Kang Tuji into a battle just to test his strength. Fortunately, this time, Kang Tuji`s fight was rescued by the police who arbitrated their battle.

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On the other hand, Wusu Choi (which in fact, Kang Tuji who is harsh) busy himselves with his new situation, but he finally managed to meet with his body (which in fact is the original Wusu Choi) at the hospital. In there, Wusu Choi (Kang Tuji) who temporarily doesn`t have home and lived in the street, was given advice by Kang Tuji (Wusu Choi) to returned to his home.

And, he entered the real Wusu choi`s house which is apparently a rich kid, who is spoiled and loved by his mother so much. So, from that moment Wusu Choi enter the best private schools, where only rich and intelligent students could enter.

But, in the new place, according to his original character, began to be a gangster and start challenging the other students. Student Council members has been made unorganized and the school become disorderly since that. Even the student council`s chairman was hit. Then, many bad guys started to surround him to test his power. But unfortunately, this body has not been trained all this time.

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If you look at the picture quality, this comic has good pictures, but a bit cruel indeed. Blood from the wounds that came out during a fight described by way of extreme but that makes the comic become more realistic. The idea of the story is good and not boring too. The story is not serious because there`s many jokes and silliness too XD
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Saturday, April 3, 2010

Ayumi Hamasaki



Ayumi Hamasaki (浜崎 あゆみ Ayumi Hamasaki born in Fukuoka, Japan at October 2, 1978), otherwise known as "Ayu" by her fans, is a most famous singer woman in Japan. Ayu was also labelled as the "queen of Japanese pop" by her fans because of her success.

Since its debut in 1998 with her first single "poker face", so far she has sold more than 50 million copies of albums and singles only in Japan. She has released 10 studio albums, 47 singles, one mini-album, 5 compilation albums under the label Avex Trax which has resulted in many hits and occupied the top of the top of the music charts in Japan. She is the most successful female solo artist and as well as the second most successful artist in the history of Japanese music industry. With her 40th singles, "Blue Bird", she has exceeded the record-breaking sales figures singles that reached 20 million copies.

With the release of her 39th single, "Startin / Born To Be ..." in 2006, Hamasaki has become the first female artist who has 32 singles who sits at number 1 famous Japanese charts Oricon.

Ayumi has also been awarded the Grand Prix Japan Record Taishou, a kind of Japanese Grammy Award 3 times in a row. But in 2004 he refused the award for her single "Inspire", due to conflicts in Avex between Max Matsuura with Tatsumi Yoda. After that, Ayu also often refused to award designated for her because Ayu wanted to provide opportunities for other young singers.

At 2007 Ayu released a compilation album A BEST 2 in 2 versions of BLACK and WHITE. The sales of both albums in its first week break till 945,000 copies, and with the release of this album, Hamasaki became the first artist who can make a sales record with 2 albums released and can achieved rank 1 & 2 in music chart in Japan after 37 years no one could make such a record.
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Monday, March 8, 2010

The Ruler of Nabari

Nabari no Ou (隠の王 / Ruler of Nabari) is a Japanese Manga series written and illustrated by Yuhki Kamatani. The series premiered in Japan in Monthly Gfantasy in 2004 and is currently still in serialization. Square Enix is also publishing the individual chapters in collected vollumes with eleven volumes released as of June 2009. The series has been licensed for an English language release in North America by Yen press. The first volume was released in May 2009.

Rokujo Miharu is a normal junior high school students, regardless of his ignorance personality towards his surroundings. But, apparently, in his body there was the strongest Hijutsu ever which created by the Nabari World (the world of Shinobi), Shinra Banshou.

Iga ninja group called Kairoushuu began to move and after Miharu to get these Hijutsu. On the other hand, Miharu also accompanied by the Shinobi who is acted as the English language teacher at his school, Tobari Kumohira durandal and Miharu`s friend, Kouichi.

For Miharu who is located in the centre of the dispute in the Shinobi world between fuuma Ninja and Iga ninja, the only way to restore his cool and ignorant life as before is to become the ruler of Nabari!!!

Miharu, Tobari, Kouichi, and Raimei goes to a journey to visit the fuuma village to meet with Kotaro Fuuma to gain information about the techniques of Shinra Banshou. However, at that time, Fuuma village was attacked by a groups of Kairoushuu from Iga village. Luckily, at the last moment, Kotaro fuuma come and rescue them all.

When Tobari and his friends were thinking of ways to infiltrate the Togakushi village, company director and chairman of the Blue Fog Togakushi village named Yae Oda appeared before them and asked for cooperation to kill a nuclear scientist named Frosti, with price Kinjutsusho exchange Togakushi village. What exactly is the purpose of directors Oda!?
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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Stars in My Heart


Stars in My H
eart (Motto Kokoro ni Hoshi no Kagayaki) is one of the Japanese Manga by Hiro Matsuba.

Life in the palace of course different with a life outside the palace.
This is one thing that now Akane realized, who is now under disguised as a palace servant, who have nick name in the palace as Katsura, although she herself is a daughter of the royal adviser of the palace.

One thing that makes Akane do that is solely to see her childhood friend, Aogi, who is served as a major general of the palace guards.

Unfortunately, her courage is not balanced with enough skills to become a servant, such as cooking, sweeping, cleaning room, etc.
One thing that makes sense for Akane, who actually has a private servant for herself named Sayo and not used to be an independent people.

But, fortunately, Akane be a servant for her mom, Akiko Nashinokami, who is lived in the palace.
Every day, many things happened in the palace because of Akane`s carelessness.
Starting from fell over her own kimono, dropped breakfast for Nashinokami, etc.

All difficulties she faced with bravery and full of energy for meet Aogi.
At first, she only hear a gossip that Aogi is popular within the women and many women like him.

Can`t stand with the gossip, Akane go to Aogi`s place stealthily.
But, Minamoto Yakumo, Aogi`s subordinate who saw her suspected her as intruder.

Akane who is frightened suspected by Yakumo finally can meet her childhood friend that unrealizeable by her, has filled her heart, Aogi. Aogi feel dizzy by Akane`s careless action. But, nevertheless, Aogi promised to help Akane because of her sincerity.

Akane directly excited and promised will write letter for Aogi every day.

Akane days as a servant in the palace colored with various things.
Her relation ship with Aogi is also more intensified because they are more often met and exchange letter.

But, the relationship doesn`t walk smoothly without any obstacles, because there are people who don`t like them being together.

One of them is a beautiful servant named Kasuga, who spread gossip that she made a special relation ship with Aogi. Kasuga trapped Aogi so that Aogi atracted to her.
By chance, Akane saw them together by Kasuga`s plan and become misunderstanding.

That is the first time Akane feel jealous and the first time she realized that Aogi is the important and special person that has filled her heart.

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And there is a problem too when Akane`s dad mad because of Akane`s disguise and get Takatsuki tounoben, minister`s son to help him bring Akane back home.
Unfortunately, Tounoben have bad intention to Akane.

By using Aogi`s name, Tounoben bring Akane to his home and almost raped Akane if there is no help from Yakumo that admire Akane. This made Aogi angry and punch Tounoben that made Aogi is being punished.

And there`s another problem when Aogi`s family matched Aogi with daughter of central minster, Chouko.

And there`s a secret about Aogi.
What`s that? And how is the continue of relation ship between Akane and Aogi?

Find the answer on Stars in my heart comic for 7 series.

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Kobato


Kobato is a work of "Clamp", a popular mangaka group that consists of four people.
Clamp is also the creator of many famous mangas like;
chobits, cardcaptor sakura, tsubasa reservoir chronicles, clamp detective school, xxx Holic, etc.
Their creation is spread around the world and very popular.

Kobato itself named with hiragana word; こばと
The script is made by Ageha Ohkawa and Igarashi Satsuki.
Nekoi Tsubaki as art assistant.
Scenario and character design is made by Mokona.

And now, Kobato is also avalaible in anime version.

Kobato is a story about a girl named Hanato Kobato, a naive and innocent girl with a kind heart, who got a "mission" to filled up a mysterious bottle which she bring where ever she goes.

To filled up that bottle, Kobato must find someone whose heart is hurt or sad, then heal it.
The more she healed people`s heart, the bottle she bring will be more full.
And if she can filled the bottle up, her wish to go a certain place can be granted.

However there`s many restrictions that is quite annoying, one of them is she isn`t allowed to fall in love with any person whose heart she heals.

To start her mission, the first thing that she did is moved to an apartment with Ioryogi, her dog that looks cute but apparently rather harsh if Kobato does any mistake.
In that apartment, Kobato met Sayaka Okura, a teacher in a nursing school who is sad because of her job. Kobato decide to heal her and made her happy.

But, Kiyokazu Fujimoto, Sayaka`s childhood friend, stealthily watching Kobato`s action.
Fujimoto love Sayaka and don`t want Kobato, that he considered as a stranger, take advantage of Sayaka`s kindness.

Meanwhile, Kobato must convinced Kiyokazu that she mean no harm and she just want to heal her heart wounds and made her happy again.
And, Kobato realize that Fujimoto is hurt too.

Who is Kobato and what is that bottle?
Find out the answer by watching KOBATO anime.

Kobato
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Friday, January 8, 2010

Rules to use chopsticsk

Japanese people use various cutleries, but they most often to use chopstick which in japanese called hashi. There are many variety of chopsticks that use in japan, like chopstick for eating, cooking, etc. Materials and type of the chopsticks is also various, depending on the usage, starting from wood, bamboo, bone to metal.

Chopsticks that used to be eating is chopsticks that made from wood or bamboo. Chopsticks that are commonly used in japanese restaurant is wood chopsticks waribashi which is used by pull the middle to divide into 2 part. There are also chopsticks which is expensive and made from willow tree which is only used in formal event or matsuri festival.
Use chopsticks have many rules. Here is it;

1. Chopstick is held with the pointed part at the bottom to take food, meanwhile the large part is on the above.

2. There is time when we need to reverse the position of the chopstick. We use the large part of the chopstick to take food from plate dish. It means so that the part of the chopstick which we used to get into our mouth and already exposed with saliva do not get mixed into the plate dish.

3. Dont stir food in plate dish. Just take it fastly.

4. We are not allowed to stick in chopstick vertically into bowl filled with rice. This is considered as taboo because its common with incense which is stuck in a pitcher in Japan's funeral.

5. Dont pass food from chopstick to chopstick because its considered common with the activity to pass the bone in a funeral.

6. Chopstick should be held with finger, not with a fist.

7. If you want to take bowl or other cutleries, like glass, you better put your chopstick on the table first. Because, take bowl or glass while hold chopstick will be considered rude.

8. Dont suck the chopstick even the food is very-very delicous. Its not good.
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Sunday, January 3, 2010

Shuffle


Shuffle is a shoujo (girly) anime about romance, comedy and school life and about super natural too. It ended in 24 episodes. Its very suitable to you who like anime which is not too complex, light, funny, not too long and easy to understand.

Here is the story...
The core of this story is about one boy, who is loved by many women, but the women are not only from human races, but also from the realms of the God and realms of the demon.

The story begin with a boy named Tsuchimi Rin, who is a student from verbena academy who has been living with Kaede Fuyou, her class mate who is beautiful with brown hair and popular who is always cook for him and wake her up in the morning for 8 years.

Although they are not related by blood, they lived together because rin`s parents and Kaede`s mother passed away together in a accident that and Rin doesn`t have a place to live.
They two lived together only because Kaede`s dad is often leave house to go abroad because of the demands of work.

Kaede loved him but it seems rin only considered her as his listtle daughter.

And so, one day, when they wanna go to school together, they were confused because all of their neighbors moved all of a sudden. Therefore, only them that lived in that area.

Once they got to school, they met Asa Shigure, their senpai (senior) with green hair that also like rin. Although she also like rin, but she dont show it straightly. She showed it by her naughtyness like hit rin`s back suddenly from behind and always teased her with other girls.

Once they arrived at their class, they heard news that tomorrow two new students will be entered and followed study in their class by tomorrow. And its seemed that the two students is girls. All the boy students are cheering.

After school, Rin is called by his class room, Nadeshiko Benibara, who is pretty sexy. She asked rin whether or not rin have met people from other realms. Rin dont remember about it.

Then, Rin went to the market to shopping and he met a girl with long red hair who seemed know him even knew his name. But Rin doesnt know who she is.
On the way home, Rin passed a park and he saw a girl with long blue hair was sitting at a swing while singing so beautifully. That girl also said that he knew Rin but again, Rin doesnt remember about it.

Tomorrow, Rin`s class, especially boy students is preparing for the arrival of the new two students. But, they were shocked because what appears in front of the door are two middle aged man.

Apparently, they are Yustoma, King of shinkai (God) and Foebeshii, King of Makai (Demon) that searched Rin to this world for Rin to marry their daughter.
If Rin married with one of them, Rin will be either of God`s world or Demon`s world.

They called their two daughter that appears to be the girl that Rin saw yesterday.
The red haired girl named Lisianthus, or often brief Sia that is the child of Yustoma and can hit with chair if she`s angry.
And the blue haired girl named Nerine who is the child of Foebeshii and can use destructive magic if anyone harmed Rin.

And then, the life of Rin that first is going on as usual become so complex since it appears that Lisianthus and Yustoma lived on his left and Foebeshii and Nerine lived on his right.
It answer the questions why all of his neighbors suddenly moved.

And then his problem increased with the arrival of little girl with gray hair named Primula, who met rin in a crane game. She hugged rin and followed him to home. Rin can`t do anything because this girl admit that she knew Nerine.

Days after days Rin spent by dating with each of the girl that makes Rin must ran out of each of the girl`s fans club and experienced funny incidents with them.
Like for Kaede named KKK (kitto kitto kaede chan)
For sia named SSS (suki suki sia chan) and
For Nerine named RRR (ran ran rin chan)

Watch this movie to find out which girl rin will pick at last.

Watch this movie streaming by clicking this site;
Shuffle
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