Well looks like this week Hiro finally broke up with Shinji. It went a lot different than I expected. I thought she was gonna get mad at him for spending time with his ho coworker OL-chan’s. Also I want to mention how I think the whole “you must get drunk and make deals at a bar full of hoes to get anywhere in Japan” pisses me off to no end. So due to Shinji not doing well at his work it really brings him down and seeing Hiro doing SO well only makes him even more depressed - especially when she choses work over him, while he sacrifices his job for her. He says they should break up, and then Hiro says “I guess so” but after he walks out the door she realized what just happened and runs after him..unable to catch up. That night she stays up all night redoing her work because her laptop got stolen but has trouble concentrating with all the tears in her eyes. Anyway a really great episode, and in the end she feels better because everyone praises her for a job well done. While I feel bad for her, their relationship was pretty pointless to begin with.

Upcoming Attractions: Hiro copes with her new single life.

If you didn’t have enough Johnny’s idol boys in this drama, they throw in another one by featuring Koyama Keiichiro from NEWS this week. Koyama plays Yuuya who while he seems like a bad guy who gets into fights a lot, is actually sort of like a robin hood because he tries to do good. He saves Noriko from a bunch of nanpa yaro’s and while at it totally wins her heart helping her cure of her man-hatred lol. This doesn’t go well by Seishiro who says that the two of them are from “different worlds”. Meh it was still a cute episode, in the end Yuuya goes back to his hometown to help take care of his sick mother and gives Noriko a goodbye kiss - on the forehead (cause god forbid Johnny’s idols do the lip thing!) I still would like to see some Seishiro x Noriko thing near the end.

Upcoming Attractions: Karen falls for an arabian knight.

Been a while since I did a post on this right? I was reading the manga well into the show and after the anime ended abruptly (on a disappointing number may I add - I mean 22 wtf?) I sorta kept on with the manga chapters. (I missed ch. 54 though but anyway) I was at Kinokuniya and since Shugo Chara vol 5 was not yet available I gave into my temptations and bought volume 8. I can never leave Kinokuniya without buying something (●´艸｀).

So anyhoo if you basically ended with the anime here’s a brief catchup. Things between Momoko and Koushi get better and he ignores her less and actually starts to appreciate her a lot more. There’s a couple random arcs (like with the crazy muscly teacher) but most of the focus is on trap-chan who is a girl told to live as a man. (Or at least I think she was told, that or she just wanted her father to appreciate her and be a good budouka so she decided to be the son he never had - I forgot I read this like over a year ago x_X;.) Anyway after all this, volume 8 begins with Koushi deciding officially that he wants to train as a budouka with his father’s help. Continue Reading »