2009-04-04, 13:40 | Link #201 | |
Not Enough Sleep
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Location: R'lyeh
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2009-04-04, 16:51 | Link #202 | |
Go Chrome or Go Home
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Imperial America
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Anyway, this manga continues to impress me. Who would think that a story that contains mostly talking, drawing, meetings and paperwork could be so engrossing. |
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2009-04-04, 21:45 | Link #204 |
Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 34
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I don't, actually. It doesn't feel very romantic, like the first few chapters was. It's just...there. And I can't help but feel that Azuki will dump him with a straight face the moment they achieve their "dream."
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2009-04-04, 22:55 | Link #205 |
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Age: 35
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Well love may be too extreme, I felt that the romantic tones in his uncle's story were very bittersweet which makes me want him to succeed, I guess their relationship is somewhat like misato and kaji but with less issues. Yes in recent chapters I've found the romance to be a lot more dull than earlier when it was fresh, now its just plain awkward at times especially when takagi is basically acting as bruja or go between.
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2009-04-05, 15:20 | Link #206 |
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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I also want him to succeed where his uncle failed but its like what Irenicus said in the above post "I can't help but feel that Azuki will dump him with a straight face the moment they achieve their "dream." because comeon if you don't talk enough the charm is gonna get less effective and their attraction towards each other is bound to lessen. If Azuki's mom could dump his uncle, I guess the daughter can do the same
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2009-04-05, 15:39 | Link #207 |
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Age: 35
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this is a freaking manga, in real life yes, but whereas there is this history, his uncle her mom, yadda yadda, its a story and the premise is an interesting idealistic look at a love. Is it the social norm? no, is it even somewhat practicle? no. But for the sake of the story early portions were endearing, where as now it just plays out as awkward in current social standards of courtship.
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2009-04-05, 19:05 | Link #208 | ||
Go Chrome or Go Home
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But Misato & Kaji already had an intimate relationship, then they broke up. Even his uncle had a friendship with Azuki's mom, before they started writing each other. Mashiro & Azuki have only talked a couple of times, and have never even been on a date! You can't build a solid relationship with someone via email, and I hope that the story will show this (unlikely though). |
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2009-04-06, 00:19 | Link #209 |
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Age: 35
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why does it matter? the mangakas clearly like this idea of untainted love, and are using it. Doesn't make it any less real, it just shows you what type of people Mashiro and azuki are, and with takagi, he and satsuki act as a foil, basically its to contrast two differing types of relationships albiet one is farfetched in reality while the other is to social norms. And Mashiro's Uncle and Azuki's mother were not friends, they just were aquainted with each other through class. Similar to Mazuki.
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2009-04-06, 01:48 | Link #210 |
Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 34
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Let me put this clearly: I'm the idealistic type. I'm the kind of idiot who believes in True Love and Soul Mates and Passion and pink skies and fluffy clouds all that sort of thing. I'm the airhead whose favorite song is Kiss Me from Sixpence None the Richer. I can't stand overly realistic relationships in my manga or the ones where they get all complicated and tangled up. I like the perfect happy endings straight from Jane Austen. I'm supposed to be the one loving their "pure love."
And I thought it was cute. For the first few chapters. But now I feel nothing when the topic of their "love" comes up. It just feels so fake, so empty, like a statement of an empirical fact rather than any sort of passionate, idealistic love. It's like the authors put it there just because it was supposed to be there; like they forgot for a while writing about more interesting things and come back to it because someone -- their editor? Ha! -- reminds them that it was there. If that's what you don't feel, fine, but that's what I feel -- and I think what a lot of other people feel as well when they read the manga. |
2009-04-06, 12:14 | Link #212 |
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Yeah i think the same thing as at first it was cute and idealistic but now its just is and if I am not wrong they are already starting to drift apart which will eventually result in what happened with his uncle. I mean, what's wrong with even talking on the phone, that's just plain stupid if you dont even talk when you can't see each other
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2009-04-06, 16:18 | Link #215 |
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Age: 35
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The relationship is pretty benign at this point, but there was some genius in the begining like the scene were she says she'll wait forever, unlike her mother. I understand how now its worn off, then novelty and the cuteness, but the story is still young give it time. I actually wasn't all that into most of the romance going on in Ichigo 100% till a lot later in the series. It really just depends on how this all plays out.
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2009-04-10, 16:13 | Link #216 |
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Wow, chap 33 is out. What an intense chapter. 2 newbies and 2 veteran. One of the newcomers will be out. I seriously still think that's Ashirogi will not be accepted. After all this, if the next chapter all they're gonna do is screaming "hell yes," it would feel really not right.
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2009-04-10, 17:05 | Link #219 |
Looking for ONE PIECE
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Sleeping Forest
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!
taht is sooooooooooooooooo wrong. i kept getting a feeling that this would happen but, when it actully happen it's just so fustrating. as i was reading it i kept trying to go to the last page but, always held back. i think Fukada will be the one that is out. they were saying about how it was all the same. after reading this chapter Aoki has a huge chance IMO.
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