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Summary: Harada Aki is a popular girl with plenty of good friends, both girls & guys. She is also known as the queen of introductions! Plenty of couples hooked up because of her, and she's always planning camps and goukons whenever anyone wants a help to find a boyfriend/girlfriend. Aki's special talent is remembering names as well as their phone numbers. lolz
One day, a couple of guys from another class came up. Turns out one of them wants to get a girlfriend and needed Aki's help. Although she does not know both of them, Aki willingly cook up a goukon she planned everthing within a minute with her trusty handphone! Seeing her actions, the other guy, Furuya Takahiro, laughed and called her a miu piao!
That weekend at the goukon, Furuya came as well. Although still angry at him, Aki continued to make the goukon a success by livening up the atmosphere with silly antics. In the middle of the goukon, Furuya suddenly dragged her out and they left together. Aki was so mad because she felt that she had ditched everyone else, making Furuya laughed.
A few days later, both of the bump into each other on the street and Aki asked for Furuya's number, seeing that they are "kind of friends". However her phone's capacity has reached its limit! that phone appearantly can save up to 500 numbers! Aki's amazing! Undaunted, Aki still asked Furuya to give his number, saying that she is capable of remembering it! it became a running gag in the story when Furuya would just suddenly ask Aki his number and she would always recite it correctly, which just makes Furuya laugh. They chatted about Aki's matchmaking skills and Furuya stated that he now know why Aki has so many friends.
They met up again in the teacher's office, when Aki overheard a teacher saying that the upcoming school activites to pull out weeds off the track field! will be held on the day of the fireworks. Angry, Aki demanded that it is unfair since the girls have to prepare beforehand and will be busy the whole day! The teacher just told her that she'll have take care of it alone if she's so adamant...what kind of teacher is that?!! The day of the fireworks, poor Aki alone is pulling out weeds, when Furuya appears! yeah, like you readers did not expect that! hahaha They spent the whole day in the hot field and only finished by night time. Because of Furuya's kindness, Aki became more attentive of Furuya and his actions around school. Yay! she's falling in love~~ One day, a guy came while Aki & Furuya was chatting and asked her to introduced him to other girls, since the he doesn't like the girl she hook him up with in the first place. Angry, Aki refused because both sides (boy and girl) are her friends. The guy got angry as well and said that she is high and mighty, and that if it wasn't because she could introduce him to girls, he wouldn't be friends with a boring girl like her! And he just walked away.
When Furuya asked if it's alright to just let things off like that, Aki replied yes, because she could see the truth in his words. She was too proud of her matchmaking abilities. Furuya just patted her head and said that he felt it was alot of fun being with her. Aki started crying and wondered how she can face her friend since she introduced such a jerk to her. Furuya stayed with her through her tears and advice her to apologize.
Later, a group of girls came to Aki and one of them asked to be introduced to Furuya, saying that she is interested in him. Aki was shocked, and promptly refused, saying that she likes him!!! And at that moment, Furuya was just standing behind her!!! Embarrassed, because she hadn't properly sort out her feelings, Aki ran off to the rooftop to hide.
However, the girls decided that since Aki helped them all the time before, it's their turn to help her! They dragged her into a classroom where Furuya was waiting, and locked them in together! There, Furuya confessed that he had liked Aki all along!!! When their friends and schoolmates who were all plastered along the windows of the classroom! shouted that he should kiss her, he did just that! Review:
This is one of the sweetest one-shot high school romance I've ever read!!! It is really so sweet to see friendship and love this innocent. Other than the part where the guy said those cruel stuff to Aki, the rest was just what I would like to imagine my friendship with my schoolmates to be.
Aki's character is so nice that Furuya always laughed at her. But I could feel his respect behind his laugh. For example, at the goukon, Aki brought plenty of pretty and nice girls whom she knows the guys would like. Although Furuya teased that she's not those kind of evil-high-school girl who would bring ugly girls to enhance her own beauty, I could feel that he likes this part of hers who only wants good for her friends.
Definitely a manga that I've read over and over again.
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Yay! The hot pink LoveMe suit made its appearance after such a long time!!
Kyouko is very pissed off with this assignment of taking care of Super VIP, Hollywood major star, former Hozu Shuuhei it's former because he decided to dump that name for a reason and even gave it a grand burial!! Kuu-san while he's back in Japan. fireworks please.
Flashback to President Lory suggesting to Ren about meeting him. Ren did not answer, but look pained.... back to present time, Yashiro rushed in to inform Ren that he saw Kyouko together with Kuu on the TV. the programme is of course showing Kuu's grand arrival back to Japan
That evening at the hotel, Kyouko finally finish preparing Kyoto-style food for Kuu. However, he refuses to eat it, giving all sorts of excuses. It has been that way since his arrival. Kuu seems bent on making Kyouko mad! Meanwhile, Ren called President Lory - asking about Kyouko's situation with Kuu...he seems suspicious on what the president & Kuu are up to.
Back at the hotel, the war between Kuu & Kyouko is still going on. The fight, in short, is about whether Kuu will eat the food prepared by her. Kuu is surprised by Kyouko's determination in not giving in! Naturally, he lost and went running to President Lory instead! lolz
At President Lory's house, Kuu revealed that no matter what, he have to get Kyouko angry/mad enough so that she can go crying to Ren. Feeling worried, he asked the president whether Ren will really come to him on his own accord. President Lory was confident that Ren would, if it is something regarding Kyouko.
After coming back to the hotel, Kuu found Kyouko waiting for him, and apologizing for their fight earlier. our Kyouko is worried about getting fired :) All is alright again, when Kyouko saw a music programme news about Sho. Seems like he is dominating the charts with all his releases and is currently considered as the top musician/singer in the Japan music industry!
This shocked Kyouko to oblivion and she was more convinced than ever to not accept roles similar to Mio from DM. Overhearing her conversation on the phone, Kuu reprimanded her about her choosiness and gave her some advice as well as a lesson - she is to act as Kuu's son for a day. now comes the confirmation! drumrolls...The son's name is Kuon! Similar to Corn right? Even Kyouko got confused by the names at first.
Having no idea on how to act as Kuu's perfect son, Kyouko was feeling troubled. When meeting with Ren at the DM set, she wanted to ask him for advice, but realizes that she should not always depend on him. Ren on the other hand, is getting even more suspicious at Kyouko's weird antics. Back in her dressing room, Kyouko remembered back on the words Ren said when he was advicing her on Mio. She realizes she can mirror her act on a certain perfect being - Corn!!!
Early that morning, President Lory receives yet another call from Ren!! He is more determined now in finding out what is going on with Kyouko-Kuu. President Lory smiled...
At the hotel, Kuu woke up to the sounds of his son!!! Eating the horrible breakfast his son prepared, because in Kyouko's mind, the son can't cook! Kuu looked blessed. And Kyouko, who had never felt a parent's love could not control herself and started crying.
After breakfast Kyouko followed Kuu to several TV events and bumped into both Ren & Yashiro. Ren was surprised to see Kyouko pretending 'not to know him' and got an even bigger shocked when Kuu suddenly appeared and called her Kuon. However he quickly hid his emotions and greeted Kuu as a stranger. Later that night, a serious Ren called President Lory.
Review:
Honestly, I think my recap this time is not so good...haiz.... so here's a super condensed version of this volume:
Kuu came back to Japan for a reason - to force Ren to meet him (for some reason). He hatched a plan with President Lory for Kyouko to come "take care" of him. During that time, he will try to make Kyouko go to Ren to complain about him. Ren will then surely find Kuu! However, in the middle, the story turns to Kyouko's problems regarding her acting roles. Therefore, Kuu (who is suppose to be the bully at first) decided to help her! And that is why, Kyouko is acting as Kuon!
Back to my review, I find this volume extremely interesting. The fact that we know Ren = Corn, and that it is implied that Corn = Kuon, we can safely infer that Ren is Kuu's son. All that is left is why their father-son relationship degenerated to the current state in which Ren refuses to meet him and why he is so desperate to meet Ren.
It is really cute how Ren tried to find out what the heck is going on, but don't dare to poke too deep into the matter. I can't wait for the father-son meeting!!
本当にご免なさい To those who follow my reviews, I am so sorry for not updating recently. As mentioned in my previous post, my external hard disk crashed and I did not have any mood to write any reviews not even my beloved Vanilla Ice or Skip Beat!
But today, I'm here to show some works of the very talented StarMasayume! I got to meet her in the StageStorm forum and saw some of her works there as well as in devianART. Now there might be a few of you out who had already known of Star and seen her artworks, so I'm sure that you would agree with me how good she is. I am especially in love with her chibi drawings!
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