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Well, just finished reading the translations of Ouran High School Host Club 61,  and Skip Beat 121, and as usual in shojo manga lots of drama going on.


I'll start with Ouran first.

 Next Skip Beat!
Ouran been good lately since at least two of the main charcters in the biggest of love triangle have clued into thier feelings (hopefully the third will next month ^_^). Skip Beat's been going slow though. I want Kyoko to start to admit to herself how she feels. Oh well

 Volume three starts off with Haruna finally admitting to herself that she has the hots for Yoh (something everyone who's been reading as understood since book one). She starts acting paranoid and keeps pushing away Yoh and telling him not to read her mind.


Haruna gets some tickets for the movie because her team won the softball game at the end of volume two.  Yoh comes by and tells her she should use them when she finds a guys she likes.  Haruna seems depressed  when she hears this and Yoh says she should be able to confide him because he's her coach. He starts to walk away and Haruna catches up to him, so she can ask him a "hypothetical question "What if the person I liked told me not to like him?" ( lol Yoh says "Who would say that?" and Haruna thinks "you said it.") He tells her she said just tell the person that she likes him and highlight her good points. She asks him what her good points are. He tells her and than finishes off by saying that some guy will think her good points are cut and tell her "I like you". Haruna gets all excited when she hears those words coming out of his mouth and begs him to say them again. He starts to, but than gets embarrassed and starts to go. 


Haruna asks him to the movies on Sunday and he agrees. Haruna runs into Yoh's friend, Asaoka, who helps her pick out a present for Yoh (I thought it was a necklace when I first saw it, but apparently its suppose to be a wallet chain). The next day, Asaoka tells Yoh he might understand how he feels. Yoh and Haruna go on thier date and Haruna decides she has to tell him she likes him even if he rejects her and stops being her coach. They go to a park after the movie and Haruna's about to tell him when he says she should go out with Asaoka. Haruna gets mad and throws her present at him before storming off, telling him he's no longer her coach. (Yoh gets abused by Haruna a lot in this volume...^^:)



The next day Yoh seems to be ignoring her. Fumi and Asaoka call him out on this. He tells them that she got mad at him and finshes by saying, "Whatever! I knew it..girls are annoying!" This is where Haruna walks in of course....She runs off. Asaoka tells him the thing she threw at him was a present for him.  Fumi asks what Yoh said to make her mad. After he tells them, that he told her that he thought Asaoka liked her,  Asaoka calls him an idiot basically and that he never said he liked Haruna. Fumi and him leave, while Yoh thinks about everyhing Haruna been saying to him lately and begans to put the pieces together.  He finds her and they make up. The next day the others ask Haruna about the guy she likes. She panics and says she likes a fat, white haired, droopy eyed guy, so they won't think its Yoh. That night Yoh asks her to meet him. He asks her if she likes him. She denys it because she doesn't want to lose him as her friend. He seems disappointed. He gives her a star shaped necklace as a thank you gift for her present. He helps her put it on and then turns to go. He looks sad and says "So I was wrong." his sad face looks so cute!

Haruna runs after him, saying that she really does like him, and that even if he rejects her she's not going to give up. First he tells her that she sounds like a stalker,  than that he's happy to find out that he's the person she likes. Here's my first page in the volume.


The next morning Haruna wakes up and thinks the whole thing was a dream, because every thing seemed the same,until Fumi said "You guys proably want some privacy since you're dating now".  Yoh says that he's a beginner at dating too and asks what couples do after they get together in the shojo manga she likes.
Haruna tells Yoh pretty much every Shojo cliche
They decide to walk home together that day. Haruna thinks that everyone's stare at them, but Yoh tells her its her imagination. On the way they get ice cream.  When Yoh sees some guys sitting next to Haruna on a bench and sits between them. When Haruna gets excited he blushes (cute) and tells her not to say everything out loud. The next day people stick Haruna's shoes to her locker shelf, put notes on her back and push her. It turns out that a lot of girls had crushes on Yoh and now that Haruna's snagged him they think they might have a chance. A group of them finally confront her and tell her to break up with him. Haruna says she isn't going to and that she's willing to fight them if that what it takes. Later Yoh meets her on the roof and sees straches all over her face. She tells him what happened and says that she's sorry, but that she won. He laughs and they start walking home.


The next chapter starts with Yoh and Haruna's first date. She had a good time, but at the end of it Yoh said he felt more like her guardian than her boyfriend.  Haruna decides to study up on how to have a real date, as usual taking it to far. (like renting romance movies and taking notes). Yoh used to her craziness by now decides to help out by borrowing her shojo manga and reading them. Fumi and Asaumi ask to double on there next date to the aquarium and Haruna agrees so she can copy their style. Of course it ends up backfiring and Yoh asks Fumi and his sister to go away so he and Haruna can have some alone time. They end up running into her old softball team, who are ecstatic when Yoh tells them he's her boyfriend. She gets caught up with playing softball and Yoh just kind of sits back and watches. Haruna remembers they were suppose to be on a date on the bus ride home and gets depressed. Yoh tells her not to worry so much about them and that even if thier relationship isn't like other people's they should just keep doing things the way they were. Then he falls asleep on her shoulder.Second favorite image.

So far this was my favorite volume in the series. I'm hoping for more Haruna./Yoh lovein' in the future. (cross fingers for a kiss scene). This series is fluffy, down to earth shojo fun and isn't getting bogged down with too much drama yet.

I was checking out Manga Fox's latest releases when I saw chapter 95 of Gakuen Alice.

 
kya~!

double kya~!

triple kya~!
The whole reason I got inrested in this series was Mikan and Natsume's relationship. I like manga stories where the main couple hates each other (or one person dislikes the other at first) but than grow to love each other. (examples: Ikuto and Amu (well amu didn'tlike ikuto at first anyways), Ren and Kyoko). I stayed for other reasons (especially Yome the mind reader guy). I 've been off the series for awhile because I've been too busy fangurling other series (i.e. Shugo Chara! and Ouran), but I'll make room in my schedule. 

The characters look way better in the manga than the anime too. (Even though Mikan's hair is super werid in the manga which always distracts my attention from the plot).

 

 Everyone been saying lately that Shugo Chara! will be dubbed by an American company. Some people, mostly from Churnchy roll are bitching about it. I'm kind of excited though, but only if a good company gets it. (I'm not even going to comtemplate  what would happen if 4kids gets it). So here's a possible list of who would be good voice actors for the characters.

Amu  
possibly Laura Bailey. She voice Sana in Kodoucha, so she should do a good job with Amu's spazz fests. Also, she voice Tohru in Fruits Basket, so she'd be able to do Amu's gentler moments too. Possibley Monica Riel as well. She's voiced a lot of cute quiet girls.

IkutoAnyone who doesn't make him sound nerdy or dorky. If Laura Bailey voices Amu though Jerry Jewell has to voice Ikuto. The two of them always voice the best couples together like Sana/ Akido and Kyo/ Tohru. Besides Jerry does reasonably good quiet mysterous guys voices. Crispen Freeman would also be a good choice. I think the reason Zelgadis had so many fangirls in the west was because of  Chrispen's sexy voice. (If you want to see a decent fan dub of Ikuto go to here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRchD8UV6dA)

Tadase.  Eric Vale maybe? He voices prissy girly prince types a lot (i.e. Yuki from Fruits Basket). Vic froyermayer might work too.

Amu's Charas:  Ran: If Amu isn't voiced by Laura Bailey than maybe she could do Ran. Miki: Daphine Gere (she voiced Hana in Fruits Basket) Suu: Vericona Taylor (voiced amelia in  the Slayers Next).

The Rest of The Guardians:  Kukai: Jerry Jewell  Nagshiko: I want a male voice actor and a female voice actor for him/her. Yaya: Jessica Boone (voiced chiyo-chan from Azumanga diaoh)

Easter People:  Utau: Laura Bailey can voice evil characters too, like Lust  from the Full Metal Alchemist (I know I know, but I can't help it! She's just that good.)
Nikaidou: John Brickmayer Sanjou: Collien Clinkenbeard.

Whew! This is only a rough idea of who I think should voice the characters if the anime is ever licensed in the USA. Well, bye for now!