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		<title>Honey and Clover &#8211; The End</title>
		<link>http://geekerella.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/honey-and-clover-the-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honey and Clover (ハチミツとクローバー) is about five art school students who become close friends for one reason or another. The three guys - Morita, Takemoto and Mayama - all live together in a crumbling apartment, while Yamada lives with her parents on the local shopping street and Hagu - the shy, tiny art prodigy - lives with her cousin, a teacher at the school.

It wouldn't be a group of young folks without a few love triangles, but the relationships of the students and their interests are realistic and very easy to relate to, even for those of us who have long since become jaded adults. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geekerella.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7157947&amp;post=588&amp;subd=geekerella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>B. Ichi</title>
		<link>http://geekerella.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/b-ichi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie S</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[atsushi ohkubo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[b.ichi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debuts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost as soon as it was published in Shonen GanGan as a one-shot, Soul Eater became wildly popular in Japan with fans clamoring for more. However, B.ichi was actually Atsushi Ohkubo's debut series.

In an alternate world there are dokeshis who have special abilities and are generally hated by the rest of the world. B. Ichi (B壱; B.One) is about one named Shotaro with the ability to take on the power of any animal whose bone he puts in his mouth. He is searching for his childhood best friend Emine when he meets Mana and Yohei, who decide to help him out when the other dokeshis run amok.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geekerella.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7157947&amp;post=742&amp;subd=geekerella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arina Tanemura Otaku Week: Gentlemen&#8217;s Alliance Cross</title>
		<link>http://geekerella.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/arina-tanemura-otaku-week-gentlemens-alliance-cross/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie S</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[arina tanemura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gentlemen's alliance cross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[otaku week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shinkuro]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Japan, Gentlemen's Alliance Cross (紳士同盟†; Shinshi Doumei Kurosu) was affectionately referred to as ShinKuro, which I adopted immediately as both the original and translated titles were both tiring. It's fitting, though, for a series that spans 11 volumes and has something along the lines of 30-40 characters.

Haine is a former delinquent who was given to the Otomiya family in return for a business loan to save the Kamiya family from bankruptcy. She ends up going to the prestigious Imperial Academy to chase after Shizumasa Togu, a boy she's been in love with since they were children, only for him to treat her coldly and refuse any contact with her whatsoever. Haine is upset but the blow is softened just a tad when she walks in on Shizumasa and his lover - who happens to be another guy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geekerella.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7157947&amp;post=587&amp;subd=geekerella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arina Tanemura Otaku Week: Fullmoon o Sagashite</title>
		<link>http://geekerella.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/arina-tanemura-otaku-week%c2%a0fullmoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie S</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[arina tanemura]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fullmoon (満月をさがして; Fullmoon o sagashite) is the magical alter ego of Mitsuki, a girl with throat cancer whose only dream is to become a singer. Forbidden to have anything to do with music by her domineering grandmother, she submits a demo to a record company's talent contest and wins a spot - only to be locked up by said grandmother and have a pair of shinigami come through the wall to take her soul.

This was actually the first manga I ever read in English by Arina Tanemura, which is why I thought it best to start off the week.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geekerella.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7157947&amp;post=686&amp;subd=geekerella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arina Tanemura Otaku Week: Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne</title>
		<link>http://geekerella.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/arina-tanemura-otaku-week-kamikaze-kaitou-jeanne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 18:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie S</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[kamikaze kaitou jeanne]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I knew of Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne (神風怪盗ジャンヌ; Kamikaze Phantom Thief Jeanne) before I'd ever really read any of it simply because I saw a few chapters in Ribon. Oddly, Viz (who holds the rights to every other Tanemura series) didn't have the rights to it and it was published by CMX, making it a bit harder to find. But we have ways, don't we?

Jeanne has one of the oddest premises for a manga ever: Maron Kusakabe is the reincarnation of Jeanne D'Arc, able to seal off the demons that are hidden inside beautiful paintings. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geekerella.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7157947&amp;post=683&amp;subd=geekerella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Short Break</title>
		<link>http://geekerella.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/a-short-break/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 18:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie S</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[too many fish tanks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have good news, bad news and some other good news!

The good news is that Mystyr E and I have finally cowboyed up and got ourselves an apartment! That's right, we are - at this very moment, perhaps - moving all our junk into a spacious, 800 square foot place that will no doubt be filled to bursting with manga and comics in a few months' time. Also, fish tanks. We have an asston of fish tanks.

The bad news is that we're not going to have internet for a little while.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geekerella.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7157947&amp;post=680&amp;subd=geekerella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mermaid Saga</title>
		<link>http://geekerella.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/mermaid-saga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 18:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie S</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[manga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manga recommendations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mermaid saga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recommended]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rumiko takahashi]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://geekerella.wordpress.com/?p=713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you say Rumiko Takahashi in the presence of an otaku, the older ones think of Ranma 1/2 and the younger ones think of Inu-Yasha. The hardcore completists think of Mermaid Saga.

Mermaid Saga (人魚シリーズ) is a series of darker stories that follow a young man named Yuta in his quest to find a mermaid. Legends tell of the flesh of the mermaid granting eternal life, but the reality is far uglier - both literally and figuratively. Along the way he rescues Mana, who ends up following him in his search. 

The stories in this series are darker than anything Takahashi-sensei has written since Laughing Target, with murder and frightening creatures being the norm. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geekerella.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7157947&amp;post=713&amp;subd=geekerella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Horrific Imagery: Junji Ito and The Human Centipede</title>
		<link>http://geekerella.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/horrific-imagery-junji-ito-and-the-human-centipede/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 18:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie S</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Manga-ka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WTF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gyo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven't been under a rock lately, you may have heard about a terrible movie called The Human Centipede. The reason I bring this up on a (mostly) manga blog is that while I was initially interested in the film after only seeing the trailer, the horror of what exactly is happening to the victims therein sank in, and its focus on the way the "centipede" is connected ruined it.

Consider Junji Ito's Gyo. The man can stick tubes in every orifice of a bloated, gaseous corpse, pop it on top of a pair of creepy mechanical spider legs and run it all over Japan and I'm disgusted, disturbed and unable to put it down. I'm disgusted and disturbed by the very idea of Human Centipede and have no desire to even be in the same theatre as it. Why? <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geekerella.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7157947&amp;post=703&amp;subd=geekerella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nightschool</title>
		<link>http://geekerella.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/nightschool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 18:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie S</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[svetlana chmakova]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's probably a reason Alex Treveney is homeschooled by her sister Sarah, but we don't know why just yet. You see, Sarah works at a Nightschool - a regular school by day that becomes a place for young demons, weirns and vampires to learn how to use and control their magic. But when Sarah goes missing all of a sudden and Alex sees something she shouldn't, she has to get herself enrolled at the school to try and unravel the mystery.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geekerella.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7157947&amp;post=681&amp;subd=geekerella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery Room!</title>
		<link>http://geekerella.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/recovery-room/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie S</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[not dead just resting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys! Due to the fact that yesterday a tiny camera was passed down my throat so the doctors could look around and try and figure out where the demons are living* I&#8217;m not going to even try to write a post today. In fact, I&#8217;m probably so high on Propofol or whatever right now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geekerella.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7157947&amp;post=673&amp;subd=geekerella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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