3/5 Rating

Nocturne

Name: Nocturne
Mangaka: Park, Eun-Ah

Volumes: 10 (Ongoing)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.08 Ch.51 (Ongoing)
Scanlator: Noir
Type: Manhwa
Genre: Josei/Drama
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: Yuri is a doll-like child, orphaned at a young age when her father dies in a car accident. In his will, he requests that Yuri be placed under the guardianship of a close friend of his, Kim Dowook. Taken in, Yuri begins a new life, different from her life before. Where will this take her, and what does she think of her guardian..?

-From Noir

Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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Watashi ni XX Shinasai!: Do xx to Me!

Name: Watashi ni XX Shinasai! (Do xx to Me!) (Love Mission)
Mangaka: Tooyama, Ema

Volumes: 19 (Complete)
Licensed: Kodansha
Type: Manga
Genre: High School
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Himuro Yukina, known as the “Absolute Zero Snow-woman” is a cold and observant girl. In addition, she is actually a popular cell phone novelist who goes by the name of Yupina. Sadly, with no other human contact than her cousin, Yukina is unable to express more romance in her novels. Kitami Shigure, your so-called “typical bishounen”, who is really a womanizer, has fallen into Yukina’s trap when she blackmails him, and they end up “love-acting” for the sake of their secrets.

-From Manga Updates

Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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Otomentaru

Name: Otomentaru
Mangaka: Yokoyama, Mayumi

Volumes: 2 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.07 (Complete)
Scanlator: Rebellious Love and Shoujo Love
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/School Life
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Otome decides to go to a big school in the city to leave behind everything to find romance. Otome comes from a small town famous for hot springs and grew up with Tokio who runs a gang. Otome will stop at nothing to find true love, especially if it means leaving behind her childhood hoodlum friends. But suddenly she finds herself ensnared by Touyou: a pretty boy with a dirty mouth.

Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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The Snow Queen

*Note: Recently I ordered Volume 8, 9, and 10 of 100% Perfect Girl and OF COURSE volume 10 comes in first. How sad. Decided to get my Wann fix through another series. Here you go. :)

Name: The Snow Queen
Mangaka: Wann

Volumes: 2 (Finished)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.18 (Complete)
Scanlator: RC-Scans (Closed) and Noir
Type: Manhwa
Genre: Tragedy/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: There once was a man called the most brilliant intellectual. And a woman with everything standing at the death’s door. Their hearts were so completely frozen solid that nothing could melt them. What kind of light was it that could melt their hearts? …Love…? If the answer was love, isn’t it beyond absurdity?

–MangaUpdates

Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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Love at First Sight (Hannune Banhada! Season1)

Name: Love at First Sight (Season 1) {Hannune Banhada! Season 1}
Mangaka: Lee, Si Young

Volumes: 4 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.04 (Complete)
Scanlator: JanimeS
Type: Manhwa
Genre: Comedy
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Ha-Da is a rough and tumble girl heading off to high school with dreams of men in mind. The only thing standing in her way are her senior parents, her 40 year old brother, and her next door neighbor. Ha-Da’s neighbor Han-Se plays double duty as a childhood friend and as her neighboor, but as a love interest?

At her middle school graduation Han-Se’s famous shaman mother tells Ha-Da a bit of her of future. And apparently it includes three guys and a few complications. But who could these three guys be?

Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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