My List: My Top 10 Manga

Right now, I'm still thinking about Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden that I read this morning. The story was exactly at the climax when I stopped reading it. Shit! That is why I hate reading something that is not completed yet. Now, I have to wait another month for it to come out and the story is still freaking long. 

           *sigh* I guess I just have to bear with it for a moment. I didn't know that I would like it so much more than the sequel. Well, majority are right! This work is so much better good than the original one. I fancied it. I have a strict taste involving manga and I know which one is good and which one is bad and this one is good enough for me. Well (again), of course nothing can defeat Anatolia Story from my BEST MANGA list.

           Talking about list, maybe I should state my favourite mangas of all time. I ranked it based on my impression right after I finished reading it okay. Okay, here we go.

Kail and Yuuri with their children.
Aah, just by seeing this picture make me so relief.

1. Anatolia Story (Shinohara Chie)
   This story is about a young Japanese girl being transported back to ancient time. Her name is Yuuri and somehow, under a complicated situation she was mistaken as the Hittite goddess, Ishtar. She fell in love with a Hittite prince, Kail and both of them went through so much of things in their way such as the death of Kail's father, The King of Hittite, Kail's two closest brothers (or perhaps three, I don't remember because he lost so many brothers), death of their loyal subordinates and also the death of Kail and Yuuri's unborn child. The bottom line is the story is perfect in my opinion. It has everything that I want inside the manga. Enough love scene (KYAAA!!), pregnant scene, possessive type of scene, breathtaking scene, sad scene, happy scene and so much more. At first, after I finished this manga, I felt normal. But later, a large void came inside of me. The story left a big impression to me until I kept reminiscing all the scene inside my head every time I went to bed. Besides that, I also used this story as the story in my oral test. :)
   PS. The Japanese title for this manga is very long, which is Sora Wa Akai Kawa No Hotori. I remembered it just because it was my ultimate manga.
2. Noblesse (Lee Gwang Su)
   

   

   Raizel and his trusted
   subordinate, Frankenstein.

   Okay, this is one of the series that weirdly make me fond of it without even knowing why. It's rare for me to like a shounen-type of manga. Very rare. Plus, it has no romance AT ALL! I was just testing with webtoons at that moment when I found Noblesse. By the way, my first Korean webtoon was SID and from there I found Noblesse. Suddenly, I found myself fond of webtoons and Noblesse is the best webtoon that I ever read so far. It's about a man who's a true pureblood awoke from his deep slumber and met his loyal subordinate, Frankenstein (weird name, right?). Anyway the pure blood's name is Cadis Etrama Di Raizel, another long name that I tried to remember because of my infatuation. This story is still on-going and because of its a webtoon, one chapter is a very short reading. But I still love it and I think it might because there are a lot of bishies (Google it) in it and its humor.
3. Hapi Mari (Enjouji Maki)

   

   This picture is my favourite one because at this 

   time both of them are still boss and subordinates.

    Later, Chiwa, the main protagonist will 

   resign from her husband's company.

   
   This is a superb story. I have nothing to say but 'amazing'. Hapi Mari really captivated my heart and feelings. It somehow remind me of Malaysian typical novel where someone has to marry someone because they have no money and trying to pay debt or something like that. Plus, I really truly like the concept of workplace romance. It's just feeling very nice to fall for your boss or vice versa. Moreover, if you read how Hokuto really is, you'll start to like him. I found this story right after I finished another story by Enjouji Maki which is Private Prince. After I read this story, I really was stunned by the familiarity of it and the Malaysian novel. Furthermore this time, I really do like it when both of them having sex after they married. Somehow it make me feel very relief because at that moment, I kept found stories where almost all of them having sex before marriage and it somehow disgust me. Couldn't you wait until you're married or something? And stop with the statement that you do that for the sake of your love. Cut the bullshit. Anyway, the story is completed now and seriously I don't like how it end. I want to see their kids!
4. Kaikan Phrase (Shinjo Mayu)

   

   Kaikan Phrase.
   Sakuya and Aine.

   
   This manga is a very controversial one. A lot of people that I know from the manga world disgusted with Shinjo Mayu works. Okay, it's not like I can blame them. I get their feelings sometimes but truthfully I really like this work of hers. I just love that concept of falling in love with someone so famous that he can choose every woman he wants but instead he chose you. Isn't it romantic? I know that it would be impossible in real life to have a man who crazily in love with you like that but the main reason why teenage girls read something like that is because some of them know that what they're reading won't come true. Anyway, this manga is about a girl who likes to write song lyrics met with a  famous musician in Japan. Somehow this man, his name is Sakuya, found one of the girl's song lyrics when he almost hit her with his car. Sakuya then wanted the girl, Aine to be his band's song lyricist. From there, a lot things happen. In normal people's eyes, what did happen to Aine and Sakuya were might unsuitable for children's reading since that some of the art involving something that we called 'underage sex'. For myself, I also couldn't believe that someone at age like 18 could do something as wild as those things, if you know what I mean. Well, it's not like I don't know what 18 would feels  like, it's just sometimes bring a bad message to the audience, especially kids. But anyhow, I did have fun with the story. When the story nearing the ending, it started to become more understandable for me. You just have to pretend that Aine is 20 rather than 18 and Sakuya is 27 rather than 18 and you'll make it through.
5. Sheherazade (Yoshihara Yuki)

   

   First page of Sheherazade.

   
   This is my favourite one shot ever and it comes from one of my favourite mangaka (the one who make the manga). It's about a guy who's rumoured cursed and every girl that sleep with him will die quickly. The female protagonist is a quirky office lady that accidentally sleep with his boss, the cursed guy. She asked her boss to take responsibility for her. It was funny how the girl seems doesn't mind that she might be dead and in fact asked her boss to sleep with her again and again. Yoshihara Yuki is a great mangaka anyway. I love all her works, well except for the one where the main protagonist has two genders of course.
               The main reason why I like this story is when the boss discovered that the girl has cancer. That was a heart-wrenching moment. It was my first manga where I found a cancer patient like her and still can act like nothing and being happy all the time. I like that kind of character by the way.
6. Kindan Trilogy (Kindan no Koi wo Shiyou, Zoku-Kindan no Koi wo Shiyou and Kindan no Koi de Ikou) (Ohmi Tomu)

   

   Kindan Trilogy

   This story is about a werewolf that fell in love with a human woman. I read it last year if I wasn't mistaken. By the way, I had a hard time deciding this manga and Midnight Secretary because both of them are good. But I went on with this because I like it when the guy is loyal to his lover even though she died at the end of the story. Oh and, the guy is not a big jerk like Kyouya.
7. Midnight Secretary (Ohmi Tomu)

   

   Kyouya and the secretary (IDK her name) in
   Midnight Secretary.

   
   Kyouya is a vampire and his capable secretary knows that. Kyouya and his secretary love each other but both of them were tied away by the thread of destiny. Kyouya was a jerk at first, a really big jerk. Leaving his lover without any notice, being selfish, sleep with tons of girl just to get their blood, but finally he became the only one for the secretary after she made a bold move to him. Yay! This story resembles Twilight, just a little bit when baby is involved. Plus, it is a workplace romance. I love that!
   Although the ending was not what I expected, at least they get married. By the way, talking about the ending, my ideal ending is when the mangaka shows that they have tons of kids. That's why I really love Anatolia Story's ending. It's perfect!
   PS. The secretary is very daring that I couldn't even compare myself to her.
8. Private Prince (Enjouji Maki)
   

   

   Private Prince

   This is the story of a prince that love a normal girl. Again, who wouldn't love this kind of 'impossible to happen in real life' concept, right? It was made my most favourite mangaka ever, Enjouji Maki. When I first read this story, I was so in love with it. It was my best manga at that time but later I read some more and it slowly going down my list. The prince was a womanizer at first and the girl wanted to play hard to get (based on my observation of course). Later, the prince stayed at the girl's house and they slowly become close. I like how the story started but later after a lot of consideration, I felt that the ending was not what I had in mind at first. It's a let down but I still like the story. I just don't like how it feels after the girl confessed to the prince. Anyway the story is a good one and it brought me to Hapi Mari!
9. Kanata Kara 
   This story is a little bit like Anatolia Story and Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden. It's about a girl who got transported to a parallel universe and she met a man that is a fugitive and both of them fall in love. It's been quite sometimes since I read this manga but I still like it because of the ending. There's just something about possessive love in that story that wins my heart. I like possessive lover but I don't want it in a real life. It's just so cute to see someone who loves someone so much that sometimes they want to hide them away from the world. I know it's creepy but there's something romantic in that.

   

   Kanata Kara
10. Oresama Teacher
    I have nothing to say about this one except that you need to read it yourself. It's super uber funny. Even sometimes the bad guys are funny. The only thing that disturbed me about this manga is the element of darkness and angst that sometime rises from this story. I cannot tolerate with angst because I had to much of it in my real life so I don't need it to burden me more. Plus, there's a lot of  male interests in this story. I really have no idea which guy will Korusaki Mafuyu ended up with since that this is a little bit of reverse harem manga. Sometimes I cheer up for the teacher and sometimes for that oblivious friend of hers. Either way, this manga is still on-going and I don't see that it'll end in the nearest future.

    

    Oresama Teacher

So, there's my list. It will change from time to time of course but I'll deal with that. I also read BL sometimes, due to my friend constant persuasion. And (this is weird for me to say) I like it. BL, that is. It's not like I'm GAY, okay? It's just their love sometimes is more passionate than normal people love (which we used term BG fo it). Plus, now days some people love the forbidden relationship's love concept, right? 

  

          Alright, until here. I took a whole day writing this post. It's time for me to study physics. See ya'!

PS. All the pictures above is not mine. I took it away through Google Images. Sorry. :(