30 Day Manga Challenge: Day 9 - Your Favorite Science-Fiction Manga

sucky upside-down pic that makes me dizzy

Talking about sci-fi, my brain will always lead me to Gundam Wing, but then I have never read any good Gundam Wing manga. I have been obsessed with GW since I was 10 and I knew sister Hilde and Father Maxwell from fics I read, crazy yeah? Not much of devoted I am, I don't even have gundam or whatever (but I promise someday I'll own a Deatscythe model kit), I just read a lot of gundam wing fanfictions. Just like the time when I was so obsessed with Draco Malfoy Harry Potter because I read its fanfiction, pffft. Even now I am not interested yet to read prequel manga of Gundam Wing. And so, my choice for day 9 is 7 Seeds by Tamura Yumi. 

It was hard to start reading this, really. I always see the artwork first in reading manga and 7 seed's artwork is unappealling. At first. It's then acceptable as I found the story was quite mindblowing and mesmerizing and heart-wrenching. Story about survival is always sad, most of the time.

Kak Shinta had to convince me, even when she knew I hated this kind of shoujo-ish artwork, that 7 seeds is worth my time. I needed like forever to finally read this, and when I got totally hooked, I needed only few days to finish 19 volumes of 7 seeds, that's when a manga is freaking good you just can't stop :3 

Artwork aside, the plot is amazing, the universe Tamura Yumi created in this manga is scary but mesmerizing, and the dynamic relationship among characters is well written. Too bad it's not completed yet. I have to make my brain think that this manga does not exist. Waiting for the next volume to finally get published here is a pain. 

Oleh-Oleh AFAID 2013

Jadi ceritanya saya harus ke Jakarta minggu lalu, yang mana pengumuman harus ke Jakarta baru muncul tanggal 5 September tengah malam, jam 12, lebih 5 menit klo tidak salah.

Saya panik, semingggu sebelumnya saya sudah nekat mau ke AFAID karena saya kangen banget sama-sama teman-teman se-almamater. Saya panik, "berangkat besok? masih bisa ke AFA klo berangkat besok." which was impossible karena saya akhirnya harus ngurus dokumen yang ternyata makan waktu 3 hari.

Tapi selama AFA, teman saya, dian-neko, mengirimi saya gambar-gambar di booth fangirl *ehem* Gak banyak sih yang dia foto, toh saya gak nyangka juga dia mau dititipin. Kasihan kan klo dia mau seneng-seneng di AFA lalu saya titipin barang yang membuat mata pacarnya kesakitan.

Nah, ini beberapa hal yang dibawakan dian-neko untuk saya :3

Dari semua barang yang ditunjukin dian-neko, memang tas kecil ini yang pingin saya beli. Lucu. Suka <3 Saya pamer tas ini waktu balik pulang ke Malang, gak ada yang ngerti apa maksudnya kecuali dian-teman-saya-sejak-SMA.

Ini barang yang pada akhirnya bikin saya ketawa ngakak. Saya memang bilang ke dian-neko, saya suka cowok berseragam. Gak nyangka ada yang bikin art polisi tanah abang dan glodok kota tua :v

Adek saya sebel, karena dia benci polisi, "gak mungkin ada polisi seramping ini. Semua polisi gendut-gendut" (adek saya denial). Yah, masih SMA sih.

penataan memang di sengaja seperti itu *ehem*

Nah, klo ya ini dari hitsu, junior saya yang baik hati :D

Awalnya saya harus memilih "John atau Sherlock?" saya meraung-raung, "jangan membuatku memilih di antara keduanya." (sinetron banget omongan saya waktu itu). Tapi akhirnya saya diberi keduanya. Yay!

Lalu masalahnya....stikernya gak cukup buat hape jadul saya. Yah gimana dong :v

Minggu kemaren itu sudah minggu spesial karena saya akhirnya bisa ketemu teman-teman saya yang udah 11 bulan gak ketemu, lalu diberi ini itu nambah senangnya saja. Gak apa deh gak bisa ke AFA, dengerin cerita dian-neko dan yang lain aja udah cukup :3

30 Day Manga Challenge: Day 08 - The most annoying character

I don't even remember his name. Too naive for a special force cop :3 I don't know why I find this guy annoying, Hyogo is naive too, but I think he is an execption :p

30 Day Manga Challenge: Day 7 - A manga you disliked enough to stop reading

THERE ARE LOTS.

I have been reading manga since I was 10. Sure it was late, but hey, I couldn't even buy my own manga until I was 15. It is hard to have expensive hobby, y'know. And I read a lot of manga, from shoujo to seinen, I lost count of how many manga I dislike enough to stop reading.

I mostly borrow manga I read from Asri (a library) or friends so it is not a big deal if I hate it and then stop reading. But I have two mangas which I bought two years ago and just plainly dislike it. This one, from 3L publisher, I don't know if they are legal or not now in Indonesia, I always think they are illegal publisher, but then I bought this in Gramedia, super big bookstore in Indonesia.

Otokonoko Zukan 

Boys are silly, sex-hungry, and naughty. This book studies boys, living creatures totally different from girls, in detail, to answer questions about boys and their behaviors.

I thought it'd be friendship-slash-bromance kind of manga. It's just not my cup of tea /weeps

I learned the hard way, I bought it when I was just a poor college student, never bought anything from 3L never judge manga by its cover!

Shibatora Vol. 1

Judul: Shibatora

Mangaka: Masashi Asaki

Cerita: Yuma Ando

Penerjemah: Lenny

Genre: shonen, drama, supernatural

Penerbit: Level Comics (Elex Media)

Bintang: ✮ ✮ ✮

Blurb:

Taketora Shibata adalah opsir patroli dengan kemampuan misterius yang sering diremehkan karena penampilannya seperti anak kecil. Tapi, dia sangat serius dalam menegakkan keadilan.
Suatu hari, Taketora menangkap Mizuki, gadis yang mengutil di toko Kojiro, temannya. Anehnya, Mizuki yang ceria dan cerewet malah gemetar ketakutan saat tahu ayahnya akan menjemputnya di pos polisi. Ada apa sebenarnya di balik hubungan Mizuki dan ayahnya?

Opini

Rasanya saya sudah agak bosan dengan karakter utama polisi naif, sungguh. Apa semua polisi di manga harus dibuat idealis dan naif untuk menunjukkan existensi polisi?