the pin and ayane problem

well, at least.. my problem.

ladies and gentleman,

i ship Pin and Ayane so hard. harder than a rock.
It's a crappy simile but hey it's true.
But.. there's some guilt in it.
Guilt i can't quite put off.
One of them, he's name is Kent.

It's the realization of this nice guy that i can't quite tag my feelings in tumblr and say 'i am so happy they are not together anymore'. Kent and Ayane's relationship isn't the most flower and bubbles type like that of Sawako and Kazehaya's. It's the most fragile in the manga. It's the least interesting. Tho, they are visually look good together. Kent  confessed and was accepted by Ayane but all through out the manga, he's in the sidelines. As if, trying to look through the world of that manga. He got the least attention despite he's looks and personality.. both of his goofiness towards Sawako and he's boyfriend self to Ayane.

I remember a particular couple that felt like 'ouch, i wish they'll be together in the next life'.
Nana and Take of Bokura ga ita.

The manga tried to be subtle. the crappy subtleties.
readers were intrigued. readers got it tho.
and it's the next Pin and Ayane problem.
Pin itself.
All throughout this Ayane arc.. there's this shadow involved. lingering. in the office. with his spiky hair and his advises. During Ayane and Kent's relationship, there was these little moments of Pin and Ayane. In the office, in the rain, in the classroom, with the chocolates, in the stairs, while drinking, when Pin is trying  not to look straight at Ayane, in the store, in the unexpected coincidences of going home..
I've seen them all. You saw it guys.
If Pin isn't there, it could have been tolerable. But he's there. He's waiting too. He's in his office, trying to do things while Ayane talks to her. He's there in the store when she's gone and wet under the rain. He got all the advises. He got serious and hot and mysterious after an unexpected glance that leave Ayane breathless and stunned. He got an umbrella and a garbage back to not get YOU wet and sick. He'll call your friend's boyfriend to look for you. He will support your career endeavors. He will wish you luck going abroad. He'll set you free.


I said to myself, how could i be happy for Pin and Ayane when Kent is crying because of rejection?
For now, i won't think of P and A that much. For now, I want Kent to be happy. I want Ayane to clear her mind and decide what she wants.
For now, I want the manga to li lo over these three.

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fymb

manga: Kimi ni todoke
Thoughts: ch 92, 93,

hi and happy

Hello! Damn, it has been centuries ago since my last post. hehe. In here, it's summer! How's the weather there? Hope you doin fine with work and/or study!
Let's start with known anime and manga updates! hehe
*might contain spoilers

• First, if you didn't know already, FREE! anime have a new season called FREE! Eternal Summer and it will be aired July in Japan. :)
• Ao Haru ride anime will premiere July 7! The manga is starting to get interested with Kou being all enthusiastic getting Futaba back. Let's see about that.
• Sankarea manga will end this November! 
• Hunter x hunter's Chimera Ant will be ending soon, 2 or 3 eps to go. It's manga was pushed through and continued!(and it's smashing!)
• I am still enjoying Shiro's boob-grabbing incident in No game no life.
• Also.. i love those cute but somewhat creepy red-eyed children in Black Bullet- which manga is going to end soon. I love cute Tina Sprout too!
• Oh..Skip beat! manga latest updates these days is a must-read! idk, it's progressing with some light, and unexpected kissing! But I'm gonna be 75 the time they'll make babies i guess. lol
• Hitsugi no Chaika is so damn funny. Chaika is so adorable and i can't get enough of her. I need some good action tho.
• If you want to read Nisekyuu!!, read it in mangahere or mangafox. It's a funny collab bet. Haikyuu and Nisekoi!
• My current manga obsession these days is Chihayafuru. I forgot the feels months ago but i'm so into it again by these latest chapters. I'll have another blog post for my Taichihaya ship rants (haha) but for now, expect tumblr posts of them together and Arata(hehe--i won't be biased at least). 
• Sidonia no kishi is a good anime.
• Shoujo manga recommendations you say? Well, I am reading and finishing the works of IKUEMI Ryo. I love them all! 
• My favorite Haikyuu! player is Ryuunosuke.

That's it!

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fymb

Nagi no Asukara-- so complicated

The whole Nagi no Asukara fandom and shippers are as confused like as I was in answering my math problems when I was still studying the number-cursed subject.
Yes, it's that complicated.
Let me tell you about it.
From Crunchyroll: Nagi no Asukara is a drama-fantasy romance.
Long ago, all humans lived in the ocean. But some who longed for the land abandoned the ocean, casting off the special raiments granted to them by the sea god to adapt them to life under the sea...

Though mankind was divided into sea dwellers and land dwellers, each with different ways of thinking, they were all still fellow humans, and they continued to maintain contact as time went on.

Sakishima Hikari, Mukaido Manaka, Hiradaira Chisaki, and Isaki Kaname live in an undersea village, while Kihara Tsumugu lives on land.

When these middle school second-year land and sea dwellers meet for the first time, their hearts begin to undulate like the tides.

The youthful fantasy tale of these young people's lives unfolds in a strange and beautiful world.
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The whole point of the anime is just really as epic as the animation. The tale is so beautiful but the plot centered about these characters' lost and love. Romance-wise, this anime is a roller-coaster ride, focusing on every character's progression and downfall. The future is as blurred as the sea snow, the conclusion will totally be a surprise.

Watching an episode for me, is always a challenge. Playing the ep video and starting to watch is easy, but I always knew that episode per episode is a mystery yet to be solved. The dramatic cliffhanger will make you stick to it til the end.

The exciting part--and also the tiring part-- is the guessing of WHO IS ENDING WITH WHO?
With time, age differences, family connections and complications, friendships, homes, land and sea, and with other factors involved, how can someone choose a certain person he or she love, strong enough to burden the heartbreak of his/her friend? 
How can Manaka choose Tsumugu when he's 5 years older--or worst yet, when he's so far away and Hikari was the one who saved her and woke her up?
How can Tsumugu choose between, Manaka who he liked years before, and Chisaki who he learned to cared and lived in with?
How can Miuna fight for her love for Hikari when Manaka is already awake?
How will Chisaki choose between 3 boys who are all closer to her?
How will Sayu burden the heartache of knowing Kaname still is in love with Chisaki?

The complication of this tale might make me feel bitter in the end, or might leave a bitter aftertaste, but the tale is so beautiful, I would just have to remember that.

*If you are curious who I ship, i'll tell you. While I still hope for these pairs to end up, the matter of how Nagi no Asukara conclude these characters with each other or apart is what I am expecting. I'll accept it- no matter what. The tale just won me over. The tangled mess of this story won me over.
*My heart belongs to Tsumugu, and if it's okay.. he should end up with me.. that will be better! JK!! Haha.. kidding aside..hm. Tsumugu and Manaka's connection awed me with those unexpected 'Catching Manaka'-with-the-net moments. So Tsumugu and Manaka shipper here. Chisaki is that girl that is so realistic and beautiful and strong and jealous and gorgeous and ambitious, she might end to someone wonderful in any way. You know what I mean? Hell, she can end with a smart surgeon and i'll be happy for her. My problem with her is that.. it is as if she was so lucky. As if, she got the lowest burden, and the only thing she wanted is someone, and her life will be perfect. Yeah, yeah.. I don't like her that much. So I want her to be miserable and alone.... No, i i am just kidding. HEHEH. Kaname love her and I love Kaname, but puh-leazz.. I just want him to be happy. Sayu will be okay, with Kaname or not. And with Hikari, of course, Miuna is so sweet and nice so.. I like them to be together.
*But these are just my hopes! >.<

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i am so ready for the last 6 episodes!
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fymb

New beginnings and old comfy ways :)

2013 has been interesting and troublesome for all of us. The happiness and the sadness. The heartaches and sleepless nights. Imagine the terror, the hopelessness, the irony. The kisses, the hugs and the blushes. The bubbles, the dandelions, the spring. The heat, the wave and the sexiness. The red, the orange and the yellow. The snowflakes, the cold and the green teas(fave!-hehe)

Yes, my followers.. my life  as a blogger sure is like the life out there.. outside. Sorry for the depth..but manga blogging sure got all the adjectives and nouns I used above. *chuckles* Those interesting new mangas I read. The troublesome mangas I hated to love. Those heartaches of the girl protagonists that were devastatingly hurtful. Sleeplessness nights for another manga chapter I wanted to read(and those anime updates too!). The terrors of manga update pending, hopelessness of my favorite manga translations and the irony of being able to be thankful after shouting to some translation sites for updates(inner shouts i mean). The kisses of those ships, the hugs of those friendzoned characters and the blushes of Mamura(Hirunaya no Ryuusei)--lol). The spring love of those oneshots I loved this year--i know I bombarded you guys with a lot of those. The summer episodes and the summer anime and the fanservice they all gave. Yes, I am talking to you, Free! guys. The fall of the fandoms of the manga and anime were finished and completed this year. The winter chills and the repeated greetings from yours truly. All above has been spent this year by me and you guys. So let me give you my gratefulness. Thank you!

I started Fymb in tumblr in May 2010, can you believe it? It will be 2014 soon and just you wait for more enthusiasm from me to come. :)
Life has been good, you should never doubt that. I won't compare you to the starving children in Africa because that will be a pity comparison. I would just like you to be thankful for the small things. If there's one thing I would want you to know guys is a new year is here because it's something to look forward to. Don't ever stress yourself. Love yourself. Be selfish. If it means loving yourself. It's okay to pamper yourself to make yourself feel good. Choose good thoughts. Don't be like some people who craves for attention, give yourself an attention by taking care of yourself. Don't let yourself down just because people don't understand you. Let them hear their words and then let them hear yours.

Write to me anytime.

Happy new year, followers!
-will still be here
-fymb

make my heart doki doki* list

Just as sweet as  title, yes.. i'll be enumerating my 5 shoujo romantic diabetic-hyperglycemic-inducing(lol) list of shoujo manga that i will totally be going to read this August!(future tumblr posts!-so better be following me there)

Before that.. let me tell you guys that i missed writing in here and be rest assured that I'll still fill up my blog once in a while, if I have time. The tumblog will go as my life goes--and as much as I want it to run. The connection of FYMB tumblr and blogspot sites is still here. :)

So..I'd thought of those popular mangas that are in good sales and filtered it(for now) with this popular manga genre: SHOUJO. This list is from June to present sales. (from source: mal- Japan-I am not in Japan tho)

This list contains selected manga/s that I haven't read yet. Some manga are in josei category. This manga list  are always on sales so better look for them first in stores before reading them in any free manga reading sites online.

Let's break it down!(yow!)

1. Kobayashi ga Kawai Sugite Tsurai!!

Kobayashi Mitsuru and Kobayashi Megumi are twin brother and sister, with identical faces but radically different personalities: while Mitsuru is a confident charmer who wins the hearts of dozens of girls, Megumi is an average otaku who is in love with a virtual hero. Yet, the two's lives start to turn upside down after Mitsuru and Megumi switch roles.

2. ReRe Hello

Ririko is a hardworking girl who has been performing the role of a mother in her household after the death of her own one when she was five. When her father, a handyman, is stricken with illness and admitted to a hospital, Ririko decides to take up the role of a handyman to help her father's business in his absence. Her first client is a rich teenage boy with high expectations of his helpers. Will she be able to satisfy him?

3. Forget-me-not (Haru Meguru)

The story revolves around a high school girl, Umeno, who attempted suicide jumping in a river because she’s been bullied. She survived and now in the hospital she’ll meet patients of her generation that will encourage her daily and give her the strength to go on.

*inserted: Obata Yuuki's manga(creator of Bokura ga ita)

4. Akai Ito 

A red thread exists between a guy and girl that are fated to be together, a bond that can’t be seen by the naked eye. Finally, this fated romantic love will begin to open its curtain.

5. Boukyaku no Shirushi to Hime 

After 3662 blind dates, the 160-years-old Headless King that everyone fears of, is finally getting married! But when he faces the cute and gentle Princess, the King keeps hiding from her instead!? How will the Headless King and the Princess get to know each other?

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That's it!
Til next time! Just keep in touch and talk to me anytime in my tumblr account!
--fymb

Shingeki no Kyojin's music video?

O.O
of course.. it's not true. the editing tho.
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fymb

the trait I don't like about some shoujo boys

I've read too much shoujo manga that i can point out what i don't want in a boy protagonist in a particular manga. If I found it in one, it's either 'goodbye', or 'I can take it just as long as you update fast'. Because, i swear to you guys, authors with this same kind of character progression needs to know that boys naturally didn't decide stupidly in a shallow-as-ever problem. And i think, they didn't know that it's irritating. I believe boys are smart enough to know what is the difference between black and white.

Shoujo boys can't save the world by being with another girl because they can relate to them, or because they can't get out of her situation. Shoujo boys can't be stuck into a girl just because they are bound to help them. They can't be a martyr of a war that didn't even exist. You can't just be with a girl who's so sad that you can't be in a date with your girlfriend, for instance. Furthermore, a shoujo boy is not in a shounen one, who save everybody. They can't understand everyone. I believe that a shoujo guy got a lot of character progression because it centers, simply, by how he manage himself with the main girl or with the other girls. If they act stupid at some point, it should be because it's from a circumstance that still got a lot of challenge.

I've always spotted this kind of guy. They started fine.They possessed good guy traits like they save the main girl's small predicaments, or simply by starting to just be with the girl. They were built in a good guy facade that charms his way to a girl's heart. And then, the conflict arrives. You know, it would be okay and understandable that an ex-girlfriend or a past lover will come and shaken the main couple. It  doesn't, however, if a certain girl can somehow make a guy stupid enough to act as if he doesn't know who he like. It's as if he's not stable enough both on his feelings or his decisions.

You might remember some manga which have these guy characters. These shallow, obviously stupid guy characters need to stop. Of course, there are no perfect guy, even in a fictional story, but this cliche' is a trend to make a manga interesting, but fails in a lot of things particularly in character development and depth.

To be fair, these guys are in a rough situation in some but the best guys weren't built from a shallow, stupid decisions, but a learn-able, fail-able failures that gets better. Which I think, are from good story conflicts.

I personally don't care if he doesn't end with the main girl. If in the end, he makes best decisions every time a good failure had been made. In short, why choose the mango, when your hands want the banana? Why did you say yes, when you are in the verge of saying no? Make up your own mind boy!(and some authors) I repeat, those guys can't save the world, and be like a konoha ninja when they are in a shoujo world. They can't even save all the damsel in distress just because they went through the same as them in the past. They can save either themselves or that only one damsel in distress.
*chuckles*

Last but definitely not the least, authors.. make up your mind. Make a charming but stupid in decision-making- guy(which is so damn stupid) or an introvert guy but a brave one in the end, and stick with it(for instance). Don't confuse readers. :P Make a lot of depth. Make a stable guy that is protagonist-worthy.

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with Love, (yes, i love authors still--lol) and from a manga reader,
fymb