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The End of Kitchen Princess?

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:58:04 GMT

Since the Nakayoshi #8 came out, I decided to see if I could find any previews. When I checked to see what happens in the next magazine...

I may be wrong, since I can only read Chinese. I cross referenced some of this, so I might be wrong, I might not be...

This is where I got it from.

★感動のフィナーレ！

キッチンのお姫さま

安藤なつみ　原作／小林深雪
　

思い出の場所で大地と会ったナジカは・・・！？　見のがせない感動のフィナーレ！

At the very least, I know 大地 is Daichi and ナジカ is Najika.

What I can basically get is that Najika is going to meet the boy from her memories at Hokkaido, and from the title on the page, I think Kitchen Princess will end in issue #9.

If someone could double check, I would be eternally grateful. I don't want to cause too much crisis without it being true.

Kitchen Princess Chapter 44

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:26:22 GMT

Chapter 43, raws provided by tomokh left us at a HUGE cliffhanger >.>.
Just earlier, I was browsing around, and I found: chapter 44 raws! It's not the whole chapter, but it's better than nothing, ne? ;D
Raws from just_shojo .

I decided to save all of the pictures into a zip file, which is at the bottom, so anyone who wants to look at the whole of the chapter can I'm not going to post too many pictures here, because of that, though.
I knew Daichi's dad was somewhat of a babe, and this just completely confirms it.

We start out where chapter 43 left off, with Najika confessing to Daichi. He's obviously extremely happy:

But then he remembers Sora, and goes into some sort of fetal position >.>

Then, the scene's switched so that we see Daichi's dad, who talks to Najika about Daichi, and how he wish his son would love him again (? Something like that). Najika reassures him that one day, they will reconcile.

That's all that's in the pages I found >.>. When I find any new updates, I'll add them here, right away.
Meanwhile, I'm going continue working on my slideshow for KP, and colorize that first Daichi picture <333.

Kitchen Princess Chapter 44 Raw

AP European History Test

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:55:40 GMT

Okay, so you might be wondering why I'm not at school (at the time this is posted, by the way, I'm in Pacific time)
Because of my AP European History test, which is in the afternoon. So pretty much, I'm not going to the first half of school and going around noon.
But seriously, I am seriously so nervous O_O.
I woke up this morning and was like, OMFG, my AP Euro test is today.
And it's my first AP test, too.
So I'm spazzing more or less. Not because of the multiple choice section, I've got that down.
But it's the freaking DBQ (Document Based Question) that's got me jumpy. Oh, and the FRQ.
I'm not bad at writing, but fiction is so much easier than actual essays >.>
Ew-ness >.>

Love Master A Volume 1 (Spoilers)

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:52:29 GMT

Love Master A

I completely chose this one randomly, because I was bored and needed new manga to read. Surprisingly enough, I liked it a lot. It's one of those series that are cliched, but at the same time really, really sweet. When I went online, I realized there was almost nothing on this manga, and so that's how this entry was started <333.

Summary from Go! Comi: Aria has transferred to a new school in hopes of a calm and quiet new life -- only to find that her reputation has preceded her! Ironically nicknamed “The Love Master” because of her incredibly bad luck with romance, Aria decides to turn over a new leaf – helping other couples overcome their problems, whether they like it or not!

Chapter One

The main character, Aria Sakurai has an unfortunate fate. At her old school, she was rejected by 50 boys, thus living like a social outcast until high school, when she transferred, and gives up love. When she reaches her classroom, she's whisked away by the handsome Health and Safety coordinator, Jin-kun (The guy on the cover. Can you say bishie?). It turns out the whole student council has just decided to make her president.
The council has some... interesting characters. And they're all hot, in their own way. There's the secretary, Mizuki Tachibana, who's a girl who hates other girls. There's the treasurer Kurusu Umezono. He's sort of like a Kyoya from Ouran, but with long blond hair. Chikayasu Takebayashi, the vice president is... well, like a ninja. But he turns out to be the most rational of them all.
In chapter one, the story just gets started. Apparently, a rumor went around that Aria had 100 guys, and because of that, Akutagawa-san, a girl from Aria's homeroom, asks for help on confessing to a guy. And the whole student council interferes, by tying up the guy so Akutagawa-san could confess. It ends up with a happy ending, because it turns out Akutagawa-san's crush was worried about her and it's not direct, but we assume they've become a couple. Jin-kun welcomes Aria, who is obviously taken with him, and runs off, screaming that she's forsaken love.

Chapter Two

Chapter two begins with a startling note that begs the student council to help out the girl's dorm. Aria immediately volunteers, and it turns out all the girls in the dorm are rebelling against the dorm leader. They say it's because even though there was a no mingling policy between the boys and the girl, the dorm adviser had her own guy. It turns out the boy's dorm adviser and the girl's dorm adviser gave feelings for each other but couldn't be together because of the rule. Aria tells them that they should change the rule, but it turns out there was a girl that got pregnant and the former dorm adviser told the current dorm adviser to never let that happen again.
Aria-chan's completely bummed by this, of course, because she knows the dorm advisors really love each other. Together with the student council, she comes up with a plan so that they would have weekly teas so the boys and girls can mingle with each other.

Chapter Three

The treasurer, Kurusu-kun, falls for a girl, Rina Iogi, who looks angelic on the outside. It turns out though, she likes playing with boy's feelings and often makes them hate girls. She plans on doing this to Kurusu-kun, and would've suceeded if it weren't for the student council. This chapter hints that Mizuki has feelings for Kurusu-kun, because at the end, when the treasurer says he'd rather stay away from girls for a while, she gets really happy.

Chapter Four

The student council get lost on the way to a shrine that belongs to Chikayasu-kun. Tensions run high, and Aria stops them and says the only way they can find their way is to work together. The chapter focuses on Jin and Aria-chan near the end, because Aria had tried to (unsuccessfully) climb a cliff in a kimono and hurt her ankle. Jin-kun carries her on his back, and Aria, despite her efforts, realize she's falling for Jin.

Chapter Five

We get introduced to the 2nd year student council, who is undeniable rude to the first year student council. It turns out that they want to dissolve Aria-chan's council. The 2nd year council president, though, Takara-san, ends up getting attracted to Aria, which infuriates Jin-kun. Of course, he brushes off his feelings as just trying to protect the student council. Aria-chan gets attacked by Takara after he pushes her against the couch (Like Nosatsu Junkie >.>) before Jin-kun saves her. Aria tells Jin-kun her feelings, and he tells her he feels the same way, which has Aria-chan blushing, until she realize Jin-kun meant that she was previous to him because they were on the student council together.
Aria-chan thinks that either Jin-kun is leading her on or doesn't see her as a girl. Of course, Takara-san kisses her on the cheek and tells her he likes her, and not in the way that Jin-kun does.
Which of course, completely depresses her.

Nosatsu Junkie Volume 5 (Spoilers)

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:19:22 GMT

So I stopped by my local anime club the other day and I found Nosatsu Junkie, volume 5. Of course, I was really excited because the last one left you with Naka pinned to a bed (!) by Tsusumi. And I just have to say... I seriously need the next one to come out. I hate how it's four months between each volume.

Session 24

It starts out where volume 4 left off, with Naka pinned to a bed. And she shouts at Tsutsumi about how he's been acting way too weird lately. It ends up them talking about the kiss that he stole from her in order to protect Umi's identity from being figured out. Of course, Tsutsumi tells her that 'If I didn't like you, I wouldn't have done it. I did it because I like you'. Which sends Naka into a fit of spasm. Then, it switches to Umi's thoughts, and he's spazzing because he heard from Mihane-chan (Azu's sister and Tsutsumi's ex) that Naka went into Tsutsumi's room. Then, of course, Tsutsumi calls, tell Umi that he was with Naka and Umi loses confidence because he can't even tell Naka how he feels. Also, because he thinks that besides Junk, Naka doesn't care about him. Then, to stop Naka from thinking about Umi, Tsutsumi cuts his hair (I liked him better with long) and tells her he's starting over a new leaf, which makes Naka realize he was serious. And here's where Chii-san comes in. He tells Umi that if there isn't anything between them, he had to make something new between them and he has a month to build up his confidence to be with Naka.

Session 25

At the photo shoots, Naka and Tsutsumi keep on yelling at each other. Tsutsumi tells her that he likes her angry face, and he shows his soft side when Naka falls asleep on the bus and gives her his jacket for a blanket. While watching TV in her room, Naka sees the new Junk ad with Mihane and Umi paired together, so during her shoot, her smiles end up looking like Mihane's. She realizes she's being fake and faints. After she wakes up (on Tsutsumi's lap), Tsutsumi tells her she can't be anyone else and he wants to take pictures of Naka, not Mihane. She ends up falling asleep in the airport, and Umi bumps into her, because he's shooting in Naha, Okinawa. He spazzes (Lots of times this volume, huh?) and attacks her in her sleep again. (It wasn't terrible, just a kiss on the sheek and a hug). Of course, right outside, Mihane-chan is listening >.>.

Session 26

Mihane-chan, from what she overheard (Also, help from Tsutsumi) figures out that Umi is a guy. Umi then tells Tsutsumi not to tell Naka he was there, or else it would throw her off. Of course, when Naka wakes up, she asks Tsutsumi about a keychain she found after she woke up, and Tsutsumi tells her that Umi was there. And Tsutsumi offers to let Naka go see him, but she refuses to see him until she's 'grown properly'. Naka's pictures then go back to the ghost-looking stuff, because she keeps on thinking about Umi. Speaking of Umi, we see him in the student council room, the fellow members teasing him about Naka. One of them took a picture of Naka and put it on an underwear model with an F-cup. After a shoot, before they go to dinner, Tsutsumi carries Naka off over his shoulder and tells her that she should also think of herself sometime and wouldn't put her down until she told him she wanted to see Umi, which she eventually does admit.

Session 27

Naka recieves a voice message from Umi, and she's obviously very happy. She realizes in order to take a step foreword, she had to take her feelings with her. Umi's also happy, and the student council asks him when Naka's coming back. He realizes he didn't know until he asks his manager, and she tells him the 25th of December. Mihane and Umi end up at Chii's photo shoot (Who looks incredibly hot) and end up at Chii's house, where Umi realizes Chii loves Mihane. Mihane ends up watching the video that Chii shot of Umi and Naka (in the cat ears) and Umi realizes that he more or less sexually harassed (and didn't think about her feelings) Naka while they were filming it. He ends up saying random stuff, then leaves. Mihane then gets upset after she hears Tsutsumi kissed Naka and she starts to cry. That's when Chii pulls her into a hug. Umi, on the other hand is storming home, and wondering why Naka was sad when Umi told her he didn't remember anything that happened, and he blushes when he realizes what one of the possibilities might be.

Session 28

The session begins with Chii and Mihane, who are still hugging. Chii then tells Miahne that she shouldn't be mopey, and she smiles. Chii thinks to himself that it was no longer enough for her to be just smiling, no matter who it was. Then, there's a short few pages between Naka and Tsutsumi, and she tells him that she was she was glad he was her photographer. He then gives her a 500 yen coin from the bet and tells her that she finally looked at him, and that he's decided to move foreword, as well.
The month is finally over, but the flights are being delayed. Umi set out to meet Naka, but she didn't make it until 5 hours after he had been there. By that time, all the trains had already stopped running. Umi ended up hugging Naka after seeing her cry and he asks how how she's going to get home. She tells him she has a hotel reservation and he tells her he's going to stay with her until morning (!)

Extra Session: Red Spring

Pretty much a short Mihane-chan/Tsustumi-san thing. It's in Tsutsumi's perspective and he says that he hates the color red. At 15, he only took pictures of the blue sky, after his father's death. Mihane-chan then pops along, wearing a red dress and tells him to take pictures of her. This continues for a while before he develops the photos. Mihane takes a look at them and realize it was only of the blue sky, with tiny bits of her hair. When she asks why there was none of her in them, he tells her that when he took a picture of his father for the first time, he immediately went to develop them, but was hit by a car and died soon after. Mihane tells him to move on, because his father wouldn't want him sulking like that and Tsutsumi realizes that just like he had loved his dad for accepting, he had feelings for Mihane for being there for him. He then tells her he would take pictures of people, but for a while, only hers.