Recommendable Manga/Anime
W
Juliet | Weiß Kreuz
Card Captor Sakura | Fushigi
Yuugi | Ayashi no Ceres
| Yami
no Matsuei | Rurouni Kenshin | Rekka no
Honou
W
Juliet
By
Emura (pen name)
Meant to be read
like Double Juliet
Read
storyline...
Weiß
Kreuz / Weiss Kreuz (pronounced
as Vice Kroitz)
By Project
Weiß
Translated
as White Cross (German)
(According
to the anime...)
Four
cool assassins well-known for their good looks... *Bishounen!* ^^x In the day, they are
florists at a store perpetually hoarded by female students looking for eye
candy... But when the sun sets, they become assassins out
on a mission...
Each has
his own choice of weapon(s)... Hidaka Ken's are gloves with sharp claws
which are retractable. Tsukiyono Omi uses darts and a cross-bow.
Fujimiya Aya prefers a katana (Japanese sword) and last but not least, Youji Kudo uses
string which is kept in a watch. (Think dental floss rolled into the face of
a watch ^^;;)
Every
one of them has a sad secret...
Aya (real name Ran) has a sister named Aya...
^^;; Their parents were murdered when the siblings were out shopping for a
birthday present for Aya-chan... When they returned home, they found their
parents murdered in their own home. Ran was alert enough to realise that the
house was about to explode and warned his sister, who managed to run out in
time to escape safely. Ran, on the other hand, managed to sustain some
injuries due to the explosion. Dazed and almost in shock, Aya-chan could
only stand and stare as a car then came charging down toward her. In front of her
horrified brother's eyes, Aya-chan was knocked down. She survived, but
remained in coma for about two years while her brother, Ran, adopted her
name and swore revenge on Takatori Reiji, the man behind these tragic
events...
Ken was
a Japanese League soccer player... He was accused of deliberately causing
his team to lose the game... Apparently, in actual fact, his best friend (Kase) had
framed Ken... Ken only found that out years later when they chanced upon one
another again. With tears in his
eyes, Ken killed Kase as he was assigned to do as part of a mission...
Youji
was a detective. While investigating something with his female partner,
Asuka, they were chased, and Youji ended up being wounded. He told her that he
couldn't go on anymore, and told her to escape without him. As she left,
she was shot dead in front of a horrified Youji. Apparently the relationship
between the two was something more than partnership. However, history
somehow repeats itself...
Omi, the
youngest of the four, has a second identity... His real name is Mamoru Takatori...
He was kidnapped at a young age, and his father, Reiji Takatori refused to
pay the ransom. (The reason for his refusal was that Reiji had discovered
that Omi's biological father was actually the former's younger brother,
Shuuichi.) Just as Omi was about to be killed by his kidnappers, someone
came along and saved him. That person turned out to be none other than Shuuichi Takatori...
Note 1:
The Weiß Kreuz manga is only in Japanese, I have yet to see Chinese
translations... ^^;; (But if anyone did see the Chinese version, please email
me!! ^^x Thanks...)
Note 2: Anime
Episode Synopsis coming soon! ;)
Card
Captor Sakura
By CLAMP
Sakura
Kinomoto is ten years of age, and has been made a card captor by the guardian of the Clow
cards, Keroberos (a.k.a. Kero-chan!) She has an older brother named Touya Kinomoto,
and a father named Fujitaka. Her mother, Nadesiko, passed
away when Sakura was only three.
Sakura's
main job as a card captor is to catch all the Clow cards, like this one
below, in order to prevent them from harming the people in the town in which
she lives.
This is
mainly about how Sakura captures the Clow cards with the help of Kero-chan,
her best friend (Tomoyo Daidouji), and eventually the help of Li Syaoran, a
boy from Hong Kong...
But as
the plot thickens, things suddenly aren't as easy nor as simple as they seem... (more
coming soon ^^x)
Fushigi
Yuugi
By Watase Yuu
Translated as Curious
Play
Read
storyline...
Ayashi
no Ceres
Another manga by Watase
Yuu...
Aya was an ordinary
girl. That is, until her 16th birthday, which was when she found out that she had tennyo blood
in her. Because of this, a tennyo named Ceres, who is also Aya's
ancestor, can possess Aya's body as soon as Aya reaches the age of 16.
Hence, on the
day of their 16th birthday,
she and her twin brother, Aki, were called to their grandfather's house for
what they thought was a birthday celebration. While they were there, they
were shown a preserved hand, to their utmost horror and disgust. It was then
that judging from Aya's reactions to the hand that Aya's family found what
they were looking for-- The evidence of tennyo blood in Aya. Hence, in the
attempt to suppress Ceres, Aya's family attacked Aya intending to kill her, but their efforts were in vain
and Aya managed to escape with the help of Yuuhi (who was sent to help her
in the first place). Aki, on the other hand, ended up having gashes all over
his entire body and was unable to do likewise. He was thereafter forced to stay
overly protected in his grandfather's house...
Ceres was a powerful
tennyo, yet Aya was somehow strong enough to suppress the tennyo, and even
managed to make a deal with her. All Ceres wanted was revenge on Shiso, the man who refused to let her go back to the heavens for his own
selfish reasons. Moreover, she wanted and needed to get her hagoromo (which
she believed was hidden by Shiso) back, so that she would be able to
return to the heavens.
The deal was on.
Aya promised to help Ceres on the condition that Ceres would
not only not kill or harm Aki (who was now possessed by Shiso) but would also return
to where she came from as soon as she retrieved her hagoromo. However, things are just getting started and more
complex...
Yami no Matsuei 
By Yoko Matsushita
Translated as Descendant
of the Dark
Tsuzuki Asato is a Shinnigami,
or a god of death. His partner is Hisoka Kurosaki. The two work for
the Emperor of the Underworld, and their main job is to bring lost souls
back to where they belong. This series is based mainly on the cases
the two undertake. Careful, though, some of the victims on their cases were
terribly chopped up and... (Need I say more?) Aside from that, it is a comedy (especially
when Tsuzuki cooks), part romance, and part mystery...
(Slightly)
More
details...
Tsuzuki and Hisoka
are actually dead. (Imagine still having to work after being dead for 90
plus years... @_@) Tsuzuki died when he was 26, and Hisoka died when he was
16. Tsuzuki is the only Shinnigami who can use the powers of 12
shikigami, while others can use the powers of only up to 3 shikigami, hence
causing jealousy amongst the Shinnigami...
Rurouni
Kenshin
By Watsuki
Nobuhiro
Translated as
Samurai X
Read
storyline...
Rekka no Honou
By Nobuyuki
Anzai
Translated as Flame
of Recca
Flame of
Recca is about a teenage boy named Recca who yearns to be a
ninja. Then he finds out he really is one...
400
years ago, Kagerou, bore a son whom she named Recca. However, his father was a
flame caster (i.e. able to produce fire from his bare hands), and had another wife, who had borne him another son 4 years
earlier by the name of Kurei.
Unfortunately, by tradition, only one flame caster was
to be born per generation. A conference was held. Some felt that Recca was
also able to produce flame because of the fact that Kurei was inadequate. A conclusion was
finally made-- Recca was allowed to stay as he was, but Kurei was forced to live
with his mother as an outcasts. Kurei was thereafter often bullied by the rest of the children, and
henceforth developed deep hatred towards Recca for making he and his mother go through psychological and
physical torture every
day.
Some
time later, war broke out and in order to save Recca from the turmoil of war, Kagerou
sent him 400 years ahead of time. However, seeing this, Kurei seized the
opportunity to follow Recca
in the time tunnel before Kagerou could prevent him from doing so. Because Kagerou had
sent Recca and Kurei through time, the sole consequence she had to face was the curse of
immortality. She hence used this to search for her long-lost son, yearning
to see him once again.
Now, 400
years later, Kurei has finally found Recca, and yearns to kill him. And at
that same
moment, Kagerou finds her long lost son only to realise that she can never
touch him...
W Juliet | Weiß Kreuz
Card Captor Sakura | Fushigi
Yuugi | Ayashi no Ceres
| Yami
no Matsuei | Rurouni Kenshin | Rekka no
Honou
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