I listened to this song over and over (again) and I officially recognize it as a song for the Hikaru no Go Wishes album. Yun lang. But a really, really, really interesting song in a R&B sort of way is Clazziquai's You Never Know. O_o;

Yeah, and that reminds me - I just read an article about a Japanese coffeeshop that opened a branch here in Manila - and I want to go there for some good old coffee loving! Ta - ci - ta! ^_^ So now the building block were Trinkets is located looks like this:



The bookshop owner is the one that ends up with the ditzy manga-ka, as per Anna's suggestion. *laughs* Don't think I forgot about that already!

Why have I ended up making so many L5r ficlets lately? Ask Hisui-san - I'm still recovering from the burst of idea intoxication her last visit brought me. Also, I seem to like Tsubasa a lot. He's - nice. *fangirls* And of course the idea of anything remotely sentai-ish (in the form of Unicorn Battler YongHa) is enough to cement my love for these characters. Maybe because Souji and YongHa aren't together in the way Akira and Hikaru are, so I can angst my way though the relationship. In fact, I believe that I can;t for the life of me think of a good complication for HikaAki (in L5r, as opposed to in Hikaru no Go)

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Kazuki Kato is yet another one of my 'projects', a BL manga-ka. I was careful to choose a name that was not in any list of manga-ka I know. I think that if you google for her, you'll get information about a nature photgrapher (at least the last time I tried). She's my little bit for Falsificatio, a set of fake fansites of Four-cats, and I seriously need to get off my ass and work on it.

Kazuki Kato's my mad, "what-I-would've-been-if-I-was-born-in-Japan-with-any-talent-for making-manga" persona, but what the heck, I'm only a few thousand miles away. :D

Listed manga for Kazuki Kato:
♥ Trinkets
Due owns Trinkets, a store where you can find love unexpectedly if you purchase the right love charm. And since Kazuki Kato is a BL mangaka, that means that for strange reasons, guys are getting cute, girly stuff and then promptly falling into their partner's arms, sometimes literally. (Go Samidare!)
Issues with this everyone sounds like a variation on cheerful uke with strong seme, so I ought to vary that. And it's a bit obvious that Ansel and Cecil is my favorite pair. :D
♥ The Smiling Prince
Jean, Due Ayukawa's brother, is very rich, very friendly, and has a weakness for blondes. These factors leads to trouble as he and his schoolmates face the ins and outs of adolescent love. Cecil and Ansel from Trinkets watch over this madcap high school romance series where Jean can be the only one to know who's his 'prince'.
Issues with this Can't for the life of me make up Jean's friends. Solution: read BL high school romances. But the only series I have falling into that category which does NOT involve a teacher-student romance is - er - Menkui. The rest are one-shots. The Power of Pure Soul, anyone?
♥ Iro-iro wa suki!
The title is supposed to translate to 'Many loves', but I think I got the particle wrong. O_o; A single father, Murasaki, is raising five children named after colors. Kuro, Aoi, Ki, Momo, and Beni were named by their deceased mother who liked sentai anime and named her kids according to the colors of the warrior's suits (what the?!). Of the five it's the 'girly' one, Momo, who doesn't want to be gay!
Issues with this Time. :D Looks like a fun (if slightly madcap) bit of work. Also, I have a perfectly good outline for their lovelives already. Genres covered: sariman, good boy falls for bad boy, hyper boy with smart boy, weirdo with the slightly dumb one, the girly one with a prince, and shota. :D
♥ Eternal Rhapsody
Taeto Hinoki of Trinkets is now grown up, and has become a classical musician. During one of his tours he encounters a small boy with the cheerful demeanor of Yasuke, and follows where he thinks he'll find happiness.
Issues with this I can't come up with a plot, since it's shota. Help!
♥ Sweet like Sugar (?)
What came out from a post by pornkings about naming a child Sugar. The poor kid! He'd be transported into a fantastic world where the very first thing that happens to him is being swamped by a mob. They think he is Sugar from the most popular girl group Candystripers (or Candygals, I'm still deciding). I always think of this as my 'Naoko Takeuchi on crack' manga.
Issues Naming characters? They're named after foodstuffs or endearments, so there's Milk, Muffin, cupcake, Darling etc. The rest of the Candygals are Love, Honey, and Sweet. I think the mysterious masked savior is currently named Green Tea. XD Did I say I was on crack?

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Icon series Samizo Kouhei from Leviathan, a work that I am currently adoring. Story by Eiji Otsuka, art by Yuu Kinutani. Currently scanlated by Band of the Hawks *smiles Berserk smiles* (http://thehawks.org) and available (at least according to the scanlation credits page) at #hawks@wondernet and #omanga@wondernet. This is not a BL manga. XD This serious work deals with the coming of Leviathan, the monster that will announce the coming of the King of Terror - but instead appears a man with the parts from five people - Samizo Kouhei. He reminds me of Griffith of Bereserk, need I say more? Griffith before he fell under the sway of that dratted egg, mayhaps.

( this happens to be one of my favorite parts from the smiling prince, I don't know why )

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