` Sunday, January 17, 2010
`私 Arisu ~でござる
Hmm.. SO far right..
the Manga i read... N LIKED...
which is mostly Romance + Sch life..
N not forgetting yaoi =x
Is
Faster than a Kiss(Kisu Yori Mo Hayaku)
&
Boku ni Natta Watashi Faster than a Kiss(Kisu Yori Mo Hayaku)
PLOT:
Fumino and her 4-year-old brother Teppei have lived with relatives since their parents died in a car accident. Tired of moving from a relative's house to another, she decides to drop out of school and find work to support her brother on her own.
As they sit on a park bench, her English teacher, Kazuma Ojiro appears in front of her and her brother. He tries to convince her to go back to school. She jokingly asks him to marry her in order to support her and Teppei, and he agrees. Is he serious or just playing around?!
Main Charaters:
Kaji Fumino (梶 文乃)
Fumino is a 16-year-old girl who is described as a
delinquent in Kumaneko High School, although she is not. She simply interrupts bullies and other bad students in violent ways.
She has a strong personality and sometimes loses her temper. She cares deeply about her brother Teppei. Her parents died in a car accident and so she had to become responsible for her little brother. As a result, she has become more mature and practical than others her age. However, she is terrible at cooking, so she relies on Kazuma to cook for her and her brother.
Even so, she cooked some porridge with some spring onions for Kazuma when he had a high fever. While nursing him with a mask on, he told her that when he was ill, nobody went near him, so they wouldn't get sick too. He also kissed Fumino through the mask, though when he got well, he doesn't remember what he had done.
She once secretly worked in one of Retsu's construction buildings for two weeks (cleaning floors) in order to earn some money to buy Kazuma a birthday present. She bought him a green necktie.
According to chapter 17, Fumino did nothing but sleep in class for the 1st year of school, which causes other students to see her as a bad student. Now she does well in her studies, only slightly poor in English.
Kazuma calls her "Fumino-san". He's very protective of Fumino and doesn't like when other men get too close to her.
Fumino loves Kazuma very much.
Ojiro Kazuma (尾白一馬)
A 24-year-old English teacher who teaches at Kumaneko High School, Kazuma is described as a "plain, glasses-wearing English teacher." Kazuma is the only one who looks for Fumino when she runs away and ends up marrying her, supposedly only to help her and Teppei. He is sometimes goofy and says he appreciates seeing Fumino's rare smile.
He asks Fumino to help him with problematic students, although he is a teacher. He has a calm and caring demeanor and cares for young Teppei more than Fumino does (according to her). He often gives Teppei candy for his hard work or just for being cute. Kazuma cooks for the family and usually sleeps much later than the rest of his family because of his dedication to teaching. Kazuma has numerous costumes for both Teppei and Fumino to wear and often dresses them up for
cosplay.
Even though they are married, Fumino and Kazuma sleep separately. He occasionally sleeps in Fumino's room, but only next to Teppei. Kazuma isn't open about his past, but later in the story, it is revealed that Kazuma was once in a gang. According to his old "gang" friends, he was called Jigoku no Mā-kun (地獄のまーくん
?, Mā-kun from Hell) because he beat up 100 motorcycle gang members without getting a single scratch.
He still has formidable fighting abilities; shown when he beat up two guys with one hand, while with his other hand he was holding Fumino. He sadly mentions once that his family is still alive, only that they reject him because of his delinquent past. His mother has died. His father is a
politician as revealed by Shōma.
According to Shōma, Kazuma was an excellent student, as expected from a person set to become the successor of his father. However, suddenly one day, he turned into a delinquent and left home.
Kazuma also mentions that he would like to tease Fumino first before "touching" her and very much does so every chapter. He feels that their marriage is only for Teppei's sake and that he shouldn't be "touching" her in case she leaves him for another man; which he would respect if she did. Even so, he starts developing feelings for Fumino slowly.
He joked that if they were to sleep together, she would have at least grown her breasts to a size C.
Kaji Teppei (梶 鉄兵)
Teppei is the 4-year-old little brother of Fumino. Teppei's personality is bright; he often makes people around him happy. Both Fumino and Kazuma love him. Teppei views Kazuma as a brother or a father figure. He often gives Teppei candy for his hard work or just simply for being cute.
Though still very young, he often tries to defend his sister when anyone bullies her. This is shown when Shōma was criticizing her; Teppei defends her by punching him in the leg and saying, "Shō-chan, you bullied Bun-chan/Buncha" with his fists balled up in anger.
When Fumino and Teppei leave Kazuma, Teppei leaves a trail of his collected hard candy for Kazuma to follow. He was also the one who tried to convince Fumino to stay with Kazuma when she tried to leave, which causes enough distraction for Kazuma to catch up with them. He loves living with Kazuma.
He gave his first drawing to Kazuma as a birthday present. It was a picture of Kazuma himself.
Teppei goes to school with his
kindergarten teacher Ryū, who is Kazuma's best friend and neighbor. Teppei nicknames Fumino "Bun-chan" or "Buncha" (ブソちや) and Kazuma "Mā-kun."
Sub Charaters:
Shindō Ryū (進藤 龍)
He's a happy-go-lucky guy who is Kazuma's best friend as well as his neighbor. He is also Teppei's kindergarten teacher and is one of the few people who know about Kazuma and Fumino's marriage. He helps to take care of Teppei.
He also tells Fumino about Kazuma's past. In one chapter, Ryū shows Fumino a picture of Kazuma and himself back in high school. Kazuma's face looks dark and demonic in the picture and he had long hair with insane demonic eyes. He added that Kazuma beat up the cameraman after taking the picture.
Ryū also helps Fumino dress sexy for Kazuma. How he managed to have women's
lingerie is a mystery but it was revealed that he previously worked as a host in a club.
Kurosawa Ken (黒沢 健)
He is one of Fumino's classmates and has a crush on her. Although Ken doesn't know that Kazuma and Fumino are married, he originally sees them together hugging, when Kazuma was telling Fumino that her life was more important than their marriage ring.
He later walks in on them right when they were about to kiss after Kazuma had whisked Fumino away into a classroom to watch the festival's fireworks together.
He and the vollyball team from school also saw Kazuma and Fumino enter a love hotel, which caused them both to be summoned to the principal's office.
Retsu
The 3rd generation of the Higuma Gang, Retsu is Kazuma's old friend. He gave Kazuma pudding as an apology for his men because they almost raped Fumino without realizing that she is Kazuma's wife.
When he invites Fumino to his home so that he can apologize again, he tells her that she is stupid for believing that he is a good person. Kazuma then busts into the scene, kicking Retsu in the face and causing his nose to bleed. It is revealed he was just joking around with Fumino and is actually a nice person.
He is known as "The Pudding Person".
Ojiro Shōma (尾白翔馬)
Shōma is Kazuma's younger brother. He's also a student at Kumaneko High School. He's very popular among the girls at school. Though due to his cold and rude attitude, they call him "Ice Prince".
Shōma originally didn't believe that Fumino is a girl. He finally believes it after seeing her underwear.
He once tried to bribe or supposedly give Fumino money to live comfortably until she graduates, in exchange for leaving Kazuma. However, she smacks it away and called him an idiot for thinking that she will leave him for money.
Despite being brothers, Shōma and Kazuma have different mothers, but they do talk to each other in polite terms. Since Kazuma had left the family, Shōma had to take over his responsibilities. He also insults Kazuma for becoming a teacher, claiming it's below his social status.
Apparently, he doesn't know when Kazuma's birthday is, which shocked Fumino. He goes on to tell her that it isn't celebrated in the Ojiro household.
He loves his brother very dearly although he doesn't really like to show it.
Margaret Denton
Margaret or simply Meg, is one of the students of Kumaneko High School. She's 17 years old. She recently transferred there from overseas. She is the daughter of a hotel mogul.
At the end of chapter 19, she told Shōma that she would be leaving for America to marry someone that her father chose for her, but she didnt want that because she was really in love with him (Shōma).
Kaji Satoshi
Appeared in Chapter 22, Satoshi made his first appearance through a voice message in his father's answering machine. He indicated in his message that he wishes to take care of Fumino and Teppei since his work has became less busy. It is revealed in chapter 23 that he is the younger brother of Fumino and Teppei father. He wanted to take away Fumino and Teppei to Kazuma so that the secret of their marriage will not be revealed.
Kaji's Ojisan (Grandfather)
He is Kaji's grandfather from her father's side of the family. He had cut off all ties with Kaji at the funeral of her parents but made up with her in Chapter 22. Seems to be attatched to Teppei and gives him lots of presents.
Omake Characters:
Emiri appeared only in the side story about Teppei so far. She was in love with Ryuu Sensei at first but seemed to have been won over by Teppei at the end of the omake.
Yuji
Family name unknown. Yuji appears to have a crush on Emiri.
Boku ni Natta Watashi PLOT:
The story is about Takanashi Momoko, a 16 year old girl. Her life is pretty normal, until her twin brother, Akira, disappears. Akira was supposed to enter a high class all boys school but he runs away to pursue his dream of becoming a photographer, leaving only a note explaining his actions. At first Momoko and her mother thought it was just a joke but he really didn't come back. Now Momoko's mother went ballistic and started cutting her daughters hair saying that she has to take her brother's place until he comes back. Not good for her since she has to disguise herself as a boy and what's this about being roommates with another guy? Will she be able to hide her secret and survive or will she be found out?
Charaters:
Momoko Takanashi
An energetic 16 year old that has to disguise herself as a boy because her brother ran away. When stressed out she sleep walks into other boys (or anyone's, really) beds. She falls in love with Itou after he constantly protects her.
Itou Kunio
Momoko's roommate. He first meets Momoko when he saves her (while she was a girl) from getting hit by a car. He calls her stupid for not paying attention and she returns that he is a bastard. Soon, after a few events, he falls in love with her, and tries as hard as possible to hide her identity.
Akira Takanashi
Momoko's twin brother. He runs away leaving only his school uniform in the closet. When Akira later returns, he admits he ran away to be a photographer. But being unable to "sense" the perfect picture, has been deemed unworthy and returns home. The result would be that Momoko would have to return to her all girls school and see Itou less and less. When Momoko runs away Itou finds her and embraces her. Akira walks in and takes a picture that gives him one more chance at being a photographer.
Saeki
Principal's son. He knows that Momoko is just disguising herself as a boy. He tries to black mail Momoko into going out with him. In order to prevent this outcome, Itou gets his sister to capture a picture of him kissing Saeki and blackmails Saeki into leaving Takanashi alone.
Kawakami
He is gay and likes Itou. He tries to use Momoko to bring him closer to Itou. He leads Momoko to a secluded place after class and tries to assault Momoko but yet again Itou saves her. Then Itou confesses that he is dating Momoko and that's when Kawakami expresses his feelings for Itou. He also starts developing feelings for Momoko, but after she returns to being a girl he falls in love with her brother Akira who does not seem to have any interest in him at all.
Ryou
Momoko's first love and childhood best friend. Momoko and Itou meet Ryou during vacation when the couple wanted to spend time alone with each other. Turns out, when Momoko and Ryou were children Ryou gave Momoko a bouquet as a promise that they'll be together forever...
私 Akuma No Shitsuji Daraka.