[Random] Journal Entry VIII

Ok, this post is gonna be as random as heck...I mean, I'm sleepy and should technically be working on....something. ANYthing. But I'm not. I wonder if that smiley'll work here...meh. If not, you'll be seeing some "<jpg. 0XX?>" instead. Too bad.

Anyway, I started reading this manga, "Gakuen Alice", and I've fallen in love with it...I think it's a shoujo, but it can very well be a kodomo manga, just because of the characters. I love all of the characters; I'll start referring to them by either the nicknames given to them in the manga, or my own nickynames. So, I like:

• Mikan [Sakura] (Mik-chan? Mikkan? I don't have one yet....) she's a sweet, naïve 10-year-old (at this point) who is liable to snap at any moment and cuss out anyone who pisses her off. Honestly, she reminds me of Tohru Honda...except she gets angry.

• Hotaru [Imai] (Taru{?} Hota-chan{?}) meh...not the girls so much. Pet names are much more fun for boys.  Hota-chan is a nonchalant genius inventor who really does care...somewhere...deep down.

• Natsume [Hyuuga] (Naa-chan, Natsu) he's bad-tempered, super-talented, and has the same last name as the cousins Neji and Hinata in Naruto™. C'mon. I think he also just hates being an Alice...and a destructive-powered one at that. Doesn't he know that he can control how his Alice affects others? Either he'll change his attitude about it, or Mikkan will use her Alice to nullify his...oops.

• Luca (Ruka) [Nogi] (Ruu-kun, Ruka, Ruka-pyon) I love him, he's so adorable. He's an animal lover, but he doesn't show it. He suffers for the sake of his best friend Natsu, because he suffers more. He is cool and calm on the outside, but he's truly a little kid on the inside. ^^

• Yuu [Tobita] (Yuu-chan, Class Rep, or simply Yuu, most likely) he's really sweet...and probably has a crush on Mikan. And he has the ability ("Alice") to create illusions, a power I give one of my own charas...

• Narumi-sensei (aka Mr. Narumi) (Naru; Naru-sensei) He's a pretty man...with a pheromone Alice to match. XD I love him, ever since his debut, but he obviously has an ulterior motive.

Speaking of ulterior motives, why the heck did Natsu take off Mikkan's underwear??? (It made for a funny follow-up scene, tho).

Looking back at the charas and what I think of them, this manga is very similar to "Fruits Basket." 

• Mikan=Tohru.
• Hotaru=Hana-chan (Hanashima)
• Natsume=Kyo (!!)
• Luca=Yuki (kinda)
• Yuu=...Mitchi? (Momiji)
• Narumi-sensei=Shigure
• bratty Natsu/Luca fangirl=Yuki fanclub president

The only thing(s) that are messing up the flow: Mikan (Tohru) needs a yankee/delinquent friend as well, I didn't know who Yuu could be (sorry, Yuu-chan), and Luka as Yuki wouldn't have been Natsume's best friend. But man, Naru-sensei is just like Gure-san.

Here's a treat: my first pic upload. So, Mikkan and Hota-chan and Yuu were in the forest no one is supposed to enter, and this mutant chick raised by the middle-schoolers was loose, and the middle-schoolers were like, "Where could he be?" I snapped this:

Screenshot of page from Mangareader.net

Man, sooooo funny. And here's an example of Luca-pyon's animal love...:
(Note: with manga, you read from right to left  [««])

courtesy of Mangareader.net; emblem in lower right corner

XD O man...Luca...So affectionate. Oh boy...Their FACES. *collapses into giggles*

Okay...I should really stop and go work on my mask...later!!

[New Label to look for: Alice Update]