Mangas I've been recently reading...

Hello!!

So let's talk about mangas.

The first I'll talk about is Karakuri Odette by Suzuki Julietta (author of Kamisama, Hajimemashita)

Basically it's the story of Odette who is an android designed by the Dr. Yoshizawa. Wanting to find the ultimate difference between humans and her, Odette decides to persuade Dr. Yoshizawa to enroll her in a local high school. So we'll follow her crazy adventures in her discovery of the human world.

I have to say that, at the beginning, I was a little perplex. I was there like huh? What?A story with a robot?! o_O But while reading, I became to like it very much. Seriously, it's a nice story, Odette is not stupid, she's just sometimes clueless,that's all.

 Next is Mademoiselle Butterfly by Ogura Akane. It's a 2 volume manga that tells us the story of a 15 year old geisha-in-training named Butterfly. Every day, she goes to see Chinatsu, a tattoo artist who lives behind her okiya. He has always been kind to her and she's in love with him (not really surprising, I know). And what Butterfly likes the most are Chinatsu's tattoos. Of course, he refuses to make her a real tattoo and instead he draws her butterflies on her arms.

One day, a rich client comes to her okiya and finds her interesting. He's willing to buy and take her overseas. So what will happen? And what will Chinatsu think about the news?

My opinion is that it's a very nice shoujo. And even though it's a typical shoujo, it's still a cute little story to read. I know that I didn't say much about it but I think that the best way to know it is to read it.

BTW, it has nothing to do with Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly. The only thing in common is that they're both geisha.

Now a shounen for change. This one is quite known, I think, but I still want to talk about it because it's so hilarious.

The name's Beelzebub by Tamura Ryuuhei.

The strong delinquent Oga (nicknamed Ogre, Demon, or "it'd be alright if he'd just die" by other delinquents) picks up a baby that turns out to be the son of the Great Demon King! And so he is chosen to be the one to raise baby beel (nickname given by Oga). But the thing is that he doesn't want to, so he'll try to find someone else to raise baby beel. But he won't and so after subsequently fighting and defeating all members of the Tōhōshinki (the gang chiefs of the high school he's going to) and in the process, destroying Ishiyama High itself, Oga and company are transferred to Saint Ishiyama Academy, which appears to be a direct opposite of the delinquent school... that is when the real story actually begins.

Anyway, hum, what to say, I don't know. I think you should see it yourself. There's no way I could say something to make you read it. No that there's nothing to say it's that there's to much to say. I don't know what to begin with.

But where to read them?

Karakuri Odette and Beelzebub are on MangaFox. 

But Mademoiselle Butterfly is not available on manga sharing site that I know. But you can still find and download it on the group's blog who translated it. here you have the link.

Hope you'll like them and have a good time reading them if you do read them