badzphoto Mar 26, 2015
Honest, intelligent news and reviews for manga romantics
Writing the last trope post was a lot of fun so I thought I’d try anther one. Here’s a trope you see in a lot of shoujo manga – a stolen or accidental kiss.
So how did you do? I thought some of the final ones might be a little tougher but wanted to challenge some of our Japanese readers as well. 🙂 Tell me which ones you recognize in the comments and I’ll post a key later on so you can check. Have fun!
MAKING GUESSES, IF ANYONE IS SILLY ENOUGH TO READ THE COMMENTS BEFORE TRYING THEMSELVES YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Let’s see, 2 is My Little Monster, 3 is Red River, 5 is Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne, 7 is DN Angel (man that’s a complicated stolen kiss), 8 is Kamisama Kiss appropriately enough, 10 is Sailor Moon, I feel like I recognize the art style for 12 and 14 but not the series (probably see other stuff by the manga-ka, 12 isn’t Ceres Celestial Legend right?), 16 is Blue Spring Ride. You are going to give us the answers next week so we can check out the rest right? 😛 (15, 17, and 18 FEEL familiar but I’m sure I haven’t read them, they just seem to be drawn in “current, popular shojo” style)
OMG Last Game!!!! You need to do a review for that when it finally finishes. A lot of these sadly didn’t show up on my computer, but I was able to recognize all of them except 1, 11, 12, 17. Love how you talked about this trope. Were there any stolen or accidental kisses that you were excited for?
Late to the party:
1, The art looks like that of Yoko Kamio, but I don’t think it’s Boys Over Flowers.
2. My Little Monster
3. Red River
4. Marmalade Boy
5.a fantasy series of Tanemura Arina, I’m not sure if it’s Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne or Time Stranger Kyoko
6. Skip Beat!
7. I don’t know
8. Kamisama Kiss
9. A series of Tsukuba Sakura, Sweet Rein (?)
10. Sailor Moon
11. A Devil and her Love song
12. Yuu Watase’s series, Ceres (?)
13. Degenki Daisy
14. Ouran High Host Club
15. Highschool debut
16. Ao Haru Ride
17. A series by Akane Ogura, Kanojo ni Naru Hi (?)
18. Last Game