Amatsuki

Hello there, minna. I hope all my f-list is good and well 'cause I've spent almost all week offline. We were doing a little remodeling on our kitchen and other minor reparations but having strange people inside home always ensues caos and confussion... (worse when it's an all flirting ojisan from Uruguay ^-^;;;). Add to that the necessary mother's day shopping, paying bills and that terrible volcanic eruption in the south of Chile, one week without manga updates *shakes fist at that damned japanese Golden Week xDD* and I've been all distracted.

But I found the most amazing manga/anime!!!. My new number one for the season is "Amatsuki", totally recomended and it'll be worth your while if you read/watch it. In simple words, is like a mix between xxxHolic and Matrix that works perfectly, with great characters, good plot and great art. It's published in Zero Sum magazine, same as Loveless, and there're already 6 volumes out.

Reasons to read/watch Amatsuki without giving a lot of spoilers:

- Two big reasons: Sex-Gods Shinome Kon *points to icon* and Banten. Please refer to the eye-candy posted in the following pic spam.

- Good plot and awesome manga-art. The plot is getting better and better, mainly because of the backstory.

- Lovable characters. Even the female ones. And especially the hero of the story, Toki.

- Totally ghey slashable (we don't have eye-balls exchanges but tokens between Toki and Kon, and an interesting backstory between the spoilerspoiler "Princess" and the demon Banten, who's that all powerful blonde hottie with piercings and wings).

- Time/dimension/cyberspace travel?. Kon and Toki were in a future Tokyo visiting a virtual reality park featuring Edo but were spirited away to another world/time? by strange demons and then...

- Main seiyuus are my beloved Fukuyama Jun (xxxHolic's Watanuki, Bleach's Yumichika, Gakuen Heaven's Ito Keita, Okane Ga Nai's Ayase, Oofuri's Izumi, Princess Princess's Tooru, Tenipuri's Oshitari Kenya, Code Geass's Lelouch, and lots ans lots of yaoi CD dramas), and Koji Yusa (Bleach's Ichimaru Gin, Hikaru no Go's Shirakawa, Gintama's Touyo-san, Yakitate! Japan's Edward Kayser, and splendid CD drama acting as Iwabuchi in "Chinko no Tsubuyaki" xDD).

Amatsuki's pic spam:





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To learn more:

- Amatsuki's info in AnimeNetworks.
- LJ comm amatsuki_manga. There's art, fics, raws for the six volumes with translation and scanlations.
- Scanlations in 'Hana-mi's site. Scanlations till vol 4 (aprox). Providers for the raws and scanlations at the LJ comm.