New manga presentation: Another!

Hey guys, hope you're fine, and today, I have to apologize. Why, will you ask. Well it's very simple, it's because despite what I said in my last post, I just couldn't resist at doing a post about today's manga, and...well, it's again a dark one, even if it is different, so...lets go with one of the best and most famous of his kind at least for me;

Another!

Another is a manga seinen made by Hiro Kyohara, and it is an adaptation from a mystery horror novel by Yukito Ayatsuji. As I said, even though it's a dark manga as for Revenge Classroom, it's way more unrealistic, meaning that in this one, the story is about a malediction, but I'll tell you all about this later. This manga is now ended, with only four powefull and wonderfull books, and a bonus one, the episode 0, that was realeased in 2012.

This manga had an adaptation in 2012, and even if I didn't want to tell you about anime and manga in the same post, this time I had to, even just a little bit, because the anime hit me while looking at the graphics, because even if the story is almost perfectly respected, it's all spoiled by the graphics. I mean, just look:

This is the main character, Kouichi Sakakibara, in the anime:

Now, the same in the manga:

If you can't spot the best, this is going to be usefull: Surprise!

I promise.

Now, if you exept the graphics, the atmosphere is very catchy, and you will not be able to stop before you've ended it, or at least I wasn't.
As I said, I will not talk about the anime any longer, let's get to the story.
In 1972, a girl named misaki, student in the class 3-3 of Yomiyama North Middle school, is beloved by everybody. Most popular student of the all school, she is adulated by both students and teachers. Unfortunately, at the middle of the year, Misaki dies. The rest of the students are devasted by this unexpected loss, until one of them suddenly shows Misaki's desk, and says ''Misaki is not dead! She is right there!''. Unable to carry on without this lye, the all class, and the teachers, act as if their beloved classmate was still alive. The point is that, at the end of the year, on the graduation photo, Misaki is there, with all the students.
In 1998, a young boy named Kouichi Sakakibara, come back from Tokyo to his birth place Yomiyama. After his arrival, he is hospitalized because of a lung problem, and during his stay, he briefly meets a girl, whose name is Misaki Mei, but Kouichi will learn that later. During his first days in school, he quickly figures out that everybody is acting as if Misaki Mei did not exist. He first tries to learn why, but he soon discovers that, at the moment he noticed her, the malediction of the class 3-3 awakened, and his classmates started dying.
Does it sound awesome to you guys? Well you are right!

Okay, so, now, why is this manga so awesome? I mean, horror story whith a bit of unnatural stuff, there is a lot of it, and they are not always great. But with this one, something I love is that you are lost. It is not an horror manga as all the others, with a main enemy easy to find, and blood everywhere. Of course, it is a creepy manga with quite a good deal of gore, but it is written with a great part of mystery, you never know who is really the one to be effrayed of, every single character can be a source of danger, and also, of course, a potential victim, even those which you think are going to be part of the story until the end...
As I said for the anime, the atmosphere is really catchy, and believe me when I tell you that I could not wait to receive the other books when I only had the first.
For the graphics of the manga, personally I could not find any default, the drawing lines are very clear and delicate, the characters are all very pretty, especially Misaki...

Well, that's it for today folks, I know it took me a lot of time to post this, I am sorry, I really had a lot of work recently. I unfortunately can't promise that it will not happen again, but I will try to publish faster, I can promise that, at least. I apologize again for those two dark mangas, I swear that this time the next will be a lighter one, in fact I already began to write it. As for last time, if you have any requests, give them in the comments. I will read all of them and take them into account.

So as you forgive me, I let you with this little gift, if your mind is as weird as mine, you will enjoy it, bye guys! And play nice!

The mad Hatter  

First manga presentation: Revenge classroom!

Hi there everyone! 

For this first Free post, I'm going to present you a manga that I discovered a few time ago, and which I'm very fond of,

"Revenge Classroom"!

Revenge classroom is a manga wrote by Yamazaki Karasu and designed by Kaname Ryu, and it's really hard to believe that it is only their first serie, because either the scenario and the design are amazing, and perfectely adapted to the dark atmosphere of this artwork. But i'm getting carried away. For now, only four volumes have been outputs, but the fifth should be released soon, depending on the time Yamazaki Karasu will spend on it, because according to what he wrote at the beginning of this manga, he has a lot of work to deal with, in fact he is also a novelist, so I'm grateful for the time he took to write this. Now, let's get more into the subject;

This manga talks about Ayana Fujisawa, a girl in the third year of college. She seems to live a normal life for those who don't know her, but in fact her classmates are making her life a living hell, robbing her, hitting her, insulting her, making her the whipping girl of the class.

At the beginning of the story, she is resigned to this situation, but one day, one of her classmate, of which she doesn't see the face, almost kill her by pushing her on the road. Hopefully, she is quickly on her feet, but realizing that this violence she has been supporting for so much time is going to kill her, she decides to take her revenge on every single student of her class, those who are tormenting her and laughing of her bad treatment as well as those who are doing as if nothing was happening to her.

She spies the students one by one, collecting informations about all of them, looking for their weakness to use this against them and to force some of them to act for her, beginning by the insignificant ones to get, little by little, closer of her more important targets, preparing their fall.







The first girl she uses for her project, Nomura Ai, quickly falls in love with her, meaning that she admires her for being so strong, to give the weak a chance to take their revenge on the strong, and she becomes her faithful ally, doing everything Ayana is asking her.

Also, A few times after she began her revenge work, some really worrying events happens, as the student's secrets begin to being revealed, and Ayana herself is becoming more and more hard in her punishments, and this, guys, is amazing, because she becomes as cruel as awesome!

As I said before, this manga is dark and really psychological, it may be really difficult to read for those who are only looking for a cool manga of action or fantasy, because it is nothing like this, but the fans of death note, and those who are fond of complicated stories with quite a bit of blood should find their manga in this great work. As I said before, the design is perfect for this kind of stories, with the serious lines of the characters and the wonderful backgrounds, there is nothing more to ask for a survival manga.

Well, this is it for now, hope you enjoyed this, guys, I really wanted to present this kind of manga for Halloween, but if you don't like it don't worry, I like all types of them, I will do a lot of different stories, a lot of manga but also some other kind of books, and even some video games maybe. Obviously, if you have any request, post them in the comments, I will read all of them and take them into account. Bye, reader! 

The Mad Hatter

The Day of Halloween

The Day of Halloween

Halloween, that is sometimes mingled with the Mexican celebration "The Day of the Dead", is a festivity quite famous today in USA, and less in the European countries. In fact, the word Hallowen is basically a deformation of the old celebration "All Hallows Evening", which means in fact All saints evening.

The modern Halloween appeared in Ireland in the form of a night on which adults were making pranks and mischief to each other, removing doors, throwing vegetables on houses, blocking gates, all this carrying turnips with candles, a way more funny celebration than today, don't you think? On those first times of this rejoicings, nobody was "trick or treating", they were just having fun in playing those bad tricks, in being little devils on this evening. In fact, there was also a belief that ghosts and witches were very active on that night, which explains the consideration of Halloween as a day of the dead, as a dark and creepy night.

Later, when this spree was brought to the USA, after a bit of time, the usual turnips were turned into the well known pumpkin, and the pranks were turned into today's "trick or treat", and it is under this form that Halloween became famous, first in Britain, and then in the rest of the world.

Nowadays, Halloween is considered by a lot of people as a commercial celebration, a useless Holiday. Personally, I think that even if it is the truth, because of the happiness that it is bringing to everyone, this spree has to go on in its scary and funny way. Halloween is adding great memories to those who chose to be part of it, and should be applaused because of this.

After all, 

Life's no fun without a good scare, so tend lumplings everywhere!

The Mad Hatter