Friday, 13 November 2015

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

Sunday, 1 November 2015

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