Showing posts with label Fukuyama Ryouko. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fukuyama Ryouko. Show all posts

Sunday, October 20, 2013

New Chapter ~ Fukumenkei Noise

Konbanwa~
Today Fukumenkei Noise chapter 9 was scanlated and released! And its a long chapter! The art beautiful as always and Nino a weirdo as always. Anyway...
All Nino wants is to be reunited with her childhood friend and first love Momo, who disappeared 6 years ago. She's passed the audition he was holding, but finds out that he refuses to see her. Feeling inferior, she nearly decides to give up on him completely, especially considering that what Yuzu said could bee true: Its been 6 years, he's probably not the same Momo anymore. Meanwhile Yuzu declares that Nino will the "Alice" in his band In No Hurry to Shout. But he's also going to support Nino, he doesn't want her to give up. Even though this could be his chance to make her his, he never wants her to make such a sad expression again.
This chapter really settled everything and set it up for the drama that is definitely going to come. I really love Nino's and Yuzu's interactions, they're funny and they're sweet. Its been that way since they first met. And even though Nino is in love with Momo, she cares about Yuzu. And Yuzu's love for Nino is the best! I really hope they end up together. I still don't trust Momo, I really liked him as a kid in the first chapter, but when appeared again and avoid Nino, I become supicious: while Yuzu is someone who need Nino to create music, he is someone who needs Nino away from him in order to create music. I don't understand why, maybe when its explained I'll trust him, but for now I'm going to stay cautious. Alright, bye-bye
~Nadeshiko-chan

Monday, July 29, 2013

Unmasked Noise


Konbanwa~
Nadeshiko-chan here, reviewing a new 2013 shoujo manga known as Fukumenkei Noise. Its by Fukuyama Ryouko, whose best known for her amazing manga Charming Junkie. It is 1 volume in Japan(ongoing) with 5 chapters scanlated. Alright lets begin:
The story begins with a young girl named Nino Alisugawa who loves singing with her neighbor and childhood friend Momo. Whenever she feels sad or scared by her parents’ fighting, she has Momo sing twinkle-twinkle little star with her. They’re extremely close and really bring each other happiness. But when they enter 4th grade, Momo and his family suddenly disappear. Nino hopes that he’ll soon return,but is she’s heartbroken when she realize he isn't; she feels suffocated and needs to wear a mask, without it she feels like she would scream. After a particular bad day at school, she goes to the beach and meets a boy with long eyelashes named Yuzu. He’s composing music in the sand and after reading it, she begins singing; when she sings her breathing returns to normal and she feels wonderful. Yuzu loves her singing and tells her to meet him again. They meet many times, Nino feeling wonderful whenever she sings he’s songs.  After telling him about Momo, he advises her to continue singing, to sing until her song reaches him and to believe that she’ll meet him once again. He also tells her, that if she ever went far away he’d find her because he loves hearing her sing. Shortly after, Yuzu disappears and she’s heartbroken once again, but this time she decides to sing instead of screaming. She decides to sing and to believe that she’ll meet both of them once again. 6 years later, she’s still singing and
finally meets Yuzu once again. And Momo isn't as far as she may think.
When I first came across it, I thought it was going to be rather cliché, but I read it because I was bored and the cover looked pretty cool, and then i was blow away. Its oddly powerful, Nino’s pain, her love for Momo, and her heartbreak are all expressed beautifully in Ryouko-sensei’s art. When she sings, she looks like she’s screaming, which may sound out but its actually conveys all her emotion wonderfully. Its a manga, so you obviously can’t hear her sing, but because of her expressions, because of the art, you can feel it. I expect great things from this manga, you should catch up and begin watching this drama unravel.
-Nadeshiko-chan