O Butterfly O Flower

Hi all and welcome! I have never been a girlie girl but I have a bit of the hidden pink within. Hence, a secret and now not so secret love for shojo manga. I have liked them since I was a teen but my love for reading and art kept me interested. I like all manga but this blog is going to be about shojo. If I diverge feel free to fine me from my future lottery winnings. So, I am just going to blab about what i am reading and hope it spreads the word and gives people ideas of things to check out. This lovely picture to my left represents the manga, O Butterfly, O Flower by Yuki Yoshihara, published by Flower Comics.  I am currently finished reading Vol.2, chapter 10. Before I get into the plot at all I just want to say I do my very best to purchase my manga. Because of money issues my purchases are slow but sure. In the mean time, I borrow from my friends, the library, anywhere and anyone. I also look for scanlations. Scanlations are scans of manga that have been translated for us linguistically challenged people. I use them to see if there is a manga I may want to buy. If i like it I will put it on my list, if not dump it. It is a great way to find the ones you really want to spend your hard earned money on. I do not endorse one site over another. I do NOT want to get in the middle of any turf battles between the sites either. From what I gather, and since I do not scan myself it is just inference on my part, sites generally scan certain books and there is a unwritten rule that other sites find their own stuff to scan that way not more than one site is scanning the same thing. Sounds good to me since there will be more stuff to read. It is just some sites are slower than others and people get ansty in this instant gratification age. So, that said, scan on and keep me out if it except to enjoy the efforts and to offer my thanks to the book gods for having people spend their well deserved free time, energy, money and whatever else to provide this service. I am actually reading this book scanned by Serenus-Dreamers. I will post a link to them on the side. Kuze Chouko is a former lady interviewing for a job in real estate. her family lost their fortune and now own a noodle shop. Little does she know the person she will be working for used to be one of the family servants. Although it starts off seemingly racy it isn't a smut manga. A least not yet. Her boss does ask in the interview if she is a virgin which stuns her. UH yeah, that would shock me too. However after that awkward opening things seem to smooth out other than then fact he is a demon boss. Doesn't matter Doumoto Masayuki is handsome and has all the female office drones buzzing. Chouko is funny. She is a regular girl and honest. Masayuki is slightly older and I just can't spoil his personality for you. Read it because I think this guy has a switch somewhere that enables him to get that hard do as I say or die face then, click, he is another guy completely. I am having fun with the romance. It has been sweet. It got a little more mature in the last issue I read but it's nothing compared to other stuff I have seen out there. The art is nice. I wish I could have a copy of the original work to compare. Collected works sometimes miss all the wonderful color art. What I have seen is good. lol. What a bad word that was, good. Real descriptive huh? I mean to say, I like the soft edge feel to it. So check out tall, dark and handsome and ask yourself...what answer would i have given....then click the poll.