#lala dx

[jariten]

夏目友人帳 (Natsume’s Book of Friends), Yuki Midorikawa

#natsume's book of friends #yuki midorikawa #my scans #lala dx

[haveyoureadthismanga-poll]

#snow white with the red hair #Akagami no Shirayuki-hime #Akagami no Shirayuki hime #sorata akizuki #2006 #2000s #2010s #2020s #ongoing #shojo #lala dx

[engshoujosei]

Library Wars: Love & War

15 volumes

Licensed by Viz Media, but out of print.

During the 31st year of Seika, the battle between the Library Force and the Media Improvement Committee reached a new level of violence. Each group has armed itself for either the freedom of expression or the "protection" of society from the bad influences of media. Kasahara Iku joins the Library Force with the intent of finding her "Prince" who helped her during a censorship exercise by the Media Improvement Committee and with her strong will of protecting books.

Related Series (none are licensed) 

Toshokan Sensou - Spitfire! (Alternate Story) Toshokan Sensou (Novel) (Adapted From) Toshokan Sensou - Love & War Bessatsu Hen (Sequel)

Status in Country of Origin 

15 Volumes (Complete)

Tags:

Adult Cast

Adapted to Anime

Alternate History

Athletic Protagonist

Based on a Novel

Bickering Love

Boss-Subordinate Relationship

Comedy Couple

Conspiracy/ies

Deafness

Dystopia

Emulating A Person Whom One Admires

Friendship

Honest Protagonist

Hot-Blooded Female Lead

Love-Hate Relationship

Male Lead Falls in Love First

Military

Multiple Couples

Politics

Restrained Love

Short Male Lead

Slow Romance

Social Commentary

Strong Female Lead

Tall Female Lead

Tomboy/s

Trust

Tsundere Male Lead

Workplace Romance

#Toshokan Sensou - Love & War #library wars #Toshokan Sensou #YUMI Kiiro #ARIKAWA Hiro #action #comedy #drama #romance #science fiction #shoujo #manga #viz media #shojo beat #completed #2007 #2000s #hakusensha #lala #lala dx

[yume4evere]

😒 I couldn't find a word to express 🙄

#vampire knight #vampire knight memories #vkm #kaname kuran #yuki kuran #yume #zero kiryu #lala dx #hino matsuri

[sweetdreamslover]

LaLaDX (Ai & Ren)

#vampirenightblogs #vampire knight memories #ai kuran #ren kiryuu #LaLa Dx #manga

[ansmangacaps]

LaLa January 2011 Issue, New Year messages from LaLa and LaLa DX artists Akiduki-sensei goes by number one. She is using an art of Vahlia from her work Vahlia no Hanamuko. In her message she is referring to how she had met up with her grandmother after a long time and how she had so much fun that day.

#Akagami no Shirayukihime #Akagami no Shirayuki-hime #AnS #Snow White with the Red Hair #SWwtRH #Sorata Akiduki #Sorata Akizuki #Vahlia #Vahlia no Hanamuko #LaLa #LaLa DX #LaLa magazine #manga

[shoujo-memory]

Tobenai Majo by Kawase Natsuna

#tobenai majo #kawase natsuna #natsuna kawase #shoujo manga #00s manga #lala dx #lala special #hana to yume

[rabbit-library]

TENN - LALA DX BONUS 2

CHATS 1 - 3

(link)

#idolish7 #tenn #gaku #ryunosuke #aikotoba cards #lala dx bonus

[dreamer1084]

Covers of Lala and Lala DX July 2023

#natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends

[highresshojosei]

Maid Sama! On the cover of Lala DX - 2017

#Maid Sama! #会長はメイド様 #Hiro Fujiwara #Lala #lala magazine #shoujo manga magazine #manga magazine #Shoujo #shoujo manga #manga #manga art #shojo #shojo manga #manga illustration

[pipofthewild]

Natsuyuu 20th Anniversary - bonus illustration cards

(LaLa July)

(LaLa DX July)

For those who purchase the LaLa and LaLa DX July magazines from Animate, they get these Natsuyuu 20th Anniversary illustrations either as a B6 size card (in stores) or as a small bromide/photo size (online).

So pretty!

Source

#natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends #20th anniversary #tweet source #usamura desu #usamura's nails are so pretty too #matoba seiji #natori shuuichi

[jariten]

夏目友人帳 (Natsume’s Book of Friends), Yuki Midorikawa

#natsume's book of friends #yuki midorikawa #my scans #lala dx

[sabishi-tomo]

AnS Ch 132 fan translation is out!

Read here!

In this chapter, Shirayuki and Zen continue on their date. Next chapter comes out on Jan 24th!

Please support the official releases if and when they are available in your area. You can buy e-versions of the Lala DX magazine, where AnS is serialized in Japanese here.

Translation brought to you by Clarines Press Raws Provider: @alexmeli50 Translation: @kitkat1128 Cleaning & Typesetting: @yumi-cha & @alexmeli50 Proofreading: @sabishi-tomo

#akagami no shirayukihime #snow white with the red hair #zen wisteria #shirayuki #zenyuki #fan translation

[engshoujosei]

Vampire Knight

19 volumes

Licensed by Viz Media.

The #1 hit series from Shojo Beat—a tale of vampire romance Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting the Day Class from the Academy's dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires! Yuki Cross has no memory of her past prior to the moment she was saved from a vampire attack ten years ago. She was adopted by the headmaster of Cross Academy, and now works alongside Zero to guard the Academy's secret. Yuki believes that vampires and humans can coexist peacefully, but her partner has different ideas...

Anime Start/End Chapter 

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 Ends at Vol 10, Chap 46

Related Series 

Vampire Knight Memories (Sequel, licensed by Viz Media) Vampire Knight (Novel) (Spin-Off, licensed by Viz Media )

Status in Country of Origin 

19 Volumes (Complete) 10 Bunkoban Volumes (Complete)

Tags:

Adapted to Anime

Adapted to Game

Adapted to Novel

Adoption

Amnesia

Betrayal

Blood and Gore

Boarding School

Character Growth

Childhood Friends Become Lovers

Dark Ambience

Dead Family Member/s

Elaborate Art Style

Female Fighter/s

First Love

Friends Become Enemies

Friends Become Lovers

Gothic Ambience

Hidden Past

Huge Cast of Characters

Incest

Love Triangle/s

Multiple Sexual Partners

Nobility

Obsessive Love

Orphan/s

Past Plays a Big Role

Personality Change/s

Plot Twist

Politics Involving Royalty

Possessive Lover/s

Predator-Prey Relationship

Pregnancy

Revenge

Reverse Harem

Royalty

Rushed Ending 

Separation/s

Social Hierarchy

Special Ability/ies

Suicide/s

Tragic Past

Transformation/s

Unexpressed Feeling/s

Vampire Hunter/s

#Vampire Knight #action #drama #mystery #romance #school life #supernatural #shoujo #manga #completed #tragedy #HINO Matsuri #2005 #2000s #Hakusensha #lala #lala dx #lala special #lala fantasy #shojo beat #viz media

[dogcircle-scans]

hello, is there any particular reason that natsuyuu is released bi-monthly even though lala is a monthly magazine?

That's because Natsume Yuujinchou initially began serializing in the bi-monthly magazine LaLa DX before switching over to LaLa. Midorikawa probably didn't want to change her schedule despite the move, so she kept it bi-monthly, and I don't blame her for it.

#ask dcs #anonymous #midorikawa yuki #natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends

[asnowperson]

Takemiya Keiko's Boku dake ga Shitteiru

I bought a random Takemiya manga from Mandarake one day without knowing anything about it, and I want to share my findings.

Boku dake ga Shitteiru (僕だけが知っている - Only I Know or Nobody Knows But Me) is a collection of two stories published in 1991: Boku dake ga Shitteiru and Dare ni mo Yaranai (誰にもやらない - I Won't Give It to Anyone Else). I just found out that both long stories are also published in a later digital edition, Dare ni mo Yaranai (also why does this sound like an edgy BL title from the 90s?). So I'd advise you to get that if you want to read those. The digital edition has two more one shots too.

Front and back covers.

Boku dake ga Shitteiru

Title page.

First story, Boku dake ga Shitteiru, was originally published in Asuka Extra-Fresh Fantasy's 1990 #1 issue (prologue) and Asuka Extra-DX 1991 issue (main story). It tells the story of Yuuta, a cute little boy who can see and hear things, and the things he sees are captured on video. Like, when he touches a VHS tape, what he's seen is reflected on the screen. One day, he sees a terrifying demon when he's out to play, and it touches his hand. Afterwards, he becomes sickly, and has to quit school to undergo psyhological treatment.

This boy be suffering.

On his way to the hospital, he meets a cute miko at a temple, Nachi, who doesn't like to be associated with the holy and calls herself a simple esper. Nachi knows that something's up with Yuuta, but thinks he's an esper-lite, and doesn't think much about him. She says that the demon who's hanging around him is actually his guardian spirit, and nothing to be afraid of. She names the demon "Rasetsu" (and makes it take on a handsome human appearance-it's what you see on the volume cover), and Yuuta becomes friends with it. Nachi's views on Yuuta change after Yuuta discovers the dead body of a woman with the help of Rasetsu. The perpetrator comes after Yuuta to shut him up, but with the powers he himself is unaware of and Buddhist magic, Yuuta scares the murderer shitless. At the end, Nachi is very impressed with Yuuta's skills, and it ends on an omoshiroi note.

Nachi flying into Yuuta's life.

This story feels so... incomplete. I expected to see at least a second part where Yuuta's powers are explained and we get to learn more about Nachi, but nada. This feel more like a prologue than a stand-alone oneshot. That's why I wasn't feeling it with this story.

Have some cute.

Dare ni mo Yaranai

And the second story, Dare ni mo Yaranai, is a more psychological than supernatural story. It was published in 1988 June and July issues of LaLa.

Had to steal this color title page from the trial reader of Booklive. I wish printed books kept these nice color pages too. And are you enjoying that peak 80s fashion as much as I do?

It's about Kichijouji Makoto, a young man majoring in psychiatry and working part time as counselor, and his neighbor, junior high student Naoyuki. Makoto is into young boys and doesn't hide it, so he can't help but watch his cute neighbor. However, he shows him a different face at times, not the cute face of an innocent junior high student. Intrigued, Makoto digs deeper only to find out that... Naoyuki has developed a multiple personality disorder.

Let me introduce you Naoyuki A, Naoyuki B, and Naoyuki C.

Sensei, this angle is illegal for an underage boy.

It turns out that when Makoto was in high school, he once tried to strangle this kid because he was frustrated with his mother, because she wanted him to go to a certain university. What a jerk! Makoto's chuuni speech about how he belongs to himself and himself only, and he should not give himself to anyone, and stay true to himself leaves an impression on young Naoyuki, upo which he creates different personalities to respond to different expectations from him. One of them is a wimpy kid who is bullied at school and easily influenced by others, another one is a delinquent-type who shoplifts, and the third one is the smug bishounen who has the hots for the neighbor onii-san.

When you want to save bae from his terrible personalities at night.

He works with Naoyuki's girlfriend and delinquent friends to put an end to this, and they make him get caught in flagrante delicto while shoplifting. However, even though the case doesn't make it to the police because Makoto pulls a "trust me I'm a doctor and he's sick" on the staff, the rumors make it to school. Naoyuki is shunned by his friends and is feeling confused, because his personality A has no idea what personality B did. In the end, he is called out by teachers. His mother is summoned to school, and she takes a very blaming tone against Naoyuki.

But what is this fashion sense?

After being saved from committing suicide at a railroad crossing and being forcefully kissed and confessed to by Makoto, Naoyuki goes back to his life with the help of his strong girlfriend Machi.

Delicious bad end.

I liked this story much, much more that the first one and will re-read it. The underlying theme of this story is the unrealistic expectations of parents from their children, and how vulnerable children are in the face of such pressure and even the smallest remark can leave a permanent scar on them. Makoto's mother forced him to study psychiatry because his father was a pshychiatry professor, and he now hates his life and his mother. Naoyuki felt absolutely devastated when his mother didn't believe that his son didn't steal, but reprimanded him instead of trying to understand him. In different panels, Takemiya-sensei drew the mother figures without a face, which I thought was an interesting "symbolism".

I am proud to have read another manga from my random backlog of manga.

#takemiya keiko #keiko takemiya #竹宮恵子 #year 24 group #24年組 #80s shoujo #retro manga #90s shoujo #僕だけが知っている #boku dake ga shitteiru #誰にもやらない #dare ni mo yaranai