#ibara no okite

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The Gintama Sound Ultra Soul 24 set list.

It's made up of the top 10 songs as decided by fans via a survey conducted last year, with some fun surprises sprinkled here and there. For each song, video would play of the scenes or characters related to the song. In between songs, the cast (voice actors Tomokazu Sugita (Gintoki), Daisuke Sakaguchi (Shinpachi), Rie Kugimiya (Kagura), with Mikako Takahashi (Otsuu/Sadaharu) as the MC, "DJ Otsuu" and Elizabeth as itself) would occasionally chat on stage.

The track list (with a couple of notes) is under the cut.

Omae mo Touningyou ni shite yarou ka! (お前も糖人形にしてやろうか！)

Temeeraaaa!! Soredemo Gintama tsuiten no kaaaa! (てめーらァァァ！！それでも銀魂ついてんのかァァァ！)

Subtitle da konoyarou (サブタイトルだコノヤロー) (as 10.5 in the top ten countdown)

Yorozuya Ginchan to ha Oretachi no Koto Da ! (万事屋 銀ちゃんとは俺達の事だ！)

Saraba Dachikou (さらばダチ公)

Makoto no Michi (真選組の道)

Rakuyou (烙陽)

Kono Mabuta No Oku Ni (この目蓋の奥に)

Zura ja nai Katsura daaa!! (ヅラじゃない桂だァァ！！)

Shougun Kayoooo! (将軍かよォォォ！)

Ohikaenasutte! (お控えなすって！) (afternoon)/ (Evening) Kettou Mae niha You wo Tase (決闘前には用を足せ)

I am Shock (afternoon)/Dondake! Gintaman (どんだけー！ギンタマン) (evening)

Sukonbu Okawari Yoroshi ? (酢昆布おかわりヨロシ？) (Introducing one of the Yorozuya members, Kagura)

Hatsujoki Desuka Konoyaro (瞳孔が開いてんぞ ) (Introducing Gintoki)

Mimawari Gumi -Isaburou No Theme- (見廻り組 －異三郎のテーマ－)

Ibara Gaki to Bara Gaki (茨ガキと薔薇ガキ)

Elizabeth Hajimete No Otsukai (エリザベス はじめてのおつかい) (the audience played a clapping game with the cast)

Taisetsu Na Ni Hodo Omoku Seoi Gatai (大切な荷ほど重く背負い難い)

Rokudenashi Futari (ろくでなし二人)

Yamiyo no Mushi ha Hikari ni Tsudou (闇夜の虫は光に集う) (the opening bars were played on a shamisen)

Jinsei ha Belt Conveyor no yoni Nagareru (人生はベルトコンベアのように流れる) (top ten #3)

Okite ha Yaburu Tame ni Koso Aru (掟��破るためにこそある) (#2)

Ore mo, mo Jump Sotsugyo Shinakya Ikene Toshi Dayo na (俺も、もうジャンプ卒業しなきゃいけねぇ歳だよなぁ)

Housou kodo Gananbonomonjai! 放送コードがなんぼのものもんじゃい (Otsuu Unplugged)

Omae no Baachan omae no Basshu haitetaお前のバアちゃんお前のバッシュ履いてた (afternoon)/Omae no Too-chan chome-chome (お前の父ちゃんチョメチョメ) (evening)

Temeeraaaa!! Soredemo Gintama tsuiten no kaaaa! (てめーらァァァ！！それでも銀魂ついてんのかァァァ！) (#1)

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Shoujo manga recommendations - social gap

1.      Kiss/Hug

Ryuu, a super-business-like transfer student from England with black hair and blue eyes just arrived! During the night of the Tanabata festival, Ryuu and Yukino became attracted to each other at first sight. He then declares, "You will be mine!" This brought confusion to Yukino, who has zero experience in love. But could she actually be falling in love?

2.      Last Game

Nothing is beyond Naoto Yanagi, heir to the Yanagi business conglomerate. Idolized for his athletic and intellectual competence, looks and wealth, Naoto lived like a king during his elementary school days—then entered Mikoto Kujou, a plain, gloomy-looking transfer student.

Due to her low financial status, Naoto was initially apathetic towards Mikoto. But despite having just arrived at his school, she completely eclipsed him in everything by consistently scoring top marks in exams and placing first in athletic events. After a brief confrontation with her that left him shocked, Naoto vowed to outdo her no matter the cost.

Ten years later, they are now students attending the same college. Having failed to defeat Mikoto throughout middle and high school, Naoto decides they will have one last game: if he can make Mikoto fall in love with him and then break her heart, it will be his victory. However, he finds himself falling in love with her instead...

3.      ReRe Hello

Ririko is a hardworking girl who has been performing the role of a mother in her household after the death of her own one when she was five. When her father, a handyman, is stricken with illness and admitted to a hospital, Ririko decides to take up the role of a handyman to help her father's business in his absence. Her first client is a rich teenage boy with high expectations of his helpers. Will she be able to satisfy him?

4.      Sabaku no Harem

Mishe a strong willed girl raised from poverty has caught Prince Kallum's attention. Attention as in, "you will become one of my concubines," thus begins Mishe's adventures into Prince Kallum's world.

5.      Shitsuij-sama no Okiniiri

Himura Ryou, who after losing her parents, is taken in by her grandparents who are from a distinguished family. Through them, she transfers to the famous Souseikan Academy. On the first day at school, Ryou receives guidance from a guy in a tuxedo when she gets lost in the vast garden of the academy. Then she learns that he's Kanzawa Hakuou of the shutsuji apprentice course, which is also known as "B class," Ryou...!?

6.      The Maid at my House

Runako is studying hard to someday succeed as owner of her family's maid dispatching service company. One day, a request comes in from an entertainment production company and shockingly, it's for their super-popular star, Seirei Moroboshi! But could it be that the image he projects on the TV is far different than his true secret face...?!

7.      Adele to Darius

Adele was just another maltreated slave girl being sold at the country market. She was sold one day to become an addition to the harem of the country’s King of Cruelty. Rumor has it that the once the King takes a slave girl for the night, he then executes her in the morning. Once in the harem, she sees that all girls who are called into the King’s chamber really do not return. To fight against this fate, Adele resolves to volunteer to be called to the King’s chamber and find out the truth. But things are not what they seem…

8.      Boku no Ie ni Oide

In order to live a normal high-school life, Mirei started her first part-time job. But after receiving her first paycheck, she almost kills a highly-ranked bishounen…?! An encounter with a super poor and pessimistic innocent girl, is this a beautiful miracle?!

9.      Hana ni Arashi

Even though her body has unusual ability, Kunimi Riko is still (trying to be) a normal high school girl. One day, a guy suddenly came to see her. He's Tachibana Ran, the heir of the world leading super millionaire Tachibana family! A high tension romance between Ran, who suddenly proposed, and Riko, who turned him down. 

10.  Ibara no Okite

Earl Craven’s territory is laden with rules to abide – when the earl himself walks in the hallway, all servants present should turn their back on him, avoiding his gaze, which is why even his servants call him “the devil”… except for one. Priscilla is a maid in Earl Robert Craven’s abode and is the only one who captured the young earl’s tender heart. But what happens when a rich woman comes and calls the earl her future husband for the sake of business? Will their love prevail, or will their social status hinder them? This is a story about the struggles and trials of the star-crossed lovers.

11.  Nikoniko x punpun

Ootani Rin, a girl from a poor family due to her father's gambling, is attending a high school on a scholarship. She has been taking care of her sisters and mother ever since her father ran away. Her school doesn't allow its students to work part time, but she's not worried about it since all the students at her school are rich. However, one boy takes an interest in her, and finds out about her part-time job. To keep him quiet, she has to make him a bento.

12.  No rest for the poor, fall in love Botan

Botan, the poor girl in an exclusive school is on top of the class. But the uber rich boy, who is second in rank in school proposes to her that if he places in the first place, he get her to do what he wants. Can Botan beat him? And what is it that the boy wants from her?

13.  The honeybee earl and the flower dress

Dahlia is the only female dressmaker in Galleria. She kidnapped and commissioned by the infamous "Honeybee Earl", who is known to jump from woman to woman like a capricious bee jumps from flower to flower, to make the ultimate wedding dress for his fiancee. Can Dahlia complete the dress without getting stung by the Honeybee Earl?

14.  Ouran high school host club

At Ouran High School, an academy where only the children of the rich and powerful attend, there exists a club consisting of the most elite of the student body: the legendary Host Club. Within the club's room, six beautiful, bored boys spend their time entertaining equally beautiful and bored girls.

Haruhi Fujioka, a poor scholarship student, has no interest in the Host Club—until she breaks a valuable vase in their clubroom. After being mistaken for a boy, Haruhi is forced by Kyouya Ootori to work for the Host Club to repay her debt. Tamaki Suou, the princely leader of the club, eagerly takes her under his wing to teach her the ways of the host.

Things, however, are never quite so simple with the Host Club around. Even the most mundane events can turn into huge spectacles with the likes of prankster twins Hikaru and Kaoru Hitachiin, stoic Takashi Morinozuka, and sweet Mitsukuni "Hunny" Haninozuka. The crazy adventures of the Host Club are just beginning, and Haruhi must learn how to survive in the glitzy world of the hosts.

15.  Kaichou wa maid-sama

Seika High School was an all-boys school, but it has since turned co-ed. Misaki Ayuzawa is the first female student council president of the school, eventually earning the nickname of the "Demon President" due to her mastery of Aikido and imposed iron rule.

However, Misaki harbors an embarrassing secret—she has to work at a maid café to support her family. If anybody from her school was to find out, her reputation would be utterly destroyed. And after Takumi Usui—the most popular boy at school—discovers her secret, that might just happen. Kaichou wa Maid-sama! follows their story as they spend more time together and eventually begin to understand each other's secrets.

16.  Special A

Have you ever known someone who was better than you at everything you did? Hikari does. She's known Kei since they were both six years old and he's surpassed her at everything. Now they are the top two students in an extremely prestigious high school, with Kei holding firmly to that number one position, and Hikari is still determined to beat him, no matter what it takes.

17.  Bitter Trap (TAKAGI Shigeyoshi) 

Nanao came from a rich family before their business failed. Now the only hope for her family to pay off their debts is if she can cement a marriage with the prestigious Takatsuki family within a week. How will Nanao overcome this problem when one of the three eligible Takatsuki men is her former arrogant schoolmate, Yoshito, who completely distrusts people? And did we forget to mention that Nanao is already the ninety-ninth candidate for the position of future wife?!

18.  Usotsuki Ouji no Karekano Gokko

A poor commoner chatterbox accidentally entered the celebrity high school and the unthinkable happened...?

19.  Takane to hana

Sixteen-year-old Hana Nonomura is forced to be the substitute for her older sister Yukari at a miai: a meeting between two people considering an arranged marriage. Hana's prospective suitor turns out to be the handsome heir of the wealthy Takaba company, Takane Saibara, who is 10 years her senior. He promptly shows disdain toward Hana and, in response, she tells him that she is equally unimpressed by his status and personality.

Hana believes that her actions at the meeting should have put an end to the discussions about marriage with Takane. To her surprise, not only does the man want to proceed with negotiations but he also starts to show interest in her! This is just the beginning of a special relationship between two polar opposites!

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Today’s Maid of the Day: Priscilla from Ibara no Okite

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Kawaii!!

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Ibara no Okite

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The art of Yuni Yukimura.

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Ibara no Okite

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Recommendation #7: Ibara no Okite

Reading Link: Ibara no Okite

Author: Yukimura Yuni

Rating: 8.5/10

Length: 4 Chapters 

Genres: Historical, Drama, Romance

Summary: Ibara no Okite is about Earl Craven, a man who is feared even by his subjects, and his maid, Priscilla who manages to capture his heart. The two of them must overcome his social standing, and the woman that is meant to be his wife.