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& if you want my opinions on what couples/combos to read in tzc,

all the ensemble + group stories tend to be really fun, and they highlight a nice moment for all the characters. 

the chapters denote all relationships as x character/y character, but it’s not necessarily romantic. chapters that involve more than two people are usually good.

for specifics:

Kamine/Gouda

sweet couple that starts off as stoic dude + shy gal, but develops into doting boyfriend + bold girlfriend. 

Vol. 1 Ch. 16 - Contact (Gouda/Kamine)

Vol. 2 Ch. 30 - Watching You From Afar (Gouda/Kamine)

Vol. 3 Ch. 41 - Let Me Hear It (Gouda/Kamine)

Vol. 4 Ch. 46 - I Want More (Gouda/Kamine) 

Vol. 4 Ch. 53 - Once More (Kamine/Gouda)

Vol. 5 Ch. 64 - Envy (Kamine/Gouda) 

Vol. 5 Ch. 67 - Lovers (Chiaki/Kana)  (but focuses on k/g) 

Vol. 5 Ch. 70 - Temptation (Takeru/Ayaka) (it’s their first names)

Vol. 6 Ch. 88 - First Love’s Crazy (Kamine/Gouda)

Vol. 8 Ch. 137 - Tryst (Kamine/Gouda)

Vol. 9 Ch. 153 - I Want to Be Your Strength (Kamine/Gouda)

Ch. 187 - Am I That Bad? (Gouda/Noro/Kamine)

Chiaki/Kana

comedy duo. the dude thought the confession was a joke for like, half a year.

Vol. 1 Ch. 8 - Short Distance Relationship (Chiaki/Kana)

Vol. 2 Ch. 21 - Love Comedy (Chiaki/Kana) (kinda more racy)

Vol. 3 Ch. 35 - X-File (Chiaki/Kana)

Vol. 4 Ch. 47 - Score (Chiaki/Kana)

Vol. 5 Ch. 67 - Lovers (Chiaki/Kana)

Vol. 5 Ch. 71 - Froth (Chiaki/Kana)

Vol. 5 Ch. 75 - Let Bygones be Bygones (Chiaki/Kana) 

Vol. 5 Ch. 80.2 - Sports Festival (Part Two)

Vol. 5 Ch. 80.3 - Sports Festival (Part Three)

Vol. 5 Ch. 81.2 - Summer Begins (Part Two)

Vol. 8 Ch. 128 - Ninjutsu (Kana/Chiaki)  (a mom tries to escape an awkward situation)

Vol. 9 Ch. 147 - Shyness (Kana/Chiaki) 

Vol. 10 Ch. 169 - Best Couple

Ch. 175 - Luna Luna (Kana/Chiaki)   

Ch. 190 - Love Isn’t Stylish (Kana/Chiaki)

Toda/Sunagawa

very listless couple

Vol. 3 Ch. 43 - Unsentimental (Sunagawa/Toda)

Vol. 4 Ch. 48 - It’s Not That I Don’t Want To (Sunagawa/Toda)

Vol. 6 Ch. 97 - Aquarium (Toda/Sunagawa)

Vol. 8 Ch. 136 - Joker (Toda/Sunagawa) 

Vol. 9 Ch. 155 - Stimulation (Toda/Sunagawa/Kaji/Akagi)   

Ch. 176 - Mischief (Toda/Sunagawa) 

Ch. 197 - Dry (Toda/Sunagawa)  

Toujou/Ogiue

energetic dude thinks the gal hates him (but she likes him & is just extremely awkward about it)

Vol. 4 Ch. 50 - Rumor (Ogiue/Toujou)

Vol. 4 Ch. 59 - Ahhh (Ogiue/Toujou)

Vol. 7 Ch. 106 - Poker Face (Toujou/Ogiue)

Vol. 8 Ch. 120 - High Five (Toujou/Ogiue)

Ch. 180 - Temperature Difference (Toujou/Ogiue) 

Ch. 184 - Melting in the Night (Toujou/Ogiue)   

Ch. 194 - Rumor (Toujou/Ogiue)

Matsuura/Urara

galpals…

drama club VP trying to teach her underclassman how to act

Vol. 3 Ch. 42 - Making Your Kouhai Cry (Ayane/Urara)

Vol. 7 Ch. 103 - Airhead (Matsuura/Urara)

Vol. 7 Ch. 111 - I’ll Lend You My Chest (Matsuura/Urara/Love Master)

Vol. 10 Ch. 163 - I Want to Be a Good Senpai (Matsuura/Urara)

Vol. 10 Ch. 171 - Play (Matsuura/Urara)

Shibasaki/Kaji

this is nonromantic gal pals BUT…. IT’S SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ROMANCE THESE TWO GALS ARE SHACKLED TO……

by extension reading shibasaki chapters gives good context for her, and I think she’s fun, and her petty rivalry with the dude she’s shackled with is fun, but I Dont Dig The Romance Angle

Vol. 1 Ch. 17 - Mask (Ubukata/Shibasaki)

Vol. 5 Ch. 72.2 - Term Exams (Part Two) 

Vol. 8 Ch. 121 - Not Very Good (Kaji/Shibasaki)  

Vol. 9 Ch. 142 - Adolescence Without Me (Shibasaki/Ubukata)

Vol. 10 Ch. 165 - Crisis Crisis (Kaji/Shibasaki) 

Vol. 10 Ch. 173 - Miss Wabisabi (Kaji/Shibasaki)   

Vol. 10 Ch. 174 - Afterfestival 

Ch. 188 - Parent and Child (Kaji/Kaji)  

Sasahara/Yukawa, Kaga/Nanase

energetic girl who joined astronomy club because the boy she likes is the club president, but since he’s a year older, he’s graduated already & now they’re in a long distance relationship

(kaga’s a dude who joined astronomy club because he got a crush on sasahara, and nanase’s his childhood friend who has a crush on him, so they’re all tangentially related and it’s a nice microcosm of Emotions)

Vol. 1 Ch. 5 - Spica (Yukawa/Sasahara)

Vol. 1 Ch. 14 - Spring (Kaga/Sasahara) 

Vol. 2 Ch. 27 - Childhood Friend (Kaga/Nanase)

Vol. 3 Ch. 38 - Excited (Kaga/Nanase)

Vol. 3 Ch. 39 - Peaches (Kaga/Nanase) 

Vol. 4 Ch. 61 - Bullying (Kaga/Nanase)   

Vol. 5 Ch. 79 - Welcome Back (Kaga/Nanase/Sasahara)

Vol. 7 Ch. 102 - Rendezvous (Sasahara/Yukawa)

Vol. 7 Ch. 110 - Space is Way Too Big (Sasahara/Yukawa)

Vol. 7 Ch. 112 - Takoyaki (Nanase/Kaga/Sasahara)

Vol. 10 Ch. 162 - I, the Burden (Nanase/Kaga)

Vol. 10 Ch. 172 - Follow the Stars (Nanase/Kaga/Sasahara/Yukawa)

Ch. 193 - Spica (Nanase/Kaga)

Furuya/Minagawa

The girl’s cute. Very go-at-her-own-pace, lighthearted to the point people think she’s insincere, but she’s just here for a good time with the boy she likes. She also goes out of her way to get along with the dude’s sister. IMO it starts out as Kinda Weird but levels out into something nice.

Vol. 1 Ch. 2 - Insincere Girl (Furuya/Minagawa)

Vol. 1 Ch. 13 - Brother’s Girlfriend (Furuya/Minagawa)

Vol. 1 Ch. 16.1 - Plus! One (Omake) (pg 9)

Vol. 2 Ch. 20 - Reply (Furuya/Minagawa) (this is where I feel it starts being solid)

Vol. 3 Ch. 40 - Trap (Furuya/Minagawa)

Vol. 6 Ch. 82 - Pure (Furuya/Minagawa)

Vol. 6 Ch. 98 - Actual Feelings (Furuya/Minagawa)

Vol. 7 Ch. 114 - Pursuit (Hotaru/Minagawa)

Vol. 9 Ch. 140 - Quiz (Minagawa/Furuya)

Vol. 9 Ch. 149 - As a Girl (Minagawa/Furuya)

Ch. 182 - Present (Minagawa/Furuya)

Ch. 195 - Brother’s Girlfriend (Minagawa/Hotaru)

Noro

he’s an idiot

Noro-focused chapters usually have Alice, and she has a thing where she’s crushing on a dude who likes another girl, but also, she starts out Extreme Yandere before here characterization levels out to Regular Yandere (probably because the writer starts letting her talk to people other than the dude she likes)

Vol. 3 Ch. 45.5 - Omake (basically Alice)

Vol. 8 Ch. 126 - Stupid (Alice/Noro)

Vol. 9 Ch. 139 - Nuisance (Alice/Noro) 

Vol. 9 Ch. 152 - Dot to Dot (Alice/Noro)   

Ch. 181 - Unrequited Love (Alice/Takase) 

Ch. 187 - Am I That Bad? (Gouda/Noro/Kamine)  

characters I avoid:

Akiga

he’s the delinquent gal’s boyfriend but I hate him

Takano/Sugawara

nothing bad about them I guess but… kinda boring… kinda annoying….

Love Master (aka Saki)

I hate him

Takase/Kanda

starts out relatively entertaining but the longer it drags on the more annoying it gets 

Chiba/Kirihara

a girl has a crush on clueless teacher which isn’t what I’m about

Saejima/Souma

weak boy wants to learn how to be strong from strong girl, but it’s kind of uncomfy

Yamane

I don’t like him

Motoyama

I don’t like him

I actually think Sonobe’s nice, but everything around her revolves around her weight, and she isn’t really drawn that differently from the other girls, so like..... it feels very adult dude writing teen gal & that irks me. 

To end this extremely long list, here are the chapters above but in order (bc some of them are actually relevant to each other)

Vol. 1 Ch. 8 - Short Distance Relationship (Chiaki/Kana) Vol. 1 Ch. 16 - Contact (Gouda/Kamine) Vol. 2 Ch. 21 - Love Comedy (Chiaki/Kana) Vol. 2 Ch. 30 - Watching You From Afar (Gouda/Kamine) Vol. 3 Ch. 35 - X-File (Chiaki/Kana) Vol. 3 Ch. 41 - Let Me Hear It (Gouda/Kamine) Vol. 3 Ch. 42 - Making Your Kouhai Cry (Ayane/Urara) Vol. 3 Ch. 43 - Unsentimental (Sunagawa/Toda) Vol. 4 Ch. 46 - I Want More (Gouda/Kamine) Vol. 4 Ch. 47 - Score (Chiaki/Kana) Vol. 4 Ch. 48 - It’s Not That I Don’t Want To (Sunagawa/Toda) Vol. 4 Ch. 50 - Rumor (Ogiue/Toujou) Vol. 4 Ch. 53 - Once More (Kamine/Gouda) Vol. 4 Ch. 59 - Ahhh (Ogiue/Toujou) Vol. 5 Ch. 64 - Envy (Kamine/Gouda) Vol. 5 Ch. 67 - Lovers (Chiaki/Kana) Vol. 5 Ch. 67 - Lovers (Chiaki/Kana) (but focuses on k/g) Vol. 5 Ch. 70 - Temptation (Takeru/Ayaka) (it’s their first names) Vol. 5 Ch. 71 - Froth (Chiaki/Kana) Vol. 5 Ch. 75 - Let Bygones be Bygones (Chiaki/Kana) Vol. 5 Ch. 80.2 - Sports Festival (Part Two) Vol. 5 Ch. 80.3 - Sports Festival (Part Three) Vol. 5 Ch. 81.2 - Summer Begins (Part Two) Vol. 6 Ch. 88 - First Love’s Crazy (Kamine/Gouda) Vol. 6 Ch. 97 - Aquarium (Toda/Sunagawa) Vol. 7 Ch. 103 - Airhead (Matsuura/Urara) Vol. 7 Ch. 106 - Poker Face (Toujou/Ogiue) Vol. 7 Ch. 111 - I’ll Lend You My Chest (Matsuura/Urara/Love Master) Vol. 8 Ch. 120 - High Five (Toujou/Ogiue) Vol. 8 Ch. 128 - Ninjutsu (Kana/Chiaki) (a mom tries to escape an awkward situation) Vol. 8 Ch. 136 - Joker (Toda/Sunagawa) Vol. 8 Ch. 137 - Tryst (Kamine/Gouda) Vol. 9 Ch. 147 - Shyness (Kana/Chiaki) Vol. 9 Ch. 153 - I Want to Be Your Strength (Kamine/Gouda) Vol. 9 Ch. 155 - Stimulation (Toda/Sunagawa/Kaji/Akagi) Vol. 10 Ch. 163 - I Want to Be a Good Senpai (Matsuura/Urara) Vol. 10 Ch. 169 - Best Couple Vol. 10 Ch. 171 - Play (Matsuura/Urara) Ch. 175 - Luna Luna (Kana/Chiaki) Ch. 176 - Mischief (Toda/Sunagawa) Ch. 180 - Temperature Difference (Toujou/Ogiue) Ch. 184 - Melting in the Night (Toujou/Ogiue) Ch. 187 - Am I That Bad? (Gouda/Noro/Kamine) Ch. 190 - Love Isn’t Stylish (Kana/Chiaki) Ch. 194 - Rumor (Toujou/Ogiue) Ch. 197 - Dry (Toda/Sunagawa)

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Who's the #1 Female Idol of the Heisei Era?

  As the Heisei Era draws to a close this month, we can expect to see lots of lists and polls totaling up the years' "bests." Most recently, fans in Japan were polled for their pick for best female idol of the era.

  Docomo held the poll and tallied up the results, noting the exiting era as a "female idol boom" with the beginning of AKB48, Morning Musume, and other such groups. In fact, only one of the Top Ten wasn't in a larger group. Did your favorite make the list?

    In third place is Maki Goto, who began her music career as the sole Third Generation member of Morning Musume. Goto went on indefinite hiatus from her successful music career in 2012, making her first television appearance since in 2018.

    Coming in second is Mai Shiraishi, a first-generation member of Nogizaka46. Shiraishi remains a member to this day, and in the first half of 2018 had a record number of commercial appearances.

    And the fan's pick for top female idol of the Heisei Era is Atsuko Maeda! The AKB48 graduate, known as "The Face of AKB48," left to pursue her own career in 2012 and has since become an actress and solo artist.

  The rest of the Top Ten follow:

  4. Yuko Oshima (formerly of AKB48)

5. Kanna Hashimoto (formerly of Rev. from DVL)

6. Aya Matsuura

7. Natsumi Abe (formerly of Morning Musume)

8. Mayu Watanabe (formerly of AKB48)

9. Sayaka Yamamoto (formerly of NMB48)

10. Nanase Nishino (formerly of Nogizaka46)

  Source: Otakomu.jp

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  Kara Dennison is a writer, editor, and interviewer with bylines at VRV, We Are Cult, Fanbyte, and many more. She is also the co-founder of Altrix Books and co-creator of the OEL light novel series Owl's Flower. Kara blogs at karadennison.com and tweets @RubyCosmos.

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Songs of My 2017: January - June

Though it was a field where I definitely wanted to learn more about going into 2017, it was not my intention to strictly focus this series on pop songs from Korea and Japan. That’s just where my ear has been these past six months, and all I do is archive what I like.

Here’s the round-up of the songs of my days so far this year.

January

February

March

April

May

June

And here are my favorite writing from the selections.

Jan. 2nd: Namie Amuro – “Girl Talk” [Queen of Hip-Pop, 2005]

Jan. 27th: Nanase Aikawa – “Yume Miru Shojo ja Irarenai” [Red, 1996]

Feb. 10: Red Velvet – “Rookie” [Rookie, 2017]

Feb. 13: Every Little Thing – “Fragile” [4 Force, 2001]

Feb. 20: Aya Matsuura – “Momoiro Kataomoi” [T.W.O., 2003]

Feb. 27: BoA – “Listen to My Heart” [Listen to My Heart, 2002]

March 1: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu – “Yume no Hajima Ring Ring” [Pika Pika Fantajin, 2014]

March 3: Suiyoubi no Campanella – “Sakamoto Ryoma” [Superman, 2017]

March 8: Zombie-Chang – “I Can’t Get to Sleep” [Gang!, 2017]

March 13: Nanase Aikawa – “Koigokoro” [paraDOX, 1997]

March 15: Selena Gomez & The Scene – “Love You Like a Love Song” [When the Sun Goes Down, 2011]

April 7: Tomomi Kahara – “I Believe” (*) [Love Brace, 1996]

April 24: IU – “Palette” ft. G-Dragon [Palette, 2017]

April 28: Natsume Mito – “Maegami Kirisugita” [Natsumelo, 2017]

May 22: Tommy February6 – “Je t’aime je t’aime“ [Tommy Airlines, 2004]

June 14: Gang Parade – “We Are the Idol” [Barely Last, 2016]

Since we are highlighting writing already, here are more of my favorites that I did this year.

A week on Ringo Shiina’s Shoso Strip

A week on Perfume’s Triangle

Review: Jens Lekman -- Life Will See You Now

Review: Khalid -- American Teen

Review: Nelly Furtado -- The Ride

“An Outsider’s Hero: Behind the Rebel Yell of Seiko Oomori’s New Album”

“A Ghost Standing in Between Harry Styles” -- a look at how Harry Styles’ solo debut stands against his work with One Direction