8 Mangas To Read this February

To set the mood x)
Well with the month of love in the air, I figured it would be cool to make a list of eight mangas that I like that I think people should check out this month if they are in the mood to read some good romance mangas. Of course, most of my choices for recommendations are pretty obvious, but sometimes people ignore the obvious series. Sometime within this week I also plan to make my list of Animes to watch to celebrate the month. Why eight you may ask? Well I figured why not. So I hope you somewhat like the recommendations! (and yes, they are in some sort of order)

8. NANA
NANA is a classic within the romance world and even though it is not my favourite thing out there, I still really like it and find that it is a really well made series. This is something that just needs to be tried out at one point or another.

7. Vampire Knight
Besides the over hype about this manga, before any of that happened, I remember reading this manga for the first time and thinking nothing less about how amazing it was. And if you focus on the first half of the series, you will probably see why this series is so great.

6. Kimi ni Todoke
I am a bigger fan of the manga than I am of the anime, even if they are basically the same thing. The story is just so intriguing and well thought of considering it takes a seemingly average tale of boy meets girl and makes it much more interesting. Putting it on this list was an obvious choice for me.

5. Sand Chronicles
Sand Chronicles is very overlooked as a manga, but the romance throughout this series is just so sweet and the characters are all very interesting and all play a very important role to the overall story. If more people gave this series a chance, I’m sure more people would realize how great it is.

4. Hot Gimmick
This manga is just so intense. Maybe it is not that romantic in the traditional sense, but it is filled with romantic tension and will always keep you on edge to what will happen next.

3. Skip Beat!
This is one of the most entertaining and funniest mangas out there. When it comes to the romance, you will definitely be always second guessing yourself really trying to think over who you like more…As I mentioned with a few other titles, if you didn’t like the anime, then do not threat, you will love this nonetheless!

2. Honey and Clover
Honey and Clover does the simple act of really letting you feel the story as you read it. At times you will cry, during other times you will laugh and you will probably wonder at one point or another why it is Christmas all the time, but the point is that it creates an amazing story that enchants its readers with its simple characters.

1. Fruits Basket
This manga will always have a place in my heart and it is just so romantic and so well done. There are so many different couples throughout this series and you always want all of them to keep their relationship till the end. It is the perfect romantic comedy that everyone should own and if you have not already read this, you need to now!





53RG10 says:
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Fruit Basket was definitely a very nice manga to read. I think it’s the first shoujo manga I read. XD
NANA has been on my to read list for the longest time, I think now is the time to start reading it! I want to also pick up Skip Beat!, the anime was very good IMO, but I think I’ll put it off for some other time. Maybe I’ll start it after finishing NANA.
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lostty says:
February 3rd, 2010 at 3:43 pm
@53RG10: Fruits Basket was my first shojou manga as well! NANA is very dramatic and definitely a page turner. I hope if you do decide to read it that you like it!
Alyssa says:
February 5th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Although not in the right order, you pretty much listed all of my favorite mangas (minus Vampire Knight). Obviously an amazingf list. I was especially happy to see Sand Chronicles because it is such a wonderful love story. I LOVE this list!
lostty says:
February 5th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
@Alyssa: Vampire Knight not good enough for you? x) I guess the only vampires you do like anyway are from True Blood…
I’m glad you are so enthusiastic with my list that you added all the caps to “love” and everything, really brightens my day
AS says:
February 6th, 2010 at 12:47 am
I read lots of romantic mangas,but they all involve comedy/a bit of violence as well. One is Open Sesame and every now and then is romance in Yankee to Megane-chan.
I added you to my blogroll, mind adding me back?
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lostty says:
February 6th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
@AS: I’ll definitely read into those titles, sounds interesting!
Sure I’ll add you to my blogroll! I just did in fact, as you can now see