Tokyo Kareshi © Makita Nao/Shogakukan (First serialized in Betsucomi)
Published in Indonesia as Love in Tokyo by Tiga Lancar Comic/3L
Over the bookstore weekend, passed up on these two new 3L shoujo manga: Love in Tokyo by Makita Nao and Love or Job by Kazui Kazumi. From the titling alone, expected rabu rabu sugar shock.
Love in Tokyo's title story—Tokyo Miracle Story
—sees genki Mugiko bidding the village where she was born and raised bye-bye to try her luck in All Roads Lead to Tokyo. Not for any reason as crass as money, mind you; Mugiko's in search of her childhood “sweetheart” Yuu-chan whom she hasn't seen in three years.
She finds Yuu-chan, all right, but per shoujo convention, he's so cold and distant, he might as well be Antarctica. Shocked, Mugiko runs away only to run into... a prince? (Or something as close to.)
Makita Nao-sensei's My Secret Brother (that 3L released earlier) left me underwhelmed, but Baka-Updates' user-voted tags for the standalone: Arranged Marriage, City Boy, Country Girl, Love Triangle
is making me rethink my original Leave well enough alone decision.
Love or Job, meanwhile, probably holds no surprises beyond the office romance implied by the title, but it does have one thing going for it: art by Kazui Kazumi-sensei who illustrated the Sekai no Chuushin de, Ai wo Sakebu (Crying Out Love in The Center of The World) manga.
3L shoujo manga (2010.08.27)
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- [New] Love in Tokyo (Tokyo Kareshi) by Makita Nao
- [New] Love or Job (Love/Job) by Kazui Kazumi
 | Love/Job 「ラブ／ジョブ 」 by Kazui Kazumi |
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~niki DBA huamulan03 (花木蘭03)
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Tokyo Kareshi 「東京カレシ 」 by Makita Nao
Shogakukan Betsucomi, shoujo
This anthology first published in Japan 2009.03
Contains stories: 東京カレシ, イナカの彼女（かきおろし） and 四畳半ラバーズ