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I really like the scent of freshly-baked bread. My dream is to work in a bakery. Imagine my happiness when Saint Molly Bakery hires me!
But apparently, bakery work is hard! My tiredness disappears though when I see Natsu, the handsome owner of Saint Molly.
Could this be love?
Nagareboshi Manga (via Baka-Updates Manga's Kimi to Koi ni Ochiru Mahou de entry) provides the speaker's name: Ousawa Miko. Apparently, the 16-year-old Miko not only likes sniffing bread, she loves when they come in kawaii shapes (thus explaining the Character That Loves Cute Things
tag). The same synop reveals that the person who employs our Clumsy Heroine is her age and lives next door to her!
m&c! has published quite a few of Chiba Kozue-sensei's standalones: Secret of the 7th Lesson, Let's Meet at School Tonight, 24 Colors, Hug Me Kiss Me and Love Letter. She also created the three-volume music themed Hitoribocchi wa Samishikute. Her ongoing Sho-Comi serial is the childhood friends/love triangle-troped Blue.
Bian successfully wheedles herself into stepdad's good graces, but the same tactic proves useless in thawing out stepsib Gona!
Despite being proverbial polar opposites, Kokko and Aiko have been friends since childhood. Cranky Kokko finds it hard to make romance work, while capricious Aiko changes boyfriends like she changes clothes. Their BFF-ship is placed in jeopardy when Kokko falls for a guy she met on a train.
Love is War!
Aside from Rifle Girl
synopsized above, this anthology also includes Rifle Boy
and Welcome to the Ghost Village.
Tweet friend dalina02-san gives this manga a 5 (out of 10), calling the story cute,
which compensates for average art.
Other TAAMO-sensei standalones published by m&c!: A Girl's Melancholy, Love in Ofuro, I Still Love You and Moon Love's Secret. S/he also illustrated the two-volume Sunu Sumu Muriku no Koibito gender bender romance written by Nojima Shinji-sensei (first serialized in Deluxe Betsucomi). TAAMO-sensei's current shoujo serial, however, doesn't appear in Betsucomi; Taiyou no Ie is serialized in Kodansha's Dessert, home to Yorita Miyuki's To be Beautiful, Momochi Reiko's Bond and Masaki Souko's BOYS Este, among others.
Riku helped Tomo get rid of a molester; Riku's li'l bro Tento gave Tomo an agate he found on the beach when they were kids. Tomo finds herself getting closer to both sibs, especially after Riku tells her about their younger sister “Yoko” who was lost at sea.
What kind of complicated awaits the threesome of Tomo, Riku and Tento?
UP NEXT: 11 November 2010 manga and manhwa
m&c!: Female Wolf's Boy 8 · Hai, Miiko! 22 · Shanimuni GO 32 of 32 · Togetherness by Wagata Konomi · Goal Den Age 1 by Takaoka Eisei & Tsunamoto Masaya · Bakugan Battle Brawlers 12 · How to make a Princess 2 of 2 · Go! Hiromi Go! 5 · Monika 136
Elex Media: Inuyasha 49 · Kisah Edo di Abad 21: Chotto Edo Made 1 by Tsuda Masami · Kariage kun 35 · BECK 24 · Cross Game 17 of 17 · Magic Peddler Roma 2 · Sanzoku Ou: King of Bandits 6 · Spiral: The Bonds Of Reason 8 · Nakayoshi 86/2010 · Shonen Star 76/2010
Level Comics: Until Death Do Us Part 2 · Air Gear 16 · The Strange Florist by Yohna · Genius Family Company 4 · Team Medical Dragon 13 · Bambino! 7 · The Hunting of The Snark 2 · Show Me the Money 2 of 2 · Blade of Immortal 12 · Tomo'o 11 · Zenith 5 · 3x3 Eyes 33 · Yakari dan Si Bulu Putih
Iamque opus exegi,
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other current available manga (3 November 2010 street date)
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- Level Comics: Rainbow 18 · Hunt for The Thumb by Yamada Yuusuke · Yokohama Chinatown Fantasy 2 · Chocolat 5 · To Be Beautiful 4 · Priest 11 · New Comic Bomber 5 · Hotaru's Light 11 · Subaru 10 · Spirou - Kepanikan di Champignac
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Bleach 「ＢＬＥＡＣＨ－ブリーチ－」 by Kubo Tite
Shueisha Weekly Shonen Jump, shounen
Volume 36 first published in Japan 2008.12
Volume 36: Turn Back The Pendulum contains chapters:
-108.
-107.
-106.
-105.
-104.
-103.
-102.
-101.
-100.
Awards
Best Shounen Manga, 50th Shogakukan Manga Awards
Other languages
English Bleach (VIZ Media: volume 33 per 2010.12 • volume 34 street date: 2011.03.01), French (Glénat; tome 40 shipped 2011.01.05), Spanish (Glénat in Spain, Grupo Editorial Vid in Mexico), German (TOKYOPOP Germany), Dutch (Kana), Russian (Эксмо), Polish (JPF), Portuguese (Planet Manga) and simplified Chinese (Chuang Yi: volume 48 per 2011.01.18)
Related
Kubo Tite and Makoto Matsubara co-authored two Bleach novels: BLEACH-letters from the other side: The Death and The Strawberry (Japan release: 2004.12) and BLEACH: The Honey Dish Rhapsody (2006.10).
The Bleach All Colour But The Black artbook, compiling color spreads from manga volumes 1 through 19 with original art and author annotations, released in Japan (2006.12), USA (The Art of Bleach, 2008.10) and France (All colour but the black: Recueil des illustrations de Bleach, 2008.11).
Companion guidebooks have also been published: Bleach SOULs and Bleach VIBEs released 2006.02 in Japan (The English Bleach SOULs. Official Character Book shipped 2008.11 in North America, while the French version streeted 2009.11). A third Bleach Official Bootleg: KaraBuri+ guidebook released 2007.08 in Japan. (English Color Bleach+: The Bleach Official Bootleg street date: 2010.08.10.)
Adaptations
Studio Pierrot's Bleach anime adaptation first broadcast in October 2004, continuing to this day. Season 14 opened with episode 266 in April 2010; latest episode 305 aired 2011.01.18). Seiyuu Morita Masakazu and Orikasa Fumiko star as Kurosaki Ichigo and Kuchiki Rukia, with Park Romi and Namikawa Daisuke playing 10th Division captain Hitsugaya Toshiro and Arrancar Ulquiorra Cifer respectively. Two OAVs and four theatrical movies—Memories of Nobody, The DiamondDust Rebellion, Another Hyōrinmaru, Fade to Black, I Call Your Name and Bleach: The Hell Verse—have been released. Additionally, Warner Bros. has confirmed it will be producing a Bleach live-action film.
At least eight drama CDs have been produced. Featuring the original anime cast, the drama CDs were bundled with the DVDs.
Bleach has also been adapted into rock musicals (spanning the the Substitute and Soul Society arcs). The first musical had its performance run in August 2005.