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"In These Words Vol. 1" by GuiltPleasure

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A very graphic manga telling the story of a psychiatrist, Asano Katsuya, who is asked to evaluate a sadistic, psychopathic serial killer before his trial. But the murderer starts playing mind games with Katsuya until the good doctor can't distinguish between dream and reality.

This is not a manga for fainthearted people. It deals with rape and abuse in very raw, graphic and unapologetic terms. It doesn't try to prettify it or make it okay though it does deal with the beginnings of the Stockholm Syndrome. A very strange but gripping story.

I just finished reading the 5th volume of the "HaruToki" manga by Tohko Mizuno. The Germans are much further in this series than the Americans and I also very much prefer the title they gave it - "In a Distant Time". The English title - "Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time" - is kinda, well, ridiculous, really. They obviously wanted to keep at least a part of the Japanese title to let people know that it's a manga to the famous anime Harukanaru Toki no Naka de... but the end result? Ugh.

But! Why am I talking about it. You know, when I was watching the anime, my favorite character was Takamichi - I mean, a cute guy with glasses? *swoons* But in the manga, I would have to go with General Tomomasa as my favorite character. He's the only one who isn't head over heals for Akane, who sees every man fall for her and who knows that it's ridiculous. Sure, even he considers Akane cute but she being half his age, he just amuses himself with watching the others fall pathetically for her. And in vol. 5, we finally get a more Tomomasa centric story that ends with a cliffhanger too!

And the chibi kindergarten story where Akane is the teacher of a kindergarten class with the Hachiyou as cute, pudgy children XD That was so funny!

If I heard right while listening to the audio commentaries to Psych, one episode of this series doesn't cost more that 300 000 $! So basically, one season isn't more than 5 mil. USD. Wow, that's cheap! The whole Blood Ties show's budget was only 3 mil. USD while Supernatural's one season budget was 40+ mil. USD. Wow, that's a difference!

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I love to listen to podbooks while playing mahjong on my computer! That's one of the most relaxing things I know...

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I started reading Tohko Mizuno's "In a Distant Time". It's the manga version of the anime Haru Kanaru Toki no Naka de... that I was so obsessed with some time ago. So far, it's quite cute :)