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Have filled out a rather long art meme on DA (700K). Am now very hungry with no idea what to have for dinner.

Shrine Bells
Leafy Coffee Queen
Fruit Stars
Yakitate! Blossom Wars
Hidden Pink Children
Another Singing Kami
Revolutionary Occult Bakery
Magical Chocolate Clock
Society of Butler Friends
Masked Singing Academy
Rainy Kitten Whispers
My Dear Demon Maid
Eerie Iron Prince
Sword of Wedding Revolution
Daughter of Soul Cake
The Lost Cafe
My Family is Faraway Always
The Pale Planet
100% Party Dress

Funny, that doesn't seemed to have solved the hunger problem...

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Dude, that meme is MASSIVE. It took me so long to upload it (well, I have crappy connection, too) that I almost gave up.

Hope you had fun! (I'm assuming you caught it from me xD;)

I'm on a good connection, and I tried to get the file as small as possible for those who aren't, but I couldn't compress it any more without it starting to look bad. XD

(Yup! XD)

I don't actually know much about Revolutionary Occult Bakery because, despite being recommended, I've been scared off by the title.

My Dear Demon Maid is like Mahoromatic only with a demon instead of a robot. And better -- less stupid ecchi, although there's just as much dubious teacher/student relationships played for laughs. Point of view is, interestingly, the female demon servant, who makes for an interestingly cranky storyteller. Unfortunately, while it flirts with considering the issues of free will and consent, it gets distracted by the "save master from demon-attack-of-the-week" episodes and never quite nails them.

Another Singing Kami is exactly what it says on the tin. Remember the rock guitar playing god of the shrine from Kamichu! and Full Moon wo Sagashite? Combine the two. Female kami from a country shrine decides to move to Tokyo to become an yet another idol singer.

---L.

Rainy Kitten Whispers is a one-shot about a girl planning to go to a local veterinary school with a boyfriend heading to a Tokyo university. No actual kittens or rain, though there's enough muted whispers to fill a library. Sweet and bittersweet, and I look forward to the mangaka's first serial, if she can write like this (she needs to work on drawing legs, though).

---L.

Shrine Bells: the second son of a devout Buddhist family destined by long tradition for the priesthood, and who is studying theology, falls in love with a classmate who works part-time as a miko at her family's Shinto shrine. A Romeo and Juliette plot completely fails to appear, being wonderfully averted by the warm humanity that the mangaka gives all of her characters -- indeed, the hero, rather than his father, may be the most conflicted by the religious differences. This josei drama (the lead couple are at university) ran for six volumes in Petite Comic.

(Of all the ones I've invented, I want to read this one the most. Dammit.)

---L.

Dang it again: make that Petit Comic. (I always typo that.)

---L.

My Family is Faraway Always

I have laughed and squeed over a lot of these AutoShoujo titles, but that's the first one to make me sniffly. Doesn't help that it's easy to think of a suitably tear-jerking story to go along with it.

I know! So many it could be ... an immigrant working in a foreign country to send money home, or a space traveler on a sleeper ship, or someone estranged from their family, etc.

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