Currently reading #21

Title: Kyou no Kira-kun

English: Closest love to heaven - Kira-kun Today

Author: Mikimoto Rin

 Looking at all these remake/reboot of classic anime, I feel like they seem so... sterile compared to the luscious richness of the original art.

I know, I know. It's just a matter of personal preference. 

Or is it?

Perhaps it's time for my annual rewatch of Versailles no bara.

First, I wanted to be sure they were getting the whole thing adapted. After that, I waited for them to complete it because I don't deal well with waiting. Then it ended and they announced the spin-off movie, so I told myself that I might as well wait for that to be released too. And lastly, I wanted for it to be special, because Fruits Basket is possibly my favourite manga of all time and I wanted, no, I needed to watch the anime at the exact right moment. 

Which seems to be Christmas season, 2023. 

I'm only three episodes in and love everything already. 

 It marvels me, the way we can leave our mark on other people’s lives.

And with that I do not mean the bad things, lodging into our fleshes like painful splinters no tweezer seems to be able to pull out.

I mean the unwitting act of kindness, of sharing, which can shape someone’s identity in ways we may never witness firsthand.

And that’s because the nature of human relations is so fragile, constantly mutating, with us somehow ending up always on the losing side.

But despite the number of losses we endure, the marks they left on us will always be a tangible reminder that there had been someone, in some place, at one time, without whom we wouldn’t be who we are today.

Because who would I be, without the thousands of manga I collected since, on a rainy Saturday afternoon, a friend brought me along to the comic book shop and encouraged me to buy my first volume?

And though I doubt we’ll ever meet again in this life, the memory of them will linger on, marked with the same ink of each manga I read and love.

Because love, it never fades away.

✵ xxxHolic

✵ Fruits Basket

✵ Kare Kano

✵ Lovely Complex

✵ Victorian Romance Emma

✵ Karin (Yuna Kagesaki)

✵ March Story

✵ Hime-chan no ribbon

✵ Gokinjo Monogatari

✵ Sora wa akai kawa no hotori

✵ Fushigi Yugi: Genbu Kaiden