My Boyfriend is a Super Idol – ARDOUR

Hello Nihao! While waiting for our favourite manga series to be released, I have found a nice manhwa series to be read. After I have read it, I found it is very interesting and sweet, thus I would like to share with you all.

The shoujo manhwa series that I am recommending is called “ARDOUR”. It is a Taiwanese manhwa and the author is Wu Rou Xuan. According to the author, she has spent about 6 years for such series.  It has 12 volumes for this manhwa series.  This manga series is released in the year 2004 and it is a completed manga series.

Title : ARDOUR

Genre : Shoujo, Romance, Comedy, Fashion 

Author : Wu Ruo Xuan 

Volumes :12 
Scandalations : On-going 

Story :
The story is started Ardour is the hottest pop boy band out there. All members, Sheng Ye, A Yao, and Wei have the looks, skills, and talents that any fans would want. Lian You Yi is a normal 15 years old girl who does not know about Ardour even though her father is the manager of Ardour! Due to her father's inability to take care of the band, You Yi is offered to be Ardour’s new manager. You Yi accepts the offer because if she didn't, then her father will be fire! Thus, her life started with the ARDOUR and 2 of the boys from the band have fall for her, whom will she fall to?!

Characters Description:

Lian You-Yi

A 15 year-old junior high-school Taiwanese student. Her father is a manager of an industry company and her mother is a fashion designer. You-Yi is very good in fashion design. She is in France when she was small and then returns to Taiwan to stay with her father in Taiwan. Then she is helping her father to become the assistant of the band, Ardour.

Sheng Ye

A 17 year-old student in Taiwan. One of the 3 members of the band, Ardour. He is the heart-throb, the coolest and cutest in the band. His father is Japanese and mother is a Taiwanese. He comes from a wealthy family. He always teases You Yi, and then falls for her.

From L - Yu Wei, Sheng Ye, Hui Yao

Wen Hui Yao

A 17 year-old student in Taiwan. One of the 3 members of the band, Ardour. He always has the seductive smile to his fans. He is like a playboy type. He returns from USA. He likes to hang out with You-Yi. He has a step sister.

Fang Yu Wei

A 15 year-old student in Taiwan, one of the 3 members of the band, Ardour, who is also the youngest among them. He is the adorable cutie and pretty bishounen type. He has 5 older sisters and he dislikes You-Yi at the beginning.

From Top : ShengYe, Hui Yao, Yu Wei

Brother Lian
Father of You-Yi, also the manager of the band, Ardour. Always very busy with his work but loves his daughter very much.

The above are the main characters of the manhwa series. There are more characters are appearing in the later story. There is another boy band, Japanese relatives of Sheng Ye, Ah Wei’s old friend and some actresses.

With all those characters, there are may love triangles in the story. This makes it very interesting and exciting. You have to read it continuously that you know who actual couple are would be.

I like this manhwa series very much due to its story and the art is beautiful. The art of this mahwa series is good, it could be compared to the Japanese manga. Moreover, there is also beautiful fashion in it. I think this story is very romantic and sweet.

OK, let us take a sneak peek of some scenes of “Ardour”.

This manhwa series has 12 volumes and it is a completed series. However, the scandalation series is on-going. I already finished reading the whole series as I read the Chinese version. I would attach both the English and Chinese versions here.

Ardour – English Version 
Ardour – Chinese Version

Well,  enjoy reading! ^.^

Live-Action Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu's

Kenshin's Emi Takei stars as old-fashioned girl in high school with Tori Matsuzaka

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The talent agency Top Coat began streaming the first teaser trailer for the live-action film adaptation of Kanan Minami's Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu shōjo romance manga on Friday. Emi Takei (live-action Rurouni Kenshin's Kaoru, Ai to Makoto's Ai) stars as the old-fashioned "Showa-era girl" Tsubaki Hibino opposite Tori Matsuzaka (We Can't Change the World. But, We Wanna Build a School in Cambodia, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, .hack//The Movie), who plays a "modern" boy named Kyōta.

The original manga follows Tsubaki, a girl who is indifferent to both romance and fashion, even though she loves giving other people adorable hairstyles. On the first day of high school, she happened to sit next to Kyōta, a mean-spirited boy who teases her. In retaliation, she spontaneously pulls out scissors and cuts off his long tresses of hair. Thus begins the long love-hate relationship between Tsubaki and Kyōta.

Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu began serializing in Sho-Comi in January 2008, and it just ended last November. The manga's 14 compiled book volumes have sold over eight million copies. The manga already inspired two anime DVDs.
Takeshi Furusawa (Ghost Train, Another) is directing the film for a December release in Japanese theaters.

Takeshi Miike's Ai to Makoto Film to Be Screened at Cannes

Live-action adaptation of Kajiwara's romance manga to show at France film fest in May

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Takashi Miike's live-action film adaptation of Ikki Kajiwara's Ai to Makoto (Ai and Makoto) romance manga will be screened at the 65th Cannes International Film Festival in France. This year's event will run May 16-27, and the film will screen as part of the "Midnight Screenings" section of the the festival.

Kouji Wakamatsu's 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate and Abbas Kiarostami's French-Japanese production Like Someone in Love will also screen at Cannes this year.

In Ai to Makoto, Emi Takei (live-action Rurouni Kenshin) plays an angelic high school girl named Ai Saotome, and Satoshi Tsumabuki (live-action Dororo, Dragon Head, Ikebukuro West Gate Park) plays the "ultra" high school delinquent Makoto Taiga in the love story. Takayuki Takuma (live-action Hana Yori Dango) adapted the manga for the silver screen, and Takeshi Kobayashi(Halfway, Bandage) composed the soundtrack. Kajiwara (Ashita no Joe, Kyojin no Hoshi, Tiger Mask) wrote the original manga with illustrations by Takumi Nagayasu (Mibu Gishiden, The Legend of Mother Sarah) for Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1973 to 1976.

Cannes screened Tatsumi, Eric Khoo's animated film adaptation of Yoshihiro Tatsumi's A Drifting Life autobiographical manga, last year as part of the "Un Certain Regard" section of the event. Miike's Ichimei — a live-action 3D film remake of the 1962 film Seppuku (Harakiri) — and Naomi Kawase's Hanezu no Tsuki also had screenings at the event.

36 years after the story's last live-action adaptation, Ai to Makoto will open in theaters across Japan on June 16. The Ai to Makoto romance manga inspired a live-action television adaptation in 1974 as well as three live-action films in 1974, 1975 and 1976.

Da Capo II Spinoff Manga A.C.D.C. II Ends

Akita Shoten to release final volume of Kayurayuka's spinoff manga on April 20

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Akita Shoten will publish the third and final volume in Kayurayuka's D.C. II ~Da Capo II~ spin-off manga A.C.D.C. II on April 20. Kayurayuka originally launched the manga in Akita Shoten's Young Champion Retsu in August 2009. The manga tells an original story not featured in the game franchise.

To celebrate the release of the final volume, the Gamers, Comic Zin, and Melon Books bookstores will each bundle different colored images with a message from Kakurayuka.

Kayurayuka previously illustrated several installments in the D.C. ~Da Capo~ adult romance adventure game franchise. Adult game developer CIRCUS released the original D.C. II ~Da Capo II~ game in May 2006. The game publisher MangaGamer then released the game in English in December 2010. The third game in the series, D.C.III ~Da Capo III~ will be released on April 27.

MangaGamer has also released the D.C. ~Da Capo~ and D.C.I.F ~Da Capo Innocent Finale~ visual novel games in English.

The Da Capo franchise has also spawned about 80 anime episodes in four television series and one video spinoff.

Fairy Tail: Hōō no Miko Film's Story Revealed in 2nd Teaser

Creator Hiro Mashima pens story about girl with keys to magical world's collapse

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The Japanese website Cinema Today began streaming the second teaser trailer for the first Fairy Tail anime film, Gekijō-ban Fairy Tail: Hōō no Miko (Fairy Tail the Movie: The Maiden of the Phoenix), and revealed the film's story outline. The key phrase of the film is, "Magic causes people misfortune?"

The film revolves around a mysterious girl named Éclair who appears before Fairy Tail, the world's most notorious wizard's guild. She lost all of her memories, except for the imperative that she must deliver two Hōōseki (Phoenix Stones) somewhere. The stones may spell the collapse of the magical world, and Natsu, Lucy, and the rest of the Fairy Tail guild are caught up in the intrigue.

Hiro Mashima, the creator of the original Fairy Tail manga, is in charge of story planning and visual design for the film's all-new plot, and he is also drafting the guest character designs and image concept art. Masaya Fujimori (You Are Umasou) is directing, and Masashi Sogo (Fairy Tail, Bleach, Rurouni Kenshin) wrote the screenplay.

The Fairy Tail film will open on August 18 in Japan. Ticket sales have already begun, and advance tickets come with "Hajimari no Asa" (The First Morning), a 30-page limited-edition special comic prologue penned by Mashima.

Catch the glimpse here.

Yumeiro Pâtissière Manga Returns in 1-Shot Short

The latest issue of Shueisha's shojo magazine Ribon shipped on Tuesday with a one-shot Yumeiro Pâtissière story. This marks the first return of Natsumi Matsumoto's cooking manga to the magazine since the series ended last July. Matsumoto launched the manga, which ran for 10 volumes, in 2008. It inspired two television series, both of which Crunchyroll streamed into several countries as they aired in Japan.

You jump, I jump! – Titanic – 3D

Do you remember the phrases “You jump, I jump!”, “I’m the King of the world!” or the song that begins with the words “Every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you….”? Well, if you do, I bet you are a BIG fan of the blockbuster movie of “Titanic” of year 1997. Well, if you did not know or remember those phrases and lyrics, it is okay.

I bet most of the people have watched the blockbuster movie of “Titanic” in the year 1997, yes, 15 years ago. As for me, I had watched it twice too and no doubt I was sobbing whenever I was watching this movie. This is such a disaster and sad romantic love story!!! I think I do not need to tell about the story of “Titanic” as it is a well-known for the world.

In this year 2012, the director of the movie, James Cameron has made the “Titanic” in 3D. Yes, you may experience the movie like never before. Guess what?! The “Titanic 3D” is started to show in Malaysia from 5^th April onwards. All the fans of this blockbuster could watch it again and feel in a new experience for the movie.

All the actors and actresses are the same in the movie, except that the actress who acted as the “Elderly Rose” (aged 101-year old Rose); Gloria Stuart has passed way in year 2010 at age 100. No doubt we could see the young Leonardo Dicaprio as the Jack Dawson again. He has become the Heartthrob of many ladies since that movie; I am one of them too! :P

Let us not forget the theme song too, “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion. Actually I like all the songs or music of “Titanic”.

OK, let us refresh our memories of “Titanic” scenes at below.

I am looking forward to the “Titanic 3D” as it is one of my most favourite movies; even it is in sad ending.