Romance from Kawashita Mizuki

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Hello to everyone! I've been reading manga titles here and there from various mangakas for a while now but, here's a mangaka that really got caught my interest. The first manga that I have read from this very amazing mangaka would be Hatsukoi Limited, a very entertaining series about students growing up and being in love in sometimes very comedic situations. The story gets told in a very intricate narratives of the cast that bind all the characters together. I think its gonna be turned into an anime. It was only then that I realized that even though the genre of the manga I was reading was Shounen, that mangaka is actually a woman by the time I was reading Ichigo 100%, another story in school life setting, as I often have interest in, with the main character, though average as he may be, gets into situations that wouldn't be considered average with the female characters. This title totally surprised me compared to the other shounen manga that I have read so far. This manga also has an anime series by the way (^_^ ) Staggering from what I got from Ichigo 100%, I immediately looked for other works of hers and I came across Kanojo to Natsu to Boku or Me and My Summer Girlfriend, fully colored eight pager one-shot about a young boy who goes out with his senpai. Though short or brief, it was full of promise. Yet, I was still craving for more so I found another one shot made by the mangaka entitled Akiiro Bousou Biyori, which is about this school girl who is head over heals in love with this classmate of hers but find it difficult to convey her feelings. Similar to the previous one-shot, it was short and colored. From a school life genres, I tried one of her works that was Based upon the play of 'The Love Suicides at Sonezaki' which happens to be historical. The title of this other one-shot is Sonezaki Shinjuu. The story goes with Hatsu's father had sold her to a brothel when she was young. Her childhood friend Toku tries to earn the money to buy her out of there to marry her. However, many obstacles stand in their way. This I could consider the most romantic among the titles that I'd be mentioning, though, that's just what I think.. (^_^") After a work of hers with that historical aspect, I ventured on another one that happens to have Fantasy in it, Lilim Kiss which coincidentally as one among her popular works along with Ichigo 100%. Lilim Kiss is about Saiki Takaya, a guy who is easily misunderstood, one day finds a flask containing the succubus Lilim. She is very attractive but, she also has the tendency to drain the life force out of people. She surprises the life out of him (literally) when she kisses him unconscious. The girl, Lilim, turns out to be a succubus who gains energy by kissing guys. Lilim then flies off for more "food," but returns later, saying that Takaya's life-energy was the "tastiest." From then, Lilim is accepted by Takaya's parents as a live-in girlfriend of sorts, and Takaya's heart seems to start wavering towards this voluptuous devil. Though it is composed in two volumes, it seemed that it could have went more. So I went for yet another one-shot, this time with mystery and supernatural elements entitled Koorihime Kitan. The story is initially about Doujima Kenji and his friends that happened to decide on spending their winter vacation on ghost hunting, however all but one of them canceled. So, he ends up alone with the girl he likes, and it turns out that there may be more to this ghost story than they had anticipated. The main story in the this one-shot may seem like a preview for the main characters involved while the actual ghost story implies on a greater degree of love that even encompasses time, which seems romantic as well. (^_^ ) She also used the name Momokuri Mikan for earlier works that were more targeted towards women. A work that I have read under her pseudonym of hers would be Kaede Typhoon, about Kaede, the heiress of the Kisaragi ninja clan who decides to run out on her arranged marriage, and take matters into her own hands. Searching for a companion on her own, she meets the most unlikeliest of guys; a total weakling. However she is soon intrigued by his courage, and chivalry. ~From Solaris-SVU This manga runs for three chapters yet, I would even think that after you get to read it, you might also think that it would've went a bit more. Kawashita Mizuki's trademark is that her female characters are not unnaturally thin, but tend to be closer to real world proportions. Mostly they still follow the shonen traits of female leads, meaning they are usually cute, buxom, sexy, or curvy, in order to appeal to the young male readers. Occasionally they will be drawn in revealing outfits or in various states of undress. _______________ Well, that's about what I could tell about the manga's I have read from this wonderful mangaka (^_^ ) I really wish that I could read more of her works as well as have those one-shots of hers turned into very good series.