Chelciejo Anime Collection: KAORI

Street date: 28 June 2012, give or take a day.
(I was able to squeeze in one more blog post before taking a holiday.)

You Are Completely Mine (Tiga Lancar Comic/3L)

Marugoto Ore no Mono © KAORI
Shogakukan [Cheese! Flower Comics]
Published in Indonesia as You Are Completely Mine
by PT Tiga Lancar Semesta/Tiga Lancar Comic (3L)

Rinka just returned to her hometown after a long absence, and she's beside herself at the thought of meeting Shuta, her former crush. Unfortunately (or fortunately) Shuta isn't the same guy he used to be — he's turned into Mr. Perfect!

And Rinka's heart just won't quit pounding!

KAORI's You Are Completely Mine, originally Marugoto Ore no Mono, first serialized in Cheese!, which makes me wonder why 3L deems this particular shoujo manga Teen ("Remaja")-safe. Especially when Baka-Updates Manga tags it smut. So tread warily just in case.

This Childhood Friends, Male Lead Falling in Love First, Possessive Lover volume contains the title story and its Bangai-hen and Tokubetsu-hen, as well as a side story Give Me a Sweet Kiss. [*NOT 3L titles]

Before releasing You Are Completely Mine, 3L published KAORI's Touch by Your Kiss or Kimi no Kiss de Furete. I already listed KAORI-sensei's backlist when Kimi no Kiss de Furete debuted here, and have nothing to add other than noting that the Basketball, Maids, Secret Identity, Tomboy, Rivals Become Lovers, Male Lead Falling in Love First Himitsu no Ai-chan romance comedy, ongoing serialization in Cheese! will have released its volume 8 by 26 July 2012, and that KAORI-sensei top-billed the Cheese! Best Selection anthology Secret Love Collection released in Japan last February. (Other Cheese! manga-ka contributing to this omnibus: Fujiwara Yoshiko, Sakurada Hina, Nanao Mio, Ichidou Hikaru and Ayamoto Miha.)

3L shoujo manga (2012.06.27)

[Premiere] You Are Completely Mine (Marugoto Ore no Mono) by KAORI

Marugoto Ore no Mono 「まるごと☆オレのモノ」 by KAORI
Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo
This volume first published in Japan 2007.02

I don't know how many of you have been waiting for the Touch By Your Kiss finale, but personally, I'm more intrigued by the 3L debut Changing Seat Game, not only for the Namida Usagi vibes (if you squint), but more for the...innocence of the cover, something I don't expect from (mostly sm*t) manga-ka Yumachi Shin.

Changing Seat Game, Touch by Your Kiss 2 (Tiga Lancar Comic)

Sekigae Game © Yumachi Shin/Shogakukan [First serialized in Cheese!] · Kimi no Kiss de Furete. © KAORI/Shogakukan [First serialized in Cheese!]. Published in Indonesia as Changing Seat Game and Touch By Your Kiss by Tiga Lancar Semesta/3L Comic

Freshman year, high school. September. The seat change after summer lands me smack beside Mitsui, the guy who, rumor has it, likes me. Me? Slow me? It's just not possible!

So that's our Clumsy Protagonist with Low Self-Esteem Tamami agonizing over whether Mitsui-kun ~~needs glasses~~ likes her. (Thanks, Baka-Updates, for giving our heroine a name.) But Tamami really should ditch her issues, especially when we have it on good authority that Cool Male Lead Mitsui-kun falls in love first.

Gotten sugar shock yet? :) Changing Seat Game, originally Sekigae Game ex-Cheese!, is (still) safe for Teens, just like the other two Yumachi Shin shoujo manga 3L has published (which I passed up on), Colour of Love and Love at First Sight.

Scroll down if you want to know why I deemed Changing Seat Game somewhat a rarity among Yumachi Shin titles. For nau —

Touch by Your Kiss vol 2 of 2
By KAORI

My search for a soul mate ended when I entered senior high and met this uber kewl and hawt senpai. So now, everyday is an exercise in telling my racing heart to calm down because, you know, he actually reciprocates my feelings! I want to grow closer to him—or is that being too greedy? It must be, because why else would a trouble maker show up NOW to ruin everything?

The second and last Touch by Your Kiss, rated for a Mature or [DEWASA] audience, also contains two extra one-shots, Ai o shirane no? and Senpai no kanojo to, kōhai to.

☞ BTW, if you missed Takada Rie's Heart and Ikeyamada Go's Moe Kare!! the first time around, 3L is reprinting both series. Heart- and Moe Kare!! volume 2 street this week (the first volumes were reissued late March).