Sword Art online
Sword Art Online season 1 takes place in the year 2022 when the first VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multi-player
Online Role-playing Game) game has been released along with the nerve gear to be able to play it. The nerve gear, a helmet
that connects with the user’s 5 senses so that the players can control their characters in the game with their minds. On
November 6th when the players log onto the game for the first time and later discover that it’s not possible to log out unless you
reach to the 100th floor and beat the game from Akihiko Kayaba , the creator of SAO (Sword Art Online) . But there is worse to
come , if your character dies in game you die in reality too .
One of the main characters Kazuto Kirigaya also known in the game as Kirito, is a very skillful boy in the game as well as in
real life and is very determined to beat the game. Along with the game, which progresses for 2 years, Reki Kawahara (The
author of SAO) introduces us, including Kirito to another character, Asuna in the anime which turns out to be female. Later in
the anime it shows that those two appear to have feelings towards each other and as well as find more friends along the game.
Proceeding to Sword Art Online season 2, the couple has made many friends and we’ve gotten to see a story behind each of the
character, instead of just focusing the whole show only on one main protagonist. I find it genius how Kawahara has included
all sorts of genres which fit very nicely with the manga and the anime. I like how he made his work interesting for both male
and female audiences and balances it very well. Sword Art Online is one of my ultimate favorites as I got to know more about
each character rather than just one.
Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge a.k.a
The Wallflower
The Wallflower is a manga revolving
around four handsome guys and a girl
who prefers herself to stay in her room
surrounded by her anatomical models
and darkness. Those four guys are
Ranmaru Morii who’s always popular
with the ladies, Yukinojo Toyama
who’s often mistaken for a girl due to his pretty boy look, Takenaga Oda who’s c alm and collected
unlike the other guys and finally Kyohei Takano who tends to attract many people because of his
voice and extraordinary looks. These men are sent to live in a big mansion by their families with an
overall reason to make them behave more like normal human beings instead of being a ladies’ man,
too polite etc. When these men live in the mansion they are told by the owner who has a niece
named, Sunako Nakahara, that they must pay rent in order to live in there. Since then the fellas
have been trying hard to get money in order to pay their rent. Now this is where the real story
begins, one day the owner arrives with her niece and tells them that they will gain tons of money if
they turn Sunako into a real lady. The catch here is that Sunako is the complete opposite of a lady;
she loves the dark and is very unusual compared to other people regardless of their gender. This
manga itself is probably the most popular shoujo manga written by Tomoko Hayakawa, and it’s
very interesting to see how she connects to her readers throughout small “Behind the scenes”
sections.
Attack on Titan
A manga on a totally different level and style than the Wallflower is Attack on Titan, also
known as Shingeki no Kyojin. The story takes place on Earth which is covered by Titans
and has a very small town surrounded by Three walls. The walls are called Wall Maria,
the biggest one, Wall Rose and finally Wall Sina all measured in height 50 meters tall.
The story has its own very uniqueness to it as you go deeper and deeper into it
discovering more knowledge. It revolves around a boy named Eren Yeagar, Armin Arlert
which both have a great desire to kill the Titans once and for all and explore the outside
world and finally Mikasa Ackerman, a girl who always does her best to save Eren and
give appreciation towards him as she was saved by him once her parents were killed by
some men. As the story progresses you find out more about each character.