Before Neutrinos was a anime person, he used to read slow frame rate anime aka manga. That was a number of years ago when the broadband internet was fairly new and unaffordable for a high-school student not to mention scanlations weren’t as prolific as now. As such the only way was to buy those chinese-translated manga available from the comic stores. Its kind of a hit and miss affair, some times the story might seem intriguing only to have the latter part fall flat after a few volumes. It’s an unacceptable situation for a student with limited allowance to be in therefore gradually the buying stopped.
Hence it’s a blessing to be able to read all the manga he wants to and pick only the best for collection; having english translation is also a big factor because of his lousy chinese abilities.
RAWR… Enough! Writing in third person is irritating!
Anyway I have stumbled upon a really nice manga (REC) IMO. In fact I found it so nice that I chased down its anime adaptation and devoured it in a single setting…
Synopsis
Matsumaru Fumihiko is your average salaryman working for a snack company. One day he was stood up by his date, outside the movie theater, just as he had given up and about to toss away the tickets he heard a voice from the tickets! Actually that was Onda Aka an aspiring seiyuu. Not wanting to waste the tickets Matsumaru watched the movie together with Onda, after which they get to know each other a bit better over some drinks.
Salaryman with no hopes for future – clichéd yet rings true to me Orz
As fate would have it, Onda’s apartment was burnt down that night, feeling sorry for her Matsumaru took her in and that was the start of their relationship.
Later on their ties were further cemented when Matsumaru’s company decide to use his project and employ Onda as seiyuu for their marketing campaign. The two of them went through a lot to hide the fact that they were living together from co-workers and later on when Onda became more popular the situation becomes even worse.
Working as a seiyuu is tough for a rookie like Onda. She had to take up whatever jobs her company assigns her, such as recording for a erogame.
On a incognito mission…
,,. to rent erovideos
Seriously studying
What!? I have to ask Matsumaru for help?!?!
One might envy Matsumaru for having such a cute voice actress living with him…
… for such a sight *ahem*
But their relationship wasn’t going as smooth as it seemed…
Matsumaru had a hard time controlling himself it seems…
Something was keeping him up all night long…
No, it wasn’t cuz he got lucky, it’s the exact opposite… So near yet so far… T_T
Used screenshots from the anime because its in color and art wise pretty much close to the manga itself. This was the series that made me aware of the fact that I have an unusual liking for female anime characters with red hair. ^^;
Other notable red hair characters:
melon pan no shana
hanaji* no kotori
* Hanaji (鼻血) is a japanese word for nosebleed ^^
** Any inconvenience caused by ungrammatical pseudo japanese is regretted
