Top 5 “Melodrama” Picks
I don’t want to give the impression with my Saturday post that I dislike emotional porn. Good heavens, no! Quite the opposite in fact. I’ve left my freshman college English major self in the dust. While it’s true that I don’t think teenage girls emulating the likes of Bella Swan is a good thing, I do think it’s perfectly wonderful to imagine that somewhere, sparkling in a tree, Edward Cullen waits. Hmm, I know far to much about this Twilight business than I should considering I couldn’t make it through the first book.
Ok, on to my top 5!
1. Vampire Knight – I do despise Yuki with her cow-chewing-cud stare but this story has three things that I can’t resist: Boarding schools, hot (shirtless) vampires and hall monitors with guns. Throw in the occasional ball and I am all over it. I’ve kind of quit reading but the first few volumes are yummy.
2. Absolute Boyfriend - so good. So so good. And here’s why. The love triangle includes a horny robot. I’ll repeat horny! robot! The first volume even features said robot, neked with a bow. I know! Making a robot fall in love and deny his robot self is unadulterated emotional porn.
3. You’re so Cool – Here he is, the bad boy. Not “bad” in the sense that he wants to suck your blood but really really bad. He’s cruel, taunting and you are the only one who can melt his cold heart.
4. Chocolate – Hello, boy band.
5. Fake – remember in those tv dramas, Moonlighting, X-Files, Bones – all that will they/won’t they stuff? Well this is like that only the Hayes/Scully/Brennan character is much hotter and also male. Be warned though, it includes a sweet side story that annoyingly gets in the way of the fun.
What are your top 5? Recommend some to me!
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I’m not a big fan of any of the titles you listed (isn’t “Absolute Boyfriend” a comedy in which most of the laughs involve trying to convince a girl to have sex in order to keep her guy?)
1. Nana- Soap Opera goodness and punk rock.
2. Sand Chronicals- childhood scars mixed with teenaged love triangle. Shaken, not stirred.
3. Fruits! Basket! – emotionally abused, shape-changing bad boy (plus friends/male harem) and the sweet, overly optimistic, yet still grieving, orphaned girl who’s willing to risk it all to save them.
Yes, those are all great titles!! Almost too good. I’m looking for the guilty pleasures. The kind of manga where you laugh at a girl trying to figure out robot sex and then you feel kind of bad about it so you just don’t tell anyone how much you enjoyed it 
I imagine some might disagree with me on Fake but the dialogue and longing stares make it more melodrama than great yaoi.
Guilty pleasure? Sensual Phrase all the way! What other manga gives you hot sexxin as the cure for amnesia? Put together copious amounts of sex scenes, angsty boys, glam rock bands, tortured romances, and cringe-worthy song lyrics and you have a manga that you can’t help but tell your friends, “I know it’s horrible, but you just have to read…”
Yummy!!! I want it. Does it have a cover I’ll be embarrassed by on the bus? Cause that’s always nice.
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