The Power of Shipping in Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun

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Chizuru Ōshima, Haru, Haru Yoshida, Kenji Yamaguchi, love triangle, Natsume, Natsume Asako, Oshima, Sasahara Sohei, Sasayan, ship, Ship (fandom), shipping (fandom), Shizuku, Shizuku Mizutani, shoujo, The Monster Seated Next to Me, Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun, Yamaken

Ship, ship, ship!

Coming from the word relationship, shipping has been a trending term among anime fans. Why would it not be? Love is beautiful… and even more wonderful if romance is part of the picture. Ship is the idea in which two characters, fictional or non-fictional, are in an intimate relationship. As every shoujo-holic knows, the doki doki feeling makes the show emotionally engaging and exciting.♥

Kimi Koi Limit, A Love Triangle’s Dilemma

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Aristotle, binary world, Functionalism, Hiroko, Kimi Koi Limit, Love, love triangle, Satomi, Sono, soulmate, yuri

Having only three series on my winter anime cart, I have been re-reading lately some of the mangas that I’m regularly checking for new releases. One of these is the nice but fairly sad story of Kimi Koi Limit, a yuri manga.

While the plot is a somewhat clichéd bizarre love triangle, I’m really enjoying reading Kimi Koi Limit mainly because it’s nicely drawn, well-paced, emotionally engaging, and stimulatingly expressive.  It also doesn’t have that heavy atmosphere because comical fluffs are being thrown in before the drama fully consumed the reader. Also, the conflict is simple but how it’s being delivered is so engaging.