July 1, 2015

Candy's Favorites • Favorites • Featured • Ongoing Long • Ongoing Series

Kuragehime

The story centers around Tsukimi Kurashita, a huge fan of jellyfish (kurage, a wordplay on the “kura/mi” and “tsuki/ge” in her name) and a girl who moves to Tokyo to become an illustrator. She moves into “Amamizukan,” an apartment complex that is full of fujoshi (diehard female otaku) with a no-men-allowed rule. However, one day, […]

June 1, 2015

Completed Series • Completed Shorts • Film Girl • Shigeyoshi Takegi

Film Girl

Nakamura Mei is a very simple high school girl. While at a cafe with her friends, they bump in to -none other than- the model Shirou’s table. Mei apologizes and that’s when Shirou notices something. Grabbing her he takes her outside with him and reveals that Mei was once a kids model—and that he’s her […]

May 29, 2015

Ai Yazawa • Completed Long • Completed Series

Paradise Kiss

Yukari wants nothing more than to make her parents happy by studying hard and getting into a good college. One afternoon, however, she is kidnapped by a group of self-styled fashionistas calling themselves “Paradise Kiss.” Yukari suddenly finds herself flung into the roller-coaster life of the fashion world, guided by George, art-snob extraordinaire. In a […]

May 25, 2015

Candy's Favorites • Completed Series • Completed Shorts • Favorites • Featured

Helter Skelter

Through round after round of extensive plastic surgery and vigorous maintenance, Ririko has become the absolute manifestation of beauty, and becomes a wildly successful model, actress, and singer. However, soon, her body, unable to withstand the burdens of surgery, begins to crumble, and along with it so does her mind, as she plummets towards a […]