Atashi ga Hamatta Yottsu no Junai

Description: Mai falls in love with Amano who has another girlfriend. Rian goes into summer camp for training. Nao gets drunk and has sex with her boyfriend. Wakana is in delicate relationship with her two childhood friends. "Pure loves" of four girls are depicted.

Title: Atashi ga Hamatta Yottsu no Junai
Associated Names:
アタシがハマった４つの純愛
내가 빠져든 4가지 사랑
纯爱４部曲
Atashi ga Hamatta 4 Tsu no Junai
Atashi ga Hamatta 4-tsu no Junai
Four Pure Loves
Author/Artist: YOKOYAMA Mayumi
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Shoujo
Status: 1 Volume (Complete)
Year: 2005

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Aitsu ni Koishita Yottsu no Wake

Description:

From MangaRebels:
These stories about 4 typical high school girls' love life are Yokoyama Mayumi first work.
Story 1: A Real World
After 2 years Eri got back together with her ex-boyfriend.
Story 2: Lip Lock
Nina made him break his "right hand" so she substituted XX (sexual favours?) to take care of him.
Story 3: That Is My Weak Point
Risa's ex-boyfriend stole embarrassing photos of her, and now she wants to get them back.
Story 4: Hotel Red Peacock
With the current course of events, Chika needs to make her bad tasting Love Hotel prosper.

Title: Aitsu ni Koishita Yottsu no Wake
Associated Names:
アイツに恋した４つの理由
アイツに恋した4つの理由（わけ）
그앨 좋아한 4가지 이유
愛上他的四個理由
爱上他的四个理由
Aitsu ni Koishita 4 Tsunowake
Four Reasons I Fell in Love With Him
Four Reasons of Falling in Love with Him
Four Reasons To Fall in Love With Him
Author/Artist: YOKOYAMA Mayumi
Genre: Comedy | Romance | School Life | Shoujo | Smut
Status: 1 Volume (Complete)
Year: 2005

Download Korean Version: volume 1 | mirror

T=IG

Related Series: T=IG+ (Sequel)Title: T=IG Associated Name: 티는 아이지

Author/Artist: HA Jeong-Sook
Genre: Romance | Shoujo
Status: 6 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 2002

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Beautiful

Description: Yuri is a boy with genius-like ballet sense. But his peaceful life is ruined by the Chernobyl accident. In order to realize the wish of his mother, a Chernobyl survivor, he leaves his family to go study ballet. But nine years later, the 17 year old Yuri (Yuu), at a prestigious ballet school, receives news of half-sister Anna and the death of his mother.

Title: Beautiful
Associated Names:

ビューティフル
뷰티풀
Điệu Nhảy Tươi Đẹp

Author/Artist: SAITOU Chiho
Status: 4 Volumes (Complete)
Genre: Drama | Josei
Year: 2004

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Korean Raws: "The Tiny Fox with the Star"

Description:
Hochi is a little fox born by an accident from a tail of the nine-tailed fox, Chunho. Compared to her twin Jaho, Hochi seems inferior in every way to Chunho, and finally Chunho sends her away as her enemy Yangmang's birthday present. Soon afterwards people start saying that there is a beautiful woman who tells interesting stories to townspeople...

Title: The Tiny Fox with the Star
Associated Names:
별을가진작은여우
Little Fox with a Star
Story: Keum Bo Ri
Art: Aivan
Genre: Fantasy | Romance | Shounen-Ai | Supernatural
Status: 6 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 2008

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Oresama Teacher

Description:
From Intercross:
Kurosaki Mafuyu was a juvenile delinquent and head of her gang before her subsequent arrest got her expelled from high school. Now that she’s transferred to a new high school, she’s determined to become an “ultra-shiny, super feminine high school student.” But with a new friend like Hayasaka-kun and a homeroom teacher like Saeki Takaomi (who may be more than he seems), will Mafuyu really be able to live a girly-girl high school life!?

Title: Oresama Teacher
Associated Names:
俺様ティーチャー
본좌 티처
我的野蛮老师
我的野蠻老師
王样老师
王樣老師
My Teacher
Ore-sama Sensei
Ore-sama Teacher
Oresama Sensei
Thầy giáo của tôi
Author/Artist: TSUBAKI Izumi
Genre: Comedy | Harem | Romance | School Life | Shoujo
Status: 9 Volumes (Ongoing)
Year: 2008
Licensed by Viz

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Cinderella 21C

Description:
자신의 딸들을 연예계에 데뷔시키기 위해 소아를 마구 부려먹는 왕년 에로배우 출신의 새엄마.
그러던 어느 날 언니들의 오디션 원서를 접술하러 갔다가 당대 최고의 아이돌 유진의 품에 안기고 사인까지 받게 되는데…
그녀에게 진정 신데렐라의 길이 열리는가!!

Title: Cinderella 21C
Associated Names: 신데렐라 21C
Author/Artist: MIN Hye-Kyung
Genre: Romance | Shoujo
Status: 4 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 2002

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In the Flower Garden

Title: In the Flower Garden
Associated Names:
꽃밭에서
꽃밭에서 (원제:까치전설)
The Legend of Magpie
The Legend of Kka-chi
The legendary Magpie
Author: HAN Kyung-Ah
Artist: LEE Young-You
Genre: Romance | School Life | Shounen Ai
Status: 1 Volume
Year: 2003

Download Korean Raw: volume 1

Yumemiru Koto

Title: Yumemiru Koto
Associated Names:
夢見る古都
꿈꾸는고도
Romance of an Ancient Dreaming City
Author/Artist: HOSHINO Lily
Genre: Adult | Drama | Romance | Supernatural
Status: 1 Volume (Ongoing)
Year: 2006

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Delinquent Cinderella

Description:
Nan Hui was sent off to the city to live with her mother and her nasty grandmother when she was caught smoking at her country school again. There she rescued the drunk and ungrateful, Gong Myeong from the beatings of five boys. Angry that he did not appreciate her help, she stomped on his arm and ran off…not expecting to meet him again.

Gong Myeong devised a plan with Nan Hui after being heartbroken over losing a girl he loves to his half-brother, Baek Jae Ha.

"We’re not going to really love each other. We’ll be a contract couple to get what we both want.”
The handsome bad boy, Cha Gong Myeong & bad girl, Lee Nan Hui are declared a couple of horror!

What will happen when Nan Hui’s best friend, who is in love with her, comes to Seoul? Things get even more complicated when Gong Myeong’s half-brother falls for Nan Hui.

Can this bad prince give this bad Cinderella her glass slipper? Will love blossom between these two bad personalities?

Title: Delinquent Cinderella
Associated Names:
불량 신데렐라
A bad cinderella
Lọ lem tinh nghịch
Story & Art: HWANG Mi-Ri
Genre: Romance | School Life | Shoujo
Status: 10 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 2010

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Millennium Kiss

Description:
유카는 고등학교 1학년이다. 어릴 적에 네 잎 클로버 반지를 준 남자에와 2000년이 되는 날 교회에서 만나기로 한 약속을 하고 만날 날만을 기다리고 있다. 바로 소꿉동무인 신고가 추억의 남자애 첫 번째 후보인데... 그러던 어느 날 유카는 전학생 타카미에게 첫키스를 빼앗기고 타카미는 추억의 남자애와 똑같은 말을 하는데...

Title: Millennium Kiss
Associated Names:
ミレニアム・Ｋｉｓｓ
ミレニアム・Kiss
밀레니엄 Kiss
2000年之吻
Mireniamu Kiss
Author/Artist: ANISAKI Yuna
Genre: Romance | Shoujo
Status: 2 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 2000

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Cream (LEE Eun Young)

Description:

From Sensation Scans:
Seo Kyung is pitiful. Everyone thinks she is, especially after making the wrong "friends," she now has to prove that she does have a boyfriend. Of course, she has one, and apparently it's the most popular guy in school...

Title: Cream

Associated Names: 크림

Author/Artist: LEE Eun Young
Genre: Drama | Romance | School Life | Shoujo
Status: 6 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 2002

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Kanon (SAITO Chiho)

Description:

From Mangascreener:
One day a 23-year-old Japanese musician travels to Mongolia in order to get inspirations for writing a piece of music. There he meets Kanon whose mother runs the "Hotel Kanon" in the desert. Kanon grew up in Mongolia, does not know who her father is and takes him for dead as her mother told her so. Then Kanon's mother who fell from a horse dies of injury. Before her death, she tells her daughter that she came to Mongolia because she could not stay in Japan as she had an affair with Kanon's father, a musician, who is actually still alive, and she asks Kanon to find him in Japan by becoming a violin virtuoso, but dies before telling her his name. Thus Kanon goes with the young man to Japan where she learns to become a musician in a music school run by Mikami, a handsome young man and worldwide very successful musician and conductor. Soon the younger sister of her mother gives her photos of three musicians, one of whom might be her father. Kanon's erring search for her father begins...

Kanon received the 1997 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga.

Title: Kanon
Associated Names: 花音―かのん―; 花－Kanon－音; Hoa Âm
Author/Artist: SAITOU Chiho
Genre: Drama | Josei | Romance
Status: 6 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 1995

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Download Korean Version: volume 1-9 (end) (Korean Version has 9 Volumes)

Lemon Planet

Description:
It’s summer vacation time, and no one is more excited about it than 2nd year high school student Karin-chan. Her childhood friend Sakumi-senpai is coming home from college to visit! Karin and Sakumi, along with his younger brother Tatsumi are childhood friends. Sakumi hasn’t been gone long, but now that he is back, Karin can really see a difference in him. Just seeing him makes Karin’s heart beats faster. Her crush on him hasn’t changed.

Meanwhile, Tatsumi is the same age as Karin, and is in her class at school. He is aware of Karin’s obvious affection for Sakumi, however what are his feelings? He seems to care for Karin very much, could he be the one to comfort Karin when Sakumi rejects her? Over the summer, Sakumi begins to see how special Karin is. Will Karin gather the courage to confess? Will Tatsumi make his feelings known? Will Sakumi realize how special Karin has always been to him?

Title: Lemon Planet
Associated Names:

檸檬プラネット
檸檬心星

Story & Art: HAZUKI Megumi
Genre: Romance | School Life | Shoujo
Status: 2 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 2007

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Anne the Lover

Description:

From Sherbet Lemon:
The main character Hansul, a high school student in grade 10, has never had a boyfriend before in her life. She starts dating Sulgyo in order to buff at her teasing friends. However, as their relationship got more and more stiff, she starts arguing with him. The argument ends awkwardly, and a sweet romance started because they actually fell in love with each other already.

Title: Anne the Lover
Associated Names:
앤 THE LOVER
NGƯỜI YÊU LÝ TƯỞNG
The Lover
Author/Artist: Wann
Genre: Drama | Romance | Shoujo
Status: 6 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 2001

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Download Korean Raw: volume 1-6 (end)

Korean Raws: "Ojousama wa Oyomesama"

Description:
From StarryHeaven:
Towako the ojousama (daughter of a high class family) will be turning 18 years old soon. When she was very young, she was told that on this 18th birthday she is to marry the young man who was born on the same day, the same time, and the same year as she was. However, during their first meeting, Yuuga was incredibly mean to her! What’s Towako to do when her husband-to-be is the shy and cool type of guy?

Title: Ojousama wa Oyomesama
Associated Names:
お嬢様はお嫁様
千金小姐新嫁娘
小姐是新娘
Cô Dâu Tiểu Thư
Mademoiselle se marie (French)
Ojou-sama wa Oyome-sama
The Lady is a Bride
Author & Artist: HAZUKI Megumi
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Shoujo
Status: 13 Volumes (Ongoing)
Year: 2007

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Shooting Star

Description:
The main character joins popular all-boys singer group 'moon'

Title: Shooting Star
Associated Names:
슈팅 스타
Author: JUNG Hyun-Sook
Artist: LEE Young-You
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Shoujo
Status: 3 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 2004

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TRUMPS! (SEO Eun Jin)

Description:
자타가 공인하는 플레이걸 후야는 깜직한 외모와 섹시한 몸매를 무기로 내킬 때마다 남자를 바꾸고 나이트를 제집 드나들듯이 다니는 잘 나가는 대학생이다. 소개팅에 나가서도 레스토랑 웨이터를 찍는 담대함이 그녀의 매력 포인트. 그러나 쿨함과 무뚝뚝함으로 무장한 웨이터 현민을 만나면서 그녀의 화려한 플레이걸 생활도 막을 내린다.

무뚝뚝하지만 한없이 자상한 현민을 두고 후야는 여느때처럼 다른 남자들과 놀지만 현민은 여느 남자와 다르게 후야를 차버린다. 자존심이 상한 후야는 재벌 2세와 새로운 연애를 시작하나 마음은 여전히 현민에게 가 있다. 오기로 시작한 연애는 결국 혼담으로까지 이어지고 후야는 막판뒤집기로 현민의 마음을 되돌린다.

Title: TRUMPS!
Associated Name: 트럼프스!; 트럼프스! : 스페이드 에이스; Trumps!: Spade Ace; Trumps!: Ace of Spades
Author/Artist: SEO Eun Jin
Genre: Romance | Shoujo
Status: 1 Volumes (Ongoing)
Year: 2002

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Korean Raws: "Black Bird"

Description:
From Viz:
There is a world of myth and magic that intersects ours, and only a special few can see it. Misao Harada is one such person, and she wants nothing to do with magical realms. She just wants to have a normal high school life and maybe get a boyfriend.

But she is the bride of demon prophecy, and her blood grants incredible powers, her flesh immortality. Now the demon realm is fighting over the right to her hand...or her life!

Black Bird received the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo manga.

Title: Black Bird
Associated Names:
ブラックバード
黑鸟恋人
블랙버드
Hắc Điểu
Author & Artist: SAKURAKOJI Kanoko
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Shoujo | Smut | Supernatural
Status: 13 Volumes (Ongoing)
Year: 2007

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Vitamin (Yeo Ho Kyoung)

Title: Vitamin
Associated Name: 비타민
Author/Artist: Yeo Ho Kyoung
Status: 16 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 1998
Genre: Comedy | Romance | Shoujo
Description:
Hana's a high school girl with a life that's only composed of one catastrophe after another. Her bad luck is only matched by her even worse temper and oversized ego. Tagging along are her best friend Sua and the poor victim Jiyong for some of the funniest misunderstandings and catastrophes.

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Delinquent Lesson

Description:
From Esthétique:

A teacher's pet and a model student, Young-Won Lee, at this important time right before the college entrance exam, feels her heart beating faster toward a delinquent... When she can't get a reasonable answer from books, she follows the philosophy that after being lovers for 3 months, the love hormone that confuses the lover disappears. Thus, she decides to show her interest to the delinquent-!! What did you say? You hate nerds like me? Just wait, Haru Kang! I'll become a hot, flashy babe and make you fall for me!

Title: Delinquent Lesson
Associated Names:
날라리 수업
Lớp học đặc biệt
The Delinquent Lesson
Author: Yeon Doo
Artist: KIM Ye Vin
Genre: Comedy | Romance | School Life | Shoujo
Status: 5 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 2006

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Kanna-san Daiseikou desu!

Kanna-san Daiseikou desu!
Associated Names: 미녀는 괴로워; 美女는 괴로워; Kanna Daiseikō Desu!; Kanna-san Daiseikou desu
Author/Artist: SUZUKI Yumiko
Status: 5 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 1997
Genre: Comedy | Josei
Description:

Kanna wanted respect and to become a superstar, so she did plastic surgery on her whole body.
This manga was adapted into a Kdrama in 2006: 200 Pounds Beauty

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Download Korean Version: volume 1-5 (end)

KATANA

KATANA
Author/Artist: KAMATA Kimiko
Status: 7 Volumes (Ongoing)
Year: 2006
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Josei | Slice of Life | Supernatural
Description:

A unique owner with an unusual talent, a boy is able to see the Katana's true form! Behold the strange tales of a sword-sharpening master!

Read English Scans Online: [link]
Download Japanese Raws: volume 1-5 | volume 6
volume 6 is password-protected but unfortunately I don't have the password for it :(

Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu!

Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu!
Related Series: Shin Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu! (Sequel)
Associated Name: 미녀를 누가 말려!
Author/Artist: SUZUKI Yumiko
Status: 7 Volumes (Complete) /4 Volumes (Bunko)
Year: 1988
Genre: Josei
Description:
Shiratori Reiko is a beauty who strongly believes that she is even more beautiful than roses. Of her high school days, she received a confession from Tetsuya whom she loved, however, according to the truth "A pretty woman must play hard to get", she practiced it and thus, nothing happened between them. Thereafter an opportunity to take revenge has finally come to Reiko. She attends the same college with Tetsuya as an auditor, pretends as it is by accident and approaches him.
Reiko believed that if she would give him one more chance, they would become lovers, but Tetsuya has sadly ignored her . Furthermore, Reiko gets a deep shock while seeing Kyoko, her classmate who induced her to refuse Tetsuya's confession, is sleeping with Tetsuya in his room. A selfish soul wants to be loved more than anyone else, comically demonstrated through the powerful Venus Reiko.

Download Korean Version: volume 1 | volume 2 | volume 3 | volume 4 | volume 5 | volume 6 | volume 7 (end)

Konoyo Ibun

Description:
In the immediate family of the story's protagonist everyone seems to die early, and other relatives talk about a curse. When soon after his grandfather's death he comes down with an incurable disease, and is overwhelmed by grief and loneliness, in desperation he remembers his grandfather's last words -- that somebody was watching over them. He can only find an odd fossil tooth where his grandfather had pointed, but when he picks it up and accidentally gets some of his blood on it, that summons a guardian spirit, who promises to cure him. Maybe he should be pleased, but said guardian has some strange methods for healing.

Title: Konoyo Ibun
Associated Names:
この世 異聞 其ノ四
この世異聞
現世異聞
A Strange and Mystifying Story
Kono Yo Ibun
My Demon & me (French)
My Demon and me (French)
Strange & Mystifying Story
Author/Artist: SUZUKI Tsuta
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Supernatural | Yaoi
Status: 4 Volumes (Ongoing)
Year: 2005

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Download Japanese Raws: volume 2 | volume 3

Cat, Taming the Master

Cat, Taming the Master
Author/Artist: HAN Yu Rang
Status: 12 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 2010
Genre: Comedy | Romance | Shoujo
Description:
A cat went in the hot-tempered KANG Jae-Young's villa.
Forbid approach to my room and my library.
Things must be always in place.
I hate messy things and clamor.
Just follow the rules!
Darn! >v< I won't be daunted. It's not like that I want to live passively and say no other words but "meow meow". Seems to be acting modestly, and all of a sudden extrudes the claws while sounding "Grr.." like a wild cat. Kya~! Now can love be formed?!! Let's wait and see. The vicissitudinous cohabitation diary~

Download Korean Raws: volume 1 | volume 2 | volume 3 | volume 4 | volume 5 | volume 6 | volume 7 | volume 8 | volume 9 | volume 10 | volume 11 | volume 12 (end)

Lingerie

Description:

The series is set in a more historical Korean setting but is about lingerie designers. It helps to have one of the designers be a hot guy.

Title: Lingerie
Associated Names:
蘭製里
란제리
란제리 - 꽃을 만드는 마을
Lingerie: A Town of Creating Flowers
Ranjeri - A Flower Making Town
Story&Art: SEO Yoon Young
Genre: Fantasy | Historical | Romance | Shoujo
Status: 7 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 2008

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Psychedelic Ambient Mix Download - PsyAmb 36

Here is a bit of a treat for all you old schoolers. Today's mix is made up of some classic mid to late nineties goa-ambient tunes. I quite like this mix because the artists involved are perhaps more well known for their trance tunes played out on the dance floors. These guys were pushing the boundaries back then. The whole psychedelic ambient scene surrounding the parties was full of invention, spiritual intent and a dash of tounge in cheek.

First up is a tune from the mighty "The Infinity Project". "Raja Ram", a trained jazz flautist and member of the 1960’s band Quintessence, formed The Infinity Project in 1989 along with "Graham Wood". In December of that year they organised their first party and played their first primitive tracks. Over the next few years The Infinity Project started releasing their first material on labels such as "Fabulous" and "Dragonfly Records". Then in 1994, Raja and Graham , along with "Ian St. Paul", formed the legendary Goa Trance label "TIP Records".

"Simon Posford", although not a full member of The Infinity Project has co-produced/engineered many of their tracks, and has a long-standing friendship and musical partnership with Raja Ram., most notably in their "Shpongle" project Other collaborators include "Martin Freeland" and "Nick Barber". By 1998 The Infinity Project had split-up, with Raja Ram and Graham Wood concentrating on their other projects. If you would like to read more about what Raja was up to back in the day then follow this "link" for a nice little interview with Raja conducted by "Michael Gosney".

After T.I.P is another almighty group of goa trance legends - the Italian wizards "Etnica". Max Lanfranconi, Maurizio Begotti, Carlo Paterno and Andrea Rizzo met during various parties in Italy at the end of the 1980s. Together they started to compose music in the early 90s. Max was also famous in Milan for the organization of the large all night parties, the first official parties in Italy to last until the morning lights. Andrea had a solid classical music background that combined with the melodies of Carlo and Maurizio's sense of arrangement would soon lead to the production of some of the most classic goa trance tracks ever produced.

Their first EP was published on the "Brainstorm" label in 1994. Their first album, "The Juggling Alchemists Under The Black Light", was out the same year on the German label "High Society". This helped the band build a solid reputation in the goa trance scene. Their second album, the classic "Alien Protein", was released in 1996 on "Blue Room Released".

Later Carlo had the idea of launching a more psychedelic trance oriented side project, "Pleiadians". Starting off with an EP on "Symbiosis Records" in 1995, they have thus far produced three albums. Even now Pleiadians often rank in the top 5 of all time best goa trance acts. The guys also had another side project in 1997, "Crop Circles", that was a collaboration with another Italian band, "Lotus Omega".

In 1999 the band changed their sound, intent on following the worldwide trend from goa-trance to what would become known as psy-trance. Their fourth album, "Nitrox" (2001) is the result of this evolution and worked really well on the dance-floors at the time of release. The following album, "Chrome" (2002) displayed a further development in sound production and clarity and was so successful that they released two versions, one for Europe and one for Japan. Actually , speaking to people around Japan I get a sense that Etnica are perhaps bigger here than in Europe ! Their sixth Etnica album "Sharp" (2004) was liked by old time fans too as it featured a return of melodies but still showed a crystal clear and professional production. In 2006 a seventh album was released, featuring all their best hits remixed by the most famous psytrance producers of the millennium. This one was highly acclaimed by every fan worldwide. The Pleiadians project was relaunched in 2006 with the release of a third opus, an album called "Seven Sisters", that delivered many sci-fi oriented tracks, released on "Harmonia Records". Etnica are still active in the scene and performing DJ sets and Live sets all around the world.

Next is "Optic Eye"/"Optica", one of the groups to get a start in the very early 90s on "Kinetix Records". If you weren't around back then you might know Optica's more prolific member "Jake Stephenson" from one of his many other groups/aliases. Jake was known for running the Kinetix label, but also for making music as Shamanic Tribes On Acid, Alien Mutation, Dr. Psychedelic, Mantra, Crystal Moon (together with Ishq), Bass Meditation, Mind Control, Eyetek, Whitestar and off course Optica and Optic Eye. Jake tragically died back in 2005 at the age of 42, right after he had completed the excellent "Paradise & Tranquility" album.

After Optic Eye we have another early goa heavy hitter in "Electric Universe" ( aka Boris Blenn ). The project was founded in 1991 in Hamburg, Germany. Being inspired by the first big "Voov Experience" party, some of Boris' first psytrance orientated tracks found their way to "DJ Antaro", who had just started his label "Spirit Zone". The Electric Universe "Solar Energy" maxi single was the second release on Spirit Zone. It turned out to be a big hit and set the ground for the first album "One Love" in 1994. 1997 was the year of the "Stardiver" album, with the monster "Online Information", which blew away the dance floors everywhere. In 1999 "Roland Wedig" joined Electric Universe and the result of the first cooperation was the track "Meteor" on the "Blue Planet" album. This kicking tune, with its expressive guitar lines was played at practically every party for well over a year and probably is the most often played guitar driven psytrance tune of all time. In 2004 “Cosmic Experience” was released including the "The Prayer" track, with its memorable Indian chanting vocals. After Spirit Zone Records closing in 2005 the album was the last one in more than ten years of cooperation with Antaro's label.

His chill project "Galaxy" had its first two releases on Blue Room. The third Galaxy album "Science of Ecstasy", released on "Chillcode" in 2005, got No. 1 in the Official German Chill Out Charts. A further Galaxy albumn, "Everlasting Tone", was released just last September. I'm a big fan of the Galaxy sound and recommend checking it out if you enjoy spacey ambient psychedelic music.

Okay next up is one of my favorite groups from the later half of the 90's - "Saafi Brothers". My first experience of S.B was probably back around 1996-7. I walked into a local trance music importer shop where they had this kind of glass sculpture display case full of various , err , mind expanding paraphernalia. Inside therein lay , next to some distinctly non musical related goodies , a copy of the newly minted CD "Mystic Cigarettes". One look at the cover and I just knew I had to have it. It didn't disappoint. It was, from start to finish, some of the most amazing music I had ever listened to up to that point in my life. Sadly, the same couldn't be same for what came from S.B thereafter. The follow up album "Midnight's Children" , although good ( especially the track "Wellness Farm" ) , I felt it did not quite live it up to the trip delivered from their debut. The third and fourth CD I didn't bother with at all. I think it was a case of the guys being together and in the right headspace at the right time with their first release.

Sliding in next is "Transwave", a goa trance act composed of titans Christophe Drouillet ( "Absolum" ) and Frederic Holyszewski ( "Deedrah" ). Christophe and Frederic met at a French rave party and subsequently formed the psychedelic trance act Transwave in September 1994. Three months later, the first Transwave release "Datura EP" was launched on the small French label, "Transpact". Over the following two years, Transwave released three albums - "Hypnorhythm" 1995, "Helium" 1996 and "Phototropic" 1996 and toured around the world, experiencing great success in the psychedelic trance underground and scoring an international trance hit with their track, "Land of Freedom". The group split in May 1997.

Christophe and Frederic also released an EP called "Anjuna" under the name "Kaledoid" in 1996. In 2007, with talk of reforming the group, a kind of best of compilation, "Backfire", was released on "3D Vision" ( Christophe's own label ). It would actually take until 2009 for them to release the long awaited CD full of new material. If I remember right, it wasn't actually that full of new material anyway and bit of a disappointment in that the new tracks simply sounded like a mix of their respective solo projects they created after the initial breakup.

Now this next tune is a bit of a departure from the early goa ambient sound but I put it in here as a bit of a lesson regarding the formation of the new "psytrance" sound that came about around the late 1990's. In many a pundits opinion German trance act "X-Dream" were responsible for the creation of what is now known as psytrance with the release of their album "Radio" in 1998.


I'm not sure I agree with that but that this album certainly gave goa-trance a hefty kick to the side lines. The Radio album became immensely popular rather quickly and sold out all the printed copies. It featured a totally new kind of sound which was yet unexplored in the genre. Instead of the complex melodies familiar in prior goa trance releases it featured a more industrial, darker, feel where the melody would become apparent only after several listens. Basslines were more to the fore, the sound was sculptured rather than layered and in a big wide open outdoor dancefield it blew everyone's freaking brains out ! Have a listen to the track in this mix, although it still ambient you can definitely hear the dark edginess and early makings of what was to later come from the psychedelic trance scene.

"Jaia" is the progressive house / trance / ambient project of the French producer Yannis Kamarinos. After learning musical theory for a number of years, he played piano and keyboards in some rock bands and produced his first trance tracks back in 1992. In 1995 he formed Jaia with "Jean-Michel Blanchet" and they released their first tracks on "Fairway Records". The first Jaia album “Blue Energy” was released in 1998 and re-released in 2000 as a double CD with a 6 tracks bonus CD under the name of "Blue Energy/Blue Synergy" ( "Dakini/Yellow Feather" ). Jaia released several 12 inches too , as well as numerous tracks on various compilations. Since 2000 Yannis has been working alone under the Jaia name. He released the album "Fiction" on "Digital Structures" in 2005, which fused psychedelic sounds with fat atmospheric progressive trance and house. In 2009 his 3rd album "Re:Works" came out on "Tribal Vision", containing brand new remixes of Jaia's biggest hits by such outstanding and diverse remixers as Martin Roth and Vibrasphere . However it is the debut "Blue Energy" CD for which Jaia is most loved. With tracks like "Mai Mai" and "After the Rain" it remains an emotion filled goatrance classic.

Guitars in trance music while somewhat passe now, was a relatively new thing in the late 90s and one group at the forefront of that idea was "S.U.N Project". In fact they were so successful at it that they became a bit typecast for it. I think that is not entirely fair though as apart from being rather skilled at catchy guitar hooks they were also exceptional producers and created some of the funkiest psytrance basslines going around. This tune is one of their rarer ambient outings and can be found on their debut release "Drospophila" on "Spirit Zone Recordings".


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• 01. Another Planet - The Infinity Project
• 02. Be on go - Etnica 10:03
• 03. Wobbling In Space - Optic Eye
• 04. Visiting Venus - Electric Universe
• 05. Supervision - Saafi Brothers
• 06. Ulysse Voyage No 3 - Transwave
• 07. Out Of Your Control - X-Dream
• 08. Sommeil Paradoxal - Jaia
• 09. Going With the Flow - S.U.N. Project

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Doll's Requiem

Description:

From Shiro Nabi:



Lee Woo-hee was kidnapped and found under a plum tree with a faint memory of a man telling her, "I promise you that until the day we meet again, you will be reborn." After that incident, her father became protective and would only allow her to go from the house to the plum tree she loved. However, she would be allowed to venture into the village on the day of the new moon. One such day she meets a exorcist that warns her of a man dressed in black. Will she take this warning to heart? Or is it already too late...?



Title: Song of the Doll

Associated Names:

인형歌

인형가

Doll Song

Doll's Requiem

Story & Art: LEE Sun-Young

Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Historical | Mystery | Romance | Shoujo

Status: 3 Volumes (Ongoing)

Year: 2010



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Mary Stayed Out All Night

Mary Stayed Out All Night
Associated Names: 瑪麗外宿中; Maeri Neun Oebak Joong
Author/Artist: Won Soo Yeon
Status: 4 Volumes, 132 Chapters (Ongoing)
Year: 2009
Genre: Romance | Shoujo
Summary: Ui Mae-Ri, who has not dated for a long time, meets a death metal group's vocalist and begins a relationship with him. However, a perfect man interferes in their relationship...

This was originally a webcomic that was then complied and published in print form (don't know the publisher though). It will also be adapted into a KDrama under the same name in November 2010.

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Korean Raws: "Nakigao ni Kiss"

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From Night Constellations:
I'm Narazaki Eori who is famous as a crybaby. I'm 17. This is the first time I fall in love and I'm being stuck with it. When I look at my beloved Yuusuke, sometimes I daydream(?!) cry and smile.
Eori is too busy for love. Lovey-dovey but in this love which is full of unpredictable things, you have risked your life, Eori!

Title: Nakigao ni Kiss
Associated Names:
愛哭鬼的初戀
泣き顔にKISS
爱哭鬼的初恋
우는 얼굴에 KISS
A Kiss on Tearful Cheeks
Author: Tsumugi
Artist: SASAKI Yukie
Genre: Comedy | Romance | School Life | Shoujo
Status: 9 Volumes (Complete)
Year: 2007

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Video : Pitch Black Interview

Here is a two part interview with New Zealand's dub techno ambient wizards "Pitch Black". Try to catch them live ( outdoors ) if you can - one of the best shows I've ever experienced.

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Teen Spirit

Teen Spirit
Author(s): KIM Jea-Eun
Status: 2 Volumes (Ongoing)
Year: 2009
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama | Romance | Shoujo
Summary: [From Eclipse Scans]:

Hwee Kang is in a band with all his friends and is recruited by a well known company called JBL, because they all have the looks of a star there are high expectations. During the audition, what surprise did they give everyone and what will Hwee Kang do?

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Korean Raws: "Tokyo Alice"

Description:
From Antebellum Scanlations:
She is more crazy about shopping than finding love. There are so many things that she desires, but she has yet to find what she's looking for.

Title: Tokyo Alice
Associated Names:
东京爱丽丝
東京アリス
東京アリス －ふうのお買い物日記－
도쿄 앨리스
Author & Artist: CHIYA Toriko
Genre: Comedy| Drama | Josei | Romance | Smut
Status: 7 Volumes (Ongoing)
Year: 2006

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