Our heroine, Haruna's only real goal in high-school is to get a boyfriend. After spending all of her junior high life playing softball, she's rather clueless, and approaches one of the most popular boys, Yoh, to coach her. His one condition is that she not fall for him, which is pretty much hopeless from day 1.

 Over the course of time, Yoh introduces her to multiple boys, and fails to keep her in a relationship for any length of time. Slowly, Haruna begins to realize just who she's really in love with and who she'd rather go out with. After firing Yoh as her trainer, and continually ducking him, she finally confeses her feelings for Yoh.

 He goes out with Haruna and her exuberance and lack of experience leads to many small tiffs and  problems, including a fight in which she and Yoh don't speak for days, not wanting to be the one to apologize. However

While High School Debut is highly popular and has a cute story line, the haplessness of Haruna gets rather annoying over time, as does the subtle jealousy of Asa, and Yoh's own aura of angst starts to get on one's nerves.  But, it has considerable merit, and is a nice quick read, only 13 volumes.  If you find it hard to take Haruna, think of her as a female Tamaki ( Ouran High School Host Club), it helps.

 Live action filming for High School Debut started in October of 2010, and is scheduled to hit theaters in spring 2011. Mizobuta Junpei and Ohno Ito will star.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_Debut

Yuuichi Aizawa is a normal high school boy, coming back to live with his aunt and cousin after ten years of being away.

Is it just me or is there  something wrong with him and the town he lives in?He can't remember much of anything, his aunt makes a secret, and weird, jam only she knows how to make, he constantly gets hugged and attacked by various girls claiming to know him, hate him, bear grudges, or just want him to pay for their food. And at least one of them is packing a sword, claiming to be a demon hunter.

A remake of the original, published in 2002, this version was published in 2006, either way Kanon is a interesting, beautifully drawn, and adorable story.

Character Summaries:
Mai: Mai is a quiet third year who carries a sword and claims to be a demon hunter, only, she's the only one who can see the demon, and it only is at the school at night.  Her only friends to start with are Sayuri, who doesn't seem to know about the sword, and Yuuichi.


Shiori was born ill, and appears 1st under a tree covered in snow. She comes to stand outside the school where she, and Yuuichi, Mai, and Nayuki go to school, and talks to Yuuichi there, refusing to give her last name.She has a weird dream to build a ten meter tall snowman....



Ayu, appearing here on the original game cover, is a happy girl who knew Yuuichi when he 1st came to this town. She has a fondness for taiyaki, and is very forgetful.She always wears the same jacket.
Always saying Uguu...Can't stand scary movies.

Very klutzy.

Nayuki is Yuuichi's cousin, and is the captain of the track team. She collects alarm clocks, and still has problems waking up. She's very sweet, and relives what people tell her.
She's allergic to cats, but has a fondness for them....






Matoko has a passion for eating and has a dislike of  Yuuichi. The 1st time she appears, she hits and kicks him, then passes out and is taken back to his aunts home. When she wakes, she has no idea who she is. There she remains, constantly trying to hurt him, be it fire crackers or ice down his back. Instead of breaking out like Nayuki, when the Siamese cat comes, Matoko is afraid at 1st, and only picks it up after she is promised a pork bun. Then cat steals her pork bun. Matoko drop the cat over the side of a bridge, and it rides away on the top of a car, however Yuuichi starts berating her and she runs away crying only to disappear for hours. When she is found, on top of Monomi Hill, she is with the cat eating a pork bun. "We're the same, both nuisances with nowhere to go."It turns out her loss of memory was caused because she was a kitsune who fell in love with Yuuichi many years ago, and when he returned, traded her life and memory to be with
him again. She slowly dies, completly unaware of what is happening.
Phrase= Auu....

 Episode information:

 - in the 2006 version, there are 24 episodes, all available on WAO
 - each is about 22 minutes long, counting title song, and ending song.
Opening Song:





And the prize question for Kanon.... WHAT IS IN THAT JAM?!?!?!

The 1st season ended after thirteen fabulous episodes, and then continues on, with another thirteen.  Tomoharu   learns that the more he uses Kurogane the less time he can keep Misao alive and have a second chance to save her. ( His 1st chance was when he made her into a burial doll so she wouldn't die, now, maybe he can save her again?)

While on a class trip, Kagakagari hijacks the
plane the seniors are on, and the 1st and 3rd councils must work together to save the students and plane staff.  When the fight is over, tears will be shed all around, the characters, the voice actors, and even you- Aine, the sweet burial doll for Reishiro. She sacrifices the last of her dwindling life force to make a runway of ice for the plane and her cousins - Reishiro and Reiko- to land on.
                         
                                                                                                                         
 ( Kristina Fortuna)

The tentative romance between Tomoharu and Takatsuki continues as the urgency for her to find a contractor strengthens after  the death of Kristina Fortuna, Nia's big sister.  In episode four, the group finds ruins on a deserted island, and Satomi kidnaps little Nia and draws Kristina and  Kagakagari out into the open, attacks and in this battle, both Kristina and Kagakagari's burial doll, Kotori die in the fight. Some of Kristina's last words are for her sister, telling Tomoharu to tell Nia that she was reckless, but she was happy.  In fact, her last strength is used freeing her sister from a Casta Machina. Then, she and her demon-daughter Ingrid, contractor Kagakagari, melt away. Having also lost Kotori in the fight he has nothing left for him to fight for and gives Nia a disc drive containing all of her sisters research.


I've left out some other surprises, just in case you decide to watch this anime, but, like all anime and manga, it's a hit-and-miss proposition. Have a good day!
http://www.watchanimeon.com/anime/asura-cryin/
-Kisa

Misa from death note has a very interesting story as to how and why she became the possessor of the second death note.

Once there was a death god named Jealous and he fell in love with a girl on earth. He watched her constantly day and night. One day she was young and healthy, but it came to his attention that she was at the end of her life span, he watched in horror with Rem, Misa's  death god.A man stepped out in front of her as she was walking down an alley at night. Though she had never seen him before, he confessed undying love to her and she naturally turned him down. Enraged, he ran at her with a knife, intending to kill her and himself. Frantic, Jealous used the death note for the one thing it was never meant for, to save a human life. He killed her attacker and the Jealous became something similar to ash, leaving only his death note behind. His life span was given to her so she could live on. Later after meeting Rem, she does the eye deal, and cuts that life span in half.

Her adoration for Light comes partly from the fact that he killed he man who killed her parents before eyes when she was very young. She had been angered the time it took him to come to trial. Light however thought of her only as a bad person who killed innocents when she made herself known to the world. Hence the deaths of  several TV newscasters.

She was born on Dec. 25, 1984 in Kyoto, blood type AB, height 152 cm, weight 79 pounds. She is a Jpop star, and model. Dress normally Gothic Lolita.  Above: actress Erika Toda,playing Misa in the movies, and anime version left. (Cover of book 4)