Ima, ai ni Yukimasu
“Another romantic best seller that spawned movie and manga spin-offs was “Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu (I’m Coming to Meet You Now)” by Takuji Ichikawa in which a dead wife returns to her husband and young son for a brief six weeks.” ~ Japan Times (friday, Dec. 17, 2004)
I’m really not the kind of person who reads shoujou or even enjoys shoujou, but I must admit that this book was AMAZING! Of course, I read it in a translated version so I’m sure a bit of the power that was in the original language was lost (it always is *sigh* )
Anyway, I have this thing for novels that have been translated from Japanese into English (and bookstores always place them with the Manga, so there’s no effort looking for them) I found it and (as with most books) bought it without even really looking at the cover art (actually some of the best books I read end up being found using this amazing method of mine… of course the books I actually search out are no where near as good in comparison … T_T why? ) anyways I picked it up bought it and of course it had to be the most expensive thing I bought. Unlike my NHK book which was the cheapest when I bought that. But I finished my Battle Royale book and for whatever reason I just couldn’t get into my Blood: The Last Vampire book so I thought, why not look at the first few pages of ‘Be With You’ (Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu is the Japanese title) and next thing I knew I was on page 32 and didn’t even realize it. I must say I have never finished a book so fast. And when you go back and analyze what you read, it really isn’t all that interesting afterward, but when you’re reading it , it’s amazing. Mio is a fascinating character by far and I don’t think you really appreciate that until the end at the letter. For a second I found the movie and it came with Mio’s Diary and other trinkets from the movie… I lost the link to it T_T it’s okay though, it was a region 3 DVD Hong Kong Version, chances are it didn’t have English Subtitles and even though I’d know what was going on, if anything was different from the book (and there are high chances there are) my Japanese isn’t good enough to understand it (my guess, I’ve been wrong before and my Japanese has helped… but I need to study it more ..)
Anyway, I’ve been getting more and more into these novel things… I guess I’m going through a novel crazy (like I did when I was younger…) I just found a bunch on Amazon.com that look cool.
Top Priorities:
Calling You by Otsu-ichi
Chain Mail Addicted to You by Hiroshi Ishizaki
Train Man: The Novel by Hitori Nakano
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex: The Lost Memory by Junichi Fujisaku & Camellia Nieh
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex: Revenge of the Cold Machines by Junichi Fujisaku & Camellia Nieh
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex: White Maze by Junichi Fujisaku & Camellia Nieh
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Of Course the Ghost in the Shell is highly influenced by me liking the music that Kanno-sama composed for the series (which is definitely not a reason to go buy a book but still…)
Train Man, I’ve heard so much hype about Densha Otoko (Densha = Train ; Otoko = Man) and it seems interesting enough, so I figured… why not?
Chain Mail Addicted To You… um…. the art reminds me alot of “Jisatsu SAKURU” (Aka Suicide Club) a great movie btw. The story seems pretty interesting and has that ‘Boogiepop’ character view going on…so yeah 
Calling You is just enough philosophical thing, much like Boogiepop Phantom, or SEL (Serial Experiments Lain) and probably some of the other ‘crap’ in my room (as my mom would call it)
Bwahaha… now all I need is money… (I blew alot of it at the bookstore buying other books that caught my eye…and no I haven’t read most of them…)
