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i don't know.. sad neutral but am i the only one who thinks that arina-sensei's works have gotten weird after it reaches a climax?
i loved full moon in the beginning, but it just got weird when she found out that eichi's dead and all.. ;.;
kyoko was abruptly fast-forwarded through...
kkj wasn't all that bad.. but it turned out better than the crappy ending in the anime...


i'm liking cross now but, i SO hope that she doesn't take it over the edge again and end is like ts did or take the turn full moon did --;;;

I thought that Eichi being dead was pretty predictable, myself. I don't think the story gets "weird" after you find out, though. You don't find out at the climax, anyway, you find out in the middle of the series. 3nodding But I would agree that Full Moon is not Arinacchi's best work.

I believe Time Stranger Kyoko was supposed to be longer, but it wasn't doing so well, so Arina's editor had her shorten it. A lot of fans agree that the story does seem really rushed. I'm not sure if I agree or not. It did have great potential, but the ending was good, too. I guess it might have worked better as a longer series.

The KKJ anime thing is kind of irrelevant because Arina didn't have any sway over that. She just created the manga. 3nodding I haven't seen the anime, so I can't really comment on it, but I guess it wasn't a very well liked show. I do think that the manga had a good ending, though.

Wow, talking about all this makes me realize that it's been a long time since I read all the series all the way through. Maybe I should do that again soon! xd

fullmoon did get weird...but i still luff it! xd heart

I don't think the mangas became weird. I like the way FMwS ended. Time Stranger Kyoko was a bit short, but still, the characters were awesome and I really enjoyed the plot. I've only read uptil Chap. 20 in SDC, but I like it, even though it confuses me a little. >w<

I didn't find Full Moon to be weird after they found out about Eichi's death. For a volume or two, though, it did kind of spiral downwards into this odd sense of depression, but then it came back out into the light, and that's what I liked about the series.

I actually agree. After a while everything gets messy and nothing seems like it used to be. TSK ended quickly because Arina didn't want to do it anymore, or something... I don't exactly remember, but it says something like that in one of the volumes. "It's just gonna be 3 volumes"-ish.
All her stories seem to end well in one way or another. I'm currently reading KKJ and I think I'm at the point where it starts being... "weird"... like that... ("Eh? Fin being evil? O_O")
Well, Arina tends to make a point of the story where everything changes.

Agreed - I was ready to stop reading after Mitsuki became seriously emo after Taukto and company found out that she knew Eichi was dead. It was getting ridiculous and I wanted to slap her. But in vol. 5 (I think) she's finally learning to live again, and be happy, get on with her life. Angsty Mitsuki just sucks and is annoying and makes the manga annoying. Happy Mitsuki is good whee

Unpredictable is good! A predictable story is boring.