MORE Hyakujitsu no bara (Maiden Rose)

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Initially, I was rather hesitant to listen to it. On the one hand, I didn't really want to because the first volume is full of sex, but on the other I was curious about how both of these veterans would sound:

Taki: Chiba Susumu
Klaus: Inoue Kazuhiko

In the end I did listen, and....Well, I can say that this was one of the best cd drama adaptations of a manga or novel I'd ever heard. I am not too sure about the suitability of the choices of voice actors for the roles, but they are damn good. And the narrative is tight and flows really well. They moved scenes around, added lines here and there to make things clear--clearer than even the manga at times, cut out a lot to keep the story on track. The drama, pathos, whatever effect desired of each scene is heightened at every point (well, i don't know about the sex scenes because I skipped them--I'll probably listen to those eventually since there's drama in them too). Seriously, my reaction can be summed up as "wow wow wow wow wow!"

Now I want this to be animated! Though I suppose I'd settle for the second volume becoming a drama CD for now. ^_~


( the fabulous and gorgeous mini-manga in the insert )

As a warning to anyone who doesn't understand Japanese, the drama doesn't follow the manga faithfully (as I had mentioned earlier). I had to flip around to find the correct scene in the manga while listening. ^^; If anyone is interested, I can provide a guide to correlate scenes between the drama and manga...