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Title: Ai Hime ~ Ai to Himegoto
(Love Princess ~ Love and Secret)
Author: MITSUKI Kaco
ISBN# 4-09-130563-6
Flower Comics, 2006

I admit, I originally bought the first two volumes of this series completely at random because it was on sale :) What can I say, I can’t resist cheap manga! However, I am happy I picked it up, because it is just the sort of fun, cheezy shoujo manga story that I like :) This is a ‘forbidden love’ kind of series, with a lot that is not at all original, but it pushes all my ‘common shoujo manga plot device’ buttons, so I can’t help but like it. This series is 3 volumes long.

This is the story of high school student Mao-chan. She is an average, cheerful school girl, but she is stuck with parents who are always busy with work. One day, Mao is wandering around, furstrated and annoyed at her parents for cancelling a meal she was supposed to go have with them. Wandering around with nothing to do, she stumbles across a handsome man sleeping under a tree. He looks very peaceful, and Mao can’t get over how handsome he is. She leans a bit too close, and is face to face with him when he suddenly wakes up and grabs her hand asks her who she is. Mao manages to escape, but then a gust of wind blows her hat off her head and into a tree. Mao manages to get herself stuck in the tree trying to retrieve it, and needs the man’s help in getting down. He seems extremely amused by her and the situation, but there is also an intensity in his gaze that suggests he is attracted to her. The notion seems to be confirmed when he helps Mao from the tree and pulls her into his arms for a kiss. Mao is dazzled by this man and can’t stop thinking about that kiss for a long time afterwards. She belatedly realizes that she never even got his name…

Mao’s parents are about to go on another business trip, and they have decided that she will not be staying home by herself while they are gone. They don’t like the idea of Mao, being female and a minor, beling left all alone. Therefore, they have decided that she will have a guardian while they are away. Her father’s younger brother Takagi Jinya, will be coming to stay with her. Mao has never met this uncle of hers, but her father likes him very much. Technically, they are not really brothers by blood- Jinya came to live with him when he was a child- but they became family, and Mao’s father expects her to treat Jinya as family as well. I think you can guess what is going to happen here….

When her family has an introductory meeting with Jinya, Mao is stunned to discover he is the same stranger she met under the tree that day! Looking handsome and mature in his suit and swept-back hair, Mao almost can’t believe it’s the same person, but there is no mistaking that voice. Jinya shows no expression when introduced, and makes no indication that he knows her. Could she be imagining things? But the return of the intensity of his eyes soon convinces her that he remembers. Oh, what a situation! Mao and Jinya will be living together! Her parents meant well, but they really could have no idea what poor judgement they have! This is similar to the situation in Otona Pink. How can Mao live with this man! Will they pretend nothing ever happened? He is so much older than her, and he is her UNCLE! Sure, they aren’t related by blood, but they are nevertheless supposed to be “family”. He seems so cold now, perhaps he doesn’t like her after all?

Mao’s dangerous cohabitation situation has just begun!

This is not a test - just a phenomenon. All readings are explained.

Read out loud the text inside the triangle below.





More than likely you said, "A bird in the bush," and.......
if this IS what YOU said, then you failed to see
that the word THE is repeated twice!
Sorry, look again..

Next, let's play with some words.

What do you see?



In black you can read the word GOOD, in white the word EVIL (inside each black letter is a white letter). It's all very physiological too, because it visualizes the concept that good can't exist without evil (or the absence of good is evil ).

Now, what do you see?




You may not see it at first, but the white spaces read the word optical, the blue landscape reads the word illusion. Look again! Can you see why this painting is called an optical illusion?



What do you see here?




This one is quite tricky!

The word TEACH reflects as LEARN.

Last one.

What do you see?






You probably read the word ME in brown, but.......

when you look through ME you will see YOU!

Do you need to look again?

Test Your Brain
This is really cool. The second one is amazing so please read all the way though.





ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST

Count every "F" in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

(SEE BELOW)

HOW MANY ?

WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke.
READ IT AGAIN !
Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F's before you scroll down.

The reasoning behind is further down.

The brain cannot process "OF".


Incredible or what? Go back and look again!!

Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius.


Three is normal, four is quite rare.
Send this to your friends.
It will drive them crazy.!
And keep them occupied
For several minutes..!



More Brain Stuff . . . From Cambridge University.

O lny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.


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phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,

it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if
you can raed tihs psas it on !!