{"id":446,"date":"2009-07-02T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T05:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/02\/the-perfect-guy\/"},"modified":"2010-08-11T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T04:53:09","slug":"the-perfect-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/02\/the-perfect-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rombanner.jpg\" alt=\"romancebanner\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Day 4 of <strong><em>Romance Week<\/em><\/strong> and well, tomorrow <em>should<\/em> be the last day. Since yesterday was survival tips for the ladies, this post is for the guys!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/manga-001.jpg\" alt=\"absoluteboyfriend\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure some of you might be wondering what on earth does my book collection consist of by now. (That&#8217;s Absolute Boyfriend by Yuu Watase.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yesss. Today it is how to be the perfect guy for the girl (in books)! Besides books, yes I do have comics and manga too but hey, it&#8217;s <em>romance week<\/em>, I didn&#8217;t specify it not to include manga (Japanese comics)!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/manga-002.jpg\" alt=\"mangas\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alright, okay&#8230; I&#8217;m just staring at my books for a moment there because I have no idea how to start yet. Got it! Now, this is the list of how to be the <em>absolute boyfriend<\/em> or the guy of her dreams if you&#8217;re in a romance book\/comic.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>How to be the Perfect Guy (in romance stories)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>1) You need to be hot or irresistible<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t actually have to be really cute like woah. You just need to be attractive enough to get the attention of the girl. Eye catching like, you&#8217;re reading a book no other guy would usually read in a train (pick some interesting literature book that ISN&#8217;T part of your school syllabus or if you rescue some cats or something). That&#8217;s pretty eye catching.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>2) Use cheesy lines in abundance like you&#8217;re some pizza maker!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CHEESE. A LOT OF IT. Mind you this is in romance story, it might <em>not<\/em> work in real life. Interestingly my friend is the translator for the above books so when I ask her, she definitely feels like dying of too much cheesiness of the dialogue. So, thus don&#8217;t do this in real life unless the girl really likes it. Let me get an example for Mayu Shinjo&#8217;s Blaue Rosen. Akira is the guy (amusingly the one with the black hair that looks like a girl) and Mizuki is the girl (the guy looking blonde one in the cover).<\/p>\n<p><em>Mizuki falls in a bush of roses.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Akira: Gorgeous&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mizuki: Stop being mesmerized by the roses and do something!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Akira: Who said anything about roses?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Akira pulls her up and embraces.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Akira: I was mesmerized by <strong>you<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WAAARGH, see!!!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>3) IGNORE THE GIRL WHEN SHE&#8217;S DRESSED AS A GUY<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Or try to pretend to do so. Usually the girls are actually crossdressing as a guy to avoid detection or are trying to be hired in the same cafe as you but it&#8217;s only a male cafe! She doesn&#8217;t really look like a guy <em>guy<\/em>&#8230; She just looks like a pretty boy because she doesn&#8217;t have big boobs or something. The girls are just trying to get close to you but do not tell them that you know they <em>are<\/em> girls and just pretend everything is normal even if you wish to hug her and tell her that she&#8217;s adorable.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>4) Learn a martial art or some fighting skills!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You may not use them that often for a true man does not fight but uses his skills wisely! She&#8217;s gonna need some help. One girl can&#8217;t fight five guys and okay, normally one guy can&#8217;t fight five guys either but it helps that you can beat one up and then run away with the girl to escape! This gives you swooning points! It&#8217;s not that you can <em>fight<\/em> the people but the <strong>knowledge<\/strong> that you&#8217;re there to ALWAYS help her whenever she needs it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>5) Know what you want and don&#8217;t give up!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you like her, there&#8217;ll be LOTS of obstacles like random gangsters or a rival who wants her too. Eventually, she&#8217;ll get to you but only if there aren&#8217;t any misunderstandings. You might be caught in a kiss from another girl because said evil girl knows that the heroine is watching!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font color=\"#ff0000\">~~~<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Gee, there&#8217;s actually not that many points for guys since most of all, they need to be nice and GOOD.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/manga-003.jpg\" alt=\"rabu\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However the difficult part would be sticking with the girl since she&#8217;d have to read magazines and do quizzes to figure out that<em> yes<\/em>, she is in love. Or if in the traditional historical romances, if she is the clueless sort, she <em>will<\/em> get hints that she&#8217;s in love from her relatives\/best friend and go all <em>le shock<\/em> when she realizes it is true.<\/p>\n<p>This is normal. Give the girl time unless she&#8217;s starting to do wibbly lips or something. Make sure you get to her before she is taken\/carried\/kidnapped\/runs away though.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway tomorrow is the last day of <strong><em>Romance Week<\/em><\/strong>! We&#8217;ll be back to other stuff then. Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 4 of Romance Week and well, tomorrow should be the last day. Since yesterday was survival tips for the ladies, this post is for the guys! I&#8217;m sure some of you might be wondering what on earth does my book collection consist of by now. 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