Title: Summer War’s Part 2Purchase: Amazon / Barnes & Noble “Summer Wars” Part 2 was a lot more fun than Part 1. My husband again criticized the series for not faithfully representing the IT profession, to which I reminded him again that no one wants to see a manga about real IT work and workers because they are BORING. Again
Read moreTitle: AnotherStory: Yukito AyatsujiArt: Hiro KiyoharaUS Publisher: Yen PressISBN: 978-0316245913Purchase: Amazon / Barnes & Noble First Impressions: I couldn’t get passed the first few episodes of the anime because it was too slow, but in manga form I can follow it. Wow… does nobody notice the mass psychosis? All right, I’m going to put aside the absurdity of this curse
Read moreI did quite a bit of pleasure readying last week, so I have four books to write about now. I’ll do full reviews for two book and quick review for the other two as they are follow on volumes to series I’ve been reading on an ongoing basis. Title: Summer Wars, Part 1Artists and Story: Mamoru Hosoda and Iqura SugimotoUS
Read moreTitle: Voice Over! Seiyu AcademyArtist/Author: Maki MinamiPublisher: Viz (Shoujo Beat)ISBN: 9781421559704 Purchase: Amazon / Barnes & Noble (Also Available Digitally) Initial Impressions:I approached this skeptically because I’m tired of reading “I wanna become an idol” manga. I only picked it up because Holanio and Sora from Tumblr seemed to be really excited about it. The first chapter was lackluster, but
Read moreInitial Impressions: This is upsetting me. There’s no heart or morality in this manga. This is just a snuff manga. There’s no need for me to read past the first chapter. Breakdown —Artwork: A — It’s nice and clean. The action, violence, and emotions are very well expressed. Obviously my disgust wouldn’t be so palpable if the artwork wasn’t so
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