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New Manga Read - I Wanna Be Your Girl (Volume 4 - Final Volume)

Wow. Finished I Wanna Be Your Girl this past weekend. It ended well, but I have feelings and thoughts.

First, for those who don't know, the basic premise begins as the story of longtime friends Hime and Akira. Akira came out to her best friend Hime as trans and decided in high school to live outwardly as a trans-girl. This follows the two of them in high school and how Hime handles realizing that she has a crush on Akira. That's where it starts.

The final volume deals with some aftermath of Volume 3, it deals with Hime finally grappling with her feelings and saying these things out loud, it deals with Akira really becoming more comfortable in herself, and does two sets of flash forwards that I think are well done overall. The first flash forward is to the group of friends graduating, the second is well into adulthood as they all come together for Yukka's marriage to her girlfriend.

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New Manga Read - Soseki Natsume's I Am A Cat

I Am A Cat is an early 20th century satirical novel by Soseki Natsume, mocking the upper middle class in Japan at the time by telling the story of a stray cat who ends up living in the home of an English teacher who lives with his wife, kids, and mistress.

It's largely the teacher speaking sarcastically with his friends and former students with the cat listening and largely mocking them, as they speak about the pointlessness of life and how aimless things are.

This is a manga adaptation of said story.

As noted earlier, the story is told through the perspective of a very sarcastic, unnamed stray cat who largely listens and mocks the humans. The story ends with the cat getting drunk. Literally.

It's witty, at times. Sad. Sexist. Very of the time with the nonchalance of a group of folks talking, thinking they are smarter then they really are.

It's an interesting adaptation of a very old novel.

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New Manga Read - Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Volume 2

After feeling uncomfortable about the age gap in Volume 1, when I saw Volume 2 at the library, I decided to give it another shot.

It's cute. It's a slow burn, pun intentional. It's still weird, to me, the strange obsession with our female lead in cashier mode.

But, it's well written, love the art, and the characters are engaging.

So, even as I find the age gap dynamic a little odd and unsettling, I still enjoyed the second volume.

We'll see if I read 3.

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The individual stories are sometimes interesting, sometimes...too much. One story is set in South Africa in the 70s and the portrayal of Black people is so very racist.

There's also a multi-chapter story arc about a Bird Jesus who tries to spread his message that the birds had become too much like humans, which is destroying their society.

Basically, Tezuka created Planet of the Birds vs Planet of the Apes. Without one cohesive story, but with random vignettes throughout bird history.

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New Read - Tomorrow the Birds (Single Volume)

I am going to name a few things present in Tomorrow the Birds (written 1971-1975) before going into my review...cause they're important to note: Violence, rape, Bird Jesus, murder, racism.

Now, with the out of the way, let's talk.

Tomorrow the Birds is a series of vignettes beginning in the 1970s where birds are given higher intellect and take over the planet as the dominant species, knocking out humanity.

Some stories are self-contained, some build on each other. But they start with bird takeover and go to advanced bird society over time.

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New Manga Read - Bomba!

Legendary manga creator Osamu Tezuka wrote the single volume story Bomba! in 1970. It's...a giant trigger warning.

The story involves an abused teenage boy who becomes obsessed with his middle school teacher and summons the ghost of a horse (Bomba) from his father's days in the Japanese military during World War II to kill those he hates.

When he realizes that he was delusional, he hates himself. Bomba comes for him...

It's a lot. Also, ghost horse murders of hundreds of people isn't really delved into as our main character learns to love himself and gets a happy ending.

Uhm...no thanks.

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Through Volume 1, it's implied they have a mutual crush. Kind of. She's 24. He's 45.

I...I dunno. That feels weird. Too weird, to me. Too much of an age gap.

Also, his weird obsession with her when she's in cashier mode creeps me out. He specifically goes only to her aisle for check out even if the line is longer. That's explicitly said in the manga.

If a 45 year old dude kept doing that to a 24 year old woman IRL, how weird would that be?

Anyway, dropping after Volume 1. No thanks.

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New Read - Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You, Volume 1

So, a lot of folks online have been reading this, apparently, so I saw Volume 1 at the library and picked it up. Also, a lot of folks I had followed on Insta (when I was there) gushed over this.

Premise: 45 year old business dude is kind of obsessed with a younger woman who checks him out at the grocery store. Another woman who works there (same woman, different hair style) asks to smoke with him. They chat outside while smoking together. He doesn't realize they're the same person.

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