#mangamonday — Public Fediverse posts

#MangaMonday 68 "CITY" by Keiichi Arawi

A Keiichi Arawi #manga with an ensemble cast. Naturally, it has a lot in common with "Nichijou" (see last week) but there are also differences. The cast skews older—unsurprisingly—and it is somewhat more grounded (compared to #Nichijou, admittedly.) It also has more in the way of plot points.

An underlying theme is the interconnectedness of everyone. This becomes clearer in later volumes when we get things like the big race and the election. However, a great example happens in volume four, when various people we've seen previously turn up at a garden party. Arawi gives us a sprawling spread illustration of everyone interacting, which is impressive in itself but he then repeats it three more times with each spread acting as a panel, or a collage of panels.

Ongoing with 13 of 14 volumes in English (Vertical/Kodansha.) An #anime just started airing, but looks promising (I can't wait to see how they handle the four-spread sequence.)

#MangaMonday 67 “Nichijou” and “Helvetica Standard” by Keiichi Arawi

If Monty Python made a slice-of-life #manga, it probably would look like “Nichijou” (Everyday Life.) It follows an ensemble cast of high school students, teachers, robots, etc. as they deal with (mostly) everyday problems that take an absurd direction. Despite the bizarre setting, you’ll find the characters very relatable. Ongoing (at a reduced pace lately) with 11 volumes in English (Kodansha.)

“Helvetica Standard” is both a manga in the #Nichijou world, and a collection of Arawi’s shorter works and illustrations, some of which feature Nichijou characters. It appears to be complete, with the two volumes subtitled “Bold” and “Italic” in English. It seems to only have a print edition (Kodansha.)

An excellent #anime titled “Nichijou,” but drawing from both works, was released in 2011. It arranged things to give a through-line centered around the robot girl, Nano.

New Read - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Volume 8

Volume 8 is a collection of shorter stories of Fern, Frieren, and Stark. Various encounters, well done flashbacks, solid fight scenes. Everyone holding their own.

But the final chapter showed Denken coming back into the story and, for that, I am thrilled.

Denken is back, guys!!

Sorry.

Anyway, loved it. Looking forward to Volume 9.

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Haikyuu is one of my favorite manga series. It's an amazing sports story about high school volleyball players with an incredible time skip ending arc.

However, I'm a Dad with four kids and I can't afford the cost or space to buy all 45 volumes.

About 2 years ago, after seeing a friend get it, I picked up a copy of the Japanese language art book for Haikyuu. It's gorgeous and includes some incredible art from the manga, silly poses of our cast, and a wide assortment of full color pictures.

This gives me a nice taste of one of my favorite series' art

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#MangaMonday 19 “Sketchy” by Makihirochi (sometimes rendered Maki Hirochi)

There are #manga about skateboarding, and there are manga about thirty-something women taking stock of their lives. In the tiny sliver of Venn overlap between them, there is #Sketchy.

Everything happens because some skater girls try to rent the skateboarding drama “Lords of Dogtown”, only to find it’s out and overdue. The bored video store clerk is intrigued by the girls. She takes a class in skateboarding and then brings her co-worker along. Meanwhile, a disgraced editor discovers the DVD, left at her house by an ex. She’s touched by the movie and ends up at the same class as the other two. Along the way we get everyone’s backstory.

The actual skateboarding is like a secondary character so far. It gets a few chapters of focus (and you could learn the basics from them) but usually hovers in the background.

Complete with two of six volumes available digitally in English (Kodansha.) The third drops next week.