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#MangaMonday 126 “Billy Bat” by Naoki Urasawa with Takashi Nagasaki
Sometimes a #manga starts off looking like one thing, then reveals itself to be something else. Sometimes it does this more than once.
The first chapter is mostly a funny animal pulp crime adventure, starring Billy Bat, before revealing that the story is a #comic drawn by a Japanese-American artist in the late forties. A chance remark leads him to believe he may have inadvertently copied his main character from something he saw while working for the occupation forces in Japan. He returns to Japan to investigate and gets mixed up in… a pulp crime adventure story, with mysterious cabals and murders (and some nudity.) It seems like a neat little package, until the last panel reveals that the scope is far larger than that.
And then volume two happens, and we start jumping around history (note: even the list of characters can be spoilery.)
Complete with two of 20 volumes in English (Abrams ComicArts)
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CW: Manga Spoilers - I Wanna Be Your Girl, Ending
I liked what they did. It felt grounded, but I get folks who may complain about the ending. Spoilers ahead, so this part is put behind a spoiler.
Hime admits her feelings to Akira. Akira does not reciprocate. Also, in volume 4, we also see Akira admit that she played up having a crush on the one boy because she felt she needed to have said crush in order to feel more like a girl. That was her own internalized issues she had about gender, sexuality, etc.
The ending has Hime and Akira friends. Hime, ultimately, gets married to Hiro and Akira, we don't know how she ends up. In the big flash forward, as far as we know she's single, but it's not made explicit. However, she is the godmother of Hime and Hiro's child, which is a cute moment.
I don't know how to feel about the final ending, but overall I did enjoy the series and it handled LGBTQ+ topics well.
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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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Beach Manga Read - Donald Duck Visits Japan
I bring this on vacation every year for like the past 5 years and read it on the beach. It's one of my regular beach reads.
The story - Donald and his friends work for Duck Furniture. They want to branch out to Japan, so they send the trio to work at a hot springs resort with very traditional and strict management. And silliness ensues.
It's silly, it's self-contained, it's funny, and it's very easy for me to pick up and put down while chilling on the beach with my kids.
Easy annual read.
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New Manga Read - The Bride Was a Boy
The Bride was a Boy is an autobiographical manga written by Chii, a trans artist and writer. This single volume originated as a blog, but with her husband's support she made it into a book.
The story is hers, about her life and experiences as a trans woman in Japan. Between chapters, she talks about LGBTQ+ rights and laws in Japan to help explain what she went through.
It was a very interesting read and a cute one, as she also talks about her love story with her husband.
Cute and informative. Glad I read it.
#Manga #MangaReview #Mangagram #MangaCommunity #MangaPost #MangaRecommendation #InstaManga #MangaLover #MangaReader #AmReading #Photograph #Bookstodon #MangaMonday #LibraryFinds #TheBrideWasABoy #HanayomeWaMotodanshi #PrideMonth #Chii #花嫁は元男子。
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New Manga Read - The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All, Volume 3
It's been since September that I've caught up with these two girls? My library network FINALLY got in Volume 3 for me to borrow and I am glad I did.
Great volume. Mitsuki is finally starting to be herself in school. Aya is jealous. There's a rift.
Also, the subplot with the uncle and his girlfriend. Oof. Emotional.
It ends at the prom. It's about to go down.
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New Manga Read - Otaku Elf, Volume 11
Volume 11 of this series continues to be low stakes and chill. This volume, Elda and her Miko visit Osaka for a festival ran by her fellow elf Yorde. It's a fire based festival and it rains, so they work together to make due.
Again, it's low stakes, slice of life of an elf being treated like a goddess who is a massive introvert. It's fun, silly, and a quick read.
Also, Elda saying she people'd too much cause she's such an introvert? I get it.
#Manga #MangaReview #Mangagram #MangaCommunity #MangaPost #MangaRecommendation #InstaManga #MangaLover #MangaReader #AmReading #AkihikoHiguchi #HiguchiAkihiko #OtakuElf #江戸前エル #EdomaeElf #Bookstodon #MangaMonday
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New Manga Read - Chi's Sweet France
Have you ever read / watched Chi's Sweet Home or Chi's Sweet Adventure? If not, let me give you the rundown.
Chi is an adorable little kitten who lives with a small family of a Mom, Dad, and son. The kitten gets into trouble doing kitten stuff and running around out in the neighborhood.
It's an all ages series, but largely for kids.
This series is a single volume series where Chi's family moves to Paris. Basically, more cute stories about a kitty getting in to silly situations, set in France.
Very cute. Glad I got it.
#Manga #MangaReview #Mangagram #MangaCommunity #MangaPost #MangaRecommendation #InstaManga #MangaLover #MangaReader #AmReading #Photograph #Bookstodon #MangaMonday #ChisSweetFrance #KanataKonami #CatherineBouvier
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New Read - Animal Crossing: New Horizons Deserted Island Diary, Volume 10
This is, as always, an extremely silly and fun manga.
Volume 10 hit more of Happy Home Paradise, did some wedding season jokes, and other in jokes that are a lot funnier if you play Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
I do, so I really enjoyed it. Had a few chuckle out loud moments.
Lots of fun for Animal Crossing players.
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New Manga Read - The Muscle Girl Next Door
Skinny guy Daria lives next door to the incredibly muscular Ruby and he's head over heels into her. The entire series follows as he slowly tries to befriend and hopefully get her to notice him in a romantic way.
Daria is shy, nervous, and very skinny. Ruby is outgoing and very muscular. Daria's super into his muscle mommy neighbor.
It's largely a harmless and cute slow burn romance between these two characters with some friends along the way helping them actually get together.
Cute read I found at the library.
#Manga #MangaCollector #MangaReview #Mangagram #MangaCommunity #MangaPost #MangaRecommendation #InstaManga #MangaLover #MangaReader #AmReading #Bookstodon #LibraryFinds #MangaMonday #TheMuscleGirlNextDoor
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New Manga Read - My Sister, The Cat (Volume 2-3)
This weekend, my oldest took the SAT's and I ended up waiting for him at the local library near the testing center. So, I finished up reading My Sister, The Cat.
It does not disappoint in a very cute story of found family with a human living with a cat family.
I don't know what else to say. It's a very cute story about family and sibling dynamics.
If that sounds cool to you, feel free to check it out.
#Manga #MangaCollector #MangaReview #Mangagram #MangaCommunity #MangaPost #MangaRecommendation #InstaManga #MangaLover #MangaReader #AmReading #Bookstodon #LibraryFinds #MySisterTheCat #ImoutoWaNeko #妹は猫 #Senko #MangaMonday
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I slapped a quick pink border around this one to match the manga cover...I think it works.
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I started reading You And I are Polar Opposites this past weekend.
I am already 33 chapters in.
Decided to try to recreate the cover for Volume 1 in Animal Crossing. So, here's Raymond as Tani and Shino as Suzkui.
Happy Manga Monday!
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CW: Manga Monday
"Skip and Loafer" by Misaki Takamatsu.
This is yet another shoujo high school manga, but a prime example of the genre. If you're only going to read one, this is a good choice.
Mistsumi is a plain girl (I love that she's *actually drawn that way*) from the sticks starting high school in Tokyo. Her friend Mika is kind of a bitch, but in a way you can understand; you'll root for her to be better. (Eventual love interest) Sousuke seems like a minor character from Oshi No Ko who found a way out and is taking refuge in a more sedate manga. His problems are the most complicated of the bunch. Well, except for Mistsumi's gender-queer aunt's.
It's ongoing in Japan, with seven of the eight volumes currently available in English (Seven Seas.) There's also an (equally good) anime that's currently airing on Crunchyroll.