Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Rounding Out the Year With Some Manga

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (Deluxe Edition Vol. 1) by Hitoshi Ashinano

Fourth Generation Head: Tatsuyuki Oyamato by Scarlet Beriko

Pure Love's Sexy Time by Psyche Delico

4Town 4Real by Dirchansky and KAIfee

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These four volumes span the genres from YA to adult, which I think highlights the great flexibility and richness of the medium. I’ve been on a real manga kick lately and it’s always so fun going to the bookstore and finding stuff that wasn’t on my radar. We’re really in a golden age of translation right now and I’m hopeful that it will only keep going from here. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is a series I’ve been reading for a long time and I was happy […]

Black and White and Technicolor

Kafka by Nishioka Kyoudai, David Yang

Goblin Mode Guide to Life: Embrace Your Feral Side and Thrive in Imperfection by Editors of Chartwell Books

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Kafka – 3.5 stars Nine of Franz Kafka’s surreal and unsettling short stories are adapted into manga form, including both well-known works and less prominent ones among the collection. Like the creators of this book, I didn’t really “get” The Metamorphosis when I first read it. Something about the detail of the killer apple made me snort with laughter – but then my impulse in uneasy situations is generally maniacal giggling so I’m not sure how much that says. Unlike the creators of this book, I am […]

All it needed was Brendan Frasier

Fantasy Sports V01: Court of Souls by Sam Bosma

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The time came for me to look at old saved links for online reader copies. And one that I had been wanting to read, but the time was never  really right, was Fantasy Sports V01: Court of Souls. I figured that the Sam Bosma graphic novel might be a Space Jam of sorts. (Not that I have seen Space Jam one or two, but what I figure it was like) and it was nothing like that. Things were if The Mummy meets Indiana Jones meets […]

A crazy little thing, but I’m not sure it’s love

A Condition Called Love Volume 1 by Megumi Morino

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Manga is a unique format to read. You first have the different style of page set-up and then you have the themes. Though they are familiar (growing up, self-esteem, relationships, school) they can take on a different form then we are used to. There is also a cultural difference with possible different values and behaviors. Yet, I cannot really wrap my head around how the male character in A Condition Called Love Volume 1 by Megumi Morino is okay in any culture. At first, he […]

The wilds of high school social interactions

Komi Can't Communicate vol. 25 by Tomohito Oda

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Bingo 22: In the Wild Komi Can’t Communicate is set in high school (kind of the wilds) and Komi and her familiar group are separated in the beginning of their last year of high school, so Komi suddenly is faced with the challenge of taming a whole group of new friends (which is likely going to help her with her goal of making 200 friends since she’s only got a year left to do it). That and a good chunk of volume 25 is a […]

Clueless Romance in a World Where Nice and Smart Can’t Co-Exist

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! v.8 by Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

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Bingo 21: Sex So, when the main character of a fantasy romance game whose regained her memories of a past of life of being a modern mundane teen has absolutely no concept of sex at the age of 17, and everyone around her does, it makes for some mild cringe, but mostly entertaining hijinks. By this point in the manga, Katarina has managed to make her fiancée the Prince fall for her and express his desire (totally confounds her, an she pretends it didn’t happen), […]



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