Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Kind of Predictable Fantasy Comedy that’s Getting Feelings Right

The Devil is a Part-Timer vols 16-18 by Satoshi Wagahara, Akio Hiiragi

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Bingo 9: Heart In a lot of ways, The Devil is a Part-Timer is a kind of generic comedy in which a fantasy hero, her arch-nemesis the king of demons, and a few allies end up transported in our world, and have to deal both with everyday things like groceries, jobs, transportation, as well as trying to figure out what to do about their conflict, started when Satan demon king invaded and destroyed the hero’s home. There’s a begrudging enemies to something else going on, […]

The warmth and joy of childhood, perfectly captured in manga form

Yotsuba&! (Vols 1-15) by Kiyihiko Azuma

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CBR14Bingo: Heart (this manga is full of heart and warm feelings) I honestly find it easier to write negative reviews than positive ones, because when I love a book intensely it’s hard to come up with something beyond “I love this! Read it!” But I will do my best to get across why you should spend some time in the world of Yotsuba&!. This series follows an extremely energetic 5-year old, the titular Yotsuba, and her adventures. In the first volume, she and her dad move […]

This Series Will Make You Want to Move to Tokyo

Is Kichijoji the Only Place to Live? (Vols 1-5) by Maki Hirochi

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CBR14Bingo: New (the manga is about real estate agents helping people find new apartments) This was my second read of this series and it lived up to my happy memories as a piece of escapism. Is Kichijoji the Only Place to Live? is about two sisters who run a small real estate agency in Tokyo’s popular Kichijoji neighborhood. Whenever someone comes in and says that they want to find a new place in Kichijoji, the sisters end up dragging them to a different neighborhood that […]

An Mostly Unbeatable Slime ‘Monster’

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol 18 (manga) by Taiki Kawakami, Fuse

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Bingo 5: Monsters This bingo slot is sort of a gimme, base level since most of the protagonists are from a place now called “Tempest, land of monsters”; everyone is some kind of video game creature like goblins, dire-wolves, dragon, or in the main character’s case, he’s a slime (as in the lowest level of dungeon monster), overpowered to the point of practically invincible, but still a slime. The current situation also feature a gathering of demon lords, all whom might be literal, and at […]

“You kids are different from the farm animals who have no way out. Running away in order to live is fine. Perfectly fine.”

Silver Spoon Vol. 1-15 by Hiromu Arakawa

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CBR14Bingo: Series (it’s a series) This is one of my favorite manga series and one I was re-reading again just out of a desire to read something cheerful and warm-hearted. Silver Spoon is by the same author as Fullmetal Alchemist, her much more famous work. It follows Yuugo Hachiken, who decides to go to an agricultural high school in rural Hokkaido because he hit a plateau in mainstream academia and was pushing himself so hard to succeed that he’d lost all enjoyment in life. By going […]

Levi…*heart eyes*

Fangirl, the Manga. Vol 2 by Rainbow Rowell, Sam Maggs and Gabi Nam

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4.5 stars CBR14 Bingo: Bodies (Cath and Levi become a lot more aware of each other’s bodies in this volume – not like THAT. Get your mind out of the gutter!) Cath has started getting more comfortable at college and with her classes, but she still finds it difficult to reconcile the fact that her twin, Wren, is having such a great time without her. Wren is embracing the party lifestyle and seems to spend a lot of evenings out drinking with her roommate. Meanwhile, […]



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