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spot manga reviews
Aside from Adventures in Laundry, I spent most of today clearing out the reading backlog of some manga scanslations I'd DLed to see if I wanted to check them out. I'll save any, you know moderately intelligent commentary for when I do have the ones I'll be checking out in hand, but for now.
The "HELL NO!"
Real Fake Princess: Wuxia-ish series about a chinese princess who was raised by a retainer of the royal family and is returned to her proper life when they started looking for her, only to fall under the suspicion of a handsome noble who thought it was a trick. Heroine is ok, if a bit generically spunky, hero was a hateful cretin with control issues. I had him pegged as redeemable up until he pinned her to a bed, waved scissors in her face, and told her that if she didn't cut her hair, he'd have her foster brother stabbed through the heart with the scissors. Maybe if he died and she met a nice, sweet boy...
The "maybe later"
Muhyo and Rouji's Bureau of Psychic Investigations: A strange, morbid little wizard/lawyer and his more upbeat assistant who investigate supernatural cases. I like a lot in this genre and most of the series take a bit to take off for me, so I'll probably check it out eventually(like, after I meet someone who likes it) but for now, it's just a little too odd for me.
The "MORE PLEASE!"
Chikyuu Misaki: EEE!! CUTE CUTE AND MORE CUTE!! But not in a sickening way. Basically: girl and widowed father move into her grandfather's home after she inherits it, and in the local lake, she finds a cute little lake monster who turns into a mute little boy when he kisses someone, and she decides to take him in. There's also her deal with her father having a new girlfriend, kidnappers, a kendo(I think) girl, a femme fatale, and Wolverine's long lost twin.
Gintama: Aliens! Samurai! Shinsengumi! Basically, aliens took over Japan a while back and put the samurai out of business. Our Hero, Gintoki, is a former samurai and rebel who now takes up odd jobs. Along the way he acquires a sidekick who's name I didn't bother to remember who is the son of a samurai, and Kagura, a petite alien girl who's seemingly indestructible and eats nonstop, and later his old rebel buddies try to recruit him, and the Shinsengumi shows up and havoc ensues. I am in love with everything about the book but the sidekick. He will no doubt grow on me, but right now, I want him to be gagged. Also, it is entirely possible that Gintoki and Samurai Deeper Kyo's Hotaru were separated at birth. They're both stupid and spacey and smart in the same ways, and I think it's because they're busy sharing a single brain between them.
The "HELL NO!"
Real Fake Princess: Wuxia-ish series about a chinese princess who was raised by a retainer of the royal family and is returned to her proper life when they started looking for her, only to fall under the suspicion of a handsome noble who thought it was a trick. Heroine is ok, if a bit generically spunky, hero was a hateful cretin with control issues. I had him pegged as redeemable up until he pinned her to a bed, waved scissors in her face, and told her that if she didn't cut her hair, he'd have her foster brother stabbed through the heart with the scissors. Maybe if he died and she met a nice, sweet boy...
The "maybe later"
Muhyo and Rouji's Bureau of Psychic Investigations: A strange, morbid little wizard/lawyer and his more upbeat assistant who investigate supernatural cases. I like a lot in this genre and most of the series take a bit to take off for me, so I'll probably check it out eventually(like, after I meet someone who likes it) but for now, it's just a little too odd for me.
The "MORE PLEASE!"
Chikyuu Misaki: EEE!! CUTE CUTE AND MORE CUTE!! But not in a sickening way. Basically: girl and widowed father move into her grandfather's home after she inherits it, and in the local lake, she finds a cute little lake monster who turns into a mute little boy when he kisses someone, and she decides to take him in. There's also her deal with her father having a new girlfriend, kidnappers, a kendo(I think) girl, a femme fatale, and Wolverine's long lost twin.
Gintama: Aliens! Samurai! Shinsengumi! Basically, aliens took over Japan a while back and put the samurai out of business. Our Hero, Gintoki, is a former samurai and rebel who now takes up odd jobs. Along the way he acquires a sidekick who's name I didn't bother to remember who is the son of a samurai, and Kagura, a petite alien girl who's seemingly indestructible and eats nonstop, and later his old rebel buddies try to recruit him, and the Shinsengumi shows up and havoc ensues. I am in love with everything about the book but the sidekick. He will no doubt grow on me, but right now, I want him to be gagged. Also, it is entirely possible that Gintoki and Samurai Deeper Kyo's Hotaru were separated at birth. They're both stupid and spacey and smart in the same ways, and I think it's because they're busy sharing a single brain between them.