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It is cloudy and cool today. Pearly gray days, like rainy ones, are sweet and cozy, so long as I can stay indoors and warm and watch the clouds through my window. I'd get sick of it if it was like this all the time, but they are only occasional in Los Angeles, so they seem like special treats. The maples are turning a translucent red, like bottled wine.
I think I will go to the manga store and look for Saiyuki 5 and Nana 4, and retire with them to Starbucks to read them over a hot apple cider with caramel syrup drizzled over a mound of whipped cream.
I have worked hard this month, what with cat-boys and pirates and samurai. (I wonder how a manga about a cat-boy samurai pirate would sell? I'd buy it in an instant.) I think I deserve a break today. So when I return, I will take a brief moment to do laundry, then watch Princess Tutu, which I just got via Netflix. (Is the series complete in six discs?)
Manga recommendations of the week:
Yakitake Japan, a hilariously funny story structured just like a fighting manga, about competititve bread-baking, alternately erudite, faux-erudite, and completely deranged.
Her Majesty's Dog, the sweetest manga I've read all year, about a misfit girl who can banish ghosts, and the hot-tempered demon dog (who is also a handsome boy) who loves her. Funny, great characterization, and so genuinely uplifting that you could patent it as an SSRI.
ES (Eternal Sabbath), a psychological thriller about a young man who can enter the minds of others, a socially inept female scientist who reminds me of Buffy's Willow, and the disturbing amorality of even quite normal children. The art makes great use of empty space, with many panels wordless and even lacking in sound effects, to create a sense of quiet dread.
I think I will go to the manga store and look for Saiyuki 5 and Nana 4, and retire with them to Starbucks to read them over a hot apple cider with caramel syrup drizzled over a mound of whipped cream.
I have worked hard this month, what with cat-boys and pirates and samurai. (I wonder how a manga about a cat-boy samurai pirate would sell? I'd buy it in an instant.) I think I deserve a break today. So when I return, I will take a brief moment to do laundry, then watch Princess Tutu, which I just got via Netflix. (Is the series complete in six discs?)
Manga recommendations of the week:
Yakitake Japan, a hilariously funny story structured just like a fighting manga, about competititve bread-baking, alternately erudite, faux-erudite, and completely deranged.
Her Majesty's Dog, the sweetest manga I've read all year, about a misfit girl who can banish ghosts, and the hot-tempered demon dog (who is also a handsome boy) who loves her. Funny, great characterization, and so genuinely uplifting that you could patent it as an SSRI.
ES (Eternal Sabbath), a psychological thriller about a young man who can enter the minds of others, a socially inept female scientist who reminds me of Buffy's Willow, and the disturbing amorality of even quite normal children. The art makes great use of empty space, with many panels wordless and even lacking in sound effects, to create a sense of quiet dread.