The bulk of this volume dealt with Sunbi meeting a woman on her travels who lived with her mentally disabled mother. I don’t know. It seems that a lot of the last couple volumes have been more about Sunbi meeting and seeing someone else’s problems than Sunbi’s story and her own problems. I really liked the parts in it where Sunbi was being ( Read more... )

Here we get the backstory of Hwaran, the rival shaman who claims that Sunbi’s grandmother’s artifacts belong to her. Honestly…I don’t care for Hwaran or find her interesting at all. On the one hand, she seems to have the same sense of isolation and introversion that Sunbi has, not to mention the lack of social skills, but with Sunbi, it comes ( Read more... )

Rose Hip Zero Vol 3

Vol 3 wraps up what I assume is act one of the book.  Hopefully, it won't have Kasumi getting a new partner, as I'm somewhat attached to Kido(they remind me of Rin and Manji...if Manji used guns instead of 50 different kinds of blades and Rin were good enough to almost make him look like a wuss.)  I probably shouldn't like Zero, ( Read more... )

 Before I(rather briefly) get to the books I read over the weekend, 
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A follow up to Saturday's post, just a list and short(extremely short) descriptions of the manga I'm enjoying the most right now.  Anything I've read all of is excluded.  There are several that will likely be on this list once I've read more than one volume.

Basara: Favorite manga ever.  About a girl who pretends to be her brother, a legendary ( Read more... )

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This book offers a better description of what a dokebi is than LAND OF SILVER RAIN did: “The dokebi is a mythical creature that appears in many old korean myths.  Although usually frightening, it could also represent a humorous sprite or goblin with grotesque looks.  Most dokebis are depicted with a horn growing from the top of the head.  They are ( Read more... )