Nishi Keiko - Love Song (Eng. trans.)
I picked this up because I loved Nishi's stories in Four Shoujo Stories so much. This is another collection of her short stories, selected and translated by Matt Thorn, a very early fan and scholar of shoujo manga.
Also, it's taken me several months to blog this, so my memory is really fuzzy.
The first story, "Love Song," is on a woman who ends up being the abuser in a relationship; even though she knows she's destroying the relationship, she can't seem to keep herself from doing so.
I don't remember much of "Jewels of the Seaside" or "The Signal Goes Blink Blink;" the first is a comic mystery with three sisters and one man, and I can't even remember the second any more.
The final story, "The Skin of Her Heart," didn't impress me too much, but I may have been in a bad mood at the time as well. I do remember liking the art, which was very spare and very different from the other stories. It's a quiet, sfnal story that focuses more on the character than the world.
I'm not sure I would recommend this to everyone; I ended up liking Nishi's two stories in Four Shoujo Stories much more, but I'm still glad I got it. Also, I hunted down some more of her manga in BookOff, so maybe more later.
Also, it's taken me several months to blog this, so my memory is really fuzzy.
The first story, "Love Song," is on a woman who ends up being the abuser in a relationship; even though she knows she's destroying the relationship, she can't seem to keep herself from doing so.
I don't remember much of "Jewels of the Seaside" or "The Signal Goes Blink Blink;" the first is a comic mystery with three sisters and one man, and I can't even remember the second any more.
The final story, "The Skin of Her Heart," didn't impress me too much, but I may have been in a bad mood at the time as well. I do remember liking the art, which was very spare and very different from the other stories. It's a quiet, sfnal story that focuses more on the character than the world.
I'm not sure I would recommend this to everyone; I ended up liking Nishi's two stories in Four Shoujo Stories much more, but I'm still glad I got it. Also, I hunted down some more of her manga in BookOff, so maybe more later.