The main story arc of the series finished in volume 7; these two volumes are collected short stories. Some feature characters from the main arc, and some are only related in the most tangential of ways. As Mori notes in the omake, she just wanted to draw them! Handwave the connection ( Read more... )

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This is why I don't make New Year's Resolutions to read less manga: the statistics would come out the next year, and I would laugh in my own face. The scary thing is this list doesn't include random scanlations or recent chapters of series I follow, and it's still at 275 volumes ( Read more... )

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Oh, I really love this manga, particularly Mori's attention to the tiniest details, of expressions and movements and still moments ( Read more... )

Like Emma, this is set in Victorian England. There are four short stories about Shirley Madison, a 13-year-old maid, and her employer ( Read more... )

I've read so much manga this year that I'm separating it out from my 2006 books post. I'm still a little stunned by the fact that I read 217 volumes of manga this year, and that's after not logging some random scanlations due to user oversight ( Read more... )

This is a supremely quiet Victorian manga about Emma, a maid, and William, son of a prosperous merchant family, and how they fall in love. Unlike Yuki Kaori, Mori seems to have not only meticulously researched the era, but has also tried to represent it faithfully, as opposed to whatever catches the fancy of her id (I am not criticizing Yuki here, ( Read more... )