(original title: 海獣の子供/Kaijuu no kodomo ( Read more... )

I am so glad Del Rey released the rest of this series, even if it is in a slightly clunky omnibus format. (It is very hard reading the omnibus when you are desperately trying not to crease the spine ( Read more... )

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... )

It's always so difficult to blog about this series, since the volumes almost always consist of disconnected one-shots. Some of them connect back to what we know of the mushi and the mushishi, but many of them are simple stand-alone case studies of different mushi. I say simple, but almost all of them are haunting and lovely and ephemeral ( Read more... )

This is by the mangaka of Chi's Sweet Home, which I have not read. And apparently it's a revival of a series or something, given the "New" in the title and the author's notes ( Read more... )

This is an adaptation of the anime of the same name, although I can't tell if Shinkai Makoto mostly came up with the original storyline for the anime and Sahara Mizu did the adaptation, or if Shinkai wrote it and she illustrated it ( Read more... )

Still beautifully written and drawn, and they're getting to stories that I don't know from the anime (this is not saying if they're in the anime or not, as I haven't finished it yet). Also, volume 4 contains one of my favorite mushi stories so far (the one with the cocoon).

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Again I bemoan Del Rey's release schedule!

This volume contains the one about the inkstone, the one about the boat in the ocean, the one about the rust, the one about the extra tooth, and the one with the fish.

I continue to enjoy this series, and thankfully the slow release schedule is more tolerable because the stories are all one-offs.

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