I feel a bit stupid introducing this series. Anyway ( Read more... )

It's been so long since I've read these that my memory is extremely hazy ( Read more... )

Several people reading this is making me want to catch up too!

I figure the cut-tag text is not spoilery if you are reading shounen...

( Spoilers face even bigger bads! )

Wow, the plot has really started to speed up! And Arakawa's beginning to draw back on previous one-off characters or happenings and tying everything together. I'm guessing the manga is definitely in the final stretch now. Again, her characters don't break my heart the same way they do in the anime, but I still love them, and wow, the plot is great ( Read more... )

I had caught up on this back in 2007, but lately rilina's been saying there is much awesomeness going on, so I went back and reread the entire series. I had watched the anime back in 2006; a year after that provided some distance when I read the manga, but not enough. I remember being almost hurt by some of the changes in the manga, even though the manga ( Read more... )

This is not a very flashy series, and although it isn't extremely memorable, I like it ( Read more... )

I really needed cheering up, so I went through a reread of Yotsuba&! 1-4, along with basically staying up all night catching up, aided by lnhammer's extremely excellent chapter-by-chapter write ups. He notices a ton of details that I didn't, from the way the Koiwais' living room gradually changes to the drawings on the side of the Yotsubox ( Read more... )

Five-year-old Koiwai Yotsuba and her dad move next door to the Ayase family (one mom, one largely absent dad, and three sisters ( Read more... )

Um, yes, my inherent privileging of narrative over pretty much everything else has won over my flailing and pathetic attempts to get enough sleep. I fear this is the story of the life.

But, continuity! Story structure! Reveals! I have to say, Yagi's worldbuilding is pretty good... I now have to reread to see what's been set up and what hasn't.

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Whoo! The continuing excitement from volume 11 continues! And I get my favorite manga storytelling devices-flashbacks, flashforwards, and individual character stories!

( Spoilers are impatient )