Chiisakobe

It’s well drawn, with a cast of flawed, quirky but nice characters and the story told feels focused on the growth of the characters through their interactions and how they come to understand each others.

Koe no Katachi

That entire cast was great honestly. Even the shitty ones were pretty great in their own ways. The way plot progressed was that rare skill in these kind of low key stories where it was both unexpected yet made sense. Super tough line to walk.

Kamakura Diary

The best part though is how every character has its own little space and time to shine. I think it’s quite the ability to be able to make so many different characters not feel just like background props and instead feel like they are part of this living and breathing community.

My Capricorn Friend

I guess I enjoyed it mostly because it felt like it tried to communicate that ignoring the bad things happening around us, things we could put a stop to ourselves, can have pretty dire consequences: for ourselves, for those we know and love an even for those we don’t know. A simple, obvious thing that many willfully ignore for their own convenience.

Bradherley’s Coach

Well drawn depressing read. The more I read the more I felt like shit. Thumbs up to the father that …

The Climber

The manga had great art as one would expect (though not at the start, where we even have yaoi level giraffe-necked-guys drawings) and I liked the man against the world/nature/mountain/himself spirit, the soloist struggle, the nerves of steel to be able to endure extreme situations but on a human level it felt short for me. It really wasn’t what I hoped it’d be by the end of the tale.

Les cerisiers fleurissent malgré tout

Pretty nice read with touching moments. The story deals with death and life or, more in general, with the fragility …

Battle Angel Alita

Picked this up a a week or so ago when Amazon had it on sale digitally for 5 dollars a …

Kuro (Somato)

Kuro feels like poetry made manga. Every page is so full of feelings.

Chiisakobe [Volume 1]

This is the start of a pretty weird daily life that opens up windows into the past of the characters, be it through flashbacks or through verbal exchanges that reveal more about the character’s personalities and it was a damn blast to read.

Itezuru

The book mostly follows the story of Tsuru, a Shikomikko, showing us various excerpt of her life as she works and becomes a Geisha.

Dream Fossil

Received it today. I think already posted my impression about this when I bought the Italian edition, but Satoshi Kon …