@castlepointanime was just a few weeks ago, but I still had a wonderful time! With back to back trips, I haven't had much time to edit photos, but I promise to have them done ASAP!
I think I make for a good Mamoru. I put this together at the last minute, for my friend @ccgreywitch, since she said she was going to dinner as Usagi Tsukino, and I decided to do a casual cosplay with her. 😁
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Hey all! I'm getting close to finishing the @zenkaikon photos! My lens has been repaired and is back home! I hope to have them posted this week! But for now, enjoy so selfies with me and my cosplay friendos!
Five stars: Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 9 by Ryoko Kui and Taylor Engel (Translator) (2020) mostly deals with the party trying to survive an attack by succubi. The cat character ends up being the one to save the party because she's not as simple a being as the others. She's complex because she has more than one type of desire and they are in opposition to each other.
Five stars: A Man and His Cat, Volume 2 by Umi Sakurai (2018) is the first full volume of Mr. Kanda as a cat dad to Fukumaru. Both are learning how to live with each other and coming to understand that they can be their genuine happy selves with each other.
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The #manga I finished made me realize how much I dislike when authors suddenly make their characters behave differently from how they behaved throughout an entire story. Not because of some personal changes, not because of character development, not because of some traumatic experience. Nope. Just Bam! - now we act like this. Completely groundless and completely OOC. Always makes me question my own abilities at reading comprehension when this happens :meow_waitwhat:
Five stars: Komi Can't Communicate, Volume 6 by Tomohito Oda (2017) spends most of its time on what if stories. The boys in the classroom spend their time playing "who would you date" and imagining scenarios. It's an entertaining diversion from the repetition of Komi trying to socialize given her anxiety.
1/2 I recall the #manga boom of the mid-2000s - libraries had the sense to properly catalogue #BL or GloBL (BL written outside of Japan) in the #LGBTQ section - whereas bookstores were putting 'manga' together with other manga. My titles were 18+ and on the shelf next to titles for tweens. 0_0
Five stars: Ako and Bambi Volume 1 by Hero was published in Japan in 2022 as Ako to Bambi (あことバンビ) and released in English this year by Yen Press. Bambi is beginning his career as an author and has found one of those too cheap to be believed apartments. The reason it's so cheap: it's haunted.
2024 Book 1: Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman.
Insightful but ultimately depressing because, despite #UBI seeming particularly realistic, it feels like we're even farther away from it ever happening at scale than when this first published in 2014. ☹️
2024 Book 13: What the Font?! - A Manga Guide to Western Typeface by Kuniichi Ashiya
Breezy, informative, and occasionally weird (Gotham likes guns?!?) primer on fonts, perfect for teens and non-designers; I actually learned a few things.
2024 Book 14: A Journal of My Father by Jirō Taniguchi
Literary fiction isn't usually my thing, but Taniguchi delivers an emotional family tale of reflection and regret without any melodrama, combined with clean, beautiful artwork that subtly communicates the complicated feelings throughout. 😢