bookblogging

[cerusee]

Higuri You: Angel's Coffin
(I bought this without even bothering to flip through it, because it's You Higuri! And I love her! I have to remember not to do that any more).


Higuri You: Cantarella vol. 10
(annnnny time you feel like finishing this, Higuri...

Please?).


Tezuka Osamu: Dororo vol. 3
(not much of finish to the series, but the ride is entirely too enjoyable to for me to want to complain).


Urasawa Naoki: 20th Century Boys vol. 7
(C'mon, what the fuck happened to Kenji, man? AAAARGH I need the rest of this series yesterday).

Comments

[snarp]

PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN YOU HIGURI. Because she has many problems, and not all of them are as pleasing to outsiders as the ones that have caused Cantarella.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

GORGEOUS CARAT THE TRAUMA THE TRAUMA THE TRAUMA.

I should finish Seimaden. I keep not because it's my last You Higuri until more Cantarella gets here.

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

I liked Gorgeous Carat, but a lot of my enjoyment in that was just the sheer, wtf, "Is she gonna go there? Is she gonna actually go there? OH MY GOD yep, she went there. WOW Higuri you are at least mildly, uninhibitedly nuts, although you got nothing on Yuki Kaori."


Also, I keep meaning to read beyond volume 1 of Seimaden, if only because I randomly own volume 7, and thus want to read at least that far to justify having made the purchase.

[skygiants]

Re: 20th Century Boys - YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE. Kenjiiiiiiiiiii!

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

In this volume, we have finally moved into territory I never read in scanlation, so it's aaaaalll new to me. I am unspoiled. I am terrified.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I liked Angel's Coffin, but I think I read something traumatic before it. I picked it up for a reread a few months later and didn't finish.

And Cantarella is coming out again! Slowly! But coming out! Now for the new stuff to get over here.

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

It wasn't BAD. It just wasn't particularly good (okay, I was mildly engaged by the hot mess of the prince fellow--I was expecting a flatter character than she gave us--but overall, it just played out in a predictable way), and while I still like her art, it now rarely smacks me in the face and makes me take a deep breath, which is a feeling I used to get with her art all the time. I do still get it from Cantarella, though, which is like omg You Higuri's Art Amped Up to 11!! Basically, I just finished it thinking, yeah, I didn't need to buy that.

(Cantarella is still one of the prettiest comics I've ever laid eyes on, and for its levels of drama/melodrama/crazy incest/You Higuri, What Have You Done To History?!, it remains a must-read for me. I am pleased to know that the hiatus is over in Japan! Go me, waiting like a year to read the latest volume, which has been sitting on my shelf so frickin' long I had to skim through volume 9 again just to remember who all the newer characters were and what the hell they were doing.)

I don't suppose you've read Crown, the one she was working on while she had Cantarella on hiatus? Is it worth a look? (I already know Gakuen whatever is probably not worth it, since it's the kind of BL I don't care for, she only does the art, and at a quick glance, the art did not look to have that insanely sumptuous quality present in her historical/fantasy comics.)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I've read the first volume, and plan to read ore. Not amazing, but fun.