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Slightly, but only slightly, unfair short takes on various manga read lately:
La Corda d'Oro v1-5, Yuki Kure - A cross between Yumeiro Patissiere and Nodame Cantabile, only with less humor than either.
Hiyokoi v1-4, Moe Yukimaru - Kimi ni Todoke with creepy!girl replaced by short!girl, and yet despite this it delivers less cuteness.*
Q and A v1-2, Mitsuru Adachi - Self-indulgent twaddle from a writter so used to weekly chapters he's forgotten how to pace a monthly series.
Asaoka High School Baseball Team Journal - Over Fence ch1, Mitsuru Adachi - Not nearly as self-indulgent, but was that even coherent?
Hoshi o Tsumu Donna v1-2, Chiho Saito art, Mizue Sawa story - Sawa's plotting is cracked, but it's not cracked the way Saito cracks things -- so while this may be good ballet melodrama, it was not teh dramaz I was looking for.
Opera-za de Matte'te v1, Chiho Saito - Usually when Saito's stories don't make sense, it's because of crackstastic shoujo plotting on crack, but in these four stories while there is teh dramaz, it is not melo-. I can only conclude that by reading this in Japanese, slowly and laboriously, I managed to miss something crucial to the plot in every single one.**
* To be fair, that'd be hard, as Karuho Shiina does some of the best chibis in the business.
** To be clear, I liked the stories, insofar as I understood them. It's just, each one, there was at least point where I was "wait -- I -- what?"***
*** It is humbling how far I have to go still.
---L.
La Corda d'Oro v1-5, Yuki Kure - A cross between Yumeiro Patissiere and Nodame Cantabile, only with less humor than either.
Hiyokoi v1-4, Moe Yukimaru - Kimi ni Todoke with creepy!girl replaced by short!girl, and yet despite this it delivers less cuteness.*
Q and A v1-2, Mitsuru Adachi - Self-indulgent twaddle from a writter so used to weekly chapters he's forgotten how to pace a monthly series.
Asaoka High School Baseball Team Journal - Over Fence ch1, Mitsuru Adachi - Not nearly as self-indulgent, but was that even coherent?
Hoshi o Tsumu Donna v1-2, Chiho Saito art, Mizue Sawa story - Sawa's plotting is cracked, but it's not cracked the way Saito cracks things -- so while this may be good ballet melodrama, it was not teh dramaz I was looking for.
Opera-za de Matte'te v1, Chiho Saito - Usually when Saito's stories don't make sense, it's because of crackstastic shoujo plotting on crack, but in these four stories while there is teh dramaz, it is not melo-. I can only conclude that by reading this in Japanese, slowly and laboriously, I managed to miss something crucial to the plot in every single one.**
* To be fair, that'd be hard, as Karuho Shiina does some of the best chibis in the business.
** To be clear, I liked the stories, insofar as I understood them. It's just, each one, there was at least point where I was "wait -- I -- what?"***
*** It is humbling how far I have to go still.
---L.