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📚 The Strange House (Manga) Vol. 4 by: Uketsu, Kyo Ayano

As Yuzuki and I investigate the Katabuchi family home, our unease grows. What dark secrets has her family been hiding? The mysteries deepen, but at least one has been solved: the identity of You-chan's murderer. Yet that is only the beginning of the strange, disturbing truth...

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As Yuzuki and I investigate the Katabuchi family home, our unease grows. What dark secrets has her family been hiding? The mysteries deepen, but at least one has been solved: the identity of You-chan's murderer. Yet that is only the beginning of the strange, disturbing truth...

Five stars:

Kowloon Generic Romance, Volume 10 by Jun Mayuzuki and Amanda Haley (Translator) (2024) begins the process of wrapping up the series. Yaomay is away from the city and can see clearly. Kudou is confronted by the reality of his situation. Kujirai A knows most of B's past now and that her very existence is tenuous at best.

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Cover art

Haneko learns that All Cops Are Bad. A comic strip by KITAZAWA Rakuten, the artist who popularized Western-style comics in Japan, published on November 25, 1928.
Miss TONDA Haneko.
The title panel features a cop smiling on the right side of the title, and the same cop with a mean face on the left side.
In the first panel, Haneko, who looks to be about 12 years-old, sits on the porch in a red dress sawing a length of bamboo.
Translation continued in the .

Her grandmother comes and says, "My goodness, what are you doing?" Haneko says, "I'm making a piggy bank from a piece of bamboo. I'm going to save my money." In the next panel, Haneko puts a coin in the bamboo piggy bank, which now hangs on the wall. She says, "A girl and her little brother saved money in a bamboo piggy bank and got themselves in the newspaper by donating it all to the policemen's fund. I'm going to do the same. Too bad I don't have a little brother." In the third panel, Haneko and her grandmother sit on the tatami floor, facing each other. Her grandmother looks shocked and says, "You want all of your next three years' allowance right now!? Don't be ridiculous." Haneko, looking glum, says, "But it takes so long to save!" In the fourth panel, Haneko sits up straight and proclaims, "I'm going to save my money and donate it it to the policemen's fund! The reason we sleep soundly at night is because the police risk their lives every day to catch crooks! Oh! The decorated street car is coming soon! I'm going to go watch!" In the fifth panel, people crowd by the roadside, waiting for the street car with its decorations and lights to come by. A cop in the street shoves a young man dressed like a student, saying, "Give me trouble and I'll take you in!" The people in the crowd glare at the cop. Haneko says, "How horrible!" In the last panel, Haneko hands a firefighter her bank and says, "The reason we sleep soundly is because of you firefighters, so this is for you."

what's something (a character, a theme, a plot point, a scene, etc) in a work that you enjoy which you find people (audiences/fans/critics, etc) regularly misunderstand or miss the entire point of and it bugs you? This can even include people misunderstanding authorial intent or the message of the work, etc

I've been getting into the latest arc of the and it has been absolutely incredible.

Every time I feel the plot or the tactics may feel a little boring—after more than 850 chapters—the politics get more convoluted, the stakes get higher, and known characters face formidable foes to match.

Some big players have been taken out of commission and I am on the edge of my seat, seriously awesome stuff. You should read it now, the whole journey is worth it.

Multiple armies ready to engage in battle. General Ousen, one of the Great Generals of Qin, speaks one word: Begin

Going through my unread comics and manga collections.

Last night I finished the 2025 print of Akira Volume 1: Tetsuo. What wasnt adapted to the anime film really adds another dimension to the story. Thr main difference is a Neo-Tokyo biker gang war that was in the film by Tetsuo saving a woman from other gang members (if I'm remembering correctly, it's been decades). I like the manga version better.

Next up is the Kamandi omnibus for some good old Jack Kirby.

Two hardcover books are pictured. On the left is Akira Volume 1 by Katsuhiro Otomo and on the right is Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth! by Jack Kirby.
A page from Akira Volume 1 showing Japanese-to-English translations of the hand-drawn sound effects in the manga.

Finally read Kei Sanbe's Erased, a about a guy who can rewind time to avoid catastrophic events, usually just a couple of minutes.

However, he will somehow end up 18 years in the past when he was a kid, to try and stop a serial killer, save his classmates, and change his future.

Read the whole thing in a day!

Two kids, the boy says he wants to change the future
Kid in front of an ominous school
A time loop about to begin

It's been a while but I finally finished another !

by Yagi Norihiro, who also created before it

I enjoyed it a lot, I don't think I've checked any Japanese other than or .

It feels inspired by , and even.

It has bit of everything, and it was pretty awesome, a bit of a rushed ending, but a good one nonetheless!

Some cool panels (there's even cooler ones I don't wanna spoil)

Panel 1, a tribe of mythical beings similar to centaurs
Two young teenagers floating through the sky
A being similar to a bunny staring at a floating landmark

Aujourd'hui j'ai re-regardé Nausicaa de la vallée du vent, et j'ai un peu chiallé.

Mais du coup, j'ai vraiment envie d'aller voir plus loin, le manga original.

Question : Ne lisant pas le Japonais, mais lisant aussi bien le 🇫🇷 que l'🇬🇧 quelle traduction est la meilleure à lire ?

Le repouet vous protège des spores et de la pollution.

(Pas techniquement un )