Cannonball Read 18

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Picking up up righ where it left off

The Ancient Magus Bride vols. 19-21 by Kore Yamazaki

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I’ve enjoyed the Ancient Magus Bride manga for the most part; then it suddenly paused mid-arc. Turns out that the author was changing publishers for reasons I don’t know, which resulted in over a year-long gap between volumes. But now it seems like publishing is happening again. Volumes 19-21 finish the arc that was underway before the break and start the set up for the next one. The family tragedy behind Philomela’s connection to the mysterious evil grimoire turns out to have to do with […]

The Color Black and Erased Memory

The Ancient Magus Bride Wizard's Blue vol. 8 by Makoto Sanda, Isuo Tsukumo, Kore Yamazaki

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Is it weird that it’s sometimes uncomfortable reading in front of someone? As in, it almost feels like an invasion of privacy. Long story short, I’m hosting a family member temporarily out of their home for major water damage repair, and it’s been kind of hard to do extended reading time; that and it’s been crazy-time at work but that part’s better now. Anyways, both of those are why I’ve been going back to graphic novels and manga a bit more than usual lately (still […]

Review #8: Manga?!

The Ancient Magus' Bride by Kore Yamazaki

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I don’t normally read manga or watch anime (other than Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, which I would recommend to literally anyone). I had heard of The Ancient Magus’ Bride manga by Kore Yamazaki and it’s anime adaptation, thought the premise was deeply weird, and wanted to see if that was truly the case. I was also sick, and willing to read something far outside my comfort zone in order to distract from that. Wikipedia description: “Having been ostracized by both her relatives and partially by society, […]

Body Shifting, Acceptance, and Change to Save a Friend

The Ancient Magus' Bride vol. 17 by Kore Yamazaki

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Bingo 7: Bodies, Bodies In The Ancient Magus’ Bride (volume 17), there are quite a few bodies, many of them unusual, unique, and/or not original for their inhabitants. Given that many of the bodies belong to teenagers (roughly high school age), it’s sort of fitting there’s going to be a lot of change and confusion. First, Chise (MC’s) classmates: Philomela has been infected by a nasty powerful ancient magic book and transformed into some kind of briar demon thing, but Chise still sees her classmate […]

Who Wears the Black Hat could be a Good Mystery to Solve

Jack Flash and the Faerie Case Files, volume 3 by Yu Godai, Mako Oikawa, Kore Yamazaki

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Now that we’re firmly in original story territory, Jack Flash and the Faerie Case Files volume 3 spends a lot of time setting up what could be a really interesting suspenseful adventure. There is a mysterious man in a black hat who seems to be involved in pushing a drug allowing humans to temporarily see magic and its users might be trying to herd or lure Jack and Larry into tracking him through a series of crimes connected by this drug. While the man himself […]

A Japanese Girl in a Celtic World

The Ancient Magus Bride vol. 14 by Kore Yamazaki

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Bingo 9: Mythic The Ancient Magus Bride is a manga and anime series based primarily in Celtic mythology, although it contains references to other folklore as well. One of the key characters (the magus of the title) is Elias who is some kind of Fae creature, given that he’s claimed as such by Titania and Oberon (this happens early in the series), the dragons who show up are European in appearance, Silky is a brownie who used to be a banshee, there are some sídhe, […]



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