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Cute cooking manga

Kitchen Princess: Vol. 1 by Natsumi Ando (manga), Miyuki Kobayashi (story)

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My elementary school daughters have recently discovered the manga section at the library and due to their interest in cooking shows they brought home Kitchen Princess: Volume 1.  It is a classic shoujo manga.  Shoujo stories are aimed primarily at young females and are heavily focused on personal and romantic relationships this is no exception. The heart of the story is Najika Kazami an orphan (because of course she is) with the ability to remember everything she has ever tasted and can recreate a dish perfectly from just tasting it.  She loves food and cooking, preparing dishes for the joy of […]

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12/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:51 |

Charming manga for the tween set

Cardcaptor Sakura: Vol. 1 by CLAMP

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Cardcaptor Sakura is a Japanese comic, commonly called manga, that is created by an all female team who style themselves as CLAMP.  Fourth grader Sakura Kinomoto found an old book in her dad’s library, when she opened it a deck of cards flew out and disappeared.  The cards were created by the magician Clow Reed and are colloquially called the Clow cards.  Each card represents a different power, such as the four elements but also things like flying and illusion.  Only someone with magical ability has the power to open the book so Sakura has some latent magical talent she was […]

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10/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

Just Lovely

My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 by Gengoroh Tagame

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In times of darkness, books provide me comfort. I picked this up after it was recommended in NPR’s book concierge as a best book of 2017 and finally got around to reading it. I took a lot of history courses in college that studied Asian and Middle Eastern cultures because so much of what we are taught is centered on US and European History. I have always been interested in Japanese history and culture. My Brother’s Husband tells the story of Yaichi, a stay-at-home dad in the Tokyo suburbs, raising his daughter Kana. He is divorced from his wife, Natsuki. […]

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7/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:5 |

Evil Little Girl Corporate Villain vs God

The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 1 by Carlo Zen, Shinobu Shinotsuki (character design), Chika Tojo (artist)

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I’m going to be upfront: I like the graphic novel version of this story much better than I do the light novel. I saw this Tanya the Evil series on Crunchyroll (but haven’t watched it yet), and the premise looked interesting, so when I saw the books I figured I’d try those. If I hadn’t read the manga first, I would have given up on the series. The light novel version is just too confusing and monotone; it shifts between perspectives at random intervals and it’s not always clear who the perspective belongs to at times or why they might […]

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5/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

Best Christmas present EVER!

Death Note Black Edition 1 by Tsugumi Ohba

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I found out about this book from one of my close friends last year but I completely forgot about it until recently. I found it in a Barnes and Nobles and thought that the cover looked really cool and that I heard good things about it previously. When I found it I asked my mom to put it on my Christmas wishlist and I was so happy when my grandparents gave me it for Christmas. There are a total of 13 books in the series and I intend to read all of them throughout the next few months. High school student Light Yagami is […]

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2/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

There’s more to that Studio Ghibli film…

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Box Set) by Hayao Miyazak

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My introduction to Nausicaä was the 1984 Studio Ghibli film of the same name. I didn’t see the film until about ten years ago when I began collecting all the films of Hayao Miyazaki. My daughter and I enjoy watching Miyazaki stories, and I have an appreciation for his strong female characters. I had no idea that the movie was only a fraction (about two chapters) fo the story and world of the Valley of the Wind. I purchased this two-volume case-bound collection on a whim – our local Hastings was closing its doors, and the graphic novel section was deeply discounted. The box […]

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1/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

Fighting Demons with the Power of Music

Magia the Ninth by Ichiya Sazanami

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The Magia the Ninth series has a thoroughly ridiculous premise, which is why it’s so much fun. It’s also only 2 volumes which makes the end pretty open-ended. I found myself wishing for maybe one or two more volumes to fill in a few of the many gaps. Basically a high school student whose parents were killed by a demon runs into the head demon hunter of the Church of the Masterpiece, Ludwig von Beethoven (cranky, ambitious, powerful, but maybe nice too). Beethoven, along with Bach (a café proprietor), Schubert (uptight and standoffish student), Liszt (a Mr Popular student/gun-nut), and […]

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3/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:18 |

7 Princes- Really 6- Indiana Jones style

The Seven Princes of the Thousand Year Labyrinth vol.1 by Atori Haruno and Aikawa Yu

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The Seven Princes of the Thousand Year Labyrinth looks like an entertaining fantasy-mystery series. The basic premise is that seven different attractive young men wake or end up in the Castle-of-the Thousand-Year-Labyrinth. They are candidates to be the next emperor, since hereditary monarchy was outlawed centuries ago, and they can’t leave the castle until they decide among themselves who will be the next emperor; everyone else becomes the ruler’s new advisors.. Ewan is the main character and he looks like a naïve country boy, while the rest are public famous figures including a mater thief (Titus), a master detective (Messiah), […]

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3/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:17 |


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