Cannonball Read 18

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“As long as you were pursuing your dreams, that was all that mattered.”

Light of My Life by Takiba and Fuuko Minami

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This had been sitting on my to-read shelf for a while, and CBR has been helping me to tackle some of these books that I’ve felt sort of meh about and either keep them or get them out the door. Light of My Life is one volume, so it has that going for it, and it’s a fast read. Aki, Minagi, and Sarara were all best friends in high school; Aki wanted to become a pro soccer player, Minagi wanted to be a doctor, and Sarara […]

“Straight-forward feelings hit you like a truck, don’t they? Isn’t it nice?”

Director Akasaka's Princely Training Course by Wacoco Waco

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This was shrinkwrapped when I bought it, so I didn’t have the chance to look inside and just bought based off the cover and the fact that I like what Kuma publishes 80%+ of the time. I do in this case wish I’d been able to preview it because it was fine but not something I’m going to keep. Akasaka is a director at a successful company but hasn’t been able to find a satisfactory relationship. During a night out in Ni-Chome, the gay neighborhood […]

“It’s inadvisable for anyone to fall for a host like me.”

Call Me Master by KedamaShiba

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Call Me Master deals with the world of Japanese host clubs, which is a very specific area of employment that it would be probably helpful to know about before reading this book. Ichinose is the number one host at Club de Rois and he’s very proud of that. In addition to his duties of providing companionship in the club to the clients, he also has to help out behind the scenes and he’s worn out. He wants an assistant, and when the new host Tsukasa […]

“On this island where gemstones bloom like flowers…there lived a powerful demon king.”

Dear Demon King by Emu Soutome

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There’s so much here that I like and it just didn’t click for me as a whole — magic, BL, interesting world building, solid art — none of it enough to make this something I really enjoyed. Dear Demon King has a complicated setup about a world where the demon king Kougyoku rules over a floating island full of magical beasts, and also the island has all of these gemstones full of magical power on them that humans want, and fifty years ago the humans attacked […]

“There’s no special name for events like these, and they’ll never win you a medal. But these ‘stupid things’ and this ‘wasted time’ help decorate the heart. It’s kind of like being able to pick up little pieces of happiness.”

You and I Are Polar Opposites (Volume 8) by Kocha Agasawa

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Spoilers follow throughout this review! I was sad to see that this was the last volume of this series; while I support not having stories go on past their prime, I feel like there was another three or so volumes left to fully flesh everything out. You and I Are Polar Opposites, as stated in my previous review, follows three pairings of high schoolers who have somewhat opposite personalities, with the understanding that, since this is shoujo manga, they’ll end up together. It’s also about […]

“When guests visit the shop and look at the pets we offer, they often see them as someone that, in a deep corner of their heart, they desperately yearn to see.”

Petshop of Horrors: Collectors's Edition (Volume 4) by Matsuri Akino

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This is the fourth volume of the Petshop of Horrors collectors edition, which I’m very happy to be re-collecting since for some mysterious reason I got rid of my Tokyopop editions at some point. When and why, I don’t know. Seven Seas has been doing a nice job putting these out in a nice large format and including the extras in the back (which were a bit thin this volume, but maybe that’s how they were originally? Some brief backstory to the chapters, a note from […]



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