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er with whom he has a complex relationship and who will lose a ranking in the ladder because of his loss to rising pro rei rei is also pretty much an emotional basket case i ve always been interested in the how and why of child stars artistic or athletic who do or don t achieve success in the transition to adulthood children will do nearly anything for love and affirmation from parents but at some point typically age 15 18 stage mothering quits working and the young star must find his own motivation to go forward in the world a successful transition results in someone like wil wheaton mary lou retton or scott hamilton maybe they stay in their childhood field of endeavor maybe they don t but they re getting along in the world and presumably doing what they want to do unsuccessful transitions end up on tabloids front pages and dead or doing jail time kawamotos big to little akari hinata momo rei s life is not all gloom and shogi he has been adopted by a lively family of three daughters the eldest of which works in a variety of jobs to support the others orphans like him they are among the few who can see past his quiet façade to the seething pain and confusion within he also decided to enroll a year late in high school even though it s a challenge to be a student and a shogi pro simultaneously luckily his homeroom teacher is a huge shogi fan and recognized him on sight it is probably worth mentioning that shogi is a lot bigger deal in japan than chess is in most of the western world we learn in early chapters that rei is competing to get onto the ladder for the mhk tournament that decides the champions in shogi at each ranking mhk is a reference to nhk which is the japanese equivalent to bbc in the uk dw in germany or abc in australia the national broadcasting company yes the annual shogi championships are shown on national tv i suspect that less explanation of shogi is needed in seinen manga compared to the amount of explanation of chess that would be required if bruce wayne took it up in one of the dark knight graphic novels indeed randall munroe s recent effort involving chess and history in xkcd and audience response to same suggests that it s even more marginalized than i thought for the record i got the joke but was confused by the notation error umino is going slow with this one but she s digging straight into the middle of motivation and self definition i have no idea where this story is going but i suspect it will be fun to watch it get there if honey and clover is any indication we can safely assume that the plot won t go in a straight or obvious direction i just hope that the publishers and scanlation team be with you scans stick with it not your average middle schoolgirl a perennial favorite for me is acony acony lanchester is kinda sorta dead she s also far older than she looks she lives in a wacky sort of interdimensional apartment house along with a variety of other really odd beings and our mostly normal protagonist young motomi acony s interesting history the manga oddly also had a strange half dead existence in the sense that it ran in kodansha s seinen flagship monthly afternoon but only when another big title of similar size usually hatsukanezumi no jikan didn t have a chapter ready that month accordingly it took something like a year for enough chapters to be published to make the first tankobun it s complete in japan with three volumes but who knows when the rabbits will finish scanlating it clockwise from top cub isaki kajika a nother slow moving favorite is kabu no isaki if you read yokohama kaidashi kikou you know that ashinano sensei loves airplanes our protagonist isaki saves up money from his afterschool part time job to fly a piper cub kabu later on the cub s owner shiro hires him on as a pilot she assigns him delivery duty to various places far away from their small town usually it seems that there is something in particular that shiro wanted him to see or experience on this particular trip shiro teasingly hires isaki i have an even happier attachment to this manga than ykk for the simple reason that i have been personally associated with a yellow super cub just like the one in the manga designed in the 1930s the cub is a living fossil of aviation it s probably one of a very small group of airplane designs that not only never went out of fashion but was almost instantly cloned by other manufacturers and home builders when piper quit building the originals in the 1990s cubs are still popular bush and training planes to this day because they re slow slow is good if you have one engine and uncertain landing conditions durable and cheap to operate shiro skips the preflight inspection there are three principal characters in kni isaki 16 year old male protagonist shiro the winsome owner of the cub and operator of a very small flying service with one very small plane and kajika shiro s little sister who has a slowly awakening crush on isaki and often flies around with him i haven t bothered with kanji because all three characters names are written in katakana and gets a dig in at kajika this manga is another slow pleasant waft across a changed though not post apocalyptic world much as ykk was the scanlation group dou turn out a chapter about every 150 days or so alternating with ueshiba s discommunication seirehen and various one shots at an average release rate of about six chapters a year it s fun stuff not available in any store outside of japan and very much worth your time enjoy on to new stuff the good news is that i have several new additions to my manga watch list iris zero koharu no hibi tetsunagi kooni and tonari no kashiwagi san alphabetically presented koyuki is airheaded enough that this is believable i ris zero was a surprise it s shounen and not especially deep but it does some interesting things with an otherwise generic theme it approaches the x men from the opposite direction what if psychic supernatural abilities become commonplace in a generation would normal children not then become the targets of bullying and discrimination which creates conflict with toru s philosophy in this case the psychic ability is called an iris irises are generally informational and interpersonal in nature the more useful ones can help in most any situation most irises however are more specialized and generally less useful but can be leveraged with good problem solving skills mangaka tanaka hotaru has a real gift both for plotting and for characterization the story starts with detached smart crass cynical high school second year mizushima toru being more or less ambushed by fellow second year sasamori koyuki a popular rather airheaded genki girl on the student council whose iris allows her to see the most qualified person to meet a particular criterion her character definition page in volume one defines her as the type of girl who would name her stuffed toys she homes in on toru as the one most capable of helping her find a nominee for student council president after she has struck out at the direct approach this is quite surprising to toru because he has no iris at all so couldn t possibly have some supernatural ability to help identify the best candidate koyuki however is not the kind of girl to give up on an assignment so easily and so the plot spins into motion with the minimum of fuss and effort shirow masamune could learn something from this guy the art style is what you see here characters are mostly drawn sort of chibi but the style is pretty consistent backgrounds are good and shading and detail work are better than average discrimination and perception versus reality are recurring themes koharu on title page of chapter one k oharu no hibi is another lightweight but fun entry koharu is a loli appearing first year girl in high school the title is a deliberate reference to inoue s entertaining midori no hibi which involved a rather peculiar shounen comedy romance between an upperclass princess and a thug from a rough public school that title in turn is a reference to midori no hi which is greenery day one of the golden week holidays in japan this manga explores the question when is obsession creepy and when is it harmless the vehicle incoming first year high schooler mutsuki koharu has a completely warped dere dere fixation on male lead akira thus begins the obsession how warped so warped that it wouldn t seem out of place in a porno doujin so warped that she wouldn t mind being the star of a porno doujin if it was what akira wanted her to do so warped that it almost immediately reminded me of yuno s obsession with yukiteru in mirai nikki but the mangaka plays it and akira straight which results in akira vacillating between being creeped out at the depth of koharu s fixation and fretfully protective of her blindered innocence her faith in him is so absolute that it makes the end soliloquy of the taming of the shrew a feminist manifesto by comparison it s pretty much a one gag story but so far it s holding up fairly well chapters are short art is plain and plots are simple which is fine for a gag manga like this i admit to some curiosity about just where this very thin plot is actually going to go and how it s going to get there but then that s sort of the point isn t it senri s character design page t etsunagi kooni is like kabu no isaki another story i wouldn t have found if it weren t for liking something else by the same author in this case the other series was the amusing hidamari sketch and the author aoki ume senri meets her first humans it s about an orphaned oni demon girl that came down from the mountains into a human town out of hunger ko oni child demon the story has aoki sensei s characteristic art style of course but it also has a more concentrated form of the humor based on confused expectations that i found one of the more appealing aspects of hidamari there are currently 33 chapters scanlated and the plot is ongoing we ve just recently had some fairly major plot developments which i profoundly hope are not signs of the manga wrapping things up before ceasing title page of ch 1 l r yuuto kotone kazuki sayaka chibis a nd that leads us to tonari no kashiwagi san my neighbor kashiwagi san in this case the ground is somewhat well trod we ve got an unfashionable otaku high school boy for a male lead we have the beautiful and unobtainable class idol with a secret could it be nogizaka haruka no himitsu no actually it couldn t because i ve never bothered to read watch that yuuto does not read kotone well as you know if you ve read my comments on ore no imouto i m not particularly interested in otaku culture navel gazing it generally appears to be simple pandering to the wounded pride of otakus who are still somewhat marginalized by mainstream society in japan because it s commercially successful we continue to see more of it as time passes in the case of ore no imouto it added nothing of value to the plot although i m certain it added considerable value to the publishers bank accounts luckily here we have a mangaka willing to go into deeper waters and actually find a story it s necessary for this story that the male lead sakuraba yuuto be socially inept and unfashionable for some reason being an otaku is perfectly adequate for that it s also necessary that he have an object of desire in school check on that one too but then kotone isn t easy to read now for the fun part his object of desire is a quiet introverted socially inept artist kashiwagi kotone they sit side by side in class but actually have a second social connection of which they re both initially completely unaware kotone posts her art on a discussion website a rebranded mixi and yuuto comments there so we have the rather amusing state for a few chapters of kotone and yuuto simultaneously being both very formal and awkward and very collegial to each other at the same time without noticing it just when that plot threatens to peter out the mangaka successfully expands the character cast and storyline into a larger more realistic world the character ensemble has continued to organically grow as the characters move around and interact in this respect it s a lot like kojima s mahoraba which ended up with a huge character cast of generally distinguishable and usually credible characters but never overwhelmed the viewer with the cast of thousands problem yuuta isn t a social butterfly either at the start of volume four of kashiwagi san we re up to about ten characters in the ensemble and are still exploring the implications of the relationships among them some of the amusement derives from the socially awkaward otaku lead being blissfully unaware of the relationships between his friends and coworkers stylized but good art makes the manga easy on the eyes there s a bit of intentional chibi ing and the general character design is also reminiscent of mahoraba although it s more anatomically accurate and the backgrounds have more detail and better shading facial expressions are generally good and usually characteristic the personalities are similarly appealing mostly because they re not off the shelf in fact kotone s best friend sayaka is a character type i ve not observed in manga before she starts off as the standard protective yandere sidekick of the naïve female lead but she then gets considerable character development exploring her own social ineptitude of which being a yandere she has plenty and grows into a more complex character the relationship between yuuto and his sidekick wingman also fills out into something credible as the chapters progress with a resultant deepening of the sidekick s character as well another item worth mentioning is that yuuta sees the world through a haze of memes he has picked up from console adventure games dating sim games galge and anime they form a memetic framework for his thoughts and words that can sometimes be confusing if you don t understand the slang in this respect it s 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