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marlowe1216. Fire Punch 6 by Tatsuki Fujimoto - So I read a lot of books over Shabbos because no one was around. Thanksgiving without family kind of sucks (except I did enjoy Buddha Bodai) and today I realized that I don't even want to see anything at the movies. Thanksgiving? Maybe. The Hunger Games prequel - I hear it's ok but there's like an hour at the end that isn't necessary. Napoleon is having mixed reviews. There are other movies out there that sound interesting but more "hey cool, it's on Prime" interesting than "actually go out and spend money" interesting. I know I would sneak into another movie afterwards, but what movie? Like they are all movies that I want to sneak into. So I napped today. Maybe everything is just getting to me.
Speaking of which, this is a strangely reflective installment of Fire Punch. He is suddenly no longer on fire. He burned up everything and then he's with a community and he's trying to build something or deal with it. It's an interesting pause in the chaos that is a book about a man on fire who keeps burning everything, especially when we had that false pause in the last chapter. And it ends with him promising to kill Fire Punch which is either promising to kill himself or never be Fire Punch again. Regardless, it's kind of weird. And he's promising someone whose parents he killed. So that's fun.
217.Komi Can't Communicate 27 by Tomohito Oda - I was going to call this entry a title about friendship which is really the joy of Komi Can't Communicate. Komi has friends and her whole thing is to make more friends because she spent years too shy to talk to anyone until she talked to Tadano and it also reminds me of the friend that recommended it in the first place, a friend that I particularly missed this week when everyone at shul was fucking boring. Even the people that I normally talk to who were there were somehow just fucking boring and I'm so fucking bored with people talking about their travels to Athens or some phrase in a Jewish newspaper that was wrong or sitting next to Netanyahu's wife (and not punching her) and whatever that one guy was not talking about. So so fucking boring. The friend who recommended this book is never boring. She's just as random ADHD keep the conversation going as me. I miss her. I hope she comes back but I have to kind of give it up if I am going to keep myself sane. But I still miss her.
And Komi plays that game that everyone seemed to be playing during covid. The one with the secret assailant. Komi wins which is cute because no one wants to believe that Komi would be in the enemy side. Well Tadano thinks she's playing the saboteur because he knows her. Everyone else believes that she's innocent because that's what they always believe about her. This is a pretty light entry and there's a lot to say about how beauty makes people expect certain things out of you especially when it's coupled with a shyness so extreme that you can't even stop people from making assumptions. Still fun to branch out.
Still not sure about the new characters. I know there have to be new characters but Tadano, Komi, Manbagi and Tadano's trans friend are really the best of the bunch.
218.The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus 3 by Housoui Yamazaki - So these are really long books because they combine volumes and the volumes are pretty long in their own right. By the time I've finished the book, I can't remember most of the previous stories. Hell, I can't remember stories from 100 pages back and maybe that's not entirely my fault. As I noted when I was watching Arrow, if I have to keep looking up the Wiki to figure out whom everyone is, that's on the writers and the actors and the casting directors. But still there were some memorable stories in this things. There's the girl who joins the corpse delivery service only because she's dead. There's the ghosts that kill people and there are also stories with the ghost going after the one woman. No character in this thing really has much of a personality to speak of but they are fun.
219.Chi's Sweet Adventures by Konami Kanata & Kinoko Natsume - Ok, this is a cute cat book. I'm not entire happy with the fact that they let Chi go outside to get lost or whatever, but most of this book is about cats being cute, a little too cute but Manga loves cute cats and while my cats are little less cute, they are still sweet and affectionate. Probably not going to read another but if I see another one available at the library, might as well check it out.
220.Spirits & Cat Ears 10 by Miyuki Nakayama - Well this one has some weird ass tone shifts. The first two bits are about Chiya's tragic past where she is hated by the rest of her family because she's in a position of privilege and they still think that she's a loser. She makes a friend for a few days, but then that friend disappears. Also her grandmother is a bitch. Then we get a haunted bridge where Yukari remembers how she was happy and pregnant and then her boyfriend got possessed and tried to strangle her. So she lost the baby and her boyfriend killed himself from shame.
And then the spirit on the bridge is a teenage girl who died without kissing anyone. So it's all about a girl trying to figure out whom to possess so she can get kissed. Also she doesn't want to kiss the old guy. So she possesses the old guy. So sad and melancholy, sad and tragic, whacky. What the fuck? I guess if I had started on an earlier volume I would be used to it, but it's still a weird way of talking.
Speaking of which, this is a strangely reflective installment of Fire Punch. He is suddenly no longer on fire. He burned up everything and then he's with a community and he's trying to build something or deal with it. It's an interesting pause in the chaos that is a book about a man on fire who keeps burning everything, especially when we had that false pause in the last chapter. And it ends with him promising to kill Fire Punch which is either promising to kill himself or never be Fire Punch again. Regardless, it's kind of weird. And he's promising someone whose parents he killed. So that's fun.
217.Komi Can't Communicate 27 by Tomohito Oda - I was going to call this entry a title about friendship which is really the joy of Komi Can't Communicate. Komi has friends and her whole thing is to make more friends because she spent years too shy to talk to anyone until she talked to Tadano and it also reminds me of the friend that recommended it in the first place, a friend that I particularly missed this week when everyone at shul was fucking boring. Even the people that I normally talk to who were there were somehow just fucking boring and I'm so fucking bored with people talking about their travels to Athens or some phrase in a Jewish newspaper that was wrong or sitting next to Netanyahu's wife (and not punching her) and whatever that one guy was not talking about. So so fucking boring. The friend who recommended this book is never boring. She's just as random ADHD keep the conversation going as me. I miss her. I hope she comes back but I have to kind of give it up if I am going to keep myself sane. But I still miss her.
And Komi plays that game that everyone seemed to be playing during covid. The one with the secret assailant. Komi wins which is cute because no one wants to believe that Komi would be in the enemy side. Well Tadano thinks she's playing the saboteur because he knows her. Everyone else believes that she's innocent because that's what they always believe about her. This is a pretty light entry and there's a lot to say about how beauty makes people expect certain things out of you especially when it's coupled with a shyness so extreme that you can't even stop people from making assumptions. Still fun to branch out.
Still not sure about the new characters. I know there have to be new characters but Tadano, Komi, Manbagi and Tadano's trans friend are really the best of the bunch.
218.The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus 3 by Housoui Yamazaki - So these are really long books because they combine volumes and the volumes are pretty long in their own right. By the time I've finished the book, I can't remember most of the previous stories. Hell, I can't remember stories from 100 pages back and maybe that's not entirely my fault. As I noted when I was watching Arrow, if I have to keep looking up the Wiki to figure out whom everyone is, that's on the writers and the actors and the casting directors. But still there were some memorable stories in this things. There's the girl who joins the corpse delivery service only because she's dead. There's the ghosts that kill people and there are also stories with the ghost going after the one woman. No character in this thing really has much of a personality to speak of but they are fun.
219.Chi's Sweet Adventures by Konami Kanata & Kinoko Natsume - Ok, this is a cute cat book. I'm not entire happy with the fact that they let Chi go outside to get lost or whatever, but most of this book is about cats being cute, a little too cute but Manga loves cute cats and while my cats are little less cute, they are still sweet and affectionate. Probably not going to read another but if I see another one available at the library, might as well check it out.
220.Spirits & Cat Ears 10 by Miyuki Nakayama - Well this one has some weird ass tone shifts. The first two bits are about Chiya's tragic past where she is hated by the rest of her family because she's in a position of privilege and they still think that she's a loser. She makes a friend for a few days, but then that friend disappears. Also her grandmother is a bitch. Then we get a haunted bridge where Yukari remembers how she was happy and pregnant and then her boyfriend got possessed and tried to strangle her. So she lost the baby and her boyfriend killed himself from shame.
And then the spirit on the bridge is a teenage girl who died without kissing anyone. So it's all about a girl trying to figure out whom to possess so she can get kissed. Also she doesn't want to kiss the old guy. So she possesses the old guy. So sad and melancholy, sad and tragic, whacky. What the fuck? I guess if I had started on an earlier volume I would be used to it, but it's still a weird way of talking.
