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56.Spy X Family vol 3 by Tatsuya Endo - This one has the story of the brother showing up to invade the fake family set up by Twilight and Yor and make things very uncomfortable. Of course, the brother is trying to find Twilight because he's also a major spy. It's about the same as it is in the anime. However, the last story in this thing is about Yor getting shot in the butt and spending date night standing up because she doesn't want to sit down. But then one of the terrorists who survived her tries to kill her with puffer fish or is it blow fish poison. And that takes care of the pain. So she has a nice night. Of course, this story didn't make it into the anime. Which is probably a good thing.

Also Anya saves a kid from drowning because she's a telepath and so fucking cute.

57.Your Name: Another Side/Earthbound by Makoto Shinkai & Jyunya Nakamura - This is all about the girl's friends in the small town dealing with her acting very manly every other day. So the main parts I remember are when she's being possessed by the boy (Taki) she becomes VERY popular because he doesn't bother putting on a bra and then he keeps sitting with his legs spread open. There's even a point where he (in her body) is sawing a log and finally just goes "Can someone get me some sweatpants?" so he doesn't have to worry about being lady like.

But the major point is how her friends deal with her and worry about her when she's not braiding her hair and acting very aggressively, but it's also about their lives and how they feel trapped in the small town. So she confuses them even more as she wants to get out but when Taki takes over her body he's loving it there. Because what city dweller doesn't dig spending a few days in a small town every so often. I'm going back to Minneapolis and that is small enough, but sometimes I even cross the bridge into Fort Lee. And then get lost in New Jersey.
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39. Weathering With You book 3 by Makato Shinkai & Wataro Kubota - I'm currently watching an anime on Netflix called "A Whisker Away" where a girl turns into a cat to get close to her crush. It's a little too stalker-friendly for my tastes. Also I'm just hoping it explores the nature of how we will accept a whole lot more from cats then we do from humans. Either way I doubt I'll be won over like in this book.

So we're at the end of Weathering With You. And it follows the Shinkai formula of 1. Magic 2. Tragedy 3. Just Kidding Everything Actually Works Out (watch Your Name or Shizune for the same thing). So the first chapter was a runaway finding a girl who could literally change the weather. The second chapter was the runaway and the girl trying to hide from the cops as the girl disappears and she is revealed to be a sacrifice who will make the weather clear up.

This chapter is Hodaka doing all he can to get to her and convince her to leave that position. And I wouldn't say that I cried when he goes "I want you more than blue skies" but it got to me. And it's not just that he wants her but he wants her to do something for herself and not spend all of her life sacrificing herself to weather patterns.

This is actually the one Shinkai where the undoing of the tragedy actually messes things up more. In Your Name, that comet was going to hit regardless and in Shizune they find a different way to stop the earthquakes (actually the cat that they are following around changes his mind about wanting to be free because true love). So this one might be my favorite because it's basically going "so what if Tokyo is under water, we are not going to sacrifice people"

I also think that The Last of Us has a happy ending. Oh sure, they might save the human race by killing her but fuck that.

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