marlowe1: (PIGGY!!!!)
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.
marlowe1: (Spinning Tardis)
YOur Name vol 3 by Makoto Shinkai (writing) and Rammaru Kotone (artist) - For the millionth time I repeat my anecdote about thinking that Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis was a literary term and the way that triologies work. Because Your Name follows it perfectly. Volume 1 - funny and weird story about body switching (and it takes place every other day for these characters for a month - so I guess we just ignore the fact that this guy is waking up in a body that's bleeding and cramping for a few of those days - I guess it would disrupt the narrative to have him screaming for 5 pages. But he's feeling her up as a running joke so yeah the author brought it up) and then volume 2 - elegaic and sad because he discovers that she's been dead when part of a comet hit her village.

So this one feels like "Ok, so you know how you're sad about this whole young death thing? Just kidding. Here's a happy ending" and you know just like in the movie, it gets to me. I might be joking about this thing. I have seen the movie 2-3 times and just read the manga collection (I even checked out the Your Name but from the other characters' perspective mangas from the library - quite sure that they were cash grabs) and it's still feels sweet when they are both trying to save the town with different plans. Like when he's in her body he's trying to plant explosives and demand that the mayor evacuates and when she's back she talks to her father for the first time (ahhh. Family reconciliation. Goddamn gets me every time). And then they forget each other until they are both in Tokyo and run into each other.

And that's it. That's the story. They tell each other their names and then promptly forget their names. And then save the town population. And then forget everything (which is a problem due to the fact that the grandmother remembers switching bodies as a teenager). And then they run into each other and we hope that they work it out. Sigh.
marlowe1: (Serenity)
2. Weathering With You vol 1 - Makoto Shinkai (story) & Wataru Kubota (Art) - So I liked the movie Your Name and then decided to check out the Manga. Your Name vol 3 review will be coming shortly but I did start the other manga written by this guy and it does have a lot of the characteristics of Your Name - small town vs. Tokyo culture shock, two star-crossed leads and magic. In this case the magic is the fact that the girl can change the weather. However, there are hints that this is not going to be just her making the sun shine during the worst deluge in years (according to the characters). Ok, there's a Buddhist monk giving the exposition about weather goddesses and how they end up tragic.

THe romance is at the heart of the book as the guy finds the girl and convinces her to use her powers for money. Mostly he's a guy who ran away from his island because nothing was happening there and he felt trapped. There's also a talk about how an island is a prison but Tokyo is also a prison. So there's some teen angst for you.

The strain in the book comes early when the boy is on the streets and pulls a gun on a bully, an adult bully who likes to just push people around and gets creepy with the girl protagonist. So that comes toward the end with people in suits coming for him and asking the bullying adult about him.

I'll have more later.

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