Anime & Manga

I thought Oishinbo a La Carte  was really nice and a 2-in-1 type a deal. Its a manga and a recipe book! It tells you the name of the dish made and guides the reader one ingredient at a time of how to prepare it yourself. This reading reminded me of an anime I was checking out called Food Wars  and it's about a family-owned restaurant that's struggling to stay in business but business people want to take it down and build for the future. They let you know the name of the dish, ingredients and they also make it in the show and serve to customers. But the dishes are a lot more intense than Oishinbo a La Carte recipes, Food Wars sends the consumer on an emotional roller coaster that could even make your clothes come off.

The link to read the manga wasn't working and I couldn't find anything on my own either so I'll just talk about the summary. A teen kid looks for a change of life by applying to an agriculture high school in the country. Since he's so smart, he thinks they will be a walk in the part, but instead got a rude awakening at four in the morning. Over time he starts to learn the way of the agriculture and country folks do things around there. Even its comical, the teen learns real hardship and teamwork while being at the high school and his mind is more open than before.

I love me some horror! the manga Ito Juni Horror Comic Collection was pretty good. Reminds me of the book Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark , a book I read a long time ago in middle school. I started off with the first chapter of the comic collection and every second of it was good, I was literally getting scared reading it. It wasn't too long, which I like for a scary story because it doesn't give you enough time to catch up on what the hell is going on. The ending was so crazy, I'm still trying to guess where was the girl who stole people's looks came from and why is she a weird insect. Even though my presentation of Inuyasha is technically horror, it doesn't compare to Ito Juni Horror Comic Collection .

I really liked the first couple of pages in color rather than the black and white for this manga. That Time I Got Reincarnated as A Slime goes downhill pretty fast. A friend and a couple are having a conversation about the couples engaged and starting to plan their wedding with a close companion. All of a sudden a random person runs towards the group and was originally was going to strike the male lover, but he gets pushed out of the way by his companion he falls to the ground taking the hit for him. At this point, I'm already sad and rather not read any more of the manga but I know its only the beginning. This book is not my cup of tea.

I read Akira  and the illustrations are a totally old comic book vibe and I love it. The pages are colored at first but then quickly dims down all the way to just black and white. It starts off talking about world war three happenings but then jumps to guys on a motorcycle headed to the city and I think they are trying to shake someone off. I got lost with the reading and started from right to left, but it reads like an American book would. These bikers have a leader which I assume is also the main character all throughout the series. And looking into the details of their bike, they look way too futuristic to still be in the same time frame as the bomb so that's a cool find. I treat fictional characters like they are real, so when I saw one of the bikers get hit with some type of explosion and was badly injured, It made me worried for him if he would live or not. That's as much as I read into the manga.

I remember reading My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness in class one day and I was not prepared for what I was about to see in this reading. For someone who has never owned or willingly read manga, this was complete to new to me versus the other manga we have discussed in class. Although I am not attracted to the same gender, you can just feel the pressure and struggle the main character is going through with natural psychological changes. There was one funny part in the first chapter where the main character accidentally creates a bald spot on top of her head and tries to cover it up with more hair combed over. I think the style is pretty sweet. The pink background and objects kinda add to the love experience. Not my type of manga but still a decent reading from what I've read.