Is it Thursday again already? Wow, where’d that last week go! Not too much out on the manga-front this week but I still picked up a few goodies.
Naturally my most anticipated purchase of the week was the ninth and newest volume of Yotsuba&!. It was a little disappointing to have already read all the chapters via my subscription to Yen Plus, but still kudos to the perfect timing of the book’s final chapter being released just a day before the book hit store shelves. My favourite chapter in this book is actually the one starring the least amount of Yotsuba where her Father, Jumbo and Yanda have some fun, casual talk that just felt like a refreshing, down to earth and of course amusing little break from Yotsuba being as fantastic as she is. Not that there isn’t plenty of that too – I laughed out loud hard rereading a particular scene with a teddy bear at the book’s end. Much of this book follows Yotsuba and co. as they watch hot air balloons take off which is a good excuse to get them all out of the house for a while.
After that, I bought the fourth book in the Twelve Kingdoms series. I now have 1-4 but haven’t read them yet which is something I really need to change. The anime was phenomenal and I’m really eager to relive much of its charm through the books upon which is was based. And the covers are so pretty, they’re at least great just to stare at for the time being.
Always on the look-out for something new, I picked up the first volume of Itsuwaribito at random because it looked neat and had a funny shaped raccoon thing on the cover. Apparently I was more easily enticed than usual this week? Lastly, for something sort of old, I bought for my roommate the very long-awaited continuation of UDON’s Darkstalkers comic in volume two.
How about you – anything new on your shelves this week? Any manga or comics in your bags as gifts for the holiday season?
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I got volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Sand Chroncles and volumes one and two fo Strawberry Marshmellow
I recently read the final volume of Sand Chronicles and really liked it, though I'll admit I haven't read any other volumes. Let me know what you think of those first volumes, I'm wondering if it's a series worth buying to read. Strawberry Marshmallow has such a cute looking cover!