Kisses and cats. Those are the words that define Takemoto Izumi’s Sakura no Kiwa (さくらの境) series. And Volume 4 is no different. (Available on Kindle only to JP IP addresses.) No, that’s not true. In Volume 4, there’s less cats. (For all my reviews of the Sakura no Kiwa volumes, click the link on the […]

Will someone please explain to me why I like Sakura no Kiwa? It has none of the things I enjoy in manga (a short list) and many of the things that enrage and annoy me (a much, much longer list.) So what the heck is it with this series that I don’t hate it!? Anyway, […]

I can tell that this is a really charming little series, because this *particular* volume includes a lot of situations that are really annoying…but I liked it anyway. ^_^ Sakura no Kiwa, you may remember, from my review of SnK Volume 1, is manga series about three girls and fourteen cats. Sakura’s parents have gone […]

From Takemoto Izumi, the same artist who created Transistor ni Venus, comes an entirely different, yet no less quirky, series – Sakura no Kiwa/Sakura’s Boundaries – as in personal boundaries. Because this is a story about how one girl, Sakura, has her personal boundaries gently pushed and kneaded and shaped until she finds herself living […]