4-koma comics, the Japanese analogy to the western comic strip, tend to follow a pattern. Like comic strips, they focus on talking heads, doing rather formulaic things. Think of any mainstream comic strip or even popular webcomics, and you can see the pattern pretty quickly. The most common formula is two to four people, conversations […]
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Sunshine Sketch Manga, Volume 2 (English)
In Volume 2 of Sunshine Sketch, Yuuno is settling into life at the Hidamari dorms. School life is filled with quizzes no one studies for, class trips, midterms no one studies for, festivals, lunchtimes, final exams no one studies for, waking up late and falling asleep in class, eating food, taking baths and other minutiae […]
Sunshine Sketch Manga, Volume 1 (English)
I want to start today’s review off by thanking Yen Press for the copy of Hidamari Sketch that they sent me. Before I had a chance to write a review, our guest reviewer for today, Jen, wrote one that is in every way but one in complete alignment with anything I might have said. So, […]
Yuri Manga: Roku + Ichi Gurashi (ロク+イチ暮らし)
We remember Hidamari Sketch (licensed in English as Sunshine Sketch), don’t we? Aoki Ume’s series about a bunch of women at a trade school apartment building was nice. It was cute and silly and extremely, bizarrely repetitive. In 8 volumes of manga covering the 2 years they’d be at the school, they must have celebrated […]
Yuri Manga: Comic Yuri Hime March 2017 (コミック百合姫2017年3月号)
Comic Yuri Hime March 2017 (コミック百合姫2017年3月号) continues with the same variety of Yuri that we’ve come to expect from magazine this year. That said, there’s a definite slant towards the moe….understandably, as it’s easier to drawn simplified faces than it is to draw detailed art. Which is why I genuinely treasure Ohsawa Yayoi’s “2DK, G […]
