two manga

[cornerofmadness]

Ghostly Things, Vol. 1 by Ushio Shirotori

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This one has potential but the main protagonist really needs punched up in the personality department. Yachiho has moved into a large 'haunted' house and is promptly left by her father as he's traveling for work (He's a folklorist). They both are searching for the Book of the Dead (for reasons) and he leaves her to search for it at the house while he's off searching elsewhere. Yachiho works this in between going to school and honestly it might be good to see her at school a little more and develop her character a bit.

As is Yachiho is passive, reactive instead of proactive. In the first tale she meets Moro, a guardian/cross roads spirit who helps other spirits back to the spirit realm. So in that regards the house is basically a portal and weird crap happens. Yachiho observes it and helps some as she searches. It is very much a new creature per chapter without much depth to any of the stories.

The final chapter offers hope the plot and hopefully the characterization is going to improve as we go with the addition of another character who can see spirits but unbeknownst to Yachiho, has darker goals and motivations so that could be interesting. It isn't that the story is bad but it isn't particularly memorable. The art is very detailed and lovely and it is the big selling point here. My library has more so I plan to look for more.




Chainsaw Man, Vol. 2 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Okay this is going to get very old very fast. Denji is not only not going to give up on his boob fetish, he pretty much doubles down on it through this whole volume and even when he basically gets his wish and learns it's not nearly as good as he'd hoped, he still keeps up with his 'little wishes' that he knows don't measure up to his fellow devil hunters' goals. Couple that with some poop humor and you know for sure the mangaka is writing for 12 year old boys. Eye rolls.

Also we have the two female leads, Power and Makima using Denji's naivety, teenaged horniness and absolute starvation for touch to manipulate the crap out of him using their boobs. And it's becoming far too big of an element in the story line. I've definitely quit books for less.

When we're not dealing with the sexual harassment (from literally everyone) the story isn't bad. The big boss villain in this one is fairly unique and it ends with the most bizarre escape room challenge I've seen in forever plus my library has the series so I will read on for at least one more volume. Maybe now that Denji's finally touched a boob we can move past this (probably right into an obsession with getting laid before he dies)



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