Hey buddies
Sorry for the delay with this update. This has been a rather tiring week (first the workers strike, now the students strike... and it keeps raining) and I'm sure we're all a little fatigued. I know I am. So instead of a review, this is just a quick update.
In the last review I posted a link to read Yotsuba&!, but only 68 chapters are available on that site. I believed that it was no longer being translated online, but one of my readers corrected me (thank you for commenting!). Since manga that are licensed in English have a habit of temporarily disappearing from the internet (depending on how possessive the English publisher is), I wanted to post a more comprehensive list of resources specific to Yotsuba&!
The YotsubaScans blog has all the chapters of Yotsuba available for downloading here. I'm not sure if the person in charge of the blog is part of a scanlating group or just receives translated chapters and posts them, but they are being careful to respect publisher's rights. If you love this manga so much you want to download it, please be sure to respect the rules of the blog owner, which you can read about here.
I don't ever download manga of the internet (for multiple reasons, all of which are irrelevant to this post), and if anyone else feels the same way you can still read this manga online. YotsubaScans currently uploads its chapters on only one site, Mangareader. Scanlator's rights are a can of worms I don't feel like addressing, but let it suffice to say that if the blog owner says they'll only host their manga on one site, don't bother looking for it anywhere else on the internet. If any site is found to be hosting manga they're not supposed to have, it will get taken down p.d.q. (pretty darn quick, for all you linguistically-limited folks). Since the blog owner has promised to upload to Mangareader, the most reliable place to read Yotsuba&! and check for updates is Mangareader. You can read Yotsuba&! on Mangareader by clicking here.
Summary:
Download chapters of Yotsuba&! here
Read Yotsuba&! online here
Play the dress-up game here
(okay that last link wasn't actually mentioned in the update, but it's a cute game, and both real and imaginary 4-year-olds love it)
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Monday, 7 November 2011
Review: Yotsuba&!
Read Yotsuba&! here
Play the dress-up game here :)
Hello folks
Thank you for the (single) comment on my last post. I look forward to more communication. I was actually sort of at a loss about which manga to review this time. There are a lot of manga I like to read, but I wasn't "in the mood" to go over any of them. In the end, I chose one of my all-time favourites. Note that the title is not "Yotsuba" but "Yotsuba&!" because each chapter is named after a different topic, for example Yotsuba and Shopping! or Yotsuba and TV!. So the title reflects the enthusiasm that Yotsuba has for life and each subject.
Play the dress-up game here :)
Hello folks
Thank you for the (single) comment on my last post. I look forward to more communication. I was actually sort of at a loss about which manga to review this time. There are a lot of manga I like to read, but I wasn't "in the mood" to go over any of them. In the end, I chose one of my all-time favourites. Note that the title is not "Yotsuba" but "Yotsuba&!" because each chapter is named after a different topic, for example Yotsuba and Shopping! or Yotsuba and TV!. So the title reflects the enthusiasm that Yotsuba has for life and each subject.
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| In Japanese "yotsuba" is a 4-leaf clover. Since she has 4 green pigtails the name is fitting |
Thursday, 3 November 2011
Review: Fruits Basket
Read Fruits Basket here
G'day mates! (*Please comment on this post once you've read it!*)
Fruits Basket is a very popular shoujo* manga that was even made into an anime. The anime is only 26 episodes while the manga is 23 volumes, so some of the characters that appear in the manga don't appear in the anime and it has a different ending from the manga. I rarely watch anime, so this review is about the manga.
Summary:
Fruits Basket is the story of a ridiculously cheerful and good-natured girl named Tohru Honda. After the death of her mother and some other circumstances, she is living alone in a tent and ends up taking shelter in the house of Shigure and Yuki Sohma. Yuki is the famous "prince" of her high school and she is excited yet shy to be living with him, but she doesn't expect to uncover a major secret -- the Sohma family is under a curse! Some members are possessed with the spirit of zodiac animals, and turn into those animals when physically weakened or when hugged by a member of the opposite sex! The story documents Tohru's encounters with the members of the zodiac and other characters, as she learns of the terrible implications of the curse and works to break it (falling in love along the way, of course!).
G'day mates! (*Please comment on this post once you've read it!*)
Fruits Basket is a very popular shoujo* manga that was even made into an anime. The anime is only 26 episodes while the manga is 23 volumes, so some of the characters that appear in the manga don't appear in the anime and it has a different ending from the manga. I rarely watch anime, so this review is about the manga.
Summary:
Fruits Basket is the story of a ridiculously cheerful and good-natured girl named Tohru Honda. After the death of her mother and some other circumstances, she is living alone in a tent and ends up taking shelter in the house of Shigure and Yuki Sohma. Yuki is the famous "prince" of her high school and she is excited yet shy to be living with him, but she doesn't expect to uncover a major secret -- the Sohma family is under a curse! Some members are possessed with the spirit of zodiac animals, and turn into those animals when physically weakened or when hugged by a member of the opposite sex! The story documents Tohru's encounters with the members of the zodiac and other characters, as she learns of the terrible implications of the curse and works to break it (falling in love along the way, of course!).
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| Yuki the rat and Kyo the cat. Our 2 possible love interests ;) |
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