Shaka, when the walls fell. Update #3: ANN joins the “nothing to report in WSJ 50” parade, so it isn’t looking good. It looks like “I’ve seen false reports simply get recycled over and over until everyone just assumes it’s true” was more predictive than I’d hoped. There could still […] Read more
“The Riders Attack” Mori-sensei, what have you done to my Otoyomegatari? Even with full foreknowledge of where things were headed, this chapter was a pretty bracing slap in the face. There’s not a lot of analysis to be done because it pretty much speaks for itself – chaos, destruction, death, […] Read more
“Are You Worried?” So, there ends the prologue, seemingly, and now begins the real story of Mix. But will the big question on everyone’s minds be answered anytime soon? I think more than with any other mangaka, familiarity is a vital component of Adachi Mitsuru’s appeal. Frankly I’m not sure […] Read more
“Barrage” This is certainly uncharted territory for Mori Kaoru in Otoyomegatari, and maybe ever. Our sweet little domestic period piece has become an action thriller, and in far more serious terms than the little skirmish when Amir’s family came to wrest her back from her child groom. We knew this […] Read more
“My Rose-Colored Life/For You” “There were two children. One of them wanted to be a boy. One of them wanted to be a girl. One of them stopped wanting to be a boy. That’s all there is to it.” Since Takako-sensei has chosen to sum up Hourou Musuko herself in […] Read more
“Meeting the Batan” Normally the most adorable couple in the universe arm-wrestling would be the headline, but that’s not the case here. For my money, Otoyomegatari is the best manga running (though with hundreds of them out there, that’s obviously narrowed down to the ones I read). In terms of […] Read more
“First Voice/Love” If you’ve been reading my posts on Hourou Musuko, you know that I’ve commented a few times that it felt to me as if Takako-sensei were getting ready to bring the manga to a close. Well, it’s confirmed – the August issue of Comic Beam is going to […] Read more
“Pasture” Well, that was certainly an Otoyomegatari chapter unlike any other so far. But never let it be said that Mori-sensei is a conservative mangaka – she tests the rules and follows her own path when it comes to format more than most others in the field, and this series […] Read more