“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
“You’re a Pitcher, Right?”/”I’m Glad” It appears as if Adachi-sensei is getting soft in his middle age. We finally got our tragedy, but the patient lived. Anyone who’s read enough Adachi manga knew that Mix was a ticking time bomb – something bad was bound to happen (or already be […] Read more
Just in case anyone was curious about what the Ginga e Kickoff manga looks like, here’s the first two volumes at Shibuya Animate. Read more
“Dreaming Girl” “She’s really risque in my dreams. She likes that we wear matching underwear, too.” Life in certainly complicated for Shuuichi Nitori. As I’ve mentioned in the past, what really makes Hourou Musuko stand out from the pack for me is that Takako-sensei manages to make her cast – […] Read more