There’s just no such thing as an uneventful chapter anymore. I was feeling pretty low after Chapter 138 of Chihyafuru, for reasons that I don’t think require a lot of explanation. I’m certainly no less invested in the story than I ever was, but this series has become so heavy […] Read more
“If It’s For You…” Husband standing in the way of the yuri goggles? That’s easy – kill him off! I’m really not sure what to make of this latest plot twist from Mori-sensei, which has Shirin’s husband (I mixed up last time and thought it was Anis’ husband that had […] Read more
Be careful what you wish for, indeed. Well, I wanted “progress” – and I guess I got it. And in pretty much exactly the form I speculated on in my post on Chapter 136, too – a disastrous confession with disastrous results. It was definitely “movement”, anyway, and at this […] Read more
“The Ceremony” I’ll be honest – I’ve pretty much run out of things to day about this arc. This pictures are gorgeous, the story is a bore, and how many times can I say how great the cat is? Though the cat is pretty great – one of the all-time […] Read more
Chihayafuru thought for the day: there’s a big difference between “movement” and “progress”… When you consider that there are plenty of long-running manga that are 300-400 chapters or even many more, Chihayafuru really hasn’t been around all that long (though of course its 130+ chapters are closer to monthly than […] Read more
“Just a Passerby/Aren’t You Underestimating Him?” The thick plottens, at long last. Lots of interesting stuff going on in these two chapters, the first of which acts as a kind of father-son montage. Most amusing here is Nishimura Isami telling his son “You don’t have to take after me with […] Read more
Even glaciers move, though too slowly to be discerned by the human eye… It’s taken us 135 chapters, but it appears that Suetsugu-sensei may finally be taking the tiniest steps forward in putting Taichi out of his misery advancing the relationship between Chihaya and Taichi. She’s faked me out before […] Read more
“Jan-Ken-Pon” I’ve actually been toying with the idea of saving up Mix chapters until there are a few unreleased ones out there before reading and posting, as the series really seems to flow better that way. But given how irregular the releases are I’ll stick with brief (or not, as […] Read more
“Throw a Pitch” This isn’t what I would call a supremely eventful chapter, devoting as it does more time to Punch being sick than anything else (and in the end, he’s not even sick). There are a few interesting developments, though, as Adachi-sensei continues to drop hints about the Touch […] Read more
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in… I was pretty defeated after the last chapter of Chihayafuru, which was really the first time I felt so acutely that the series was stagnating and that we were really being strung along as an audience. It’s not […] Read more