“You Should be Nice/She’s in Class, Right?” No, I haven’t forgotten about Mix, though it seems like years (it’s actually six months almost to the day) since my last post.  In fact I missed the fact that a couple of chapters were released in September – an occupational hazard when […] Read more

“Are You Sure?/Because We’re Brothers” Fittingly it’s Mix that completes the first ever manga triple play at LiA… It’s been so long since we’ve seen a translated chapter of Mix that I’d almost forgotten where the story left off.  Such are the frustrations of being a manga fan who can’t […] 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

“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

“Hello/Just a Walk/That’s How a Childhood Friend Should Be” While waiting more than three months between releases is obviously less than ideal, in terms purely of consumption it might not be such a bad way to read Adachi Mitsuru. His narrative approach is so deliberate that one chapter per month […] Read more

“I Feel a Little Sorry For Them” I’ve mentioned this before, but reading a baseball manga monthly is tough.  Especially an Adachi manga.  I’d be lying if I said I didn’t find myself getting a bit impatient with the rate of development.  As a result a chapter like this one, […] Read more

“Now That’s Huge” I confess I hadn’t realized that the translated version of this chapter has been out there for a while, so my apologies for that.  It happens to be a pretty eventful one, too, with the best and most important on-field action of the series so far – […] Read more

“That’s My Brother” So the last chapter was titled “My Brother” and this one “That’s My Brother”.  Is Adachi getting lazy in his middle age?  If the title of 20 is “Are We Really Going to Masadora?” we’ll have a pretty good idea. The translations of Mix are coming fast […] Read more

“My Brother” Baseball must have drama, Radishes gotta be from Nerima, And Saury’s gotta be from Meguro. Thank you kindly for your attention. It seems to me as if Adachi-sensei’s fourth-wall breaking – always a staple – is on the upswing of late.  That passage was how he justified Touma […] Read more