Manga I am reading: Sukimasuki by Unita Yumi
Here's where you can find it: http://stiletto-heels.ambrosialsky.n
The title is katakana: スキマスキ (Also, this title has helped me learn THREE katakana characters - I always had trouble differentiating between マ and ア before, and I was never sure about ス. Of course everyone knows キ from reading enough stuff with doki-doki.)
The author UNITA Yumi is also the author of Usagi Drop plus many shorter works (I quite liked Nomino, which is a one chapter thing).
Okay. So. I'm skipping over many other things I've meant to talk about yet again, because I am so in love with Unita's book. I even added it to my LT catalogue, even though I try to resist adding manga I've read online to it. But I love this book so much that I would plunk down money for a copy on my bookshelf even in Japanese if I could afford it, so into my LT catalogue it goes. And a post about it on JF, too.
Because, you guys, I love it that much. I was an English major, so I of course had to learn a lot about literary techniques and to learn to recognize them and stuff, and a lot of manga are like pop novels that don't really bother to try that much. (Particularly the shoujo, which I've been reading way too much of lately.) But Sukimasuki! It didn't ignore literary techniques! Maybe it's not a masterpiece work or an award winner or anything, but does it matter if it won my heart? (that was totally sappy)
So here is the spoiler-free review I posted to manga-updates and LibraryThing. Plus a brief summary.
( Read more... )
So, that's that. It's another incentive to learn to read Japanese, because I want to be able to enjoy this story whenever I like, without having to rely on my computer for the digital scans and translations. I don't think it'll be licensed in the US any time soon.
(I feel like a bit of a dork for saying I want to learn Japanese for such a reason, but is it really a bad reason? I already have the ability to read French, and it's not like Japanese is the only foreign language I want to learn - it's on a list of like eight others, because I think languages are awesome, and I've already been interested in it for a long time, because of the grammar, and it seems less frustrating for me than a tonal language like Mandarin Chinese (which I'm also into)).
The title is katakana: スキマスキ (Also, this title has helped me learn THREE katakana characters - I always had trouble differentiating between マ and ア before, and I was never sure about ス. Of course everyone knows キ from reading enough stuff with doki-doki.)
The author UNITA Yumi is also the author of Usagi Drop plus many shorter works (I quite liked Nomino, which is a one chapter thing).
Okay. So. I'm skipping over many other things I've meant to talk about yet again, because I am so in love with Unita's book. I even added it to my LT catalogue, even though I try to resist adding manga I've read online to it. But I love this book so much that I would plunk down money for a copy on my bookshelf even in Japanese if I could afford it, so into my LT catalogue it goes. And a post about it on JF, too.
Because, you guys, I love it that much. I was an English major, so I of course had to learn a lot about literary techniques and to learn to recognize them and stuff, and a lot of manga are like pop novels that don't really bother to try that much. (Particularly the shoujo, which I've been reading way too much of lately.) But Sukimasuki! It didn't ignore literary techniques! Maybe it's not a masterpiece work or an award winner or anything, but does it matter if it won my heart? (that was totally sappy)
So here is the spoiler-free review I posted to manga-updates and LibraryThing. Plus a brief summary.
( Read more... )
So, that's that. It's another incentive to learn to read Japanese, because I want to be able to enjoy this story whenever I like, without having to rely on my computer for the digital scans and translations. I don't think it'll be licensed in the US any time soon.
(I feel like a bit of a dork for saying I want to learn Japanese for such a reason, but is it really a bad reason? I already have the ability to read French, and it's not like Japanese is the only foreign language I want to learn - it's on a list of like eight others, because I think languages are awesome, and I've already been interested in it for a long time, because of the grammar, and it seems less frustrating for me than a tonal language like Mandarin Chinese (which I'm also into)).
