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A review by argyledinosaur
Spirits & Cat Ears, Vol. 1 by Miyuki Nakayama
2.0
Uh... Where do I start?
The illustrations were good. I really liked them. The characters are super cute and the clothes and buildings and all are really well drawn. I guess I should've known from the cover that it was going to be kind of sexualized. I assumed it was going to be mildly sexualized, and I'm far from a prude, but this is definitely more sexual than I had anticipated, which isn't necessarily bad, but I wasn't ready. The story itself isn't too bad, but I think the plot is kind of thin. Basically this girl gets teased because of her cat ears so she stops going out into the public, but she has a familiar and has the potential to be a full fledged priestess. In order to be a priestess she needs to exercise demons and stuff, but she doesn't really do the exorcising her familiar does. But he won't exercise them until she says her "words of power" which are essentially "Restrain me" and then a collar and chain appear around her neck, and then he does all the work. Afterwards they go home and then he makes her put on a skimpy outfit, which she's not really down for, but that's common, I guess, in manga? Like, this is the third one I've read this year where the protagonist gets touched or forced to do something they don't want to do. That makes me uncomfortable, but I'm starting to get the impression that it's just more culturally accepted over there than it is here in the states.
Other than those few issues with it, it was okay. I'm not really hopping on the train to reading the sequels, but if the library decides to get them in, I might give volume 2 a chance and go from there.
The illustrations were good. I really liked them. The characters are super cute and the clothes and buildings and all are really well drawn. I guess I should've known from the cover that it was going to be kind of sexualized. I assumed it was going to be mildly sexualized, and I'm far from a prude, but this is definitely more sexual than I had anticipated, which isn't necessarily bad, but I wasn't ready. The story itself isn't too bad, but I think the plot is kind of thin. Basically this girl gets teased because of her cat ears so she stops going out into the public, but she has a familiar and has the potential to be a full fledged priestess. In order to be a priestess she needs to exercise demons and stuff, but she doesn't really do the exorcising her familiar does. But he won't exercise them until she says her "words of power" which are essentially "Restrain me" and then a collar and chain appear around her neck, and then he does all the work. Afterwards they go home and then he makes her put on a skimpy outfit, which she's not really down for, but that's common, I guess, in manga? Like, this is the third one I've read this year where the protagonist gets touched or forced to do something they don't want to do. That makes me uncomfortable, but I'm starting to get the impression that it's just more culturally accepted over there than it is here in the states.
Other than those few issues with it, it was okay. I'm not really hopping on the train to reading the sequels, but if the library decides to get them in, I might give volume 2 a chance and go from there.