katarina_kirishiki's reviews
154 reviews

Atelier of Witch Hat 08: Das Geheimnis der Hexen by Kamome Shirahama

reflective sad tense

5.0

Atelier of Witch Hat 07: Das Geheimnis der Hexen by Kamome Shirahama

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Manga: wholesome
One of the main charas: "let me add some angst"

Quiffrey damn you....seeing Orugio really wanting to help and the terror on his face when he noticed what Quiffrey was about to do, really hit hard

Atelier of Witch Hat 06: Das Geheimnis der Hexen by Kamome Shirahama

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu Volume 1 by Natsuya Semikawa

2.0

- Read for a Manga Book Club -

I like the idea/concept of this manga but to be honest the execution seems lacking. 
The concept of the pub being able to

get ingredients from another world

, seemed interesting but to be honest everything else around it, seems more of like a mess of things being thrown together. 
I get that a "deep plot" is not at the heart of such a manga but the characters and their backgrounds were so cliche and basic it just wasn't interesting.

I also think the vibe to me felt kind of off, I can't place it fully but something in my opinion didn't fully make sense. Such as the town/village they're in always being mentioned as "this ingredient is bad here" "this ingredient is also bad here" or "it's winter so all the food and drinks are bad here", which made it really weird.  
Also the, what I interpreted as,

child marriage

just being mentioned at the end of the chapter with no context or anything felt so weird too. I guess it should portray the "old times" but generally the whole world-building seemed off to me in the first volume, as if just random things were thrown in to fit a "middle-ages Europe but kinda fantasy" concept. 

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

This is a really great book. It is a comparably fast read but so much is presented and discussed.

A thing which bothered me, was the way the dialogue style changed a bit too much for my liking (they'd use quotation mars and then all of a sudden switch to a play like script) but I really liked the use of different fonts.
And whilst some of the "teenage language" seemed a bit cringy in my opinion, the narration otherwise was great. 

So many very brutal and important topics and themes are discussed in this book, and I was honestly suprised that it would dive straight into them with little to no sugar coating. But this really made it a great read, since it narrates the events in a straightforward way whist still highlighting the emotions and thoughts that acompany the main character. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality

Moderate: Death, Violence, Murder

The Magnus Archives: Season 1 by Jonathan Sims

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense

For non-book records, review text and ratings are hidden. Only mood, pace, and content warnings are visible.

Kaiju No. 8 - Band 11 by Naoya Matsumoto

adventurous funny inspiring

5.0

I really enjoyed that a lot of the fights are finished fast, they don't feel unnecessarily stretched out, which makes for quite well done pacing in my opinion. 

Jujutsu Kaisen - Band 24 by Gege Akutami

emotional tense

4.0

On the one hand it has some super interesting plot points, but what has to be noted is that the style in which they happen is all over the place. 

I also read JJK weekly and it often makes more sense (or the storytelling seems more fluent/cohesive) when reading the whole volume instead of how it feels when you have to wait between chapters. However this is not really the case here, which I is kinda sad. 

It feels like certain points were made in the narrative and randomly thrown out somewhere along the way.

Blue Lock - Band 18 by Muneyuki Kaneshiro

4.5

Akane-Banashi, Vol. 13 by Takamasa Moue, Yuki Suenaga

emotional funny hopeful inspiring

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0