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[owlectomy]

In Japan, I was sufficiently stressed from being thrown into the deep end with classical Japanese that I ended up buying a fair number of manga and finding them too hard and giving up on them way too soon--such was the case with Ima Ichiko. Last night I got to thinking, hey, don't I have one of those manga piled away somewhere? And I looked through my plastic boxes of bunko volumes and there was the first volume of Hyakki Yakou Shou. (I still buy way too many books I don't read, of course. But it gives me something to discover later. When I'm readier).

Yay. It's as delighfully creepy as I remember, and this time I actually understand what was going on.
(Wait--did she say that she had to dress up as a girl when he was little? That's what the causative implies, but, uh, she IS a girl.... oh, wait. No.)

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[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I came in around vol 8 with no explanation about why little girl Ritsu visiting these odd people with her grandfather somehow becomes high school boy student Ritsu that one of the (male) odd people wants to marry. Wonderfully mysterious. I was almost sad when I discovered the (more or less) mundane reason for it.

And bunko does no justice to her art style at all. Is one reason why I also buy her in French.