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- seen: 1 of 2
- type: manga
- grade: watchable
- people: Takahashi
- made: unknown
- Review created: A while ago, i'll revise it eventually.
- mod: none
A collection of Rumiko Takahashi short stories with all that can be expected from this talented manga-ka. Takahashi's style has a strong air of the `almost mundane' that limits the ability of her titles to blow you away, but the skillful handling of character and story means that they tend to grow on you and bear many re-readings gracefully. This collection illustrates this well, with the stories being widely seperate in story and intention, but all of them skillfully woven and bearing her unique stamp and distinctive humor. In addition at about 254 pages this is considerably better value than the Rumic World collection, and the stories show some evidence of being later works than that series. There are two almost horror stories, on piece of complete silliness (Shake your buddha) which looks like an earlier piece, but the vast majority have a strong romance core, often with some magical elements to complicate things (including four ghost stories, although two of these are primarily romantic stories). Of course the problem is that RT's characters are so good you want to keep following the story, but the stories are sufficiently complete on their own that this is not too great a problem. If you like RT's style, and can handle a touch of romance, then this is a recommended title.
Words by Andrew Shelton, Web by Ticti, Last Compile: Wed Aug 5 12:39:24 WST 2009