Chio-chan is a great read that makes me laugh hard every few pages.
The stories are mostly about Chio-chan going (walking / running / parkouring) to school, but the setting doesn't really feel like that usual high-schooly thing. There are rarely any pages where the characters are actually in school.
Sometimes the humour comes from strange situations the characters get into, sometimes it's the conversations they are having, but it's usually great. Its nature is intelligent, and often a bit absurd, but nothing close to Excel Saga, for example.
Sometimes you also get ... lewd vibes from some pages, but it's not the point of the manga, and
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Apr 26, 2016
Natsume Yuujinchou
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The Natsume Yuujinchou anime took an amazing manga and elevated it to be the magnum opus of audio-visual storytelling.
You won't find a work of fiction so moving, so engaging as this one. The stories and the characters are full of love, they suck in the viewer and envelop them with a warm, often tear-soaked blanket. Every episode is a testament to the beauty of the ephemeral and frail human existence, and to what it means to be human: Kindness, love, hate, fear and courage, friendship, loneliness, life and death - these aspects of our being shine through every single episode. |
