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I love Kanako Inuki. Her artwork is to die for, her mild cynicism is always on the mark, her works have a great sense of humor, and her characters are oftentimes very cute.

So I was disappointed that this collection was chosen by Kodansha USA to represent her.

Like so many other MAL geeks, I like to read entire series'. I can't stand that this collection packages random chapters from a bunch of Inuki's series' into a single volume, and that this is the only Inuki on my shelf. Forgive me, but if I'm being self-aware about it, it's just that i think its so fucking lame. ... I get that releasing something like this can test the waters and try to stir audience interest before taking the riskier business decision and releasing a whole series. But as an ashamedly pretentious reader, I feel that this to some extent compromises the integrity of each series. It waters them down. I know it's very impractical, but that's just how I feel as a fan. If I had taken more time at the comic shop to surf through the contents, I probably wouldn't have bought this book.

Now that I actually have some legitimate Japanese reading skills, I can enjoy something like Bukita-kun in full. But I regret that my strictly anglophone friends can't experience her great series' in this way.

So TL/DR - I highly recommend Kanako Inuki and the series that are featured in this book, but I don't like this book itself.



god MAL's advice for writing reviews is some of the whackest five-paragraph essay shit