{"id":328,"date":"2008-12-07T02:10:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T17:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/07\/mini-manga-reviews-2-crossfire-and-yotsuba-volume-2\/"},"modified":"2008-12-07T02:10:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T17:10:45","slug":"mini-manga-reviews-2-crossfire-and-yotsuba-volume-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/07\/mini-manga-reviews-2-crossfire-and-yotsuba-volume-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Manga Reviews 2: Crossfire and Yotsuba volume 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"floatleft\">\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-jp.amazon.co.jp\/e\/cm?t=fugutabetai-22&#038;o=9&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=4840122563&#038;md=1X69VDGQCMF7Z30FM082&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_top&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-jp.amazon.co.jp\/e\/cm?t=fugutabetai-22&#038;o=9&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=4840226741&#038;md=1X69VDGQCMF7Z30FM082&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_top&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Continuing in my series of mini-manga reviews, we have Miyuki Miyabe&#8217;s &#8220;Crossfire&#8221; and the second volume of &#8220;Yotsuba to&#8221;.  <P><\/p>\n<p>Crossfire is a pretty nice and easy read.  There were two words that I learned, basically accelerant (\u4fc3\u9032) and pyrogenesis (I think that is the English for it &#8211; someone that can cause fires with their mind.)  The author, Miyuki Miyabe is known for murder mystery and suspense novels.  This one has a bit of a supernatural tint to it, since the main character has the ability to start fires.  (Hence the title.)  I think that makes things a bit interesting, since I like to read about things that are bit divorced from the normal reality that we live in.  If I wanted to read about arsonists, I could find that in the newspaper just by looking hard enough.  The manga was a pretty quick read, and has furigana for most of the complicated words, but is probably more of an intermediate than beginner level.  I thought it might be self-contained, but it ended on a clear cliffhanger, so it looks like I&#8217;ll have to keep my eyes open for volume 2.  This manga was just released back in September so it is fairly new.  There is also a DVD movie version of what looks to be the same thing, but I&#8217;m not enthralled enough to want to search that out.  I might rent it if I come across it in Tsutaya though.  <P><\/p>\n<p>Next up is the second volume in the Yotsuba to series.  I really like this series: it is funny, each chapter is short and self-contained (makes for good reading when you only have five or ten minutes here or there, which is generally the situation I am in) and the Japanese itself is pretty basic.  It has full readings given for the kanji, so it is very accessible to beginners.  I also think this series is great for foreigners because of the whole &#8220;unusual aspects of Japan&#8221; that is explored from the point of view of a na\u00efve (or possibly very stupid, putting her on a level I can relate to \ud83d\ude42 ) young girl.  Highly recommended.  <P><\/p>\n<p>As always, you can click on the links to the left to hit the <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.co.jp\/\">Amazon.co.jp<\/a> pages for the books, but they have my referrer ID in them so I clearly am trying to make money off of you.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing in my series of mini-manga reviews, we have Miyuki Miyabe&#8217;s &#8220;Crossfire&#8221; and the second volume of &#8220;Yotsuba to&#8221;. Crossfire is a pretty nice and easy read. There were two words that I learned, basically accelerant (\u4fc3\u9032) and pyrogenesis (I think that is the English for it &#8211; someone that can cause fires with their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15,14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}