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自転車男子に恋をした②
Tonight I read Yomoyama Akira’s new (released today!) manga 自転車男子に恋をした②, the highly anticipated sequel to 自転車男子に恋をした①. It took me three hours to read it (including the afterword), because I look up...
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My moment with Yowamushi Pedal 30
I just finished part 29 of Yowamushi Pedal, the bicycle manga. (I haven’t read part 1 to 28.) It’s the first thick, normal, mainstream manga that I read in Japanese, so it feels like an...
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Finally reading Yotsuba to!
I finished volume 30 of Yowamushi Pedal and to be honest, I was a bit tired of it in the end. It takes such long time for me to read in Japanese! So I blame that, not the manga. Then I started reading...
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ウソツキ！
I bought ウソツキ！ゴクオーくん (Gokuoh-kun the Liar!) by 吉もと 誠 (Yoshimoto Makoto) at Yodobashi (and sent it home with sea mail) partly because its tagline in English: “A small lie is useful in some cases.” It...
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ウソツキ！ゴクオーくん 第２・３話
I’ve now read chapter 2 and 3 of Liar! Gokuoh-kun and they were actually quite exciting. 第２話 Chapter 2 is about poor little Tenko’s attempts to jump the vaulting box at height 5. Doya teases her and...
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自転車男子に恋をした③
I used my Wacom Bamboo to look up kanji (no furigana here!) while reading the third part of Akira Yomoyama’s doujinshi series 自転車男子に恋をした (“I fell in love with a male bicyclist”). It took 2,5 hours for...
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『自転車男子に恋をした④』をGET！
Last weekend, it was Comitia 109 in Tokyo. It’s a doujinshi event for original works only (no parodies). I visited Comitia 106 last autumn and met my favorite bicycle mangaka Akira Yomoyama there. He...
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Bicycle manga
Amazing, Akira Yomoyama has released his previous doujinshi booklets + a new story in this beautiful volume, so thick, with perfect print quality and a tasty obi! So fresh it’s not even officially...
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Adult shipment from Japanese Amazon Marketplace
My Amazon order from Monday 6 April 2015 also contained a couple of items from Amazon Marketplace, which are then shipped separately from those sellers (just like Amazon in other countries works). I...
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