17. Natsuki Takaya: Fruits Basket, volume 1

[myntti]

BC journal entry
Book description from Amazon.com:
Tohru Honda was an orphan when one day fate kicked her out of the house and on to land belonging to the mysterious Sohma family. After stumbling upon the teenage squatter, the Sohmas invite Tohru to stay in their house in exchange for cooking and cleaning. Everything goes well until she discovers the Sohma family's secret, when hugged by members of the opposite sex, they turn into their Chinese Zodiac animal!

The interesting part? The shapeshifting Sohma family and their curse.
Everything else? Not so interesting. And I still don't like cutesy characters with saucer-sized eyes.
I've got two other manga books in my TBR pile (Kaze Hikaru Vol. 1 and Rurouni Kenshin Vol. 2) and I'm going to read them, but...
I'm starting to suspect that manga just isn't my cup of tea.

Comments

[vierran45.livejournal.com]

The first book is rather cutesy, but the story gets much darker in the following volumes, though there is some cute stuff as well to counterbalance some of the heart-breaking stuff. I utterly hate and despise one of the characters in this manga, because of all the bad stuff they have done.

Still, it might be manga in general or this manga in particular just isn't your thing.

[myntti.livejournal.com]

The first book is rather cutesy, but the story gets much darker in the following volumes

Well, darker is often better...
The problem is that I didn't like Tohru very much, and she's the main character.

[catharinal.livejournal.com]

Kannattaa lukea seuraavaksi Death Note, siitä ei voi olla pitämättä:

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5590811

Minulta saa lainaksi. Olen tuon ekan osan vähän niinkuin ominut PC:hen, mutta hyvähän BC-kirjan on kiertää.

[myntti.livejournal.com]

Minulta saa lainaksi. Olen tuon ekan osan vähän niinkuin ominut PC:hen, mutta hyvähän BC-kirjan on kiertää.

No voisihan tuotakin kokeilla. Esiintyykö tuossa kikattavia koulutyttöjä? Jos ei, niin sitten aina parempi...

[catharinal.livejournal.com]

Ei kikatusvaaraa :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note
http://deathnote.viz.com/

[myntti.livejournal.com]

Ei kikatusvaaraa :-)

No hyvä. :-)