Book: Kingyo Used Books Volume 2
Author/illustrator: Seimu Yoshizaki
Published: 2004 (Viz Signature)
Pages: …I can’t tell.
I got to actually, literally, in real-manga-time see how
reading a story affects people in the rest of their lives in this volume, so I
now officially love this series.
Best examples: a schoolboy finds Tezuka’s Adolf in his desk
and reading it and sending notes to the student with the same name who keeps
leaving the volumes makes the boy take hold of his own destiny by defending
himself and manga at the same time! And a boy who recently lost his father gets
inspired to take a journey when he finds his dad’s favorite series and follows
its lead.
The one weak spot is the story about the manly man secretly
liking girly manga but being ashamed of it. Literally all that happens is him
standing around muttering in a bookstore until a couple other guys unashamedly
buy the girly stuff and the manly man is all, “Oh…so, I guess that’s okay
then.” And that's where it ends.
But there are still
books that are palpably changing lives, and no, you can never argue with that
because you won’t win. Going back to the library; I will eventually dine on the
third volume.
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