Comments on: Flower of Life 4

By: Connie

Connie — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:38:14 +0000

Cyphomandra: Yeah, Flower of Life was definitely my favorite of all the Yoshinaga series I’ve read. Antique Bakery is a close second, but it wasn’t quite as charming and didn’t make me laugh as much. I liked all her volumes of short stories and shorter series a lot too, in varying degrees, but I think my favorites from among those was Gerard and Jacques, which gets going after the unfortunate rape scene that occurs immediately after the first volume.

Ooku was fabulous, and just about everything I expected from it. I’m having a hard time figuring out if she’s setting up for a long story in the first volume, or if it’ll act the same way her other series do, with a plot that has various digressions and endearing character moments before coming to a nice open-ended finish. I’m curious to see how that will work out, but I think I’ll love it either way.

By: Cyphomandra

Cyphomandra — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:44:53 +0000

I finally got my copy of this and yes, that bit between Haru and Majima was great, even if I’m still not thrilled by the Shige love triangle plot-line. And all the little characters moments are amazing – I re-read v1 and 3 (obviously I have either lent out v2 or shelved it in a creative place) to remind myself of everyone, and it’s a surprisingly tight series in terms of following up on all of the large cast.

It’s definitely been the Yoshinaga title I’ve liked most – I love her art, but I stalled on Antique Bakery (I’ve read the first 3) and only really liked the first volume of Ichigemme. I am waiting for my on-order copy of v1 of Ooku with a complete lack of patience. Especially as (due to confusion over the limited number of kanji I actually know) I have had v4 in Japanese since my trip there in January…

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