[Week 10] Manga Edition!

So for this week I read a few things;

For Tezuka's work, I read Dororo!

I found this manga really fun to read, because I love the old manga that have takes on samurai stories and regular Japanese mythos and cultural legends/implications that go with them! Tezuka's style sort of makes the serious parts of the manga slightly hard to take seriously, though, but it didn't detract from the enjoy-ability of the series as a whole. I found out that apparently manga with demons in it was very popular for children at the time.
Speaking of the plot, about the only thing I didn't actually really enjoy was the ending to the manga. It felt a bit rushed through, and I wanted to see more battles or some followup to the story. Also, a character that becomes friends with either Dororo or Hyakkimaru dying each chapter was a bit funny after it kept happening, it was hard to take deaths seriously.

The other manga that I've read for this week, which aren't finished yet, was:

Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon) and Ajin: Demi-Human.
When using MangaRock to read things, I really suggest switching it to "Vertical" mode for reading. You can just scroll up and down to read with that.

Dungeon Meshi can be read here! 

Ajin: Demi-Human can be read here! 


Dungeon Meshi is just a nice take on the usual RPG-Hero's journey type of manga, and is very comfy to just read through, with a really good plot to boot. The party has to save Laios' sister from being completely eaten by the Red Dragon deep in the dungeon, but it soon turns into much more than that. The author goes to great care to craft all these fantasy recipes that the characters use through the story, making use of the random monsters and other things they encounter in the dungeon to eat.

Ajin: Demi-Human, is a really good take on the typical action-oriented manga, with really great artwork with mechanical and environments that involve urban areas. The manga is very violent and gory, and has an interesting plot involving the mechanics of being unable to die from normal means.