Been a while since the last update. I’ve been a lot more free with reading and reviewing lately. Tried out some manga from jump+ which I do count as reading for the every day challenge, but it’s not included in my goals. Over the weekend I managed to finish Yoru Cafe volume 3, it had an ending I could feel at ease with. That’s really a good thing I feel with this series, you can read a volume and it will be mostly self contained. Of course it does build further upon it, but there’s no rush to have to read the next volume. The next book on the list is then zenitendo vol 3, I haven’t started reading yet but I can pick it up and read a story just fine.
Last sunday I started reading the Kindaichi manga series, which is kinda a what if the famous detective had a grandson that’s still going to school. Every volume or in this case file covers a single case. So with that in mind I thought it would probably be best to be able to read it in one go. Of course that proved to be a bit too much, I managed to read the first chapter which was about 80 pages or so and called it a day. That coincides with the discovery of the first victim and typically cutting off the cast from the outside world, locking them in with the killer. This then slowly turns into a serial killer case and of course kindaichi just happens to be there and solve the case. I’m very familiar with the series and its structure as I have seen parts of the anime and live action adaptations. What’s nice is that the chapter after that makes a small summary of the events before it, the victim(s) and details the name again. So I read another chapter on monday. Yesterday I was planning to read the third chapter, but I ended up reading the rest of it in one go. Very strange. This particular case is inspired by the phantom of the opera and I vaguely remembered it from before. I quite like it and reading it was a decent challenge. There’s hardly any furigana except for names and some emphasis here and there. Looked up a few words, but tried to mostly get by from context. I consider it a good in the genre and being manga kinda helps with seeing the tricks and how they are described. I have 3 more volumes and thus 3 more cases to read.