2024-01-13
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| Date | Name | Type | Amount | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-13 |  放浪息子 1 |
 Manga |
 Chapter 1 28 pages |
25m |
So I’m caught up on book clubs and finished the manga I had in progress on my own so it was time to pick something up. I’m pacing ahead of the goal I’d set for the year, so felt like trying something rated a bit higher on Natively (level 26). I’ll probably still end up having a second manga on the go from the easier tier for reading in bed when I fell like that (probably more volumes of 老女的少女ひなたちゃん) , but for now I started 放浪息子.
It’s something that’s been floating around to try, being such a common topic for anime that deal with trans issues, but I never got to the anime, so guess I’m trying the manga now.
It was more challenging than that page count and time would suggest, as I had a lot of second guessing what I was reading as it felt like things were jumping around and scenes were a bit disconnected from each other. Also the art style makes some of the characters look samey so I mixed up the MC and their sister, or the late teacher and a student. I actually took a look at the English manga chapter after to see if I hadn’t missed something, but it seems that kind of jumping around style is just how chapter 1 is. It may be just how the manga is written, or it may be intentional to reflect MC’s unease.