[book post] Some manga I read lately

Go With the Clouds, North-by-Northwest vol. 4 by Akie Irie

Alas, this series really does not want to deliver on the incredible promise that volume 1 had.

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I’ll read the next volume, on the off chance that Irie remembers to do the actually compelling plot wtf; and of course the art is still gorgeous; I could roll around in these pages forever. But it’s so weird to see a mangaka with such a compelling start stagger in such a weird way.

Ran and the Gray World, vol 1-3 by Akie Irie

I was so in love with that first volume of Go With the Clouds, in fact, that I decided to find other stuff by the same author—maybe she sticks the landing better elsewhere?

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Which is a damn shame. Did I mention the art is gorgeous? It’s so gorgeous. Someone assign Akie Irie a writer who doesn’t suck 2k20