Monday, March 2, 2015

Book Review: Henshin (Manga)


Book: Henshin by Ken Niimura

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Description:

I Kill Giants co-creator Ken Nimura (International Manga Award winner and Eisner nominee) brings a unique vision of life in Japan to the page in Henshin.

The lives of a kid with peculiar superpowers, a lonely girl discovering herself in the big city, and a businessman on a long night out are some of the short stories included in this collection that will make you laugh, and even maybe shed a tear.

Explore Tokyo as you've never seen it before under Nimura's masterful and imaginative storytelling, printed here for the first time in English.


Rating: 4 stars

Review:

Henshin is a collection of 13 short stories that covers the everyday to the slightly sci-fi. There is a good blend of humor mixed in with the dark and serious.

I love how zany some of these stories could be then there are other stories that are very profound and thought provoking.

The author even has a few stories about his love of cats and how this mysterious cat that roams his neighborhood maybe a superhero.

I enjoyed reading this because it can be a little unexpected and odd at times but overall you get a sense of what the author was trying to convey with each story. I really like this.

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