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Week 12

Contemporary manga! I've already read A Silent Voice--both the original one shot and the entire manga! It's one of my favorites for how uniquely it makes you look at the troubles a deaf person faces, as well as the change of someone who used to be a bully. But enough about that, because it'd just be me reiterating something I've already read.

This week I read a bit of Silver Spoon! I am a huge fan of Full Metal Alchemist, but never had read her newer, latest manga. I always think it's interesting how mangaka can make you feel passionate towards something you'd never really been interested in before. Arakawa is writing about something she herself knows, since she was raised on a farm. I feel like Silver Spoon is slightly alike another manga I've read before, Shokugeki no Soma. Except, while Shokugeki no Soma is mostly written for fanservice and shonen stereotypes, Silver Spoon takes itself a little more seriously due to different authors. We're able to become attached to these students though, and because we begin to like these characters, we also begin to enjoy the things they study or do--like sports manga. When I used to read sports manga, I never cared for volleyball or football or bicycling, but because I wanted to see the characters succeed and develop, I continued to read and enjoy the manga. After I dropped the manga for a long time, however, when I came back to my connection and desire to read dropped off since I was no longer attached to the characters like I used to be.

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