It only took the title for me to immediately request this manga on NetGalley, and I’m not ashamed to admit it! If you know me, you’ll already be aware that I’m really intrigued by historical fiction (it’s always been this way), and you’ll also know that Edo Japan is my favourite historical era. Plus, with the films I’ve watched and games I’ve played about this significant period in Japanese history, I was really eager to see how the characters I’ve come to get attached to would be portrayed.
*I have received a free ebook copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review, please note that this doesn’t affect my opinion of the book, nor my personal thoughts.
I have to say that I really did enjoy this first volume. I suppose it was easier for me to get immersed in the story since I’m well familiar with it. The Blue Wolves of Mibu are exactly how I’ve got to know them, so I’m really glad to see that the author has kept their depiction as it was meant to be.
I’m not generally into stories where the main character is a child—although there have been exceptions—but I really feel for Nio. He lives in a harsh world where people are murdered and children are kidnapped all the time, and he just wants to make the world a better place. I’m really looking forward to seeing where his own sense of justice will take him.
Not really short of cute comical moments—despite the brutality of the story—The Blue Wolves of Mibu Vol 1 is the perfect introduction to the world of the Shogunate.
Happy New Year!
We're just a few days into 2024, did you have a lovely celebration? 2023 has been a difficult year for me, especially these past few months—which explains my absence from this blog in November and December. Unfortunately Covid caught up to me as well and, since it was the first time, I was basically knocked out and had to postpone my planned content until further notice. I'm well now, thankfully, so I'll be taking the whole month of January to work on my blog and schedule all posts I had to put on hold until now.
I've also started bullet journaling and I'm quite excited—make sure you check out my Instagram to see my monthly themes! I've never been a very arts-and-crafts person, but I've taken an interest in bullet journaling lately, as well as water colouring (I was gifted a watercolour paint set and the book Watercolor With Me in The Forest by Dana Fox for Christmas), so I'm very eager to get into it!
I normally don't make any New Year resolutions, so all I wish is for everyone to have a happy year and, if you're going through a hard time, let's hope 2024 will be good to us all.
Have you started something new in January? Let me know in the comments!
次回まで。♥
