Manga Thoughts: Witch Hat Atelier 7
Mar. 14th, 2021 09:10 pmTrying to stay aware of upcoming manga releases, I took special note of the approach of the seventh volume of Kamome Shirahama’s Witch Hat Atelier. Once I’d received a copy of it, though, I did let it sit waiting for a month. A certain amount of “trying to work through previously accumulated bits of other series” was mixed with still grappling with uneasy uncertainties about “when is it safe to handle anything brought in from outside” (and mostly letting something like sheer, “eventually I can touch it” laziness deal with the matter). I did notice the front cover had returned to the main character Coco, if now with her “brushbuddy” mascot-type critter companion, and sported logos for winning Eisner and Harvey Awards (which has me contemplating what kind of “comics” I read and what kinds I brush by, and the appearance of officially translated manga in the “black and white comics boom” of the late 1980s).
( Explanations and complications )