{"id":7306,"date":"2011-08-14T23:33:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T03:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2011-08-14T23:33:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T03:33:07","slug":"i-like-some-manga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=7306","title":{"rendered":"I like some manga!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/crossgame1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7307\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"crossgame1\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/crossgame1-230x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/crossgame1-230x350.jpg 230w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/crossgame1.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a>On <em>Cross Game <\/em>by Mitsuru Adachi:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t really care for sports, and yet, this\u00a0<em>manga<\/em>\u00a0is<em>riveting<\/em>! This is about a high school baseball team. It has love triangles, fully-fleshed out characters, a story that subverts\u00a0<em>shonen manga<\/em>\u00a0tropes. It&#8217;s a really naturalistic, slice of life story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s so rare to find a book that just\u00a0<em>breathes<\/em>\u00a0like this one does. It&#8217;s a wonder to spend time in the world that Adachi has created &#8212; a suburban Japan of endless spring and summer. If you hate baseball, if you love baseball, even if you&#8217;re indifferent about the sport, so long as you like great comics then\u00a0<em>Cross Game\u00a0<\/em>is for you.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/manga.about.com\/od\/recommendedreading\/tp\/2011-Comic-Con-Best-And-Worst-Manga.htm\">manga.about.com<\/a>, Deb Aoki recaps our Best and Worst Manga of 2011 Panel from the San Diego Comic Con, apparently minus the &#8216;worst&#8217; choices. I personally didn&#8217;t read enough manga last year to have a &#8216;worst&#8217;, maybe <em>Bakuman<\/em>\u00a0would have been my pick for most frustrating, but even then it&#8217;s incredibly well-crafted and interesting.<\/p>\n<p>I really like Adachi&#8217;s <em>Cross Game <\/em>(as you can see above), and me and my fellow panelists go over a bunch of our pics. <a href=\"http:\/\/manga.about.com\/od\/recommendedreading\/tp\/2011-Comic-Con-Best-And-Worst-Manga.htm\">Go check it out<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Cross Game by Mitsuru Adachi: &#8220;I don&#8217;t really care for sports, and yet, this\u00a0manga\u00a0isriveting! This is about a high school baseball team. It has love triangles, fully-fleshed out characters, a story that subverts\u00a0shonen manga\u00a0tropes. It&#8217;s a really naturalistic, slice of life story. &#8220;It&#8217;s so rare to find a book that just\u00a0breathes\u00a0like this one does. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=7306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I like some manga!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7309,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions\/7309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}