Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro, Vol. 1
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GoryDetails
of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 6/8/2012
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 6/8/2012 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
I found this fair-condition ex-library softcover at the Used Book Superstore, and couldn't resist it; it's about a young traveler who, for some reason, is wandering the world with a coffin on her back (!). The TV Tropes page for the book compares it to Kino's Journey, another young-traveler-wandering-the-earth series, though from the artwork alone this one looks a good deal quirkier...
Later: Very quirky indeed, but also very charming - often funny, sometimes dark, very enjoyable. We see Kuro, with her coffin and her bat-sidekick and, eventually, two little girls whom she rescued along the way. [They're pretty unusual too, but gosh, are they cute...] The travels seem to involve a mostly-pre-industrial world, yet there's a fellow who zips around on a motorcycle. [He says "call me Kei", and I wonder if he's meant to be an expy of Kino - that'd be an interesting crossover!]
Why the coffin, what's with the black stain, what happened to the professor who left the little girls behind - lots of questions, but whether they get answered or not, I'm enjoying the journey.
I also have:
Volume Two
Volume Three
Volume Four
Later: Very quirky indeed, but also very charming - often funny, sometimes dark, very enjoyable. We see Kuro, with her coffin and her bat-sidekick and, eventually, two little girls whom she rescued along the way. [They're pretty unusual too, but gosh, are they cute...] The travels seem to involve a mostly-pre-industrial world, yet there's a fellow who zips around on a motorcycle. [He says "call me Kei", and I wonder if he's meant to be an expy of Kino - that'd be an interesting crossover!]
Why the coffin, what's with the black stain, what happened to the professor who left the little girls behind - lots of questions, but whether they get answered or not, I'm enjoying the journey.
I also have:
Volume Two
Volume Three
Volume Four
I'm sending this to BCer HI77 in Florida - enjoy!
*** Released as part of the 2013 Halloween Spooktacular release challenge. ***
*** Released as part of the 2013 Halloween Spooktacular release challenge. ***
Two girls like sparrows,
small and unassuming
but sharp beaked.
small and unassuming
but sharp beaked.
This book has landed itself smack dab in the middle of a pile of manga/graphic novel book trading! :D
I have let the fuse and off it goes, to land soundly on her house. With any luck, it'll go right through the window! This is war lady!! :D :D :D
I have let the fuse and off it goes, to land soundly on her house. With any luck, it'll go right through the window! This is war lady!! :D :D :D
Woohoo! I got home from a day-trip to the Harbor Islands on this hot summer day to find a Big Box O' Books! (I'm glad to have this one back in hand, as I wanted to re-read the series when Volume 4 comes out.) Many thanks!
Journal Entry 6 by GoryDetails at MIT Building 32 (Stata Center) in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA on Wednesday, October 29, 2014
GoryDetails at MIT Building 32 (Stata Center) in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA on Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Released 9 yrs ago (10/29/2014 UTC) at MIT Building 32 (Stata Center) in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I left several books in the community book-exchange shelf in the Stata Center at around 2 or so; hope the finder enjoys them! (The photo shows the bag-of-books with the spectacularly bizarre Stata Center in the background.) *** Released for the 2014 Spook-tacular Halloween Challenge, for "coffin". ***
