James Nicoll Reviews

Some Girls Wander

Colori Colore Creare, volume 1

By Kozue Amano

1 Nov, 2023

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Kozue Amano’s Colori Colore Creare is an on-going science fiction manga. It appears to have launched in 2022.

Adorable young Aka lives with her grandfather on the island of Onobori. Focused on his coffee shop, the old man allows Aka and her buffalo-sized cat Kuruchan to run around unsupervised … provided Aka follows certain reasonable guidelines to avoid plummeting to her death over one of Onobori’s many precipices.

One day, a stranger comes to town.

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Unstoppable

Amanchu!, volume 1

By Kozue Amano

29 Jan, 2019

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2009’s Amanchu!, Volume One, collects the first six issues of Kozue Amano’s eponymous manga. Unlike Amano’s Aria, Amanchu! does not appear to be SF. Like Aria, it focuses on the friendship between two teens.

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Beautiful Futures

Aria, volume 12

By Kozue Amano

28 Dec, 2016

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Finally we reach volume twelve of Kozue Amano’s Utopian manga Aria. The end.

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Not Long Before the End

Aria, volume 11

By Kozue Amano

22 Dec, 2016

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[Due to a technical problem, this is an early draft only]

Volume 11 of Kozue Amano’s Utopian manga Aria! The penultimate volume! Will Akari graduate? I cannot say. But someone will.…

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Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow

Aria, volume 10

By Kozue Amano

14 Dec, 2016

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Volume 10 of Kozue Amano’s manga Aria is very nearly the final volume of the series. With only a handful of volumes to go, will Akari ever graduate? And will she be upset if she does not?

Not graduating is, it seems, a very real possibility.

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And the Dream Was Just the Same

Aria, volume 9

By Kozue Amano

7 Dec, 2016

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Once more into the Aria archive. This time is volume 9 of Kozue Amano’s utopia: melancholy, longing and deathtraps await!

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Nothing satisfies me but your soul

Aria, volume 8

By Kozue Amano

30 Nov, 2016

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Volume 8 of Kozue Amano’s Aria brings us back to summer, the season of hidden passions, ghost stories, and death.

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Fallen for the fear

Aria, volume 7

By Kozue Amano

23 Nov, 2016

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Volume seven of Kozue Amano’s Aria brings the calendar around to spring once more. With warm weather come unexpected revelations, not least of which is that a surprising number of Aquans struggle with doubt and paranoia.

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And the seasons they go round and round

Aria, volume 6

By Kozue Amano

16 Nov, 2016

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Another volume of Kozue Amano’s Aria; another season of the year. By book six, Akari is passing her second winter on Aqua (formerly Mars), but she is no closer to becoming a full Undine.

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The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night

Aria, volume 5

By Kozue Amano

9 Nov, 2016

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Volume 5 of Kozue Amano’s Utopian manga Aria sees Akari into her second autumn on Aqua, the water-covered world once known as Mars. She seems no closer to graduating from apprentice Undine to full Undine than she was in the last few volumes; the delay has consequences in this volume.

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