Mitsuru Adachi

I read this straight through (unlike vol 1 where I paused between stories). More of these stories were interconnected by characters or places and there was a more bittersweet wistfulness to many of them.

"Spring Passes" is an obvious call out, about two former classmates and an act of kindness that separated them. "4 On the Richter Scale" and "Spring Call" were my two favorite tho with "Before Spring Comes" and "Aim at the Ace" both also strong contenders.

This collection was more heavily sports related tho which makes sense given Adachi's other series largely focus on sports in some manner. I do think some of the references either didn't translate as well as they could have or went straight over my head, but I found a lot of the insert stuff about being a manga-ka or writer quite amusing ("Don't trust dark alleys or editors!" is my fav background sign).

Overall though I remember very little of these stories, I think at this point I was subscribing less to Animerica Extra due to a price increase so it's possible I hadn't read these at all. I believe this is also the last collection printed domestically, but there are 2 more volumes available in general.

It makes me a bit sad as this isn't as popular a genre in America--that is the short form same author collections. So many of my older favs have collections out (Yumi Tamura, Chie Shinohara, Kyoko Hikawa, Yuzo Takeda...) that I'll likely never see domestically.… (mehr)

It's been almost two years since I've spent quality time with Ko and the Seishu team but once I dove into the sixth omnibus edition of Mitsuru Adachi's manga, it did not feel like such a long time as much as a brief weekend away from good friends. In the last volume, people were wondering if ghosts could age as new girl in town Akane walked into their lives, striking more than a passing resemblance to the deceased Wakaba. In this volume, we explore more of Akane's character and see what happens when another eligible young woman comes into the sphere of Ko Kitamura.

My full review of CROSS GAME 6 is at my blog, Nagareboshi Reviews: http://nagareboshi-reviews.blogspot.com/… (mehr)