SEAN: Obviously my pick this week would be Short Game: Mitsuru Adachi’s Baseball Short Story Collection, except we know that Amazon date is wrong. So instead I will pick It Takes More Than a Pretty Face to Fall in Love, because it makes me nostalgic for the days of 20 years ago when Hana to Yume titles fell from the skies like rain.
MICHELLE: I can get behind that! And it does have a little bit of a Lovesick Ellie vibe, which I appreciate.
ASH: I’m going to go a different direction this week and pick Hauntress. There were some things I really loved about the creator’s later series Dragon Head, and some things I really didn’t, so I’m curious to see how a shorter form story fares.
ANNA: I don’t know! I’m going to go for It Takes More Than a Pretty Face to Fall in Love as well, because the pull of Hana to Yume nostalgia is strong.
KATE: I’ll join Ash in picking Hauntress, as I also have vivid memories of reading Minetaro Mochizuki’s Dragon Head back in the day.