Comments for All These Worlds Are Yours http://clintryan.com/reading Because college is harder if you don't read Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:31:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Varney the Vampyre by Jim http://clintryan.com/reading/varney-the-vampyre/comment-page-1/#comment-303 Jim Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:31:27 +0000 http://clintryan.com/reading/?p=1204#comment-303 I love this review, thank you. I love this review, thank you.

]]> Comment on Yakitate!! Japan by Clarissa http://clintryan.com/reading/yakitate-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Clarissa Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:01:47 +0000 http://clintryan.com/reading/?p=401#comment-6 For the record, this is a really silly, fluffy, almost stupid manga (and occasionally the jokes or visual gages are tasteless enough that my feminism twitches a little) but it's also entertaining and it doesn't take itself seriously at all. And if you like bread of all types--croissants, naan, French bread, etc.--as much as I do, you'll enjoy this. Even though oven-based baking is not native to Japan, bakeries are extremely popular there, and Japanese bakers are extremely skilled at turning out both familiar stuff and interesting new things. (Chinese bakeries too; I have no idea where bakeries first got started in Asia.) If you read this manga and want to try eating at a real Japanese bakery, I recommend Clover on Saratoga Ave. in San Jose, in the same shopping center as Mitsuwa. They even have a wooden sign in Japanese advertising their "yakitate" bread--"yakitate" means "freshly baked." :) This manga is an example of a genre that doesn't exist in the US (cooking comics), and if it did, it'd probably be aimed at women only. (Sigh.) But this comic was originally written for guys. Go figure. Later volumes of it even include recipes! (At least, in Japan it did--I don't know if the US translation does or not.) For the record, this is a really silly, fluffy, almost stupid manga (and occasionally the jokes or visual gages are tasteless enough that my feminism twitches a little) but it’s also entertaining and it doesn’t take itself seriously at all. And if you like bread of all types–croissants, naan, French bread, etc.–as much as I do, you’ll enjoy this. Even though oven-based baking is not native to Japan, bakeries are extremely popular there, and Japanese bakers are extremely skilled at turning out both familiar stuff and interesting new things. (Chinese bakeries too; I have no idea where bakeries first got started in Asia.) If you read this manga and want to try eating at a real Japanese bakery, I recommend Clover on Saratoga Ave. in San Jose, in the same shopping center as Mitsuwa. They even have a wooden sign in Japanese advertising their “yakitate” bread–”yakitate” means “freshly baked.” :)

This manga is an example of a genre that doesn’t exist in the US (cooking comics), and if it did, it’d probably be aimed at women only. (Sigh.) But this comic was originally written for guys. Go figure. Later volumes of it even include recipes! (At least, in Japan it did–I don’t know if the US translation does or not.)

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