Box of Light
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- Create Date：2022-07-21 07:51:42
- Update Date：2025-09-06
- Status：finish
- Author：Seiko Erisawa
- ISBN：1638585210
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Reviews
Alyssa
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I honestly had no idea what I was getting into。 I kinda buy on impulse almost everything this editor releases as long as the art style doesn't look too bad to my tastes。。。Turned out I enjoyed it more than I thought I would。It reads as a series of short stories， but the story setting remains the same all along， it just happens to focus on different characters that interact in that weird place between life and death。Feels like it's lacking something to make it hmm。。。 deeper？ But I ended up only wa I honestly had no idea what I was getting into。 I kinda buy on impulse almost everything this editor releases as long as the art style doesn't look too bad to my tastes。。。Turned out I enjoyed it more than I thought I would。It reads as a series of short stories， but the story setting remains the same all along， it just happens to focus on different characters that interact in that weird place between life and death。Feels like it's lacking something to make it hmm。。。 deeper？ But I ended up only wanting more of it when I reached the end。 （Well， guess I'm lucky， there's actually another volume that exists。） 。。。more
Pip （Bookish_Pip）
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I love stories that focus on liminal spaces and the mood that’s on show on the cover was really what stuck out to me。 There’s a particularly unique feeling around going to a corner shop late at night so I was really intrigued as to how the mangaka would capture this feeling and incorporate a sense of horror into it。 Honestly， a corner shop that people visit who are on the precipice of life and death is an incredible hook and one I was excited to experience。 What this series actually shows is one I love stories that focus on liminal spaces and the mood that’s on show on the cover was really what stuck out to me。 There’s a particularly unique feeling around going to a corner shop late at night so I was really intrigued as to how the mangaka would capture this feeling and incorporate a sense of horror into it。 Honestly， a corner shop that people visit who are on the precipice of life and death is an incredible hook and one I was excited to experience。 What this series actually shows is one hell of a busy shop， in some chapters swarming with customers。 2 employees， a manager， a mysterious character called Kafka that appears for one chapter to cause absolute havoc， a dark entity which also causes havoc and stays on as a cat to cause even more chaos and then the addition of 2 new employees at the end of the volume is far from the lonely feeling the cover communicates。 The fact that the employees can also leave the store and return to the ‘real world’ really takes from that feeling of isolation I thought we’d get in a creepy sounding and looking series like this。 This feeling is compounded when it’s revealed in the final chapter that there’s also a [i]limbo book shop[/i] directly across the street from the convenience store which also receives just as many visitors。 I wouldn’t say this is a spoiler， this was absolutely done for a punchline， but I really feel like I’ve been lead on by the cover and blurb and didn’t get the story which was advertised。 The interior art was another disappointment。 It just doesn’t reflect the mood that’s on the cover and is a little too amateurish to get any kind of feeling across。 I had hopes it would be similar to the work in Land of the Lustrous Haruko Ichikawa but this really wasn’t the case and I was incredibly surprised to see this wasn’t the mangaka’s debut work。 Art is hugely subjective I know but this really didn’t work for me。 The series also skews more comedy than I ever thought it would which was a major surprise given some of the subject matter that was briefly touched on。 It also felt like we followed the employees of the shop more than the customers who visit and seen as the workers were the vehicles for the comedy itself， it， again， didn’t really work for me personally。Overall， one that wasn’t for me sadly but maybe my hopes were too high。 Maybe I was hoping for something like Convenience Store Woman meets Death Parade or Phantom Tales of the Night or something totally surreal like An Invitation from a Crab but this wasn’t it。 I’ll stick with it though and see what happens but I’m praying it’ll be short。 I was also under the impression that this was a stand alone volume。 It is not。 There is more。 😐•••TLDR: Liminal space， moody cover and blurb about people in limbo reveals a hectic comedy manga that’s may as well be set in a shop in the middle of Tokyo with amateurish art that doesn’t match the cover or suit the mood。 。。。more
Népenth S。
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Déception de ne pas avoir eu l'atmosphère présente sur la couverture。Ce manga est trop bavard。 Déception de ne pas avoir eu l'atmosphère présente sur la couverture。Ce manga est trop bavard。 。。。more
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