My Little Noir
Alt Names: | わたしのクロちゃん Watashi no Kuro-chan Мой маленький Черныш |
Author: | Shirahama Kamome |
Artist: | Shirahama Kamome |
Genres: | Comedy Oneshot Seinen Slice of Life |
Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
Status: | Complete |
Description: | Zut alors! Minette has lost her precious cat Noir! Her parents are busy, so she must find him on her own! |
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Shirohama is a much more established artist than Kasai (in terms of sheer amount of work). I don't know Shirohama's history, but Kasai was an assistant to Mori-sensei (Emma, Otoyomegatari) before starting her own manga in the same magazine. I think Shirohama is just another similar artist that Harta picked up 5 years ago, but she's been doing work with Marvel, D.C, and serializing things in other magazines as well.
Also, wow, this really brings us back. The head translator, before starting this group, translated Gisele Alain with Maigo. We buy the magazine JUST to see if Gisele is in it every month, and we definitely plan to pick it up should it ever come back.
I feel this to be more of a joke about than an endorsement of that syndrome.
Proof
It shows strong touches of another manga with a French art nouveau feeling, only set in older times
https://vatoto.com/comic/_/comics/gis%c3%a8le-alain-r1159
It is highly likely that Shirahama was an assistant of Sui Kasai or an avid reader of Fellows/Harta
that's not the pantyshot I expected-haha, aside from that, it was exactly what I would want on a oneshot: a full complete story all on it's own to read while drinking coffee. Sometimes I want simple readings like this one and then move on to something else
That's a cat for you. She was probably out decimating the squirrel population before returning for breakfast. Glad she's fine.
The chubbier middle girl tourist had a small plastic shopping bag that says Paris on it. So that's something she bought today.
In Paris.
They don't give crap like that in another French city.
Also the dude with the I Love Paris shirt was sitting next to a newspaper kiosk that said Paris on it. He's working, appealing to Paris tourists, because they're in Paris.
The issue with stuff like this is that it builds a romantization of Paris. And Japanese people have a meltdown when its not like how it's shown in manga, anime, live-action TV, films, etc. I don't recall any Japanese media showing real Paris but have seen it for real NYC, real LA, real Shanghai, and real Brazil. It's especially jarring b/c Japan itself is a fairly kind and very clean country. So people are expecting the same within Paris of this clean beauty. So it's not only a culture shock of the city being so different from Japan but the the entire concept of the city is destroyed b/c nobody ever makes media with real Paris. So much so that there's a wikipedia page dedicated to the mental breakdown and Japanese people are like the only ones to experience this.
When I've been in Paris I suffered from annoyance-with-snobby-Parisians syndrome. I asked a couple of people in other parts of France about it; apparently so do they.
She's back. Came in not that long after I posted this--sauntered in the back door we'd left open and started eating like nothing had happened. Little brat!
Hope your cat comes back safely ;(
That was great. Unfortunately, by an unpleasant co-incidence my black cat (normally indoor) has gotten out this evening and gone into the belt of woods behind our place and I'm at my wits' end a tad. It's closing on 2 AM and she isn't back . . . probably will come back in the morning when she gets hungry, but there are reasons (coyotes, raccoons etc) we don't let her out on her own. It's not a huge woods, but it's not a place you can find a black cat in the middle of the night either.
A very charming and fun read! I really enjoyed it!
Personally, I liked it. The author's style is very reminiscent of art nouveau (I love their other work https://vatoto.com/comic/_/comics/witch-hat-atelier-r20723) and its just whimsical enough to fit the subject matter of a little girl's adventures in a city. The pacing made it feel like this would be well suited to being animated, and I was genuinely surprised by the small twist at the end.
Also, who cares if it's not true to what Paris is actually like? Nothing actually says this IS Paris. We see things like stickers and t-shirts that say the word "Paris" on them but no immediately recognizable landmarks. This could just as easily be set in a French city outside of Paris.
Bro, I was in Paris 2 weeks ago for 3 days (mini vacation after visiting family for a week in Italy).
I thought Paris syndrome was a fucking joke on the internet like Drop Bears but it's fucking real.
In 3 days I saw 5 weddings/wedding parties/bride+groom walking somehwere in full outfits including a jumbo puffy white dress/wedding photoshoot. All 5 of them were Japanese couples. And I saw 2 proposals. One on the lower Eiffel Tower deck and another at Versailles. You guess it. Both Japanese.
My sister visited Paris last October and she said she saw 2 weddings and they were Japanese too.
Like pump the brakes Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
This kind of thing is the reason Japanese heads explode when they actually visit Paris, and it's all graffiti and Albanian panhandlers in the metro.