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---
title: "Manga Reviews"
date: 2024-11-20T14:27:29-05:00
draft: true
description: "Some random manga reviews"
type: "post"
tags: ["manga", "review", "weird"]
---
I'm taking a history of dynastic China class right now at MIT so that's why I read some of these.
I also wrote about this topic previously on Matrix:
> The Manga Guide to Databases: So this is actually a real book that I found at the SIPB office last year, and it's kinda underwhelming because it's just a manga about the basics of databases. The novelty wears off pretty quickly. I guess it might be helpful if you're a beginner at databases.
>
> 非人哉: Over the past few years I've been trying to improve my Mandarin skills so I read part of this manga/manhua series, which is about some people and monsters from Chinese mythology trying to adapt to modern-day life. It's pretty brain-dead but still fun. I think there's an unofficial English translation but it's pretty bad.
>
> OK... very weird story incoming: I visited Hong Kong last summer and saw 珠江桥牌-brand anime girl soy sauce in a supermarket. Yes, seriously. Longtime readers of my blog probably know what I'm talking about. Anyways, I recently discovered that that sauce company has a Facebook page with a long-running corporate propagana manga about their sauce. It's very strange since they're a freaking Hong Kong soy sauce company, not an anime convention, so I don't know why they would spend so much effort on that manga, given that no one probably reads it. I also do not recommend it unless you can read traditional Chinese (I can't really) and really love soy sauce.
## The Manga Guide to Databases
It's a pretty helpful book for learning the basics of databases and SQL and has a nice cheat sheet at the end. It's actually part of a long series of books but only a few of them have been translated into English. On the other hand, most of the have been translated into simplified Chinese, and in particular, the Manga Guide to Cement and the Manga Guide to Electrical Equipment are pretty good. I'd link to my fedi thread about this series but my Mastodon instance is currently down due to an SSD failure.
## 廚娘小橋
This is a corporate propaganda manga series by a Hong Kong soy sauce company. I also have a fedi thread about this.
## Fei Ren Zai
It's a 4-koma manga about some Chinese mythology figures trying to make a living in modern-day China. It has some great humor.
## My Wife is From a Thousand Years Ago
A manga about a dude who meets a woman who magically time traveled from the Tang dynasty, and he helps her adapt to modern life. I thought the dude was kinda icky and manipulative at times so I didn't like this manga that much. And a lot of the humor comes from the woman being confused by modern stuff which sort of drops off as the manga progresses.
## Koihime Musō
This one is actually a visual novel but it's basically a manga since the story line is fairly linear and not that interactive. It reimagines Three Kingdoms historical figures as anime girls. There's too much dialogue to read. Apparently there are some NSFW scenes in the game but obviously I was playing this for educational purposes for my class and I didn't bump into any while playing it for a few hours.
## VTuber Confucius
This is a Taiwanese manga about Confucius time traveling to modern-day Taiwan and live-streaming as an anime girl. The concept is so ridiculously stupid that it actually kinda works in a frivolous way once you nuke off the logic parts of your brain. Basically, the whole point of the premise is to obliterate all common sense and have fun while doing it. The whole series is pretty short but not all of it has been translated into English, so I hope you can read traditional Chinese.
## Ya Boy Kongming!
Yet another manga about an ancient dude in modern-day life, in case you're noticing a pattern here. This time it's Zhuge Liang in modern Japan and some stuff happens but Zhuge Liang carries the entire plot and none of the other characters are very interesting. He's like a brainy version of Sun Wukong. But the thing is, even Sun Wukong was not always the most overpowered guy in the room, unlike this dude who has the thickest plot armor ever imaginable. He always wins, no matter what, but at least he sprouts some cool Three Kingdoms trivia while doing so. He just has too much of an IQ gap with everyone else. So yeah, read the Zhuge Liang mastermind scheme sections, skim the other stuff.
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