Eerie Queerie!, Volume 1 Book

Review originally posted on The Book Adventures of Annelise Lestrange :)

The Story

Mitsuo Shiozu is a high school student with a very peculiar ability: he can see ghost. Moreover, some spirits manage to go as far as to possess his body to solve their unfinished business on this realm.

During one of those possession moments, Mitsuo meets Hasunuma, a very gentle and good-looking boy. As their friendship goes stronger (and more spirits come to their ways), Mitsuo needs to figure out what he feels for Hasunuma.

And, if it's not asking for much, without losing his body to weird haunted souls.


The Analysis

Just remembering that those were my impressions and opinion as a reader :)

I'm that kind of person that wakes up one day and says: "hey, I think I'll start a new manga series today!". So I randomly search a title online, get it and read it to my heart's content. Eerie Queerie! was one of those titles, found by chance in a catalogue. I didn't expect to like it the way I did, as all I wanted was to have a nice time, haha!

Eerie Queerie! is a four volumes manga series, of the kind that improves with each passing chapter. The author develops her drawing style a lot and the story is involving to the point that you can't stop reading. Overall, four out of five stars :D

The narrative pace is slow and kind of confusing in the beginning. The reader can see flashes of Mitsuo's life and then what he does to help the spirits around him to move on. Until volume two, there were more isolated cases than a sequential story, which isn't necessarily bad. I though confusing, but okay.

The plot was simple, but full of twists. Every time a new character was introduced, I knew that I, as a reader, would have a headache trying to understand if the new person was good or bad. Btw, that was nice, haha! Other interesting thing is that, despite being a clear yaoi manga, the romance is not the main genre. The adventure and the spirit world have all the focus and that's okay. Almost, haha!

I liked the main characters overall and found them to be very funny and charismatic, each on their own way. Mitsuo is the cutest guy and I felt sorry for him on more than one occasion for several reasons. My favorite was Hasunuma, as he was the most real and non-absurd one in the group, haha! (cof, and the most handsome, cof).

The art is the big flop in this series if you ask me. As I said, the author develops a lot during the chapters, but it went from weird to not so weird, haha! And I'm very picky with manga art, so good bye to one star.

One thing that also made me take off that star is the relationship between Mitsuo and Hasunuma. They clearly have feelings for each other and they even say so many times, but we never got to see any kind of action. ANY. KIND. I got disappointed. It's not because the series is not romantic that people don't kiss and do stuff, ugh. The author makes the reader believe that the amorous feelings between characters are meaningless :(

Overall, it's a good ghost series, a light and funny read for those days when you don't want to think and need a good laugh :D

That's it, thanks for reading!