I don’t generally read manga – I’ve dabbled in the past, but it’s never really grabbed me, and it is with mixed feelings that I went to take a look at a web manga recommended to me by reader Sakura.  It’s called Hollow Fields and for those not familiar with the peculiarities of manga, you read it from right to left, back of the book to the front – so to speak.  This one is set somewhere fairly modern, but features a huge clockwork mechanical mad scientists school, with partially clockwork cyborg teachers and classes in things such as chimera biology and gravedigging, with the required amount of traumatic student rivalry.  Rather good fun then!  So far, I’m finding it pleasantly bubbly, but it’s not something that I’d go crazy for (bunny ears just aren’t my thing *chuckles*).  Cogs though – lots of them, and yes – I admit as a child I wanted to be a mad scientist when I grew up, so this and Girl Genius play to far too many of my deeply ingrained childhood wants.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 at 11:15 pm by Tinkergirl and is filed under Books.