Current Reading

Hello bloggers!

I would like to tell you I'm reading a very interesting book or novel at the moment, but I actually don't. I have just finished some manga and I'm in process of looking for something new to read.

Is not that I don't like to read, but I have to read a lot of scientific documents and papers, so I prefer to "view" things insted of "read" them when I have some free time. I usually  watch an anime and then read the corresponding manga, in order to compare the difference between the versions of the story.

Well, in fact there're some mangas that "I'm reading". I don't mention them before because I started to read them years ago and I still don't finish. I have re-started Reading 2 of them this year, but then I left them again about two month ago because I didn't have much time.

One of them is called "Chihayafuru", and as always, I begin reading it after I watched the anime. It is about a group of 3 friends that play "karuta", a traditional japanese card game. They met at the primary school and joined a "karuta society" where they can practice with other people and participate in competitions. Then they grew up and took different ways. Chihaya, the protagonist girl, decided to create a school group of karuta and started to recruit people. Finally she met their old friends again when they were teenagers and re-started playing.

I like this manga because it have an interesting and different story. I could learnt a lot of the japanese culture with it. I didn't know about the karuta game and I think it's fun. It requires a lot of concentration and good physical state. It isn't a simple card game. You have to memorize all 100 poems, which are written in part in the cards, in order to play!!. It's very competitive.