Midorikawa

Tomioka official Tomio Midorikawa, who is in charge of the town's living and environment division, said the last resident was persuaded to leave in early August — the same time Matsumura claims his neighbor left.

Solitary holdout refuses to leave Japan nuke zone 2011

I like the variety that Midorikawa finds in the premise and the mix of comedy and sentiment in the individual episodes.

From the stack: Natsume’s Book of Friends vol. 1 2009

Tomioka official Tomio Midorikawa, who is in charge of the town's living and environment division, said the last resident was persuaded to leave in early August — the same time Matsumura claims his neighbor left.

Solitary holdout refuses to leave Japan nuke zone 2011

I like the variety that Midorikawa finds in the premise and the mix of comedy and sentiment in the individual episodes.

17 « December « 2009 « Precocious Curmudgeon 2009

They decided not to keep any of the original Japanese syntax and even completely changed the name of Nyanko-sensei, which saddens me, but I almost forgive them because this French edition gives us a lot of brilliant endnotes at the end on the folklore Midorikawa referenced and the yokai lore as well.

Sequential Art Review: Le pacte des yokai (Natsume Yuujinchou) V. 1 by Yuki Midorikawa Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010

Instead of taking the powering/leveling up motif that is common in for this type of premise in the shounen market, Midorikawa instead focuses on the human level of what these abilities means to our main protagonist.

Sequential Art Review: Le pacte des yokai (Natsume Yuujinchou) V. 1 by Yuki Midorikawa Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010

Transitions within scenes are usually done exceptionally well, and Midorikawa excels at portraying emotional moments of character insight with her minimal, deft artistic hand.

Sequential Art Review: Le pacte des yokai (Natsume Yuujinchou) V. 1 by Yuki Midorikawa Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010

This is one of the defining things that make this typical shounen sounding premise morph into an atypical shoujo story: Midorikawa does not choose to develop a story of Natsume rising up to be the king of yokai or even a top notch yokai slayer.

Sequential Art Review: Le pacte des yokai (Natsume Yuujinchou) V. 1 by Yuki Midorikawa Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010

Reading a work by Midorikawa is heartfelt not because of melodrama, but because it is quiet and so dearly sincere.

Sequential Art Review: Le pacte des yokai (Natsume Yuujinchou) V. 1 by Yuki Midorikawa Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010

Midorikawa does not use strong bold outlines or fills her manga with lush details.

Sequential Art Review: Le pacte des yokai (Natsume Yuujinchou) V. 1 by Yuki Midorikawa Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010