Hakumei & Mikochi Volume 8

This series is as ever a balm to my soul. This volume is a little bit more of a collection of disjoint stories, but now that the world's been established it's a lovely way of just immersing oneself in it. And that is to a large degree the appeal here: the way in which the world is so detailed and the stories such an admixture of the quotidien and the otherworldly makes it feel like a space to exist in and allow to sweep over oneself. Reading it is meditative in a similar sense to revisiting an old favorite, but it has that effect from the first read.

"It looks like we're all about food." Isn't that just the dream?

This series feels like a hug printed on paper to me, and there's not much to say about this volume besides that it continues the atmosphere and small story telling of the previous volumes very well.