Chi's Sweet Home, volume 2 [Paperback]

Kanata Konami (Author)

Book Description

Series: Chi's Sweet Home | Publication Date: August 24, 2010

In the second volume of Chi's Sweet Home, Chi's new world slowly begins to grow.  As Yohei Yamada grows up it is rapidly becoming apparent to his parents that Chi grows up twice as fast! Now moving into the feline version of the terrible twos, Chi's increasingly curious and independent behavoir begins to wear on each member of the Yamada household.  Mom's flowers are being shred.  Dad's sick and little Chi needs to play with him after lunch every day.  And when Yohei doesn't share his toys, Chi begins to use her fangs and claws on her best friend!

Lesson learned--cats are cute, but they can be equally scary!

Editorial Reviews

Review

A Publishers Weekly Big Graphic Novels for 2010 selection!
 
 
"Chi's Sweet Home seems to have that feline je ne sais quoi that could fill a niche in the existing market." --Comics Reporter
 
 
"Chi's Sweet Home has been a fan-favorite for a while...Now American manga readers (and cat lovers) will get a chance to enjoy this wonderful manga." --About.com

About the Author

Konami Kanata (pen name used by Kanata Konami) was born on July 3, 1958, in Nagano, Japan.  A veteran manga artist Konami made her professional debut in 1982 with the serialized comic Petit Cat Jam-Jam for Kodansha's semenal shoujo manga magazine NakaYoshi. The daughter of an elementary school teacher, most of Konami's stories are for readers of all ages making her one of the most accessible artists in recent history.

In her nearly thirty year career, Konami has penned more than a dozen comic series, with the majority of them focusing on cats and pets. Konami is well regarded within the pet-manga community for her keen sense of cat ecology. Her ability to observe and render feline behavior has earned her respect from the Japanese manga community as a whole. While most of her properties were published for a younger female demographic, her most recent series Chi's Sweet Home is currently being published by Kodansha's Morning magazine, Japan's leading comic magazine for adult readers. Proving that quality can be found even in the cutest of sources.

Chi's Sweet Home will be Konami's first translated work.

Product Details

• Paperback: 154 pages
• Publisher: Vertical (August 24, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934287857
• ISBN-13: 978-1934287859
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.4 x 7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #64,378 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chi's Sweet Home...Volume 2!, September 4, 2010

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Chi Yamada - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chi's Sweet Home, volume 2 (Paperback)

Chi's Sweet Home tells of the wholesome adventures of a little cat named Chi, who becomes separated from her cat family one day and is adopted by a young couple with a toddler.

Chi's Sweet Home will likely not appeal to you if you dislike overly-cute stories. However, I find that the series is excellent, and even though it's seven volumes long, it doesn't fall into a trap of repetition. Chi's always finding new and interesting ways to get herself in trouble.

Chi's Sweet Home is one of my favourite manga of all time. I actually have all the Japanese copies, so with that advantage, I'm able to objectively decide how good the English translation/presentation is. Vertical decided to flip Chi to the 'Western' reading order, as opposed to keeping it in its original Japanese format. However, I feel that this does not undermine the greatness of this series, because it will, in theory, allow it to reach people who may not be interested in manga.

The second volume details more fun kitten adventures with Chi, but...with a new character thrown in! Hmmm? A big black cat wandered into the Yamada home and terrorized Yohei and Chi?!! Oh, but it seems he's not such a bad guy after all, and Chi and Blackie become good friends. He's really a gentle giant who doesn't mean to hurt anyone, but he's quite intimidatingly large, and it doesn't help he sometimes breaks things and steals stuff from the people living in the apartments where the Yamada family resides. Chi has to take another trip to the vet- we can all see where that's going!! Run, Chi, run!

Vertical did another great job with this book, it's clean, beautifully done, well-presented, has good translations, and the way they explained the extra comic was superb- I was kind of afraid they'd take it out, but when I saw they not only kept it, but explained it, too, I was so happy. I really look forward to the next awesome cat-action-packed volume of Chi!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enduring story, August 24, 2010

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Mayra Garced (lawrenceville, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chi's Sweet Home, volume 2 (Paperback)

This manga can be call sweet, very different from what a usually read but its such a nice story that you get hook very easy

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This series is just too cute!, October 29, 2010

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Manga Cruiser - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Chi's Sweet Home, volume 2 (Paperback)

Nice story flow and the characters are drawn cartoon-like and cute! The story about a kitten and her antics.