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Eerie Queerie has its charm but reading this now in 2019, it does feel very dated. The translation is a bit rough, the typesetting/fonts/lettering very poorly done, and the art is very rough and unsophisticated. It's a cute story but really lacking in depth or nuance.

Story: Mitsuo should be an ordinary student but he can, unfortunately, see ghosts. Worse, those ghosts can take over his body at will. All have a reason why they are tied to the Earth and all are desperate to see their wishes fulfilled through Mitsuo. When he is forced to confess a ghost's feelings for fellow classmate Hasanuma, he is surprised to find an unexpected ally. One who actually doesn't mind being confessed to by another guy.

The set up here is that Mitsuo is incredibly gullible and naive and the more worldly Hasanuma goes about protected and helping Mitsuo every time he is possessed. It's pretty much a monster of the week scenario where the following happens a) Mitsuo gets saved by Hasanuma, b) the ghost's mystery needs to be solved, c) Hasanuma not-so-subtly gives broad hints at his attraction that Mistuo completely misinterprets, d) the living person being haunted becomes involved with Mitsuo.

Despite the charm, this first volume is rough for a professional translation. The artwork is very crowded and odd/underdeveloped. Several different fonts and font sizes are used in the first few chapters - looking very much like someone swiped a (bad) fan translation off the web. And the stories lack enough continuity to be anything more than 'solve a mystery them move on' level of repetition.

I've read the first two books and likely would only continue to the third if someone threw it at my feet for free. It's not bad but it's not great, either.


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Eerie Queerie! Vol 1 Shuri Shiozu Books Reviews

Rarely have I liked & continued to like a series such as this one. Even the best of series will usually get old after a few readings, but no so with this series!

The series surrounds Mitsuo & his misadventures as he discovers that he's just psychic enough to see ghosts, as well as to be posessed by them. The first one he finds ends up posessing him to be near her crush Hasunuma, who also attends the same school as Mitsuo. Hasunuma, however, seems to have designs on Mitsuo...

I thoroughly liked this volume. The pacing was nice, the characters are all highly likable, & the artwork is gorgeous. I'd definately recommend this for a first-timer in the yaoi/BL genre, as there's nothing truly objectionable in this series.
I have to admit that I wasn't very excited about the synopsis. The story seemed rather cheesy, but once I started reading, I couldn't put the book down. If you share Manga interests with me (Gravitation, Pet Shop of Horrors, Fake) you are going to love Eerie Queerie! The humor can be both blatant and subtle, but always well done. The characters are suprisingly well developed in a short period of time, and you really start to feel for poor Mitsuo as his body is used (most often against his will) by girls to get good with the people they've left behind. What makes it even more unique, and thouroughly confuses his classmates, is that he isn't gay, but is always being possessed by girls who make no effort to tone it down while in his bod. The idea behind it is CLASSIC! Check this one out!
There are actually two separate stories there. The bulk of this manga is the story of Mitsuo Shiozu who has the ability to interact with ghosts. Unfortunately these ghosts use him to try and finish their business on earth and that might not be the best thing for a high school boy. His new friend Hasunuma reacts a bit too friendly toward him, strong hints of gay dynamics about to begin, but he does help him with his problem by believing that ghosts are using him. Together they help two female spirits though it gets a bit confusing to figure out what is going on with some of the tiny print and action sequences (-1 star). Then the manga turned to the story of Tomoya and Kurara Kaneko, twin sister and brother also in high school though not the same one I think. This second story was confusing to me because was expecting more with the Hasunuma and Mitsuo and the ghosts (-1 star).
The premise of this story was enough to hook me. The first volume was enough to prompt me to buy the other three. Unfortunately after the first volume the story goes downhill.

The characters introduced begin to look the same, and a large household of bishounens and their lolita maids required me at some points to back up and reread scenes to determine which of the light-haired pretty boys was speaking to which of the light-haired pretty boys. Not that this confusion seemed to hamper the plot, which had by this point abandoned the story.

There are some very cute scenes in this manga, and the two main characters forming the focal relationship and also cute. The story line unfortunately tapers of into an unimpressive and blurry sort of ending, and there is only a vague resolution to the character's budding relationship problems.

It's cute I suppose, but I wouldn't buy it again and one of the friends I lent it to didn't even bother finishing it.

I'm surprised however by the reviews it's gotten on here, so I guess my advice would have to be this go to a bookstore and flip through a few pages in the second or third volume. If you can tell the characters well enough apart and the plot lines seem good enough for you, go for it. Otherwise just sit back and wait because larger quantities and higher qualities of yaoi manga are coming onto the market. Soon there will be no need to just grab anything with a yaoi reference to get your fix.
Eerie Queerie has its charm but reading this now in 2019, it does feel very dated. The translation is a bit rough, the typesetting/fonts/lettering very poorly done, and the art is very rough and unsophisticated. It's a cute story but really lacking in depth or nuance.

Story Mitsuo should be an ordinary student but he can, unfortunately, see ghosts. Worse, those ghosts can take over his body at will. All have a reason why they are tied to the Earth and all are desperate to see their wishes fulfilled through Mitsuo. When he is forced to confess a ghost's feelings for fellow classmate Hasanuma, he is surprised to find an unexpected ally. One who actually doesn't mind being confessed to by another guy.

The set up here is that Mitsuo is incredibly gullible and naive and the more worldly Hasanuma goes about protected and helping Mitsuo every time he is possessed. It's pretty much a monster of the week scenario where the following happens a) Mitsuo gets saved by Hasanuma, b) the ghost's mystery needs to be solved, c) Hasanuma not-so-subtly gives broad hints at his attraction that Mistuo completely misinterprets, d) the living person being haunted becomes involved with Mitsuo.

Despite the charm, this first volume is rough for a professional translation. The artwork is very crowded and odd/underdeveloped. Several different fonts and font sizes are used in the first few chapters - looking very much like someone swiped a (bad) fan translation off the web. And the stories lack enough continuity to be anything more than 'solve a mystery them move on' level of repetition.

I've read the first two books and likely would only continue to the third if someone threw it at my feet for free. It's not bad but it's not great, either.