My Monster Secret, Vol. 2 (Eiji Masuda)

My Monster Secret, by Eiji Masuda (2013)


I read the English version, naturally, 2016

(Not a review, just some notes to help me remember the things I've read. But written this way because it's the Internet, and some people will stumble across this page.)

I wasn't going to list every manga book separately, but I don't think I'll be reading more in this series for the times being. The second book introduced a bigger cast of "monsters" as has gotten a little more silly, which is fine, actually. But it's just a bunch of disjointed stories, starting with one where Shiragami discovers sunscreen which allows her to walk around during daylight without getting a bad sunburn. (The sun doesn't kill her.)

The book introduces Shiho Shirou, who is a wolfman tasked with bringing Youko Shiragami back to her father. He is a childhood friend, who transforms when he sees even a picture of the Moon. Excpet that his non-wolf form is also a non-man, aka, Shiho Shishido, a female childhood friend. Who is also a self-described nympho. She has designs on Asahi Kuromine, and Shiragmi seems to be a little jealous even though she doesn't state it (because Asahi is just a friend, after all).

And then there's a devil child with horns, which at first seem to be an accessroy, but they are not, and she sometimes has a tail. She looks too young to be in high school. This would be interesting enough, along with the fact that her name is Akane Koumoto, and Koumoto Sensei is Asahi's homeroom teacher. They assume that they're sisters, but it fact, the child, the devil, is the teacher's great-great-grandmother. The teacher is human, not a devil, being that she's at least five generations removed. Again, this would be fine, but then it's made known that the devil is actually the principal, who hasn't appeared before, and no one has noticed that a child is the principal. Granted, she does have illusion powers, but this is a little silly.

Nothing objectionable, but nothing compelling me to read more. Maybe after some other things, I'll get back to it. I don't know.

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