Manga thus far

I now have a new benchmark in fiddly dessert recipes, having just spent a not inconsiderable portion of my evening making a chestnut chocolate mousse - my aunt gave me some chestnuts from their orchard, and the recipe didn't involve any trick steps like "now leave in fridge overnight", so I gave it a go. In hindsight I should have wondered why the recipe book also included a whole page on how to peel chestnuts. Because I now know that you can only peel them successfully when they're hot (i.e., just plucked from boiling water), and after that, boiling them again with milk, pushing them through a sieve, making and adding a) a sugar syrup b) melted chocolate and c) whipped cream, pales in comparison to burning my fingers repeatedly while trying to extract any chestnut at all (it does taste good, tho').

Anyway. Food experiments aside, I haven't reviewed any manga this year so far despite reading it, and thought I'd just do a quick summary post.

( Old Boy, Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi, v4-8. )

( The Summit of the Gods, Yumemakura Baku and Jiro Taniguchi, v1. )

( Moyasimon, Masayuki Ishikawa, v1. )

( A distant neighbourhood, Jiro Taniguchi, v2. )

( Pluto, Naoki Urasawa, v6,7. )

( 20th century boys, Naoki Urasawa, v7. )

( All my darling daughters, Fumi Yoshinaga. )

( Real, Takehiko Inoue, v6,7. )

( Ikigami 3. )

( Oishinbo, Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki, volumes Rice and Izakaya. )