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Engaging story. Language is very approachable even for a newbie.

I loved the Shadows House anime but the manga is a bit advanced for me. When I saw this by the same author I immediately decided to try it, and I'm glad I did.

As other reviews will tell you, the basic story is about a young girl, koko, living alone in a mansion with her cat, kuro. The mansion and the surrounding neighborhood are beset by monsters - everybody seems to be able to see them except koko. She is protected by kuro, who obviously is a bit more than the normal cat. I don't want to give

Simple, short little intertwined stories set in a world besieged by monsters

This is the story of a small little girl called Coco living alone in a mansion and her strange monster-cat Kuro. Throughout the manga, we discover, bit by bit, the strange fantasy world besieged by monsters that they inhabit. We also get a glimpse into the backstory of the side characters, so this volume feels a little like a collection of short, interlinked, stories that serve to give us a better understanding of the inner workings of this world and its people.

The further you progress through

Kuro is about a little girl, ココ, and her cat, クロ. It's a.. strange story to say the least. ココ lives alone in a large mansion, in a city which is surrounded by monsters. And we only slowly discover the workings of this world in a series of chapters that work backwards in time. It's dark, but with no real large narrative. I never fully got into it... mostly just confused haha, but it's very different which is refreshing.

For a language learner, this is an awesome first book if you can find a vers