Asadora is my newest guilty pleasure! I absolutely adore this manga series about a young girl, Asa, and her search for her family and potentially a giant monster. It's fun, an easy read and quite the light read too. I highly recommend picking this up if you're looking for a fun, fast moving, and slightly mysterious book that won't bring you down or make you feel grey.

There's so many good parts to this book, so let's just write up a quick summary of my notes:
1. Mysterious intro in the jungle
2. Giant monster! In the flesh!
3. "Hero of the Skies" - This is a great tag line for the book, by the wa.
4. Shota is super sweet.
5. "Rotten egg like you" is the best insult I've heard all week.
6. Flash forward and cliffhangers.

Overall, I love this series! I think it's off to a great start and I'm still super intrigued about where it's going to go.

Five out of five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Viz for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange of an honest review. ( )

Moxie. Gumption. Grit. Determination. Asa Asada is loaded with them, and she is going to save her family from disaster or avenge them if she cannot. And the second her hand touches an airplane control stick she knows nothing is going to get between her and the sky.

Events move from the aftermath of Typhoon Vera in 1959 to the threshold of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The bigger story starts to come into focus even as Naoki Urasawa keeps his cards close to his chest and indulges in all the little character moments that keep his epics grounded in humanity. ( )