Appealing to girls, fangirls, comic chicks, and girls who dream of visiting Japan. This tall girl's adventure is a comic travel log from when Aimee Major Steinberger and two of her closest friends dropped everything to go to Japan to shop, lounge in the onsen, and see the Volks headquarters where her favourite doll is made. And yes, its main appeal is toward girls.
Bright colours or black and white sketches (or both) and a handwritten blurb decorate each page with pieces of Aimee's adventures and explains various pieces of Japanese culture she runs into, including all the lolita fashion shops, cosplaying, Kyoto shrines, and the Harajuku district.
The story was great because it wasn't straight forward. They had misadventures, misfortunes, and even shook things up in the bathhouse. Aimee got to live out a dream so many of us only ever can dream about. I loved the way she zoomed through the best of Japanese youth culture, and I didn't feel like I missed anything.
To top it off, if anyone felt like they did miss something, Go! Comi has over 60 pages of unpublished pages from Aimee's travel journal they didn't have room to print!
Girly: 10/10 Fun: 10/10 Comic-feel: 7/10 Desire to go to Japan increased by: 100000/10
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