Chi's Sweet Home, Library Wars, House of Five Leaves and Natsume's Book of Friends

Titles: Natsume’s Book of Friends
Author: Yuki Midorikawa
Publisher: Viz Media
My take: A nice book for expanding Natsume’s human world a little
Spoiler-free synopsis: Natsume gets to know the man who’s taken him into his house a little better; meets Taki, who can draw circle that allow he to see yokai; visits an inn to study with friends but gets sidetracked by a mermaid and an old curse; and the book takes a brief break from Natsume’s POV to show what it’s like for his friend Tanuma, who knows of the yokai world and can see a little but isn’t beholden to it.

Titles: Chi’s Sweet Home 4
Author: Konami Kanata
Publisher: Vertical
My take: Cute overload
Spoiler-free synopsis: Chi and her family move to a new place that allows pets, giving the kitten a whole new world to explore

Titles: Library Wars 3
Author: Kiiro Yumi
Publisher: Viz Media
My take: Predictable – total brain candy
Spoiler-free synopsis: In the completely weird and nonsensical world of Library Wars, where libraries maintain standing defense forces against the censorship attempts of the government, our main characters help schoolkids explain the foolishness of censoring what books are available publically and then the library acquires a private collection including about 30 years of information chronicalling the good and bad of the Media Betterment Act. Also, our romantic leads still steadfastly refuse to admit to liking one another, despite it being more obvious than a lighthouse on a moonless night.

Titles: House of Five Leaves 2
Author: Natsume Ono
Publisher: Viz Media
My take: Not as good as volume 1
Spoiler-free synopsis: Thisa book gives us a bit of a look into the backgrounds of some of the characters who make up “The Five Leaves”.