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Sushi Girl
FIRST EDITION. Mixx Entertainment. states 'FIRST December 1999. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. FULL COLOR.'.
94 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2000
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June 12, 2025
My cover is different from the thumbnail, for what it's worth:
I'm accidentally reading unintentionally only book in what was meant to be a series books today, huh.
I know I read this before, I'm certain, but there are parts I definitely don't remember, after Ed talks to the High Monkey-Monks about Kemmy. Possibly, that's as far as Mixxzine (or a spin-off I forgot about) made it? And then it got one additional chapter or so that's only in this book before never seeing any more... aww. :(
I got so attached originally because Tavicat (Rosearik Rikki Simons and Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simons) made such gorgeous artwork, accentuated (as explained in the back of this volume) with Ray Dream rendered backgrounds, besides that the characters and humour are so endearing!
The unfortunate thing is—so I hear—the creators had differences over the project, so it ended up being scrapped. That bothers me even more now that Tavicat collectively have been going through some things that threaten their further creative output, so the likelihood that this will ever get going again is basically zero, if their wholly original work isn't getting progress.
So it's sort of a mixed bag selling you on this book in my review, haha.
The story is simple-ish: Kemmy is a girl from the "Sticks," moving to the Big City-equivalent to make a name for herself, only to find her money (in the form of good "Sticks" karma) isn't accepted there since she didn't get it converted before she arrived.* While there, she meets Shay while seeing and saving some children trying to escape from runaway animals, and this leads to both of them getting jobs with a sushi restaurant, where they form a band with the other delivery persons.
The complicated-ish part is only vaguely set up in the time allotted, unfortunately, so it's just hinted-at worldbuilding for what manages to get done—the restaurant is just a front for a secret organisation designed to improve karma overall and make more people good, rather than filled with bad karma like Olivia (the overwhelmingly negative girl coincidentally fired to make room for Kemmy and Shay). What I've read of Reality Check! suggests this could have been an amazingly fun story!
Could have been... *sigh*
Well, I can't say I'd as such recommend it in that light, between how hard it probably is to track down plus it's definitely only part of a story. I still really like it, though, with the main negative still being that it's just one part, and a short one at that.
*This is the one glaring plothole, since what real world country wouldn't have a place to convert currency to another country's currency or vice versa? For the sake of plot, though!! (else Kemmy wouldn't have met Shay... or, would have, but wouldn't have had the same adventure, *maybe*...?)
I'm accidentally reading unintentionally only book in what was meant to be a series books today, huh.
I know I read this before, I'm certain, but there are parts I definitely don't remember, after Ed talks to the High Monkey-Monks about Kemmy. Possibly, that's as far as Mixxzine (or a spin-off I forgot about) made it? And then it got one additional chapter or so that's only in this book before never seeing any more... aww. :(
I got so attached originally because Tavicat (Rosearik Rikki Simons and Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simons) made such gorgeous artwork, accentuated (as explained in the back of this volume) with Ray Dream rendered backgrounds, besides that the characters and humour are so endearing!
The unfortunate thing is—so I hear—the creators had differences over the project, so it ended up being scrapped. That bothers me even more now that Tavicat collectively have been going through some things that threaten their further creative output, so the likelihood that this will ever get going again is basically zero, if their wholly original work isn't getting progress.
So it's sort of a mixed bag selling you on this book in my review, haha.
The story is simple-ish: Kemmy is a girl from the "Sticks," moving to the Big City-equivalent to make a name for herself, only to find her money (in the form of good "Sticks" karma) isn't accepted there since she didn't get it converted before she arrived.* While there, she meets Shay while seeing and saving some children trying to escape from runaway animals, and this leads to both of them getting jobs with a sushi restaurant, where they form a band with the other delivery persons.
The complicated-ish part is only vaguely set up in the time allotted, unfortunately, so it's just hinted-at worldbuilding for what manages to get done—the restaurant is just a front for a secret organisation designed to improve karma overall and make more people good, rather than filled with bad karma like Olivia (the overwhelmingly negative girl coincidentally fired to make room for Kemmy and Shay). What I've read of Reality Check! suggests this could have been an amazingly fun story!
Could have been... *sigh*
Well, I can't say I'd as such recommend it in that light, between how hard it probably is to track down plus it's definitely only part of a story. I still really like it, though, with the main negative still being that it's just one part, and a short one at that.
*This is the one glaring plothole, since what real world country wouldn't have a place to convert currency to another country's currency or vice versa? For the sake of plot, though!! (else Kemmy wouldn't have met Shay... or, would have, but wouldn't have had the same adventure, *maybe*...?)
October 24, 2010
This is the story of Kemmy, an 18-year-old girl living in the year 222 (After Armageddon), and the start of her adventures to save the world while juggling her job as a sushi delivery person. She wants to become famous as an OPERAP star (whatever that means). Along the way Kemmy and her friends fight to free the world from bad things, like music and karma.
When I was younger, I thought it had a decent storyline. Now, I just realized that the story was aimed for the younger crowd. Ah, the good old days.
Nice colorful pages, though.
When I was younger, I thought it had a decent storyline. Now, I just realized that the story was aimed for the younger crowd. Ah, the good old days.
Nice colorful pages, though.
February 6, 2015
I was a fan of the Reality Check! comics as a kid, because of both the manga art style and the colorful pages that were uncommon back then. While the re-releases of Reality Check! are in black-and-white, Sushi Girl is still in all of it's eye-searing glory. I wish the backgrounds weren't so painful to look at, but that was the charm back then, I suppose. The story and world are both unique and interesting, but really, my favorite thing about this was the diverse cast featuring various PoC. That was rare for back then and is STILL rare in manga... so good for Tavicat!
December 7, 2014
As a graphic novel, comic, and manga addict, this was a series I decided to re-read/revisit from my manga childhood-teenage adventures. I found just revisiting the story wonderful. I would suggest/urge anyone else in manga support to read this classic.
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