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Tankobon Hardcover
(This review concerns 北欧女子オーサが見つけた日本の不思議, by オーサ・イェークストロム, in case Goodreads does this stupid thing where it collapses multiple entries into some type of anthology edition)
General impressions
NB: This book is part of a series. I may or may not have focused my efforts in reviewing the last part of the series.
Rating (Intuitive*): 4
Rating (Weighted**): 3.52
RMSE***(Intuitive,Weighted): 0.426
Mean error***(Intuitive,Weighted): -0.056
Format: Paperback
Language: Japanese
Presentation
Art: 4/5 [w:1.5]
Prose: 3/5 [w:1.5]
Design, layout and gimmicks: 4/5 [w:1.5]
The four-panel format isn't one of my favorites, but it does undeniably work for humor. The art is servicable if not world-class, but it is miles ahead of most other humor comics with which I'm familiar (with the exception of some outliers such as Calvin and Hobbes).
Additional modifiers
Page turner factor: 4/5 [w:3.5]
Mind blown factor: 2/5 [w:2.5]
Mood (Humor if comedy, scaryness if horror, etc): 4/5 [w:3]
The humor is on point in a maybe not hysterical kind of way, but it does bring forth a sensible chuckle and one or two guffaws.
*The rating I felt this deserved before thinking about it too much.
**Weights displayed next to each applicable scoring criterion. (Weights version 3.1)
***Root mean squared error and mean error calculated for all reviews using this format for books read from 2020-07-12 up until this book (24 reviews).