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What? A manwha about counselling? Hell yeah! And it's excellent, I assure you.

This is the story of Nam-Bong Baek (aka Dr. Frost), who had a severe brain injury while he was young and as a result he's unable to experience certain emotions. He decided to study psychology in order to understand himself and comprehend human behavior, so now he's a counsulting psychologist at Yonggang University.

The manwha is highly informative and educational, it provides insight to the most common mental illnesses through relatable stories and the different kinds of therapies available. It also addresses themes as the inexperience of recently graduated counselors, how it's preferable ... to prevent illness rather to treat it, and the taboo of mental health, how society (Korea in this case) looks down on counselling patients because of the great pressure and high expectations they have (to perform right all the time, to be idols, to become what other people want and met their needs before their own, etc.).

All the characters have meaning and depth, the author did an amazing research job to build them in a way so we can see and appreciate not only the main story line but also their journey as individuals. It's full of references in case the reader wants to know more about psychology, for example, it names the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), drama therapy (where the client process trauma through a theatrical setting) and psychological autopsy (when data is collected in order to analyze the reasons that lead a person to commit suicide), to state a few.

I was touched and grateful by the way the author conveyed the idea of what it means to being a counselor, and how the relationship between counselor and client was depicted as more than a business deal, but a humane approach to healing for both of them. How it's ok to be imperfect, because humans are imperfect. How it's ok to feel your feelings, because humans are not only conscious but sentient beings.

I couldn't find the third season translated, but the first two seasons are available for free on Webtoon and the manwha was adapted into a drama in 2014.

I would recommend this to anyone slightly interested in psychology or counseling.

"All counselors are just people who walk on the face on their own shadow anyway"

This manga is about Junji Ito's experience with two cats, that moved in with him and his wife to their new house. The art style is 100% Ito's, and the story is funny and relatable, at least for us cat lovers.

At the beginning Mr J. says he prefers dogs over cats, but soon after knowing the felines he wants to know them better and win their affection. The daily situations they encounter are realistic. It's a simple short story but I enjoyed every chapter.

I felt personally stroked by this manga because my oldest cat passed away a few days ago, and I found this ... story to convey the personality of cats in such a vivid manner. Cats do act weird, and I loved them for it.

Recommended to me by @Rory.

This manga was demented, insane, deranged. Junji Ito knows how to convey a creepy and disturbing story. I wouldn't say it was scary for me, but some stories made me feel uneasy.

The imagery was quite grotesque and explicit. The mental states of the characters transmitted the obsession and madness, more than the actual town did. I like how the curse had its own way to get into people, the different manners it could ramified, perverting, tangling and twisting all around it.

I didn't like the main lead, Kirie Goshima, her decisions and actions didn't seem to fit the experience ... she was having. More often that not, I found her to be a damsel-in-distress type, who needed constant rescue.

But I enjoyed Shuichi Saito, for being the outcast who knew (or felt, or sense) the evil and tried to warn everyone else, even if that meant wearing the freak tag. How do you know you're sane when you're surrounded by insanity?

I love symbolism as much as I love metaphors. I love how art can represent the darkest parts of human nature. I'm not sure if seeing spirals with trigger the hell out of me, but I'm sure I'll remember this manga. I'm looking at you Fibonacci ¬¬

Apparently none of the characters actually know what love is. This manga is a clear example of romanticized obsession/stalking/violence/rape. And at the end, no consequences come to the abusers; they all just move on with their lives.

Yashiro - as the saxophonist who's depressed because of the death of the pianist of his band (which happened years ago, to whom he never confessed his love)
Eiji - as the drummer who's a promiscuous, aggressive, sadistic persona, and all kinds of wrong (that obviously preys on those emotionally unstable)

Several characters try to warn off the main lead, and advice him to not engage with this brutal guy, ... but he does anyway. Several characters don't see anything wrong going on and actually cheer them up. And then, when a more psychopathic dude is introduced, Eiji tries to "protect" Yashiro from him. Like, really?

The only good thing about this manga is how they explained what was music for them, and their experience with it. But the names of the characters and even all the musical setting resembles Gravitation at some point, but filled with conflict, morbid and nonsense.