Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

She's just the cutest thing ever!   Short vignettes populated with sparse word bubbles - or even words in general - make this a quick read.   Then again, this doesn't need more than it has.   Between the watercolors - the colors aren't quite lush, but the mostly muted quality somehow enhances the cuteness of this series - which are fantastic and the adorable antics of Chi and her family, I don't really need much more.  I've been reading up on the writer and artist, and how brilliant both her art and writing is, and I agree completely: this is cute, this is fun, and her art is captivating. 

As for her understanding of cats, humans, and how they interact, the point has been made over and over again that she not only understands all of this to her core, but she expresses it flawlessly.   She does. 

Also, the vignettes themselves tell an overall story, one building on the other.   I suspect the shortness has more to do with the anthology aspect of so much manga - in which you get a couple pages of a bunch of stories in one magazine.   It's how the previous series, FukuFuku, about another cat, was written.   I haven't looked into it, but I'd be unsurprised if Chi was originally written this way.   More than enough of the vignettes build directly on top of the story told in the pervious vignette that it seems she was given so many pages, and had a story that fit into that page limit.   The author does this well, makes the stories compelling and makes them feel like there's a concrete end to that particular vignette even when I know there's going to be a continuation.   (Like when it's a part one.)

I'm going to leave you with this: 

How can you not love that face?