The Flustered Shabby Santa Claus by Kana Yamamoto

It is officially the eve of Christmas eve, I've got a short post for today and a slightly longer one for tomorrow. I'm not hopeful about finding winter reads next year though, but I hope this won't be the last year of Winter Wonderland posts. I found a new Santa gif though:

 

The Flustered Shabby Santa Claus by Kana Yamamoto


Genre: Josei
Length: One Chapter – 17 Pages


           The art has personality, but also seems a bit sketchy, especially the backgrounds that come and go, so it gets an okay score in the visual category. The faces have a lot of emotion, and the hair has good movement though the styling just looks rather trendy instead of stylized

to the mangaka. The clothes also fit well on the bodies and have enough detail to pass as regular clothing. Judging by such a short story is kind of hard but the look doesn't shift through out.
           When a man is caught sneaking out of an apartment in the middle of the night on Christmas eve by a girl on the adjacent balcony, he knows his luck has run out, but instead of calling foul she actually seems to think he's Santa Claus instead of a thief! Can he appease her well enough to get away?
           Awwww. That sums up this story completely, a cooing of cuteness, and considering the length that is a good outcome. I mean it takes all of five minutes to actually read it, so the story is very short and to the point but in a good way. The characters of both people are given, as well as how their motivations bring them together in the story. In fact it may not end just the way you think it will, and there is one panel in particular that really gives your heart strings a strum, so it has good originality along with the right holiday feeling. Its warm and its cute, a perfect short read for the season.


4/5 Its not amazing but its a nice short story.