There is one very obvious comparison to be made here, and it’s actually one that holds up pretty well across these two volumes: if you enjoyed Somali and the Forest Spirit, there’s a very good chance that you will like Ichi Yukishiro‘s The Skull Dragon’s Precious Daughter. Both series take a similar premise and do charming things with it, namely that an ancient supernatural being takes charge of a young girl in their twilight years and works to find a way for her to survive when their lives are over. The major difference is that Snoozy, the dragon in Yukishiro’s series, does die very early on in the story. It’s just that his human daughter Eve happens to be gifted with very strong magical powers and is able to bring him back as a ghostly skeleton.
Snoozy (named by Eve at age five when she first meets him) has no expectation of ever being a father again, although he does have a…
