ChurchHatesTucker ☑#MangaMonday 16 “Guyabano Holiday” by panpanya
panpanya is known for stories with a surrealist bent, and most of the stories in this collection are in that vein. They tend to have a dream logic and touch on things like the nature of human perception, but they’re all quite fun. If you’ve read their previous volume “An Invitation from a Crab” it’ll be very familiar.
The eponymous (and longest) story in this #manga is a little different. It shares the usual protagonist—an unnamed child with shoulder-length hair—and is inhabited by the same vaguely humanoid creatures, but appears to be informed by an actual trip to the #Philippines and reads more like a travelogue.
panpanya is a skilled artist, and is comfortable varying style to match the needs of the story. This usually happens from panel to panel, but sometimes they’ll do it within a single panel.
Complete with the one volume in English (Denpa.)
