ChurchHatesTucker ☑#MangaMonday 88 “Black Night Parade” by Hikaru Nakamura
Hino Miharu is a tireless worker at terrible convenience store. One night, after committing a minor infraction of the rules, he’s confronted by the “Black Santa” (Santa Claus’ counterpart in charge of the Naughty end of things,) kidnapped, and put to work. If you’re familiar with the Japanese concept of a “Black Company,” you might guess where this is heading.
This is the kind of #manga that’s silly on its face, but underneath it still has a high stakes story—one that can get fairly gruesome. Later volumes play with bouncing between the two at fairly tight intervals. It’s also packed with a lot of twists and turns of both plot and characters.
Nakamura mined some deep Saint Nicolas lore for this world, which is unsurprising given the work she did previously in “Saint Young Men” (future recommendation alert.)
Ongoing, with eight of 10 volumes in English (Seven Seas.)