#MangaMonday 03 “Dinosaur Sanctuary” by Itaru Kinoshita

Suma Suzume is starting out as a rookie dinokeeper at Enoshima Dinoland, a middling dinosaur zoo that is struggling amid a downturn in popular interest in dinosaurs.

This is an episodic workplace slice-of-life/drama #Manga that mostly follows Suzume learning about her job and the #Dinosaurs, although some chapters follow visitors or other zoo staff. The world’s backstory is a hand-wavey combination of a discovered population and genetic engineering.

The art really shines when the dinos appear. There’s a lot of thought as well as effort put into their posture and appearance (some are feathered, some not.) Research Consultant Shin-ichi Fujiwara contributes a page of text every chapter that usually touches on the current story (e.g., at one point explaining why Triceratops probably loafed like a house cat.)

Ongoing with four of five volumes released in English (Seven Seas.)

#DinosaurSanctuary

so i got volume 2 of #DinosaurSanctuary which is a #manga about #dinosaurs in some... Jurassic Park type timeline and i love it just as much as the first volume

its still very cute and im still going to keep ordering future volumes and recommend reading it so far

also every chapter ends with a note from the research consultant (Shin-ichi Fujiwara, a PhD) about some topic relevant to the chapter, e.g. in the first volume there's a couple pages about how dinosaurs could and couldn't sit down