ChurchHatesTucker ☑#MangaMonday 84 “Gene Bride” by Hitomi Takano
This is a science fiction #manga. I say that because it’s easy to forget once you start reading.
Isahaya Ichi is a woman at a small company trying to navigate the sexist corporate world. She’s surprised when a former classmate, Masaki Makuhito, shows up to thank her for an inadvertent act of kindness many years ago. He’s quite annoying, and probably autistic, but he doesn’t seem like a bad guy, so she ropes him into coming along to a meeting as silent backup. She doesn’t explain why, but he picks up on it in his unique way.
Again, this is a science fiction story. There’s an early hint of that when Isahaya remembers the event Makuhito referenced, a school-administered DNA test for compatibility. There are others, but they’re the kind that you might chalk up to an awkward translation choice, or some odd factoid about Japan… until the end of the first volume.
Complete with two of four volumes available in English (Seven Seas.)
