ChurchHatesTucker ☑I just got back from a trip, so no #MangaMonday this week. However, riffing off last week's guidebook recommendation, you may want to check out this #HumbleBundle collection of #comics and #movies art books from the likes of George Perez, Alex Ross, Howard Chaykin, and both John Romitas.
MDMRNNew Manga Read - The Muscle Girl Next Door
Skinny guy Daria lives next door to the incredibly muscular Ruby and he's head over heels into her. The entire series follows as he slowly tries to befriend and hopefully get her to notice him in a romantic way.
Daria is shy, nervous, and very skinny. Ruby is outgoing and very muscular. Daria's super into his muscle mommy neighbor.
It's largely a harmless and cute slow burn romance between these two characters with some friends along the way helping them actually get together.
Cute read I found at the library.
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#MangaMonday 101 “[OSHI NO KO] TV Anime 1st Season Official Guidebook: First Report” by Aka Akasaka (Author) & Mengo Yokoyari (Artist)
OK, it’s not a #manga, but it’s an book about an #anime based on a manga. Close enough! I also realized I haven’t recommended the original, so consider this a back-door recommendation.
“Oshi No Ko” the anime is winding up its second season, but Yen Press just released this translation of the guidebook to the first. If you’ve seen similar books, you’ll know what to expect. There’s a lot of illustrations, model sheets of the various characters, and interviews with the voice actors and some of the staff (including the manga creators, who are given titular credit for this as well.) There’s even interviews with the musicians who did the opening and ending credits.
Yen Press did a good job with this. Even though there’s no sequential images, the book reads right to left at the column of text level, preserving the feel of the original.
New Manga Read - My Sister, The Cat (Volume 2-3)
This weekend, my oldest took the SAT's and I ended up waiting for him at the local library near the testing center. So, I finished up reading My Sister, The Cat.
It does not disappoint in a very cute story of found family with a human living with a cat family.
I don't know what else to say. It's a very cute story about family and sibling dynamics.
If that sounds cool to you, feel free to check it out.
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#MangaMonday 100 “Yuko, the Ghost in My Room” by Nobuko Takekawa
Kanna has rented an apartment that is haunted. Fortunately, he’s never been scared of ghosts. He quickly dubs the mostly silent but very present ghost “Yuko” (from “Yurei,” ghost.)
Originally released on X/Twitter, this has VERY short chapters—from one to a handful of pages each. (I think they were reorganized into longer chapters for the #manga publication.) It’s a format the fits the story well, with small incidents providing the building blocks for Kanna’s growing understanding of his “roommate” and his own feelings for her. At heart, it’s a romance in a bottle, with almost everything happening in the apartment.
Ongoing with two(?) volumes in Japan. English chapters are available online at Manga UP!
New Read - Neon Genesis Evangelion, Omnibus 5 (Volumes 13-14)
Wow. Okay, so that's the end of Evangelion.
This is the final volume of the manga and a content warning, there's a lot of non-sexualized nudity that mirrors that which was shown in the anime.
But the ending. It's...different.
Shinji makes a different choice at the end, the world ends differently and honestly, I like this ending better than the original End of Evangelion movie ending.
All in all, I'm glad I read the manga. Glad I got into this series.
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#MangaMonday 99 “The Isekai Doctor” by Hoko Tsuda (story) & Nobuhide Takishita (art)
You probably guessed from the title that this isn’t a typical “other world” story; our MC is an MD. We do get some fantasy-specific situations (How do you give a dragon an endoscopy? Walk in through its nose) but a core part of this is hardcore medical science. (Tsuda is a Professor of Medical Education.) You will learn things from the explanatory narration boxes!
If that’s all it was, it would be a fun and educational #manga. But it gets political. In this world some humans have obtained—and jealously guard—a monopoly on healing magic, giving them outsized influence. Our MD is guided by Japan’s medical ethics and seeks to treat as many people as he can, which ultimately includes teaching science to anyone willing to learn.
Takishita contributes first-rate art, and a surprising attention to fashion.
Ongoing with eleven volumes in Japan. English chapters are available on kmanga.kodansha.com.
I slapped a quick pink border around this one to match the manga cover...I think it works.
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I started reading You And I are Polar Opposites this past weekend.
I am already 33 chapters in.
Decided to try to recreate the cover for Volume 1 in Animal Crossing. So, here's Raymond as Tani and Shino as Suzkui.
Happy Manga Monday!
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#MangaMonday 98 “Adabana” by NON
What’s a little dismemberment between friends?
Some mysteries are Whodunits, others are Howdunits, still others are Whydunits. This one… shifts. We know from the opening pages that Mizuki Aikawa dismembered her friend Mako Igarashi. She quickly confesses to her murder. Her lawyer senses that something isn’t adding up, but what exactly?
As you may have guessed, this is a dark #manga; there’s murder, sexual assault, and dismemberment. At its core, it’s a psychological mystery. Mizuki is the main character, but we don’t really get inside her head. This requires the visuals to do a lot of the work. Fortunately, NON’s detailed art is up to it.
Complete with two of three volumes released in English (Dark Horse.) The third is coming in June.
