Tibetan Sand Fox Sunaoka-san by Qrice
I remember seeing this guy’s stuff on twitter once and I ended up following him. He’s known more I think for his other cartoon staring this fat orange cat (no, not Garfield haha) but I really prefer Sunaoka-san. Color me surprised when I saw this tank at Kinokuniya during their Black Friday sale (randomly hidden in the crafts area of all places)!
I really enjoyed relieving Sunaoka’s life again. He has a hardcore rbf but a heart of gold. Reading about his kind deeds made me the reader want to follow more in his example (but I’m not chasing down no purse snatcher. I already witnessed early this year someone getting socked in the face for tripping a thief – yeah it was nuts!).
Abe-kun ni Nerawaretemasu by Iwai Aki
Pretty obvious why I bought this tank haha. I was highly curious how MUSCALS ended up on the cover of a BetsuFure series. Turns out Abe-kun is actually serialize in an online mag/site called Palcy, which would explain why it seems this series seems to have more…flexibility in terms of its content. Anyway, this was fun trash to read haha. I love that we have muscles everywhere ~ I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of muscular shojo insanity is in store for us :D
Ore no Hitsuji-chan! by Fukawa Miki
I really enjoyed Kawaii ni mo Hodo ga Aru! so I wanted to try her other work, Ore no Hitsuji-chan. While Hitsuji-chan had some good lols (like the one brother constantly pulling out 10 pound bags of salt and pepper shakers to ward people away from his brother. Girl: ARE YOU A CHEF BECAUSE WHY ARE YOU LOADED WITH ALL THESE SPICES!?), it didn’t have the same laugh out loud hilarity as Kawaii. Maybe because I wasn’t a fan of any of the characters could also be a reason? Was still fun tho :J
Ojou-san to Yobanaide (1-2) by Amakura Fuyu
Omg I love the art ~ Very cute! Also these two bananas were very cute to watch as they interacted with one another. The age gap was a little creepy because it’s always creepy for me when the person is still in high school and her dude is like, a businessman/sensei/not a student. I can’t remember how big a difference their age was – if it was less than 10 years, exactly 10 years, or more than 10 years – but I just kinda ignored their ages since the art made them look roughly the same age haha
Kocchi ni Mite yo, Hidaka (1-2) by Ishizawa Umi
Lol, I had forgotten all about this series! I didn’t realize it had been completed :p The story was shojo cute though the art sometimes bugged me. I’m not a fan of the Boku ni Hana no Melancholy less than 1 millimeter distance between the dot-nose and mouth spacing with like 10 miles of chin faces. I loved the side profiles this manga-ka draws though. They were proportional to a normal face but then when the character looked dead on to the reader, the lips got sucked right back up to the middle of the face haha.
Forgot to mention I was a little disappointed the choir bit of this story was forgotten in favor of love drama. I felt maybe had this series been longer, instead of rushing to get the two together, we could have had some mention beyond the first 2 chapters of the main girl trying to harmonize and work with her choir. But the romance took priority haha.
Ai Kotoba: Koi no Meigen, Ai no Kakugen by Matsu Kana
A random buy during one of Kino’s sales. The art on the cover caught my eye and that meant instant buy haha. The shorts inside are based on quotes from famous people I don’t know since I’m horrible with names hur hur. It was interesting to see how those quotes helped to influence or drive the main character of each short. I liked all of shorts save one, where I’m like, this guy is trash. Take him to the curbside girl, you can do better.
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