Welcome to my first post of 2020. Currently it's not yet 2020, haha I'm writing these in advance as I finish up some bits and bobs of manga and anime throughout my summer. As my summer classes have wound down and my internship only sporadically assigns me stuff, I'm able to read a lot more and...uh I guess this means I have time to watch a lot more but I'm in a mental block now when it comes to manga. *wheeze*
{Spoilers, except it's really short and more slice-of-lifey rather than plot-heavy}
So, this story follows a girl who's enrolled in a high school that recently launched a track for people interested in becoming mangakas. Honestly the only reason that Kanna enrolled in the school is to have more time for her recently debuted manga Teach Me Buddha. Yes, I do acknowledge that the title is wack and the little inserts of Kanna's manga that the author puts into the actual manga is even more wack. I'd say it's so incredulous that you might want to read the manga just to see these parody clips of her manga. With the help of her joke of an editor, they've certainly turned into a beast of their own.
Between Kanna's genius plan to go to school and work on her manga and antisocial nature, she's not really looking to get a slice-of-life "we love high school and youth" experience out of high school. She's more so looking towards her future of being a professional mangaka and somehow getting her manga out of the bottom rankings of the magazine. This turns out to be difficult when the three other guys that are in her manga-track class start to bother her, calling her Sensei and asking her for advice on being a professional mangaka...all without any of them having any practical experience in basically anything. Whenever there's a contest for making manga, none of them are ever motivated to finish a four panel comic even. But, I think that's part of the charm of this manga, is that the three of these boys aren't there to become professional mangaka per say, but more so there for the experience of youth and to express their love of manga.
Would I say that there's a ton of plot and much of a reason to know everyone's names? Absolutely not. This is an almost entirely fluffy manga that relies on ikemen and bizarre situations to keep you engaged. You can imagine those anime where the main character is totally uninterested in high school and then gets pulled into the whole experience by being forced to join a club or something like that. This gives off the same feeling with extremely wack characters that keep the manga interesting.
Would I recommend this to a friend? Yeah, if the friend were a little down in the dumps and looking for something funny to keep them entertained. Truth be told, I had started this manga before, but dropped it because I just didn't find it engaging enough amidst all of the other manga I was reading. However, I've been going through a mini-kick of manga that are about manga. The inception kind of draws me in and it's funny seeing how mangaka tell the story of their kinda daily lives in terms of the realities of their profession and such. Also, the side panels that are reserved for the mangaka were translated in the scanlation I read and the mangaka is really funny as well. So, it's a good laugh with not a whole lot of plot. But I would still recommend!
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