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I tried to explain this strip cold to a friend of mine once, and it was difficult. "It's about this kid who wants to murder the girl he's crushing on, but seriously, just stick with it a minute." meanwhile awwww yeah suwa-san is on the team.

Okay, where do I go to buy that shirt?

Thanks for this series! Just the kind of thing I like to unwind with these days. Those botanical gardens over Kobe are super nice, by the way, if you ever have a chance to visit. (also hit up the Kazan Room tiki bar down by Sannomiya station, they rule.)

we stan our pants-suited queen

Everyone's a gangster until a gangster walks into the room.

There are a lot more options than that. I'm just sayin'. On the question of "how shocking is this really," a guy that young with a lot of earrings is (in my experience) pretty unusual in Japan still. But in a busy part of a big city you'll see trendy-looking women with lots of them and it's not...

I've noticed that's kind of a signature thing for Katou. Strategically placed inset panels and dialogue.

She gonna Bunta Sugawara some poor dumb bastards.

The rendering of "extremely polite because extremely guilt-ridden" Hiroi is some fine writing, well done.

Yeah, I joke about Suwa becoming an antagonist but really this has never been a strip about heroes and villains. Even Nanpai didn't turn out to be that bad a guy. It's another challenge and the kids will overcome it, adorably. I have faith.

Now that Ichikawa isn't his own worst enemy anymore, he needs a new one.

“Call Denken,” the voice said. “I don’t have to call any—” “Call him and ask him,” the voice said, “what you should do if you owe some money to an elf named Frieren.”

The other day I was looking into buying some headphones, and I decided to get a set of those Marshall Major cans that Koi-chan wears. They’re nice headphones, but is that weird? I feel like that’s weird.

Reading this again reminds me of a Japanese colloquialism thing: if you look at the panel of her beauty product collection, what in America would be called conditioner is usually called "rinse" or (as in this case) "treatment" over there. On vacation earlier this year I went to a drugstore in...

yessssssss teen angsssssssssssst hook it to my veins

Powerful resonance for broke motherfuckers everywhere. Thanks for cranking this series out!

In the real world Yoji Anjo was dumb enough to think he could beat down Rickson Gracie legit, so there is precedent of a kind.

Like I say, this comic is willing to admit that wrestling incorporates performance, but it's not ready to come out and say that wrestling is ALL performance. So you get weird dissonance like that.

This comic has a totally skitzo relationship with kayfabe, but I'm not mad at it. Very much of its era. Kinda like the old Game Boy in the laundromat scene.

Kinda reflects the atmosphere of the time. Wrestling in the '90s had a cavalier attitude toward that sorta thing. Mitsuharu Misawa's death forced a certain re-evaluation, but that was a long time after this.