It's Laundry Time!

Mori had also put in comments for some specific pages.

One Piece original art from Weekly Shōnen Jump 50th Anniversary Exhibition.

However, on tankōbon the reading direction is OK and works well (thankfully). Other weirdness: the main guy Kai is a lolicon and repeatedly tells our heroine Chloé that he wants to enter her body. Uhh-huhh… 😑 It’s almost like this was a metaphor for something else! 🫢

All in all, the manga is very nice! I’m wondering if it is even better than YLiA… 🤔 The matches are exciting and the characters are great. Have a hearty recommendation, duckies! 👏 (Duckies is a pretty fun choice of words. Seems to show up often in Kodansha’s publications…)

The manga also goes deep into the football tactics + there are many real-world references. Learning about those gave me more appreciation for the sport, and it was refreshing that tactics also affected the game enough that it wasn’t only a few genius players battling each other.

The amount of details on some pages was pretty staggering. ”Every page with love and care”, as someone once wrote.

Arawi is very strong in random comedy. The series reminds me a bit of Dr. Slump (without the perverted jokes).

A small side-step from bunny strips.

えーっと #みんなのネームと仕上がりを見比べたい

I am progressing! Slowly, yes, but I am progressing! 🥵

As in Rosario + Vampire, the art is pretty slick. Saiké is good at drawing the split-seconds of action and letting the reader’s eye fulfill the movement. This is of course standard practise in fight mangas, but this series has also a couple of fun decisions…