That title sounds like a death threat and then you get a sincere, quietly devastating story about a girl on Izu Oshima who decides to make manga instead of just reading it. Ai Yasumi isn't a genius prodigy, she's a first-year who has to actually sit with the terror of putting her own pages in front of people, and the show never lets her off easy for it. This is a character study first and a comedy second, the kind of series where episode six wrecks you in ways episode one gave zero warning for. Reviewers keep saying it grows on you hard as it goes, and that's the trap, you start watching for the gag title and end up getting gutted by how honestly it treats the fear of making something and showing it to the world. Skip the title, trust the pages.*
Ai Yasumi is a first-year high school student living on the island of Izu Oshima, and she loves manga more than anything. When she hears that Hoshi no Rei, her favorite manga artist who has been inactive for a long time, will be exhibiting at COMITIA, she travels to Tokyo for the event. A fateful encounter there sets her life on a new course, and she decides to start creating stories of her own. Ai soon finds that making manga is a path she knew far less about than she believed. The result is a comedic slice-of-life story about a girl taking her first steps toward becoming a mangaka, with plenty of challenges and growth along the way.
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