Paruno Gurafiti

A collection of autobiographical stories by Paru Itagaki about her family.

We’ve discussed this on a recent episode.

Man this is a terrific series. I learned so many interesting things about Paru Itagaki, like her eldest sister with the visage of Buddha that never changes or her other sister who taught her about adultery and blackmail when they played with dolls. Interesting enough, Paru had to come clean about legendary manga artist Keisuke Itagaki being her actual father because she started this series. I also love how Paru draws her father as a scary looking dark figure to drive home the fact that their family dynamic was very strange at home since Keisuke Itagaki was usually off drawing Baki at his studio.

These stories just got collected and released as a tankobon in Japan. Since VIZ has already licensed BEASTARS and now Beast Complex, I hope they’ll try to bring this manga over in English as well!

~dakazu