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Pollyanna

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Pollyanna

A collection of comics and essays in celebration of the Mother/Earthbound video game series from 35 contributors.

We’ve discussed this on a previous episode.

This is a fantastic tribute to Nintendo’s quirky role-playing-game Mother/Earthbound! It took a long time for me to acquire this book because shipping was limited due to the pandemic but I was so happy when I finally got it. Some well known manga artists like Taiyo Matsumoto and Inio Asano and even Toby Fox, creator of Undertale, contributed to this collection. I love all the different stories that celebrate the wonderful world of Mother/Earthbound!

~dakazu

Tomatoypoo no Lycopene

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Tomatoypoo no Lycopene

A comedy manga about Lycopene, an adorable Toy Poodle born from a tomato stalk.

I have to be honest. I completely forgot this manga ever existed in Weekly Shonen Jump. I personally had no interest in this series while it was serialized. Now that I’ve gone back and read it, I can see how the juxtaposition of cute characters with 4th wall breaking jokes makes for some decent comedy bits.

This series was transferred over to Jump+ when Kouji Ohishi suffered from health issues and is still on-going right now. I’m glad Ohishi is still continuing this series compared to the fate of all the other canceled series in Jump.

~dakazu