Musume e ~Shourai Shinitaku nattara Koitsu wo Yome~

A collection of stories from Shinya Suzuki about raising his daughters.

I really glad Shinya Suzuki got the opportunity to make this series for Jump+. He explains in the beginning how after finishing he hit series Mr. Fullswing in 2006 he was muddling about without getting another series going. He started a blog during this period and eventually put up a manga titled “Dear Daughter, If you feel like dying in the future read this”(same title of this book) which gained a lot of buzz and praise online. This led to this serialization of auto-biographical comics focused on themes of raising children and family care.

These comics are thoughtful, heartfelt, and most importantly very funny.
Suzuki’s strength as a manga artist comes from his comedy chops and low-brow comedy to boot. Case in point, he introduces his wife as someone with thick eyebrows and even thicker poops and draws himself being thrown outside naked for revealing such secrets. Regardless of thick poops, Suzuki is extremely open about his frustrations and anxieties he has towards his children as a parent. It’s wonderful to see that he doesn’t shy away from mistakes he’s made so he can learn from them for the better.

This is a great auto-biographical series about raising kids. And thick poops.

~dakazu