Tensai Yanagisawa Kyouju no Seikatsu

A manga chronicling the eccentric, introverted, and genius professor Yanagisawa. Story arcs cover various stages of his life from childhood to present a look into his sometimes humorous interactions with people around him.

I love this manga because it supersedes slice of life manga with the entire life of it’s protagonist. There is something very special about how manga artist Kazumi Yamashita is able to endlessly add to this character with a variety of stories. 

Some of them focus on professor Yanagisawa and his family though out his life. Others focus on his various students. Sometimes he is just the bystander to strangers going through a mid-life crisis. Every tale is different but related through Yanagisawa in someway and makes wonderful use of a long-running manga format.

I also love that the professor is based on Yamashita’s actual father who was just as essentric as Yanagisawa.

This is a special manga. Highly recommended.

~dakazu