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The cover to Minami's Lover by Shingiku Uchida, featuring the title, author's name, and the words "Fantagraphics," and "For Mature Readers," in a pink, blue, green, and cream bubbly font. Two-thirds of the cover is taken up by an illustration of a young woman with pink hair bashfully peeking out from behind a mug with a cat on it.
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Shungiku Uchida, Translator: H Paige

Minami's Lover

On sale date: June 27, 2023

In this raunchy, moving, funny manga for adults, high school student Minami’s girlfriend, Chiyomi, shrinks down to six inches tall — and moves in with him!

Originally appearing in the underground/alternative manga magazine Garo in the 1980s and adapted for television several times, the Japanese pop culture sensation Minami’s Lover is the story of two high schoolers’ romantic relationship when one of them shrinks down to six inches tall. Everyone thinks Chiyomi has disappeared, and suspicion naturally falls on Minami, identified as her boyfriend in her diary. But after inexplicably finding herself in such a state, Chiyomi moves in with him. As depicted in Uchida’s clean, loose line and Zip-a-Tone textures, the two soon adapt to the unusual circumstances, devising ways for Chiyomi to use the toilet, brush her teeth and hair, attend classes, and more. After some silly sequences of trial and error, they even figure out a sex life. But in addition to learning how to navigate logistics, jealousy, and the cat, they’re also growing up (if not taller). Uchida uses the conceit of a teen couple literally learning how to take care of one another to examine gender dynamics and intimacy.

Please note: This book is a traditional work of manga and reads back to front and right to left.

Praise

"Darkly funny, sexually frank, and unexpectedly heartbreaking, this slippery parable defies expectations at every turn." — Publishers Weekly

"Minami's Lover takes a fantasy trope and plays it completely straight — a rare kind of speculative fiction defined by unblinking attention to the personal horror of the strange." — The Comics Journal

Specs

Pages
200
Format
Hardback
Dimensions
7.3" × 9.8"
ISBN-13
9781683967606
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