Kiriko Nananan is a mangaka I have admired for a long time. She has a minimalistic style that seems obsessed with the things inbetween the lines. She also seems obsessed with white, and considering the space she leaves between panels, that makes for a very striking and unique look, especially coupled with her very thick but very controlled black. Her stories are very delicate, often ugly, often piercing, but sometimes funny or uplifting. There's a collection of her early works from different magazines, including the legendary Garo called Water and it only had two girls love stories done by a group that exclusively does girls love manga, as well as another two stories that were published in an old collection of alternative manga. We're gonna slowly and irregularly chip away at this collection until it's done. This first story is very smol.
As for Nanananananan-san, she has resurfaced after about a decade of silence and she's been publishing collections of the stories she's done in the meantime, stories she mostly did for herself while she worked a regular day job. A second volume of "Nananan Kiriko Uncollected Works Collection" was published relatively recently. I'm glad she's back and I hope she's back for good beyond these collections of unpublished stuff. Even though she was never a huge success, she was published in so many different magazines, from Garo to regular josei to fashion magazines, and two of her stories have been adapted into live action, Blue(it's good, but the manga is better) and Strawberry Shortcakes(have not seen this one; want to read the manga first).
Heads roll, blood splatters, and secrets are revealed.
Now where can two young, intelligent and charismatic blokes find a bird willing to marry one of them? Hmmm...
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