![]() ![]() But even at its lowest point, you can’t stop sequential art from building ever onward in sequence. He’s the best thing about comics today, and I am ever grateful to Kousuke Oono for creating him.Historically, the winter months have been considered 'The Slow Quarter' for the comics industry. If you need a little joy in your life, even for half an hour at a time (or however it might take you to get through a volume), Househusband and its seven volumes is the best place to start. I would love to see the whole story of their courtship, if Kousuke Oono would deign to write us a prequel, even in a single volume, or a longer bonus story than the ones we’ve gotten looking into their meeting, etc. As a romance fanatic, I would give a few limbs to read the story of how they reached such domestic bliss - OMG y’all, I just realized! There might be fic! (Pardon me while I step over to AO3 for a moment.)Īhem, anyway. But as someone who loves romance and romantic people, I adore the way we see the ways in which he proves his love to his wife in every action. Since it’s a series of vignettes, Tatsu’s daily shenanigans - whether they involve groceries, pets, or Yakuza encounters - are at the center of the story. He’s every bit of healthy masculinity you could ever find in a person, while also having to occasionally (and reluctantly) kick somebody’s ass. In a later volume, he assesses the best way to get in with a women’s association, the baddest, most dangerous gang of old ladies out there. He pulls a few other folks into his world, and does ridiculous things like get into rap battles with butchers and volleyball matches with rival gangs. But people still know him, and sometimes that gets him into some wild and crazy shenanigans. When he fell in love with Miku, he left The Life and basically disappeared. Oh, and he also used to go by the name The Immortal Dragon when he was a high ranking member of an organized crime gang. He refers to his wife as “Boss,” and even though she doesn’t show up very much in the first volume, you can tell that he loves the heck out of her. He knows every trick for cleaning and cooking, and will go all out for a good sale on something that could be useful. He takes his duties very seriously as the caretaker of his home. Either way, I grabbed it, went home, and made myself a batch of gluten-free cookies.Īnd then, it was staring at me, so I had to give in and see what the heck had everyone at Book Riot so enthralled. Because that’s what I’d been going to manga for, if I read it at all. Maybe it was a buy one, get one deal? Because I had already picked up Whisper Me A Love Songor I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Upor some other work that was part of a single or low volume story about girls in love. And there was some kind of manga sale going on. I read the back and was doubly intrigued, because it told me nothing about this dude. Was he holding a grocery bag? Were the signs behind him at a store? What the heck was this thing about? The vaguely annoyed, dangerous face of the title character, wearing very stylish glasses and clothing, covered in an apron with a silly cartoon dog on it. ![]() One day, I found myself wandering backwards through the manga section of my local Barnes and Noble, because why not when it’s the only place you go anymore besides the grocery store, right? And there it was: The Way of the Househusband, Volume 1. ![]()
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