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1. Racist Jimmy Buffett (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 02:02:25 JST Racist Jimmy Buffett
   Jimmy’s Weekly Manga Recommendations Weeks 24, 25, and 26 special:
   
   Teasing Master Takagi-San
   
   “Enjoy the daily adventures of a cute and clever girl as she tricks her crush into becoming the strongest man in Japan.”
   
   mangadex.org/title/6e445564-d9a8-4862-bff1-f4d6be6dba2c/karakai-jouzu-no-takagi-san?tab=art
   
   Don’t Bully Me, Nagatoro
   
   “A fiery autistic Latina becomes obsessed with saving the White race, and to do this she is determined to steal the seed of her senpai, a handsome vrilmaxxing Austrian painter with a dream. Hilarity ensues.”
   
   mangadex.org/title/d86cf65b-5f6c-437d-a0af-19a31f94ec55/ijiranaide-nagatoro-san
   
   Uzaki-Chan Wants to Hang Out
   
   “A dopey boob gremlin accidentally purges Japan of libtarded expat gaijin and degenerate haffus by being so cute that she makes them all shit themselves to death.”
   
   mangadex.org/title/5a90308a-8b12-4a4d-9c6d-2487028fe319/uzaki-chan-wants-to-hang-out
   
   These books are all pretty special to me, takagi especially. I got into anime relatively later in life, when the quality of American media precipitously declined in the trump years, and these were some of the popular books I tried that made me realize both that, yeah anime is cool but manga is even better, and romcom manga is definitely the genre for me.
   
   Takagi is a masterpiece. The mangaka paints a picture of a beautiful dreamlike world of youth that you keep losing yourself in every single chapter. Which is all the more impressive given that on the surface level it’s really as simple as weekly peanuts with Lucy and the football over and over again. But he’s really perfected nostalgia magic, even for those of us whose youths were not spent in the Japanese countryside. Of all three of these manga, this one’s anime adaptation is the best, it comes the closest to capturing the magic of the manga.
   
   Nagatoro is just great fun, with very kinetic high energy art and a whole bunch of cute and funny girls. It’s one that’s gotten better and better as time has gone on and the leads are becoming more genuinely in love and you get more of Nagatoro embarrassing herself. The anime is pretty good but the official English subs are a little bit sus.
   
   Uzaki is a bit of the odd one out, the school setting is gone, and she’s not particularly good at teasing her target, nor does she try as often, she’s mostly a normal slightly annoying type young woman. I also thought it was good but not as good as the lightning in a bottle of takagi and Nagatoro, but it grows and grows in my estimation with every volume. It’s one of the most pro-social manga I’ve read, rather than wallowing in high school nostalgia it’s set in the more normal and realistic world of young adult life, lots of multi child families with healthy involvement in their family lives, the men are all physically fit and have communities for themselves that have no gay suspicion hermeneutics. Everyone is a little bit randy and looking for someone of the opposite sex to hook up and settle down with. It’s the picture of a vibrant healthy youth culture, the kind that’s been dead here for a long time, I suspect in Japan as well since the only other manga with this energy that I’ve read are from the 80’s and prior. I think @WashedOutGundamPilot would approve. Shitlibs who hated uzaki because of anti-shortstackism were more right than they knew, uzaki rejects all of their values. All of this is of course background to the actual content of the manga, which is again good silly romcom fun. The anime is fine.