Although this manga has been on hiatus for a spell due to its mangaka’s health, RuriDragon quickly had me captivated by its bizarrely wholesome story about a high school girl coming into her own. One day Ruri wakes up to discover tiny horns on her forehead. Perplexed, she asks her mom what the deal is, only to have her sandbag the bizarre question with the most nonchalant mic drop of the year: her dad is a dragon.

Instead of playing the revelation up for laughs at every opportunity, the manga threw me a swerve by taking Ruri’s bizarre coming-of-age story with the same level of severity as one of those Vice documentaries on YouTube. Although she falls victim to the same exotic stare that many Black folks who’ve attended a majority-white school can attest to, Ruri never succumbs to embarrassment over her bizarre parentage. Instead of taking the easy way out by refusing to go to school, Ruri continues to attend her classes while learning more about her absentee dragon dad. Although I’m still unsure where the story is headed, I’ve been enjoying my stay and hope its mangaka is able to release more chapters.

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To Strip The Flesh, by Oto Toda, is an anthology manga collection with short stories that center around the theme of self-discovery. The short story the collection is named after follows a character’s journey of transitioning while wrestling with his mother’s dying wish to be a “good daughter” to his sick father. As one might surmise from the title alone, this manga has some pretty off-putting imagery to illustrate how the family of hunters deals with Chiaki’s transitioning, but its payoff is worth the read. You’re probably best served reading this manga in the sanctity of your own home because out in the wild you’re liable to gather a crowd of onlookers confused by its bizarre imagery. You’ve been warned twice.

Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead follows a former office worker named Akira Tendou and his friends as they check off items on their personal bucket lists before succumbing to their fate amid the zombie apocalypse. That synopsis might sound bleak as hell on paper, but Akira’s life was shit way before his world turned into The Walking Dead. Prior to the zombie fest, Akira worked as a “wage slave” for an abusive corporation. Instead of seeing the apocalypse as spelling the end of the world for him, Akira transforms it into an opportunity to do 100 things he never got to do in his previous life. While some of the items on his list (which the manga updates at the start of each volume) are fanciful like getting dreadlocks, cosplaying, or meeting a girl on a dating app, seeing his bewildered excitement upon completing them is inspiring to watch and makes for consistently enjoyable reading.