Manga Notes: Nichijou 11
Oct. 5th, 2023 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerSeeing a new volume of Nichijou appear in lists of upcoming manga was a bit of a surprise. Some time has passed since the previous volume offered a certain slight air of conclusion to its continued absurdities; Keiichi Arawi went on to a similar comedy manga named CITY, which I also read. I went ahead and got a copy of the Nichijou revival, but I suppose I’ve got to admit there could have been a sense of “inertia again, even after so long?” The manga had continued on past the misdaventures of the anime, but it just might have been a case of “the adaptation does manage to add something to the original” for me for all that I can imagine “of course; it was a Kyoto Animation production” being proclaimed.
When I started reading the new volume, though, something about it really did appeal. Major and minor characters returned, some gleeful participants in, some enigmatic participants in, and some aghast witnesses of the assorted absurdities. While CITY had been a little different for having main characters no longer in high school (college-age, perhaps; at least they aren’t in school uniforms), I did miss anyone packing the simple heart of the robot girl Nano. (The talking cat Sakamoto who lives with her and the little-girl Professor did seem to swear enough in this new volume to not quite fit in, though.)
When I started reading the new volume, though, something about it really did appeal. Major and minor characters returned, some gleeful participants in, some enigmatic participants in, and some aghast witnesses of the assorted absurdities. While CITY had been a little different for having main characters no longer in high school (college-age, perhaps; at least they aren’t in school uniforms), I did miss anyone packing the simple heart of the robot girl Nano. (The talking cat Sakamoto who lives with her and the little-girl Professor did seem to swear enough in this new volume to not quite fit in, though.)