Re: What are you reading RIGHT NOW? (Apart from this post)
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 8:40 pm
Kumika no Mikaku, by Ononoka Akihiro. http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Kumika-no-Mi ... ?id=348162
A cooking, slice-of-life, sci-fi, romantic comedy manga? That might be the weirdest mish-mash of genres I've seen in quite a while, but somehow it just works.
Kumika is an alien who can survive on nothing but air. As such, she has no need to spend money on expensive food or drink, which is super convenient. This has turned her into a bit of an antisocial pariah who constantly refuses her coworkers' invitations to hang out after work, but that's fine. She doesn't need food, so why would she need friends? She's perfectly happy being all alone, an emotionless workaholic, drudging through the days...
She is about to discover, though, that Earth is a very strange place, and that these "Humans" have a way of crawling into your heart when you least expect it...
Summary wrote: Aliens have become common on Earth. Kumika is one such alien who can get nutrition just by breathing and therefore does not need to eat, but from unexpected circumstance she takes a bite of Earth food and has her first experience of delicious Earth food. The uptight Kumika discovers new tastes through eating and awakens to new kinds of emotions.
A cooking, slice-of-life, sci-fi, romantic comedy manga? That might be the weirdest mish-mash of genres I've seen in quite a while, but somehow it just works.
Kumika is an alien who can survive on nothing but air. As such, she has no need to spend money on expensive food or drink, which is super convenient. This has turned her into a bit of an antisocial pariah who constantly refuses her coworkers' invitations to hang out after work, but that's fine. She doesn't need food, so why would she need friends? She's perfectly happy being all alone, an emotionless workaholic, drudging through the days...
She is about to discover, though, that Earth is a very strange place, and that these "Humans" have a way of crawling into your heart when you least expect it...