While compiling the project list for our current poll, I realized that we hadn’t picked up any female-oriented project for quite some time. Needless to say, we couldn’t go on like that. After some passionate discussion among the staff, we decided that something had to be done. Fortunately, our translator boke had been secretly working on a manga called Happy-Go-Lucky Days since last year which seemed like the perfect solution for our problem.

Created by none other than Takako Shimura of Hourou Musuko and Sweet Blue Flowers fame, Happy-Go-Lucky Days demonstrates that the author can deliver more than just cute love stories involving adolescents. A collection of short stories originally published in Manga Erotics F, Happy-Go-Lucky Days takes a refreshing and humorous look at relationships between young people in Japan. Yes, it’s got sex and nudity in it, but those scenes are handled quite tastefully. The stories themselves are quirky and interesting, although some of them can be a bit weird. Nevertheless, fans of Takako Shimura who are interested in reading her more mature stories should definitely give this manga a try. You won’t be disappointed. Consider it our follow-up to Please God.

For those of you who like their manga with a bit more testosterone, I give you two exciting new chapters of Historie which bring us close to the end of the Paphlagonia arc (and with it the looong flashback sequence).

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