くノ一ツバキの胸の内（１） (ゲッサン少年サンデーコミックス)

くノ一ツバキの胸の内 [Kunoichi Tsubaki no Mune no Uchi] #1

by Sōichirō Yamamoto

私たち、男の人を知りません…／／／

「からかい上手の高木さん」山本崇一朗最新作！

純情忍者たちのガールズコメディー！
男禁止・だけど興味津々のくのいち達はいったいどんな妄想を…？

豪華絢爛ニューヒロイン集結！
推しのヒロインは誰…！？

Genres: Manga

179 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 12, 2018

About the author

Sōichirō Yamamoto (山本崇一朗, Yamamoto Sōichirō) is a Japanese manga artist. He is known for writing and illustrating Teasing Master Takagi-san and Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru. Both series have been published in Monthly Shōnen Sunday and Weekly Shōnen Magazine, respectively.

Reviews

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I guess I started reading this manga because I saw it's getting an anime adaptation soon, and I found the character designs cute. A little ways into the first volume, I realized it's the same creator as Takagi-san, and then I remembered a conversation I had a few weeks back with a buddy who mentioned how the same author is getting three anime this year (including another season of Takagi and an adaptation of Ayumu), and that same friend has rather... particular tastes in terms of character designs (so we'll say), so it makes sense why he was interested in these series. I can't speak for the other two series, as I haven't read them at all, but at the very least this one shows a lot of skin with its ninja girls, which explains the "loli" tag on MangaDex... or it would, but apparently they include SpyxFamily, Owari no Seraph, and Boku no Hero Academia as well, so I guess they just throw that in if there's ever a character who resembles an example of the trope (apparently they also slap BnHA with the "gore" tag...!?). Actually, none of it makes sense because, of Yamamoto's main series, this is the only one to hold that tag at the front of the list, which makes it seem like whoever runs the site considers this manga to be first and foremost a story about DFC, which is arguably true, but I feel like the main idea is slice-of-life comedy, with the concern of Tsubaki's pubescent interest in boys being secondary to the main girls just hanging around (no male is actually seen in this volume), and everyone just so happens to be dressed a little immodestly, but probably just for ease of movement among the trees or other ninja qualities.

How prominent is fire-breathing in ninja media? Because there's a fireball jutsu used several times here, and it seems like it's just a Naruto thing, but maybe many other fictional ninja can breathe fire? It comes to my attention that I actually don't know of too much ninja media, beyond Ninja Gaiden/Dead or Alive. Huh.