Relax with this comfortable and comforting manga

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Erica Ezeifedi, associate editor, is a Nashville transplant, TN who has settled in the northeast. In addition to being a writer, she worked as a defender of victims and in public libraries, where she focused on the creation of safe spaces for queer adolescents, mentoring and the supply of student preparation teaching for free. Apart from work, a large part of his free time has passed in search of his next great reading and planning his next snack. Find it on Twitter at @Erica_eze_.

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Comfortable and comforting stories have existed for a minute, but they have definitely a moment now. With the state of … things … it’s understandable. A few summers, I developed a habit that involved walking (instead of driving as I usually did) at the nearest public library on Saturday morning, getting a pile of manga and graphic novels and spending the day to read. There were always comfortable stories mixed with my selections.

One of these stories is what I want to put you today. It’s just the thing you need to remedy this scrolling.

Cat + gamer, vol. 1 by Wataru Nadatani, translated by Zack Davisson

The series begins with Rika, an office employee of 29 years in Japan who is all about her work. Or at least it seems. For his colleagues, she is a calm and serious person that they cannot really understand. She keeps her head down, does her job and leaves early. They do not know that she is a super effective worker because she wants to be able to go home as soon as possible and maximize her time to play video games. Riko is THE The greatest player, and perhaps the poster child to work, not live to work. An icon, really.

But his personality at work changes a little one day when the building security guard finds a wandering kitten in the parking lot and asks if someone would be willing to bring them home. Surprising even herself, she volunteers. Now she has a chaos demon (really cute) in her apartment like someone who has never had a pet. But she is a player from start to finish, and she therefore leaves for the pet store with a strategy. She obtains the help of one of the store clerks, takes care of the kitten supplies and settles in the life of a black and white kitten that she names Musubi. Or, I guess you can’t really say “to settle” because Musubi is a constantly evolving force.

As she looks at Musubi to develop in her cat hood, she compares her progress to that of video game characters she knows so much. Let me say that the stress that exceeds me in each chapter of Cat + player is almost tangible. Once you have finished the first volume, there are already four others which have been translated into English. You will want to get your hands on everyone.