City, Volume 7, Paperback/Keiichi Arawi

Description From Keiichi Arawi, the creator of hit series nichijou , comes a new slapstick comedy series about a penniless college student who moves to a town filled with bizarre people. The City Three Crows try to make the best of summer in the face of overwhelming odds, while Ecchan and Matsuri inevitably waste their time by trying to make the most of it. Niikura reveals her shameful midnight snacking habits even as she tortures Nagumo with unwanted ghost stories, while on the plus side, Nagumo's rent problems may finally be solved when an Edo-period bandit comes to the rescue? The soccer team's roster of stupendous characters still can't win a game, the barber makes an accidental fortune and loses it again, Wako resists manga stardom, everyone in town has a crush on her little sister Riko, and the mysterious quadrennial CITY race approaches... Return once again to the charming, mind-bending, always unpredictable world of life in the big CITY. About the Author Keiichi Arawi (1977-) is a professional comic artist and illustrator. Originally from Gunma, Japan, he was raised in the city of Maebashi. By the time he was 19 he entered the world of comics drawing short stories for Media Factory's Comic Flapper (My Neighbor Seki, 7 Billion Needles). While his first series KazeMachi was short-lived it caught the attention of one of the bigger publishers in Japan, Kadokawa Publishing. His short "Nichijou" won Kadokawa's 22nd ACE Award for New Artists and by November 2006 Nichijou was regularly serialized in Kadokawa's flagship magazine Shonen Ace. Nichijou has since then sold more than a million copies and has seen cartoon and video game adaptations.