Showing posts with label complex age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label complex age. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Review: COMPLEX AGE

One pleasant trend in manga this year was the marked increase in stories about women.  Not girls, mind you - there are a never-ending stream of stories about high school girls.  No, I mean actual grown-ass women doing things, and that includes geeky things like cosplay.

COMPLEX AGE (Konpurekksu Eiji), by Yui Sakuma.  First published in 2014 and first published in North America in 2016.



PLOT:

Most of the time, Nagisa is just another 26 year old office worker, but her true love is cosplay.  In particular, she loves dressing up as the main character from her favorite magical girl show and she demands no less than perfection.  That's why she'll stay up all night working on costumes, making plans with her fellow cosplayers, and scanning the internet for commentary from others on her cosplay.  So how will Nagisa cope when a new girl joins the group who is everything that Nagisa wants to be?