The strangest josei manga we got this year was also technically another nonfiction manga in the same vein as something like My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness or The Bride Was a Boy. This one is far less emotionally fraught than those two, focusing instead on more straightforward instruction.
MAKEUP IS NOT (JUST) MAGIC: A MANGA GUIDE TO COSMETICS AND SKIN CARE (Meiku wa Tada no Mahou ja nai no: Beginners), by Ikumi Rotta. First published in 2019 and first published in North America in 2020.
PLOT:
Before Ikumi Rotta was a mangaka, she was a beauty consultant at a store. Now she's using her skills to help people understand makeup, going over everything from cleansing to priming to more specific things like eye and lip makeup.
