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Binbougami-ga! A bear's journey
((Okay, the images should be fixed now, so I hope you'll actually be able to enjoy what I've put so much work into.))
It's time to give back to the community that has given me so much enjoyment!
Following the cut will be most of a story from Yoshiaki Sukeno's Binbougami-ga! series appearing in Jump Square (a monthly manga anthology from the folks who bring us Shounen Jump and Shonen Jump USA.) This is from the July 2009 installment, which conveniently has two separate storylines. (14 pages from a 45-page installment, in a 700 page magazine.)
I have not seen this manga before, and my Japanese is very very weak, but here's what I've managed to gather. The girl with the headdress is the eponymous Binbougami. In Japanese folklore, a sudden downturn in your financial status is caused by the Bimbo no Kami, the god of
poverty, coming to crash at your pad for a while. While not usually depicted as particularly hostile to humans, he's a lousy houseguest. Why this spirit has been moe-fied as a flat-chested teenage girl with a hypodermic needle attached to her arm is at this time beyond me. The stuffed bear critter is Kumagai, with "kuma" being Japanese for "bear." Their archenemy is Ichiko.
That said,
If this post goes well, I may show some scans from other stories in the same issue--the "Mama wants to hug you" scene from "Embalming: The Another Tale of Frankenstein" is...interesting.
Current Location: home
Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: "Boys In the Middle"
Tags: creator: yoshiaki sukeno, medium: manga, series: binbougami-ga
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