#NewMangaDay with the NEW office romance in:
💖Don't Tempt Me, VP! Volume 1💖
By Kana Nakatsuki
💼Maki is done with relationships, but when the VP shows up with a rather exciting proposal, Maki must decide if she’s ready to roll the dice one last time…
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The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be-Wife, volume 1 by Iwatobineko
I used to read a hell of a lot of yaoi manga and hardly any shoujo manga, but yaoi plotlines have now started to feel very repetitive, and with the discovery of mangas like Sweat and Soap and A Silent Voice, A Bride’s Story and even The Way of the Househusband I’ve developed a renewed interest in hetero love stories, in particular those told in unique ways.
The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be-Wife is set in a modern fantasy land, one filled with elves and dark elves, animal-human hybrids, cyclops, aliens, regular humans and probably a whole bunch of other odd creatures not yet introduced. There’s no clear lore but all the characters interact easily with each other so their world feels real enough.
This is the story of a blind woman falling in love with an invisible man, it seems like a perfect match as both persons complement each other: he doesn’t need to be worried that his invisibility prevents her from seeing him because she can’t see anyway, and because she is blind she is used to “seeing” in a different way, she can sense when he is the room, by sound, by smell and by other tiny perceptions. She can see him in a way that no one else is able to because they rely too much on vision. From her side she doesn’t have to feel like she is missing out on anything, she can’t see him on a visual level but neither can anyone else.
They are quite a sweet couple together, I was a little worried by age difference, he dresses like a dapper gentleman and runs his own detective agency so it makes it feel like he is a little older, but we don’t really know his age, I’m going to go with early 30s. She on the other hand comes across a bit young, young looking, shy, with not much romantic experience, but towards the end of the volume she starts to dress in a more sophisticated way, because of her inexperience she may have initially come across as young but as she grows in confidence she looks like she could be in her mid 20s.
The only thing I didn’t like about the manga was actually an aesthetic choice, the cover has a very classy colour palette, which I really like, however the inside has one additional colour to the traditional manga black and white, and of all the colours they could have chosen they went with this vibrant greenish teal colour, it doesn’t go with the cover at all. I really hope they try different colours for the interior in future volumes.
Other than that I look forward to continuing this couple’s story.
Review by Book Hamster
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