2014-12-29

34-sei Mushoku-san

34-sei Mushoku-san (34歳無職さん) is a slice of life manga by Ikeda Takashi.

    The unnamed main character,  Mushoku-san (Ms. Unemployed), is an unemployed 34 year old single woman who lives by her self in her small apartment and goes about her daily, uneventful life planning and preparing for her future.  She goes about her life scheduled by garbage days and grocery shopping.  She mentally tries to be active, save her money and motivate to finding a new career.  Reality is another thing though.

    I really have been enjoying this manga.  Its simple, uneventful and naturally drawn.  This is what Ikeda-sensei has been doing since finishing Sasameki Koto.  There are currently 5 tankobon in existence and I am slowly working on translating them for personal use only as a way to improve my Japanese.

    This will never see any sort of release in North America and has seen little response from the scanlation community.  I doubt it will ever see an anime rendition, but it would work well in an anime short format...so who knows!

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