panpanya’s art ranges from simplistic to detailed to super experimental. For me, I pretty much laughed at most of them, as the comedic timing, the dialogue, and who she was interacting with - from normal humans to oddly shaped creatures to her dog - is hilarious.īut what will impact your enjoyment - and the commentary within the stories - is this art style. Needless to say, your enjoyment of those stories will totally depend on what you value personally. That makes sense - you’re definitely going to waste a lot of time when you’re building a machine to create a pleasant mood as you wake up.

This manages to lead her to plan too far ahead somehow. It turns out to be an exhilarating experience to be finished so fast.īut rather than enjoy the spoils of free time, she plans ahead to try and have the perfect Sunday to relax. But after a suggestion from her dog to just do her homework so she can enjoy herself later, she finishes her homework. You know how sometimes preparation and planning is very much a thing we have to do? Well for our protagonist, it’s not something she’s done before. The one I’ll only mostly spoil is THE PERFECT SUNDAY. There’s another story involving what happens when you save a bird from tanukis.

There’s one story involving a part-time job at a factory where she has to break coconuts, which fuels the area’s electricity. Then you’ll also get a story where your grandma gives you toys…and they grow more and more difficult to understand as you grow up…?Īn Invitation from a Crab’s stories will provide both a ton of jokes and/or sneak (or not sneak) a bit of social commentary around a couple of these stories. You’ll read a story about her falling asleep on the train, and what really happens to your body when you realize you got off the wrong stop after waking up. With 18 stories of various lengths, you’ll read a story about the protagonist following a crab (just not a King crab). All of them revolve around an unnamed protagonist living in the 2-chome area of Japan, and getting herself into the strangest (and mundane) situations. This manga combines some doujin stories of panpanya’s and stories published on the web and in print, likely Hakusensha’s Rakuen magazine. …panpanya’s An Invitation from a Crab is one quirky manga. The fact that there is a long paragraph on the cover itself.Īlso note that the long paragraph is something you might want to read because it kicks off the very first story in the manga.Īlso there is a summary of crabs (and why their shells turn red when boiled) when you open the book.

From the nicely designed front cover to the back cover, you’ll note that this is a very quirky release from:

An Invitation from a Crab by panpanya