#nata kokone

[mangarinspanels]

Cool Doji Danshi| Ch.08

[ezralva]

New CDD art by Kokone-sensei!

Mimanyan: I thought I was a goner

Motonyan: I'm glad you're still alive~

Hayatenyan: Please eat a lot! 😭

Shunyan: *talking in gibberish* (let's play ball later)

Soumanyan: what?

[igarashi-sensei]

The dads being overly fond of their kids ✨

[kimbapisnotsushi]

idk there’s just something so like. refreshing??? in how cool doji danshi unapologetically embraces modernity and how it intersects with the characters’ lives/the way they make mistakes. hayate forgot to plug in his phone charger. shun’s bluetooth earbud fell out when he shook his head. mima and his colleagues play a fps zombie video game to promo it. souma tells igarashi to just use the maps app whenever he gets lost. it's not even just tech stuff, because igarashi makes up a series on the spot and gives it a "modern manga title". and the movie advertisement??? the fact that we see people were sharing everything related to it on twitter??? they were posting their mistakes and sharing what they found funny??? everyone is connected, online, plugged in, whatever you want to call it and nata kokone never treats it as a bad thing in cdd (and, no, this isn’t about them blindly devoting themselves to the age of the internet - net generation teacher was a whole commentary of itself on the dangers of social media and the harm it could potentially cause!). like. nata kokone really truly does feel like someone who grew up during the rapid technological shift and actually understands both sides - it’s good and useful and can make people happy and less alone, but they’re also aware of the darker shadows within it. they make absolutely brilliant use of it in storytelling and i’m SO in love with it

[shotou]

PLAY IT COOL, GUYS ★ OCT 2022

[lakecountylibrary]

Manga Spotlight: Fluffy Reads

If you are looking for a fun and easy read, try out these manga series!

They are all lighthearted, funny, and upbeat...just what you need to cheer you up, make you laugh out loud, and put a smile on your face!

Descriptions provided by the publishers

Those Not So Sweet Boys by Yoko Nogiri

When a hard-working Japanese high school girl falls for a bad boy, she discovers that he and his friends lead lives that are nothing like what she imagined.

Play It Cool, Guys by Kokone Nata

A bunch of dorky guys in school and life try to look cool every day.

My Love Mix-Up! Art by Aruko ; story by Wataru Hinekure

Aoki has a crush on Hashimoto, the girl in the seat next to him in class. But he despairs when he borrows her eraser and sees she's written the name of another boy - Ida - on it. To make matters more confusing, Ida sees Aoki holding that very eraser and thinks Aoki has a crush on him!

Find them in our collection in print or on Libby!

See more of Kate's recs

[enbyboiwonder]

I just finished Sensei mo Net Sedai (The Net Generation Teacher) a 2-vol manga by Nata Kokone written in 2018-19. It’s so good. And there’s a casual gay character! One of the students is in love with his male best friend, and it’s not simply hinted at. It’s not a love story (even if it does deal with unrequited love) so there are no romantic developments, but the acknowledgement that his feelings are indeed romantic is still more than you’d normally expect from a non-BL

It’s not full-color like Cool Doji Danshi, it’s a regular b&w manga, which felt a little weird tbh, but the art is still beautiful. The first volume focuses more on the male students and not always knowing if someone on the net is who they say they are, starting with the titular net-generation teacher, Ueda-sensei, having a photo of him dressing as a schoolgirl when he was 20 being used as the profile pic of a twitter account and one of his students falling for her. The second volume focuses more on the female students and unrequited love, including the childhood friend of the gay character who’s liked him since they were small and always assumed they would date. I dunno if I’m doing a good job of selling it, but I felt the topics were handled well, and I really enjoyed it.

Also, Ueda-sensei looks quite a bit like Mima lol I think Nata-sensei might have a type

This has an English translation (it’s under the English subtitle and it doesn’t have the last 16 pgs of ch 9 though) so I def recommend checking it out! (although I haven’t checked out the translation myself so I can’t guarantee the quality, only of the story) At least part of it is on Nata-sensei’s pixiv too (though in Japanese, of course)

[komorebiscans]

Play It Cool, Guys Ch.10

Art/Story: Nata Kokone Genre: Comedy, Shoujo

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