Find a New Home and Family in Newly Licensed Yuri Manga 'Monthly in the Garden With My Landlord'
On Friday, at a panel at Sakura-Con, Yen Press announced that it has licensed Yodokawa's Yuri slice of life manga Monthly in the Garden With My Landlord (Maitsuki Niwa-tsuki Ooya-tsuki) for English release. The first English volume will be published in the Fall of 2023.
The publisher describes the series:
Asako Suga needs a change to get over her recent breakup and decides moving to a new home would be just the thing. She finds a great little place a bit removed from the city with a lovely garden, but there’s a catch—the house also comes with a live-in landlord! Having a charming girl lazing about would be distracting enough, but it seems she’s keeping a secret as well…
Monthly in the Garden With My Landlord began digital serialization on Comic Newtype in June 2021. Kadokawa published the third compiled volume on March 29 in Japnese.
The manga has received positive reviews from critics. Erica Friedman awarded both of the first two Japanese volumes an 8/10 score, praising its focus on "found family" and partnership.
Yokokawa is a Yuri mangaka also known under the circle names Tebacco and givelit. She has contributed to the Avalon, Chocolat, and Offical Bloom Into You anthologies. Her works are often slice of life shakaijin Yuri, featuring romance between adult women, such as Tora to Hachidori, onshot Men Men Musubi, and Ichikoe, Nifuri, Tachiaoi, which is currently serialized in Comic MeDu.
Monthly in the Garden With My Landlord will be Yokokawa's first series published in English. Volume one released in Fall 2023.
Cooking is how Nomoto de-stresses, but one day, she finds herself making way more than she can eat by herself. And so, she invites her neighbor Kasuga, who also lives alone. What will come out of this impromptu dinner invitation…?
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You know that series that was BL version of this concept, “Manly Appetites: Minegishi Loves Otsu” by Mito? Well, I love this one way more and I’m just one volume in. It might be because I’m a woman, myself so I relate to the stuff they go through (with the patriarchy and capitalism) more than well-off Office Workers/Salesmen. Also, I get the feeling that these two will be less oblivious than Otsu & Minegishi *facepalms* At least, I hope so.
I love Nomoto’s enthusiasm and wariness about coming across as too pushy about her cooking (imagines herself as an overbearing gremlin screaming “I’M GONNA SHOVE FOOD DOWN YOUR THROAT AND YOU’RE GONNA LIKE IT” lol). And Kagusa is such a huge presence, I wish I had her confidence. Also when they’re both talking about food it’s super cute.
In the middle of making a trobed paper animatic to a Spanish song because I am unwell and am gripping trobed in my first like a stress ball
Here's hard of them while u wait tho
The first one with both troy and abed is very loosely based on user r3medialch8os fanfic 'fever dream high, quiet of the night's go read it and sob your eyes out it's so good I wanted to throw up reading it bcuz of how distressing it was
I was very excited to be invited to design the cover(s) of Resonance’s New Poets Anthology earlier this year. Here’s the printed work. Having attended every open mic at both Three Hounds and Matchstick Piehouse I can confidently say Resonance is the best poetry night in London, some seriously incredible poets come through and there are often unbelievably good first-timers too. The energy in the room is always amazing, but on the launch night for the anthology it was like a sparkler you could taste on your tongue and feel at the end of your fingers, pure magic
