![]() A surprisingly snarky sense of humor ensues, which immediately endeared me to Ruri, and which I think will serve it well over the long run. Previously-ordinary high school girl wakes up one morning to find out that she’s sprouted horns from her head. ![]() In addition to that manga, the series opens with a sequence that actually reminds me a little of The Demon Girl Next Door ( Machikado Mazoku to most of its readers). Think Tohru from Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid minus the tail (so far) and you’ve got a decent broad idea of where we’re going here. ![]() It’s a manga with a dead-simple premise that I’m more than a little shocked I haven’t seen done before high school girl is a dragon. Ruri Dragon, the proper serial debut from the mangaka Shindou Masaoki, marks the first of these. (This was not so when I was younger, but that’s a conversation for another day.) In addition to my first impressions articles about new anime, I will also be occasionally dropping articles about new manga serials, since keeping up with brand-new manga is actually a thing one can reasonably do nowadays. New Manga First Impressions is a column where I detail my thoughts, however brief or long, about the first chapter or so of a newly-available-in-English manga. ![]()
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