The Shonen Flop team is taking a much-needed holiday break. Instead of a new episode this week we’re rerunning our favorite episode of the year!
Manga by NISIO, ISIN (Story), Akatsuki, Akira (Art)
According to this manga you know who has it easy? Dying kids.
We and our guest YouTuber KrimsonRogue discuss NISIO, ISIN (Story) (Medaka Box, Pretty Boy Detective Club, Mongatar), Akatsuki, Akira (Art) (Medaka Box) Jump SQ manga Shounen Shoujo.
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• Episode transcriptions by The Ghostwriters: Travis “T” Root, OzyRat, and TrafalagarWolfwood. You can find them on our website shonenflop.com Enrolled in a certain elementary school is an unpleasant 11-year-old boy with a highly cynical outlook on society. Believing that the world lacks individuality, he wants nothing more than to be unique and remembered. The boy seemingly gets the chance to leave his name in history when he becomes the first to be diagnosed with a new incurable disease that is estimated to kill him by the age of 12.
Just as he is rejoicing about his newfound individuality, he meets a cheerful, prodigious girl who has the same disease—and is nearing her 12th birthday. As the boy realizes that he won't be the first to die from the disease and therefore won't be remembered, he forms a twisted plan: kill the girl before her illness does.
