The Bonkurasu Brigade

And of course, I don’t mean Obi literally ^^” If you have bought a Japanese book before, I’m sure you know of those annoying advert wraparound binding things they put around the cover. I know most people who collect manga/artbooks treat these useless strips of paper very well, and can get rather paranoid (or hysterical) when they go missing. As much of an obsessive collector I am, I never had it in me to take care of them book obis. The value of the book lies in the content; and the obi just gets in the way of reading.

Therefore, I usually chuck them.

However, Maji-Cu’s recent Clannad YonKoma release has slightly changed my opinion of book obi

And why may that be? This obi looks particularly normal. Look really close and you find that it annoyingly hides Kyou’s pure white knee-socksand you notice the content.

「CLANNADは好きですか？
わたしはとってもとっても好きです
でも、４コマならもっと好きですッ。」

For the moonspeak-uninitiated among us, it is a parody of Nagisa’s first lines in Clannad.

And thats just the beginning.

“The Healing-type of the Manga dimension”

*Fooko shiawase!drool*

“-For when you have relationship troubles
-For when you face study-related stress
-For when you are waiting for your downloads to complete”

Luuuuuul. I can totally empathize with the last one. Waiting time indeed.

And they weren’t joking about the healing-type part. I’m not even halfway through this volume and I’ve lost count of the number of times I laughed.

Lulwut 1: Sanae’s bread is a bio-terrorism weapon in the making (ore wa daisuki daaaaaaaaaaa!)

Lulwut 2: Nagisa takes over the world. With the Dango Uchuu-Kazoku.

And the obi fun continues within…

‘May the next volume be rated 18!’
‘That won’t happen.’

And they had to use that scene. w

And to end, this one shot of the spine..

‘Do you like bloomers?’

*shot and out* XD