Well, guess what? I haven't entirely melt yet. Getting pretty close though, even with AC and two fans... I really need to move to the seaside, or at least out of a valley sandwiched between mountains.
As you might know, I don't really dabble into H-dōjinshi. This is not because I have any inherent bias against p0rn; or because I buy into the usual 'omg japanese kinky stuff baaad' mainstream media seems to try and sell every single day. I am simply... sort of not intersted in it? I don't know, it just doesn't grip me as much as other kinds of dōjin works, such as travelogues, artbooks or simply out-there stuff. I do like cute girls, fictional and otherwise, and occasionally cover them on this blog, but overall the vast majority of the stuff I get from Japan is more or less safe for work.
I had therefore no idea that abgrund (also going by the name yusaberry ) is, foremost, a mindf*ck /hypnotism H doujin circle... and I would have never guessed, as the item in my hands, 冬の金沢メシ ぷれびゅ (Winter Kanazawa Gourmet preview) is a rather innocent 12-pages, black and white 'sample' from, you guessed it, a manga-meets-gourmet publication titled 金沢メシ本. I have to say it does feel like a preview, especially considering the booklet isn't even stapled: still, no shit is too minor in my book, and I admit it's still the sort of semi-ephemeral, low budget artifact I enjoy coming across here and there.
As one can imagine from the tiny page count, there isn't a whole lot of meat on what's essentially a sampler. Still, yusaberry's slightly 4-komaish character style is cute enough, and the depictions of food make the items immediately recognizable without exceeding in detail (something a lot of food manga is guilty of). I'm no expert on Kanazawa cuisine (though I do eat Japanese often, both the western blockbuster and the cooked-by-a-japanese-chef variety) but the wagashi sure look tasty, and I did enjoy the excursus on how the yellowtail tuna's name 'grows' according to its age.
Overall, a minor dōjinshi footnote, but still interesting to look at. I always enjoy when circles go local / regional, and I wish we had this sort of thing here, where zines are for the most part political pamphlets or artbooks. I should get to it perhaps...
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