プロニート家を出る by ですそーど

 Having been a NEET for quite a few years myself (before I fixed my life and... who am I kidding, my life is still a lovable mess lol), I always had a soft spot for the NEET character, expecially when it's played for comedy value over the social plague that it actually is, I guess - if you still buy into the 'get rich, find wife / husband, two and a half kids' meme. I don't, but that's neither here nor there.

I am, however, yet again reminded of how little of a weeaboo I am when ですそーど's プロニート家を出る starts dropping names I am only vaguely aware of - I do know Kantai Collection and Love Live are sort of a big deal; but, as you can guess from the topic of this blog, I approach Japanese media from a slightly different angle. I'm certainly nothing like the dōjinshi's protagonist, your average overweight otaku who thinks he's a modern day samurai (and uses samurai Japanese, such a pain to translate) because he's fighting evil... in Kantai Collection. 

Out of the blue he leaves the house, to install himself in the playground just across the street, where his first virtuous action is to help a cute but clueless middle schooler become a Love Live pro. Little he knows that his neo-samurai ideals will land him in hot waters with the girl, her friend, and his own little sister...

I do like comedy manga, especially when it doesn't devolve into the trite 4-koma format (I do like Azumanga a lot though). DeathSword's lines are super rough, and so is the lettering, but this only reinforces the alt-culture jabs delivered at the expenses of popular JP- culture products. The crude visuals are, in the end, functional to the manga's genre and topic. The story is, of course, simple and pretty much your stereotypical 'otaku makes fun of otakus' gag, but I won't hold that against the author - with such a limited number of pages you can only elaborate to a point. 

A fun little comedy dōjinshi, love it or leave it. No intention to oversell it, but I liked it! sadly, doesn't seem like the author has done much since 2014...