Manga of the Week - スミレ16歳!!

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Something right up SHAFT's alley if you know what I mean.



Title: スミレ16歳!!, Sumire 16-sai!!, Sumire 16 (years old)
Author: Nagayoshi Takeru
Genre: Shounen, Comedy
Serialized in: Kodansha Weekly Shounen Magazine, Magazine Special
Total Volume Count: 5

Description from MangaUpdates:
While bicycling to school her first day as a high school student, Renge Ohyama meets a weird girl who on closer inspection appears to be a life-sized doll--and this is not an advanced robotic creation or even a magical doll. Rather, a scary looking middle aged man controls her movements, puppet-like, and speaks for her via ventriloquism. Unfortunately, this perverted-seeming old man and his doll happen to attend her new school. Even worse, is in the same class and sits right behind her. And it seems the doll wants to be friends?!
Kenn's Comment: Oh man, this manga is just so absurdly weird that it's absurdly hilarious. And that's what SHAFT has done pretty darn well. That old man must be the most awesome, greatest, spectacularest, bestest puppeteer and ventriloquist on the face of the Earth if he can pull Sumire off. On another note, the manga has a 12 episode TV drama. Sumire switches between a mannequin and an actual actress, like the scenes in the manga that make you begin to wonder if Sumire is really a puppet. 

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