My Neighbor Seki is a high school comedy manga in the vein of Yotsuba and Azumanga Daioh.
My Neighbor Seki is a collection of short stories that revolve around two classmates who sit at the back of their high school homeroom. In each chapter Seki devises a new way to kill time in his school desk, to best avoid boredom. And along the way, he ends up distracting the girl who sits next to him Rumi; who's mind goes wild as Seki pushes the limits of his disobediance.
Story Locale: A Japanese High School
Series Overview: My Neighbor Seki is a 9+ volume manga comedy that is set in high school; comedic hi-jinks that revolve around pair of teens who are constantly finding new and inventive ways to kill time in class.
akuma Morishige was born in Miyazaki prefecture back in 1978. A professional comic artist, he earned an engineering degree from the University of Hiroshima. While Morishige has been working as a comic artist since 2001, he is best known for his work on My Neighbor Seki and for being the brother to the award-winning comic artist Akiko Higashimura. Morishige even appears as a character in Higashimura's autobiographical comic Himawari...
In 2000 Morishige's debut project, Life Arts, was a finalist selection for the Chiba Tetsuya Comic Award. He would then turn his attention towards manga creation full-time in 2001. He has since developed six series, most of them being comedies.
In January 2014 My Neighbor Seki was adapted into an animated TV series further expanding his footprint globally as the series was available in Asia, North America, Europe and Brasil.
ISBN: 9781945054501
Author: Takuma Morishige
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 23 January 2018
Publisher: Vertical Inc
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (mm): 176 x 126 x 15
Weight (kg): 0.136
