I have been super busy this past week, so I have hardly had a chance to read anything. However, there was one series that I randomly saw in the MD updates that I checked out on a whim:

• Tuna Girl / Maguro-Shoujo

This story focuses on an idol that failed to gain an audience and ended up deep in debt and to pay it back, she ends up working on a tuna fishing boat. So, it is a very specific slice of life, but with the exceptionally eccentric cast of characters on this boat, it is pretty absurdist. There is a lot of heart in this one though with Haruna trying her best to get back into the idol industry and realizing that there are more important things in life, like the friends you make along the way. The series is this weird mix of extremely specific, well-researched tuna fishing information and an absurdist gag series. There are just two more chapters to translate, and it has been building up to what seems like it will be a nice conclusion.