manga!

i want to put in a quick plug for this awesome manga we've been reading around here lately. it's called "my wife has no emotion" and it's about a guy who falls in love with a kitchen robot that he buys because he's so busy at work he doesn't have time to cook. the robot, mina, insists that she is really just an appliance with no emotional capabilities at all, but the guy (who completely lacks experience with real women) decides to treat her as his wife, and they end up having this really sweet, super-awkward relationship that's touching and funny and bizarre all at once. mina never wavers from her stance that she's an unfeeling machine responding only to her programming, and she genuinely believes it's the truth, but she has all these irrational quirks and weird reflexive behaviors that make it pretty obvious she's wrong.

it's endearing as heck and just beautifully drawn. the only problem is that it's sooo quick to read, and the story is so captivating, that we've burned through 6 out of the 7 volumes in less than a month, and that's while deliberately trying not to read more than a couple chapters a week. (there are 6 or 8 chapters in every volume.) luckily for me, it's not just quick to read but easy to re-read too, and because i get so sucked into following the story the first time i read it, the second time i always notice all the ways the art is working that i didn't recognize before.

anyway, if you like manga and weird love stories, definitely check it out!