The characters are drawn fairly comically though and they’re very expressive for being pretty simplistic.ĭark Horse rates this for ages 12 and up. It is more reminiscent of something like Recess than the highly stylized world of manga. The people are not super carefully drawn, however. The art in this manga is a lot more unpolished than most, except for the scenes of imagination we get, which are actually so full of detail that you can spend some major time looking at the scenes and the provided schematics of vehicles. They are just three individuals with a loose friendship and the common goal of creating Anime. It is refreshing, though, to see a manga with a cast of female characters who are not sexualized, and none of them currently are involved in any sort of romantic entanglement. This otherworldly explorations can be a little jarring at first because they come without explanation that they are make-believing. It definitely highlights the creative process and how immersive it can become - several times, one or all three girls will become “transported” into a fantasy world as they talk about facets of a vehicle or a landscape, but they were really in the clubhouse the whole time. This is a very different manga than most.
