Natsume & Natsume Vol. 1

なつめとなつめ

by

Shunsuke Sorato

Illustrated by

Shunsuke Sorato

Characters designed by

Shunsuke Sorato

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Natsume Shiranui has the face of a villain. From strangers on the street to his own high school classmates, his creepy grin freaks everybody out. But secretly he yearns to be a hero like his childhood friend — the kind, brave, and beautiful Natsume Minazuki. Can he become her hero, or is he destined to always be the one getting rescued? From the creator of The Girl with the Sanpaku Eyes, Natsume & Natsume is a wholesome romantic comedy about becoming a hero for the person you love.

I’ll be honest, the cover caught me.

aaaaah
it makes me want to read angel densetsu
it’s a very cute and wholesome manga about a guy with a scary face and the girl he admires. he wants to be a hero like her.
i just really like how cute it is.
childhood friends be like i love you

but yeah the author has DEFINITELY read angel densetsu, which is easily one of my top 5 manga ever read

the theme is the same but it’s two very different situations

maybe i should reread angel densetsu, for science

maybe i should buy angel densetsu, for science

Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.


What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.


Truck-Kun Kill Count:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 19/50
38%
Comics Read in 2026: 39/200
19%
Physical Owned Books Read: 477/830
58%


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