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The Salaryman (MANGA ISSUE #1): A hilarious manga series about an American guy's struggle to fit into Japanese business culture. Kindle & comiXology

by Michael Thuresson (Author), Rena Saiya (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
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"Laugh-out-loud humor...The best English manga available." - Voices in Japan podcast

No word encapsulates a country’s mainstream lifestyle the way “salaryman” does in Japan. If a Japanese person asks you, “What do you do?” and you reply, “I’m a salaryman,” you’ll likely get a laugh and a knowing look, as they'll instantly understand the office rituals, refined manners, and nocturnal consumption that dominate your life. In this manga, based on the best-selling memoir of the same name, American author Michael Howard distills his decade spent as a "immigrant salaryman" into a hilarious comic about Tokyo office life. Each issue is full of painfully funny and insightful truths about modern salaryman life, revealing much about the US–Japan culture gap.
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    July 29, 2020
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08DXJWWNC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (July 29, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 29, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 25152 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 22 pages
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    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

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Michael Thuresson

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Michael Thuresson hails from Chicago and was a journalist-turned-businessman in Los Angeles before he joined the Tokyo salaryman brotherhood in 2008. He has lived in Tokyo since 2008 and now works full-time as a product manager at an American technology company. The Salaryman, published in July 2019 and hailed by the Japan Times as “thoroughly entertaining”, was his first book. The Salaryman: Manga Edition is his first comic.

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Danzou
1.0 out of 5 stars It was free, so...
Reviewed in Brazil on April 12, 2021
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I've got it free as a way to test both how the Kindle would deal with the inverse page turn of a manga and the panel by panel view for comics. Other than that, I can think of no use for this.
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AN
4.0 out of 5 stars A cute, though a bit messy, start of a cool story
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2021
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I read this manga in a single take. Really fast read. The story is easy to understand and obviously personal. I feel attached to the MC and the position he's found himself in.

The art is good, although the formatting seems to have gone wrong as the pages don't cover the whole display, hence the smaller text is hard to read.

I feel like the subscenes within chapter 1 could have been individual chapters, but maybe that's just me.

I hope to see more published soon.
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Kindleのお客様
5.0 out of 5 stars Looking forward to the sequel!
Reviewed in Japan on December 16, 2021
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I accidentally read it on the bus and found it so funny that it was really hard to hold back my laughter.
I wondered how I would feel if I was suddenly thrown into Japanese society one day without any knowledge or experience?!
I was drawn in by the author's unique style of comically conveying Japanese society from a perspective that Japanese people born and raised in Japan do not have and read it in one sitting.
Looking forward to the sequel!
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Amazon Customer
4.0 out of 5 stars 気軽に読めて面白かった
Reviewed in Japan on August 9, 2020
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日本にヘッドハンティングされたビジネスマンの、日本や日本企業のカルチャーに対する率直な印象がコミカルに表現されていて面白かったです。
英語の勉強にもよいですね。
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Saku
5.0 out of 5 stars Super funny
Reviewed in Japan on September 20, 2021
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Super funny and good to know about Japanese office culture!
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