Please tell me someone else remembers the absolutely stunning BL manga that is Adekan. Like??? The detailing and coloring of these illustrations were mind blowing to me as a budding artist:

Plus the absolutely ridiculous heels and sensual arch in the back of every last prettyboy in the cast:

The manga itself was also insanely impressive with all its finely-detailed linework and I remember the premise being REALLY intriguing.

Umbrella salesman/ex-assassin who teams up with the local officer occasionally to help solve the strange crimes of their town? Plus even more deep lore I'm totally forgetting about??? I spent years obsessed with this series and idk if it ever finished but it came to me in my formative years as an artist and left a permenant mark on my soul.

EDIT: The manga is still ongoing!!!!! Which means it's time for a reread ♡

decided to pick up adekan by nao tsukiji since no one touched it in the past three years! you can find chapter 45 on mangadex, along with all the previous chapters.

if you haven't read adekan, it's a bl-adjacent story set in the early showa era about a policeman yamada kojiro who meets a mysterious and promiscuous (?) umbrella maker yoshiwara shiro. they end up solving crimes together, but shiro's past starts catching up with him. also, tsukiji nao's gorgeous art is there.

Adekan Vol.18

Adekan

Very funny to watch men try to come back at people when they criticize the portrayal of women in animanga aimed at men without actually knowing enough about animanga aimed at women to make a decent argument. No, the pretty boys in Sailor Moon are not comparable to the fanservice in Kill La Kill. Read Adekan and get back to me.

I am trying to create a sort of armour for one of the endings (god the drama). However since I set myself on making it some mixture between armour and pretty decoration...

My mind is ruined by one of the first mangas I read, and I am always coming up with some variations of this, from Adekan by Tsukiji Nao, which... since I bet not many know of it, looks like this:

tw for... lots of skin??

I wish more people got into Adekan.

There’s something so beautiful commissioning art from people that cherish the subject material.

And it would be nice to read fanfics about the officer🫢

Tukiji Nao Letter Pages Artwork by Nao Tsukiji who is known for the Shojo Manga series Adekan.

Some (there's not many in English) websites I found on her:

Juli ist immer ein teurer Monat bei mir. Viele Rabatte und natürlich kommen jede Menge neue Manga raus.

Zuerst aber ein paar Worte zu dein beiden Switch Spielen. Cris Tales überlege ich schon lange zu kaufen. Habe aber gezögert da es viele bekannte Probleme gab (unteranderem lange Ladebildschirme wenn ein Kampf beginnt). Ich habe es für 10€ gefunden und denke bei diesem Preis kann man nichts falsch machen. Über Octopath Traveler 2 hab ich sehr viel gutes gehört. Ich mochte zwar den ersten Teil, habe ihn aber nie durchgespielt da die Story einfach nicht packend genug war und mir der Grind zu viel wurde. Bin aber gespannt ob mir Teil 2 besser gefällt!

Kommen wir zu den beiden Manga. Ich.liebe.Adekan. Es ist einer meiner Lieblings Manga und neue Bände müssen sofort gekauft werden. Tsukiji Nao zeichnet wunderschöne detailreiche Panels. Ich freue mich schon ihn zu lesen. Mr. Mallow Blue habe ich wieder verschlungen. Ich liebe das neu erschienene Werk von Akaza Samamiya. Es berührt mich sehr, da die angesprochenen Themen mir unglaublich nahe gehen. Ich habe bisher bei allen drei Bänden Tränen vergossen, da ich viele Sachen aus meiner Jugend und Kindheit nicht richtig verarbeitet habe. Ich lege diesen Manga jedem ans Herz. Vielleicht berührt er euch nicht so sehr wie mich? Schreibt gerne was ihr von den Spielen und Manga haltet!

chapter 46 of adekan is out! you can read it on mangadex!

Adekan Vol.17

Adekan

Hi, today we are talking about how Anri from Adekan is the sluttysona of Kidou Yuuto

Not to mention that both of them wear a mantle