You to Bakemono ni naru Chichi ga tsurai / A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s an Alcoholic is another of my bookstore finds. It’s another autobiographical manga about living with an a…
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Upside Down
Author: Ukari (translated with author’s permission, please visit their website to see the original Japanese works!) To say here is far, The post Upside Down first appeared on Kowabana.
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