“Office worker becomes cicada, faces short life with cool death plans in gag manga.”
Semimaru Zanjitsuroku
蝉丸残日録
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Synopsis
Office worker becomes cicada, faces short life with cool death plans in gag manga.
Semimaru, an office worker who awoke one morning only to find that he had tragically become a cicada. A classic example of the short-lived, a cicada... After seeing that he did not have long to live, Semimaru decided to meet his end in a cool way. See his thrilling new daily life and his coworkers, who have to watch themselves around him! The curtain on the industry's first gag cartoon of a cicada at its time of death has finally opened! (Source: Kodansha, translated)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 19 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 32m approx
- Published Oct 2014 – Feb 2016
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M75494 catalog