Otaloli Dragon! Bahamuko-sensei · review
Fun characters, average art, great puns. A cute, short story. Cancelled early due to short readership, but as a gag manga it has no real trouble wrapping up the story into a neat little bow. On the strength of the story and art alone I'd have to rate this manga as a 7, but the high quality of the translation brings this up to a solid 8. But no, seriously. Kaisermutt/Horse Deer Scans performs another exceptional work of translating not just the literal meaning of the text, but transposing cultural context and even adding additional jokes and characterization. Their end-chapter translation notes are also, as always, apleasure to read-- explaining what went into any given translation decision, including the resolution of cross-linguistic ambiguities and notes about the source culture. It's very obviously a labor of love, that turns a decent, but otherwise forgettable manga into something truly special.