O Maidens In Your Savage Season Vol. 08

O Maidens In Your Savage Season Vol. 08

As a teen, how do you start thinking about sex?

This debut manga from anime legend Mari Okada (Maquia) follows five girls and their five moving, funny, and mortifying answers. Join their bittersweet (and a little spicy) journey from girlhood to… whatever comes next!

Anime out now!

AGAIN AND AGAIN

Comrades, crushes, and former rivals take over the school as they protest the new no-dating policy that caused Sonezaki’s expulsion. Together, their demands are louder, but so many butting heads means there’s a whole lotta energy with no release. The night is long, but it’s nothing new for the girls who’ve already weathered storm after storm. After the yelling and the crying, one can only hope that laughter will follow… When Kazusa entered high school, she joined the Literature Club. How could she have known that the chaos that ensued with every table read, every text message, every hug, was just this little thing called life?

FINAL VOLUME!

Kazusa’s first high school literature club meeting starts with five girls being asked, “What’s one thing you want to do before you die?” When one of them blurts out, “Sex,” it launches these new friends down a raucous, embarrassing, all-too-relatable path. One of Japan’s top female screenwriters, Okada hones her knack for aching drama and wry humor that became her trademark with anime like anohana and Maquia. Amid an explosion of graphic novels about girls’ teenage years, like Lumberjanes and That One Summer, O Maidens brings a diverse, fresh, and hilarious perspective on how it feels to leave childhood behind.

Biographical Notes:

Perhaps Japan’s most acclaimed female screenwriter, Mari Okada has been writing for anime and live action for twenty years and made her directorial debut in 2018 with Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, an animated feature that released in the United States to a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Her work for television includes anohana, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, and Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine. O Maidens in Your Savage Season is her first manga series.

A longtime manga artist and illustrator, Nao Emoto’s first manga series was Forget Me Not, co-created with Taiwanese writer Mag Hsu and published in English by Kodansha Comics. O Maidens in Your Savage Season, her collaboration with Mari Okada, is her second manga series.

Title Notes:

Anime adaptation announced for 2019, with scripts by Okada herself!

Perhaps Japan’s most acclaimed female screenwriter, Okada has worked in anime for twenty years. Her global profile was boosted this year by her directorial debut Maquia, which released with a 100% Fresh rating. Her hits also include anohana and Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans.

For her manga debut, Okada has been paired with female artist Nao Emoto. This team remembers the drama and difficulty of high school in vivid, sometimes cringeworthy detail, and together they craft a different kind of sex comedy – one meant to reassure and entertain girls and not titillate boys.

Finally, a manga for fans of graphic novels for teen girls, like Noelle Stevenson’s Lumberjanes and Jillian and Mariko Tamaki’s This One Summer.

Ages 16 and up.

More details on Mari Okada & Nao Emoto:

Nao Emoto’s Twitter Page

More works by Nao Emoto

More works by Mari Okada