humdrum conundrums Yuuko has a depressing doppelganger. Tanaka has a secret weapon. Mai becomes engrossed in a new best-seller. Mio squares off with a strange new vending machine, and a near-death experience creates chaos for a guardian angel...
que será surreality a game of musical chairs takes a sharp turn. nano pulls out all the stops in a battle against a fry thief. a bizarre body-swap situation occurs in the shinonome household. yuuko displays a talent for naming things. we get a glimpse of mio’s dream job, as everyone writes a letter to their future selves...
extra ordinary The professor gets everyone stuck in a sticky situation. Mio goes to extraordinary lengths to protect her passionate pet project. Unexpected feelings for another teacher have taken root in Mr. Takasaki's heart. And an unfortunate misunderstanding ends up bringing two friends closer together. The hijinks continue in this out-of-the-ordinary tale of high school life.
mundane madness A U.F.O. causes Yuuko’s lunch to come out her nose. Ms. Nakamura tries an adorable new ploy. Mihoshi’s big plan backfires. Mai successfully dodges a trap. Hypnosis doesn’t work, until it works all too well. And Weboshi might actually be able to read minds...
standard surreality Mio finally has her dream come true. Ms. Nakamura ends up in a nightmare situation after discovering the shinonome lab. The Princess goes on a rampage to recover wood cubes. Mai makes a new friend, and nio makes a heartbreaking discovery that propels her to learn something important about life...
yranidro. The denizens of the fey kingdom must placate their princess. Mio invents an explosive athletic move. A newly-opened cafe bedevils Yuuko. Yuuko seizes a chance to send Mio’s already-active imagination into overdrive, and Nakamura, the science teacher, takes a professional interest in Nano. have another slice of nowhere-near-ordinary life.
Mio makes an abrupt confession. Mihoshi tries to help her sister Misato confess her feelings to her crush. Mai heeps pulling the rug on Yuuko with her deceptive sense of humor. Tanaka stubbornly refuses to break a promise to Nakanojou. Yuuko gets mistaken for a celebrity, and Mr. Takasaki unwittingly foils Ms. Nakamura's sneaky plans...
In this just-surreal enough take on the "school genre" of manga, a group of friends grapple with all sorts of unexpected situations in their daily lives as high schoolers. The gags, jokes, puns, and haiku keep this series off-kilter even as the cast grow and change. Check it out and meet the new ordinary.
In a shocking twist (okay, maybe not so shocking...), Kimihito learns that he's been playing host to a princess! Mero the mermaid is actually the daughter of the king and queen of the sea, and now her royal mother is summoning her back home. Kimihito, along with the other monster girls living in his household, go to visit the mermaid queen in the hopes of changing her mind. Along the way, they uncover a tangled scheme that involves kidnapping, royal intrigue, tragedy, and, of course, naughty tentacles. If this intrepid group can manage to stay un-molested long enough to solve the mystery, they could transform the entire mermaid kingdom! But for once, Kimihito isn't the only one risking his life in the name of interspecies relations.
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