Under Ninja vol. 2

Breast-Milk Homeless Man fights the Foreign Schlong-Slicer.  The high school student who tried to steal a bra with his drone has to confront his crime.  Kawado goes into the vulgar particulars of her job while also revealing she’s connected to one of the most significant ninja incidents in recent history.  An abused little girl gets roped into the search for the Schlong-Slicer.  A small-time author keeps getting visited by ninjas at night who tell him about their past exploits.  An old lady finds herself at the mercy of some robbers as a ninja comes to her front door.

There’s a lot of stuff going on in vol. 2 of this series and I haven’t even talked about what protagonist Kuro Kumogakure is up to.  When he’s not bargaining away a bra for a skateboard, he’s making nice with his neighbors and making efforts to nab the Schlong-Slicer and prepare for his high-school transfer exam, in case you were wondering.  It may all seem overwhelming, but the slow, methodical pacing seen in how all of this plays out will be familiar to anyone who read mangaka Kengo Hanazawa’s previous work, “I Am A Hero.”  The difference being that there’s enough going on for the reader to feel like they got a satisfying chunk of story here even though we’re getting only one volume of this series at a time instead of two.

This is assuming that you’re onboard with Hanazawa’s oddball sense of storytelling and humor as seen in the previous volume.  While I don’t think that there’s anything here that would convince people who hated vol. 1 to give this a try, those who enjoyed it will find that much more humor, characterization, and worldbuilding to enjoy here.  It’s something I’d recommend to anyone enjoying the currently-airing anime adaptation of this series as you’re basically getting the same story but with 95% less jumping between multiple time periods to tell the story.