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Inside Mari, Volume 1 by Shuzo Oshimi
3.0

This was...good?

Oshimi writes a lot of weird series yet somehow he gives a interesting voice to a lot of his characters. Similar to flowers of evil, this is a strange book. A guy, who was following a girl home every couple of days, wakes up one day inside the girls body. Creepy, huh? But the thing is that he tries his very best to be respectful to this woman Mari. Not even looking at her body parts once he is inside her body. Which feels odd as he was a creepier before this.

The story is basically that. He goes to school in her body and one of the student knows it isn't the real Mari. Tus the whole volume is basically set up for the series. It has some interesting choices, dialogue is solid enough, and the art is solid. But nothing out of the ordinary in the whole switch body things. Guess we'll see what happens next. A 3 out of 5.