Tatsu, The Immortal Dragon, was a legendarily ferocious Yakuza enforcer - and now he’s a homemaker! Har har. What a kerazy switch, huh? Isn’t that hilarious?? Ah, opposites and comedia, eh…
Kousuke Oono’s The Way of the Househusband is a one-joke manga. Every chapter repeats the joke that this intense-looking dude is doing everyday domestic chores. Hoho, the macho man is acting feminine. If you find that endlessly amusing, you’ll love this second book, but I was pretty bored with the formula almost immediately - it’s very limited.
Tatsu: does aerobics and yoga and creeps out the housewives in his classes with his smile; starts a herb garden, takes some herbs over to his mate and the cops thinks he’s doing a drug deal; does the laundry; plays volleyball; meets the in-laws; and has a crepe-off with another former gangster who’s also left the life behind - whose creation will get the most social media likes??
Uh huh.
It’s not offensively bad to read - it’s always just meh - and it’s occasionally amusing, like when he and his wife go car-shopping and he imagines how the car would handle various threats like missiles. And when he only wins a stuffed toy in a local stamp rally competition (he was hoping for the vacuum cleaner) and says “My wife’s smile is the REAL first place!”, then says it again and his wife slaps him, “All right, enough!” - that made me laugh.
Mostly though it’s an unfunny, repetitive and predictable manga - I wouldn’t bother.
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