Adventures In Manga

Feb 19, 2005 · 2 minute read

One of the great things about the Internet is the lovely group of people known as scanlators. They take foreign comics that aren’t available outside of the host country (usually Japan), scan them in to a computer, and translate them into another language (usually English). Then they stick them up on the Internet for everybody to download. It’s a good way of discovering comics from other countries. Completely illegal of course, but the scanlators have a code of honour which means they take down scans once a title is released commercially in the translated language, so the comic companies don’t bother them too much (and indeed, they keep tabs on the scanlation scene to see what’s popular). Anyway, most scanlations are epic Japanese manga series, and not really suitable for casual reading, but every once in a while, there’s a few one-shots which are worth the three minutes or so it takes to read. Today’s discovery is a one-shot tale about a girl who gets turned into a fridge.

Yes. A fridge.

As you might expect, it’s quite bizarre, including almost obscene descriptions of a boy putting beer into the cooler, and it also shows you just why you shouldn’t annoy a fridge.

You can download it using BitTorrent from the scanlator, Kotonoha, but if you want a direct download, I’m hosting a zip archive of it as well:

The Female Fridge (probably not suitable for children)

Oh, and remember, manga is read from right-to-left, not left-to-right. You’ll get used to it, I promise.