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They Say These Are The Golden Years

Kaiju Girl Caramelise, volume 2

By Spica Aoki  

14 Mar, 2022

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2019’s Kaiju Girl Caramelise, Vol. 2 is the second of six volumes in Spica Aoki’s Kaiju Girl Caramelise (Otome Kaijū Kyaramerize) manga series. Kaiju Girl Caramelise has been serialized in Monthly Comic Alive since early 2018.

Social outcast Kuroe Akaishi has, to her own astonishment (and that of the other students at her high school), caught the eye of high-school model Arata Minami. In many stories, the handsome student’s apparent romantic interest in Kuroe would be a cruel joke. But in fact Arata is quite sincere. 

As flattering as this is, Kuroe dreads what will happen when Arata learns the truth about Kuroe’s unfortunate medical condition. Whenever Kuroe is stressed, she becomes an office-building-sized kaiju. 

A first date with dreamboat Arata is just the sort of experience that could well stress Kuroe.

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When They Look at Me

Kaiju Girl Caramelise, volume 1

By Spica Aoki  

27 Jun, 2019

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Kaiju Girl Caramelise, Vol. 1 is the first collection of Spica Aoki’s eponymous Shoujo manga. 

Kuroe Akaishi suffers from a rare (probably unique) medical condition so embarrassing that she hides it from her schoolmates. The condition is exacerbated by strong emotion, so she tries to avoid drama. She’s aloof and detached … or at least as detached as she can be given that her schoolmates mock and torment her. 

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