Gene Bride Booklist Review – Manga Librarian
Title: Gene Bride
Volume: 1
Mangaka: Hitomi Takano
Translator: Kristjan Rohde
US Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Age Relevance: Adult
How Essential Is It?: Essential
Curricular Connections?: Gender Studies, Sociology
Reader’s Advisory Tags: Science Fiction, Feminist, Strong Femme Protagonist, Josei
Anime: N/A
Content Warnings: Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault, Suicide.
Publisher Synopsis:
A sci-fi drama about a woman sick of workplace misogyny and the man she just happened to be matched with in a middle school experiment!
Isahaya Ichi is fed up with men, a woman navigating a world where she’s underestimated at work because of her gender and sexually harassed. But when her former classmate, Masaki, unexpectedly shows up, everything changes. He claims to be the other half of her “destined pair” from a junior high school event called “Gene Bride,” where genetic information matched students into couples for a day. While Ichi barely remembers the event, Masaki’s sudden reappearance sparks a journey of rediscovery and buried secrets.
Review: Please read the review on Booklist.
