“Cozy Yakuza Comedy,”The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 1 Review

Kousuke Oono began his professional manga career in 2016 in the manga Monthly Comics @ Bunch with the one-shot Legend of Music. Oono’s follow up series, The Way of The Househusband, is the creator’s first serialization as well as his first English language release. Why is this important to note? Because it’s not too often you get a English translation so early in a mangaka’s career—at least not back in the day. Plus, The Way of the Househusband hit it big pretty quick which translated to being a good look for readers overseas. The synopsis is pretty straight forward: A former yakuza living legend leaves it all behind to become your everyday househusband. What follows is the most ridiculous and wholesome start of a new manga series from Viz that kept me laughing and rolling my eyes. “Cozy Yakuza Comedy” The Way of the Househusband follows a retired yakuza member most notoriously known as the “Immortal Dragon” who is living out his post-crime career as a devoted and loving house husband. Tatsu lives a life on the edge still as he still manages to find his way into trouble except it is usually at the grocery store trying to catch those sales versus some back alley. The manga follows him managing his household as just your ordinary househusband–one who has walked away from the gangster life to do battle with cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, cooking and that damned Roomba that he can’t seem to figure out. It’s a day in the life of your average househusband—if your average h…