Ichiro Kuga finds himself in quite the pickle. Upon the death of his father, he inherits his apartment building and becomes the caretaker of his two younger siblings. As a manga artist, the young man would be swamped with work so much so, assistants would come and go. While trying to meet the deadline, Ichiro meets Shiori Goshiki, a 19-year-old woman who had recently left her island home. Because of her being self-taught, a lot of the work flies by for both of them.
All this would change when, as Shiori was sleeping, Ichiro notices some odd protrusion sticking from her back. Fearing that it was a craft pen that could hurt Shiori, Ichiro makes a grab for it. In doing so, he is swept into a void only to be reeled back in by an enraged Shirori who reveals that she is actually an extraterrestrial and since he touched her stinger, he was to become her husband.
A Galaxy Next Door is a 2020 manga series written and illustrated by Gido Amagakure and was distributed via seinen manga Good!Afternoon and was collected into 5 volumes. It received an anime adaptation distributed by Asahi Production in April 2023.
This manga provides examples of:
- Arranged Marriage: As in accordance with her people's custom, should someone touch Shiori's stinger, that person is to be their fated husband.
- Ascended Fangirl: Shiori learned to draw manga by tracing from the tankoubon of Ichiro's earlier works. Now she's his assistant.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Shiori looks humanoid in appearance, but she possesses a stinger on her lower back.
- Missing Mom: Their mother “has her own life now” and has abandoned her children, leaving Ichiro and his siblings functionally orphaned with their father’s death.
- Most Writers Are Writers: It's a romance manga that revolves around a Shōjo mangaka and his assistant.
- Official Couple: Both Ichiro and Shiori end up dating after Ichiro unintentionally made contact with her stinger.
