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No ordinary manga

Short Cuts is a manga series by Usamaru Furuya about random events occurring in the day to day activities in this ordinary high school. The manga typically follows a Gag per day formula with most jokes being a page or two long. The jokes range from Black Comedy to Sex Comedy and everything in-between. The manga was serialized in Young Sunday Magazine from 1996 to 1999, and compiled into two volumes. It's licensed in English by Viz Media.

See Cromartie High School or The Ping-Pong Club for a similar series.

Definitely not for kids.


This Manga provides examples of:

  • All Men Are Perverts: Provided with some Panty Shots.
    • Subverted in one strip, where a creepy-looking man asks a girl out, and when she refuses, seems to be stalking her... until suddenly he begs her to leave him alone.
  • Dirty Old Man: Regularly appear, though one strip parodies this. The artist claims to be too lazy to draw, so we see the storyboards, where a man approaches "holding his D" as two schoolgirls beg him to stop. Right before the last panel, the artist regains their will to live and draws it... and it turns out "D" is the man's dog. The schoolgirls are protesting because chihuahuas creep them out.
  • Genki Girl: Played with in the strips involving Cutie Miyuki, the cutest assassin you'll never see coming. Also, she's the daughter of Golgo 13.
  • Gyaru Girl: An entire village of women embracing the Kogal lifestyle. Even the grannies.
  • Make Way for the Princess: The Princess complains when the girls don't talk about useless subjects for at least 2 hours.
  • Mermaid Problem: One strip asks the reader which they would prefer: a regular mermaid (human side waist-up) or a reverse mermaid (human side waist-down), with this trope as the implication.
  • Rage Quit: One strip is titled "How to Draw a Cute Girl"... but the artist just can't manage it, until finally he writes in the second-to-last panel, "Mom, Dad, don't come looking for me". The last panel is a newspaper small-ad from his parents:
    "Usamaru: there are other trades. Come home."
  • Robot Girl: One strip has what appears to be a man molesting a child... except it's actually the top half of a safe, with the dials exactly where you think they'd put them.

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