Freaks' Café #1

The opening volume of Meika Arisaki's Freaks' Café sets a delightfully offbeat tone, with its cover showing a young woman in a pink dress clinging to a bespectacled young man in the foreground, while a composed dark-haired server watches calmly from behind the bar — rows of wine bottles lining the shelves behind them. A vivid blue cocktail and a bowl sit on a tray in the foreground, hinting at the café setting at the heart of this 2019 Éditions Akata release. If you enjoy slice-of-life manga with an eclectic cast and a cozy-yet-quirky atmosphere, this first volume looks like a very promising place to pull up a stool.