EROMANGA
HALL OF FAME

One subject carries the whole book, and every job becomes a joke. Shinjin-chan no Arbeit stands in the hall on that thoroughness and that lightness, a short digital book that never had a print edition.

A cool, expressionless new part-timer changes jobs with each episode, from a burger shop and a karaoke parlor to a bar and a hero show, and attends to customers as an extension of the work. Across all six episodes the sexual content is confined to the single act Japanese stores catalog as paizuri. It is workplace and costume comedy laced with gags.

Readers agree on the device of changing costume, props and punning dialogue with every workplace. Coinages and wordplay drawn from each trade turn the impossible business models of these shops into surreal comedy. The heroine's blank face finally slips near the end, and that moment, together with the assured full-color art, draws praise.

LOLICEPT is an illustrator who has done character design for games and illustrations for light novels, and this is their only collected manga.

The six episodes ran in Bunendo's COMIC EUROPA and COMIC BAVEL from 2017 to 2018 and were gathered by the publisher's digital-only label in June 2018 into a book of about 49 pages, with no print edition. Without any record from print-era store charts, it entered the hall on its digital reception. It stands 105th among the hall's commercial works.