I love the way Ogawa renders Momo’s dancing. older, taller, and more professionally successful in an office-type job.
He’s slight, sweet, mischievous, and sensitive, but still portrayed as a desirable man even though he meets none of the typical romantic criteria of Sumire’s echelon, e.g. I enjoyed the way he represented a more nontraditional masculinity. I also loved Momo, who is a bit of a feckless ne’er-do-well, but he knows it. The exploration of how hard it can be from a social perspective (particularly romantically) to be a successful woman or woman-presenting person really resonated with me.
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A lot of the series is about her struggle to open up to people, but it also explores quite seriously the idea that people around her have been wrong to misjudge her. She is also terrified of showing weakness or vulnerability even when she actively wants to. Unfortunately, she also has incredible social anxiety that makes her come across as cold and snooty, when she’s really just desperately shy and afraid of doing the “wrong” thing. Sumire is gorgeous, accomplished, and successful in her career. I also loved most of the characters, especially Sumire, who may be my favorite josei heroine of all time. I mean, this is the chapter art for the very first chapter: Hi, can I join this cuddle puddle? If you are really squicked out by the idea of someone keeping a human as a pet, no matter how beloved and pampered, I think this is probably not for you as it is a pretty essential element of the story and character arcs.Īssuming you are on board with the pet thing, there is so much to enjoy in this manga. If you think, “haha, that sounds kind of funny and weird!” you are the target audience for this manga. The manga is about both of them having a lot of personal growth separately and together and how their relationship eventually shifts beyond the confines of the initial pet paradigm. Momo provides the kind of total acceptance of Sumire ( when she’s at home in sweatpants, watching trashy television, and in the throes of perpetual anxiety) that a pet does, demands to be patted on the head, and tries to sneak into Sumire’s bed at night for cuddles (okay, that last really does sound kinda sexual but I SWEAR it mostly is not). Sumire gives Momo food, shelter, and snacks she shampoos his hair she is worried about leaving him alone at home for too long. While everyone around them who finds out Sumire is keeping a young man as a pet initially assumes it’s a sex thing, it’s not a sex thing!! It’s actually a pretty literal analogy to a human-animal pet relationship. Sumire decides to call him “Momo” after her beloved childhood dog and they carry on from then on as mistress and pet. When it becomes clear he doesn’t want to leave, she somewhat jokingly tells him he can stay if he will be her pet–and he agrees. She takes him inside, feeds him, and lets him sleep at her place. The premise of this manga is that gorgeous, super-accomplished career woman Sumire, who is single and approaching 30 after a bad breakup, finds a much younger guy sleeping in a box on her doorstep one night. I tore through all 14 volumes within a couple weeks back before my state went on lockdown, stealing minutes here and there to charge through chapters on my phone. This series was originally released in the US as Tramps Like Us in the 2000s by Tokyopop (although I think You’re My Pet is much closer to the original Japanese title) and it’s recently gotten a digital-only rerelease by Kodansha through Comixology. While I can’t say it’s flawless, I nonetheless loved it. This 14-volume manga series is comedic, soap-operatic, a little weird, romantic, and hopeful. Sometimes a series is just exactly what you thought it was going to be and what you were looking for, and the josei manga series You’re My Pet! was that for me. Theme: Age Difference, Friends to Lovers, Opposites Attract, Slow Burn
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