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A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (manga)

This article is about the manga. For the original novel, see A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight. For the animated series, see A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (TV series).

A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight is a seinen manga adapting the novel of the same name. Serialised in Monthly Karman Line from 2009, it follows Katita and Leif across a single repeating day.[1] It is regarded as the most faithful adaptation of the Newcastle half, though its handling of the glitch remains contentious.[2]

Volumes

Tankōbon volumes (dates marked ██ are unverified).
#TitleRelease
1The Rooftop and the Wire25 Mar 2009
5Rico the Architect30 Sep 2010
7The Tidal Ward22 Dec 2011
8Crocodiles and the Drone ██ ██ 2012 
14The Wings ██ ██ 2017 

Reception

Critics praised its "deadpan rendering of catastrophe as weather."[3] The Volume 7 hospital-room frame (The Tidal Ward) prompted a lasting dispute over whether the desert surgery is "real."

See also

References

  1. A Complicated Surgery: The Official Guidebook. Abrachas Shōten, 2013.
  2. ↑ "The Glitch That Will Not Compute." Surgipelago essays.
  3. Plains Review Quarterly, issue  ██ .