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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
| # | Title | Release |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Rooftop and the Wire | 25 Mar 2009 |
| 5 | Rico the Architect | 30 Sep 2010 |
| 7 | The Tidal Ward | 22 Dec 2011 |
| 8 | Crocodiles and the Drone | ██ ██ 2012 |
| 14 | The 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
- ↑ A Complicated Surgery: The Official Guidebook. Abrachas Shōten, 2013.
- ↑ "The Glitch That Will Not Compute." Surgipelago essays.
- ↑ Plains Review Quarterly, issue ██ .