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This is a very entertaining manga! I first watched the anime and really enjoyed it, so thought I would give the source material a go.
The story follows a disillusioned 31-year-old children's entertainer and his equally jaded colleagues. As such, the language ranges from quite simple, breezy pages of dialogue where Uramichi and co. are speaking to the kids, to incredibly dense monologuing about adulthood, depression and crushed dreams.
I would place myself somewhere in the N3 range and, for reference, I took down 212 words of new vocabulary from this volume - averaging close to two a page. Most of those words were pretty uncommon (the vast majority outside of any JLPT vocabulary list), so I would probably recommend those around intermediate level giving this a miss if you are not comfortable with having to whip out the dictionary pretty often. There are also no furigana as this is a josei manga, which is something to keep in mind.
However I love the art; the characters are great; I found myself laughing out loud plenty of times while reading it. If you are up for a challenge or at an advanced level, I can't recommend うらみちお兄さん enough.