サトコとナダ 1

I started reading this back when it was a free webcomic - you can still view the first part of it online for free if you want to preview it. The art is very simple and sketchy, but the main characters and their friendship is cute. While some comics are simple character gags, there's a lot of cultural exchange happening between Satoko, Nada, and their American friends, which sometimes touches on sensitive subjects. In particular, Satoko learns a lot about Islam, which eventually leads her to reflect on her own religious beliefs - like many Japanese, she is nominally Buddhist, but isn't sure if she's 'Buddhist enough' to describe herself that way.

I did wish we'd been able to see Satoko and Nada becoming friends from the beginning instead of seeming them as already friendly and before they first met, and one of the side American characters seems to mostly exist to be a stereotypical weeb. He does get a comic to muse that it's harder to teach English in Japan as someone of Asian descent, because he doesn't 'look' like an English speaker.

Language-wise, because the characters are college students and often talk about everyday things related to that life, a lot of the vocabulary isn't that difficult if you've, say, used textbooks aimed at college students. The author also uses kana forms of common words that are sometimes put in kanji. Because it's a 4koma with only a few stories taking up more than a page or two, it's very easy to consume in small chunks, and the dialogue can't get too long or deep. However, there are some religious and food-related terms that may not be familiar if you haven't sought out those subjects before, and there is almost no furigana.