となりの関くん 9

Another great Seki-Kun volume. Seki's puppet is another all-time great bit and there are some fun appeareances from his family in this one.

Reading-wise I would say this was the easiest volume for me, but at the same time there were some specific cultural references that I didn't know that tripped me up. I could still get the punchline from context in the first one, basically Seki seems to know the answer to a long-standing pop culture mystery and won't tell anyone, but the Olympic medals chapter had a lot of traditional culture references that I didn't know and it was the first chapter I've had where a lot of the jokes were lost on me. I looked up a translated version and there were a lot of translator notes on that one, but hey, now I know them for next time, so I still learned something!