#battan

Seri Tainaka is a manga artist with a one-hit-wonder. Her title, "To Hell and Back" was widely loved…but her successes end there. When Seri meets her quirky new editor, Sumire Futami, she is both shocked and captivated by this fascinating woman… Shrouded in mystery, Futami seems to be hiding some truths about herself. With the ladies teamed up, their Fatale Game begins here!

I am making this EMERGENCY TOXIC YURI REC POST because I actually had no idea it got licensed and apparently the artist said that sales weren't going well but the editor-in-chief has been allowing the series to continue and I need everyone to gather your powers and Save Yuri because if this series gets cancelled. I will be on the news.

ANYWAY, this is burnt out insecure manga artist/ambitious manipulative manga editor (although, rather than artist/editor it's more artist?editor). the art is BEAUTIFUL and the women are UNHINGED.

something that I really like about it is that the manipulative editor is pretty off-putting. the artist is resistant for the first few pages (lol) because the editor's extremely pushy, effusively over-affectionate, and excruciatingly blunt with what doesn't meet her standards (she calls the artist's storyboard "boring" Several Times)

but even though the editor seems to make a pretty universally terrible first impression on, quite possibly, every artist she's worked with, her intensity is the source of the charisma she uses to bewitch those artists

the Gripping Someone By Their Anatomically Accurate Heart visual comes back several times and it's always a banger, my favorite version of it so far is in chapter 7.

something that I find compelling is that the editor is definitely manipulative and only interested in artists that she thinks has the potential to be Ranked #1, and actively pits her artists against each other like she's running fight club, but there's something about her that makes you want to believe that some degree of her feelings are pure... that she truly and sincerely has a deep connection with the art that she gravitates to...

all of this is from the first chapter btw, it's kinda crazy. battan is a genius. anyway if you use K-manga's ticket system you can read Fatale Game for free, Please Please Please Please read it on the app and also vote for Every Chapter, NOW IS THE TIME