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This consists of two short stories. The titular story, Drunks, is about a man who is dragged out to drink. When he’s on his way home, he meets a woman who bites him. He wakes up the next, thinking it was a dream, but turns out he really came across a vampire.

The second is titled Tick Tock and is about a relationship between a woman who had been asleep in cryostasis for over a century and the descendant of her brother.

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THOUGHTS

Neither of these left much impression on me. In fact, they left so little impression I had to read them a second time to actually be able to share my thoughts. After a second read, I’m really just as unimpressed.

Drunks is more of a prologue, so it’s very open-ended and there’s little about the development of their relationship. It’s very much like “they met, she lives with him, they spend time together”. There’s not much substance to it, unfortunately.

Meanwhile, Tick Tock gets a little more… disturbing? Aside from the extremely down-to-earth view of what it’ll be like in a century, the nature of the relationship makes my skin crawl. On one hand, they’re related. Although not directly, it’s still something I reacted to. On the other hand, he grew up with her being essentially asleep the entire time, you know? There’s something vaguely unsettling with that for me when considering the turn of their relationship.

Okaya Izumi’s art is light and minimalistic and works well with the more mature storylines of these stories. I’ll give it that much. It translated horribly on the e-reader I tend to use to read manga, though, and for that reason, I ended up reading it on my computer.

Overall, I didn’t particularly like these, nor dislike them. There just wasn’t enough to truly leave an impression. Even after two reads, one being right before writing these thoughts, I don’t quite remember how the relationship developed in Tick Tock. I honestly think I tuned it out.

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