The below review contains spoilers. The below review is for an incomplete or currentlyrunning manga. Dainana Joshikai Houkou is a fantastical slice of futuristic life that proves that while society can change people seem to stay the same. so concludes Dainana Joshikai Houkous english: The Wandering of Girls Group 7 GG7 from here on out description on scanlation website Batoto and its true GG7 really does seem to fixate a good deal on the idea that no matter what the future may bring human problems on a person to person scale remain essentially the same. So what is GG7? As the above description implies its a twist on the usual high school slice of life premise. Our setting is in the near future not so far as to be unrecognizable but far enough that human life is dominated by an array of weird fantastical gadgets. To name just a few there are clipon headbands that induce instant sleep and wakefulness personal climate control sticks that adhere to ones head and change their internal body temperature gum that can substitute for entire meals hello Willy Wonka a character who is a robot from the future and most important to the overall plot Digital Heaven an artificial afterlife where the dead live on as computerstored phantoms and later in the series gain the ability to manifest in the real world via the use of projectors. One might think that the manga would spend most of its pages exploring the ramifications of these but smartly the technology itself is rarely dwelled on except to propel the plot forward. More focus is given to the interpersonal relationships between the two protagonists sensible and smart Machiko Kanemura and the dimwitted hyperactive and apparently mononymous Takagi and later a slightly wider cast of characters that includes the aforementioned robot a dead classmate Tsuboi who lives on via Digital Heaven and eventually starts attending school again a technically17 boy who recently came out of cryostasis and more. GG7 begins quite gagfocused but it really comes into its own around the start of the second volume where Kanemura and Takagis relationship is focused on more and furthermore marginally more serious elements are introduced to the book though it never stops being lighthearted which works to its benefit. Really the contrast between the sometimes melancholy and occasionally plainly horrific goingson of the world and the mostly normal relationships the girls maintain with each other and others is one of the things that really makes the manga work. GG7 isnt unique here as this particular substrain of the slice of life / comedy manga has been quietly brewing for over a decade now most of Douman Seimans work Sumire16 and its sequel Terrarium in Drawer Daidai wa Hantoumei ni Nidone suru and on the more mainstream end of the scale the recentlyadapted A Centaurs Life all fall under this same broad umbrella but its one of the less overtly gonzo entries into the field and as such its one of the more accessible. That shouldnt be confused for a lack of quality though GG7s comparative emotional realism the term is used here very loosely means that when it decides to get philosophical it matters more. Volume 3 story Gpsy Kings is one of the least fantastic of the entire series and builds a backstory for the goofy screwball Takagi. Her behavior which mind you elsewhere in the manga is pinned on an invisible monster influencing her and later on a cursed doll is shown to be a pretty mundane consequence of a childhood spent moving all over the world because of her fathers job. This backstory provides context for her clinginess to the smarter Kanemura. Here too the manga calls back to earlier stories quite early on we learn that Kanemura and Takagi met via a friendship program a sort of buddy system that their school does. When were first introduced to this it seems vaguely creepy or dystopian and at the end of that first arc its essentially played for a gag but we find out here much later in the manga that Takagi actually worked hard to get into her high school specifically because of the friend system hoping it would remedy her friendless upbringing and allay her social awkwardness. These moments are where GG7 truly shines but it never really dips in quality either. Even the more straightforward jokes and the occasional Twilight Zoneesque narrative thud such as A River Full of What Might Be Cans wherein Takagi accidentally thwarts an alien invasion are never anything less than enjoyable. Provided youre not offput by its strangeness its hard not to recommend GG7 being it is as close as this particular niche of the manga market gets to an easy read.