Sakura Hamada – författare

Friday at the Atelier is a romantic comedy manga featuring the courtship of an eccentric artist and a stoic office lady.

Emiko Tamaki is a female office worker who’s exhausted with life, but when she goes up to someone collapsed on the street, she’s surprised by his sudden request to model for him. The man turns out to be renowned artist Shunsui Ishihara, and he wants her nude…and covered in fish?! It’s not the most normal way to get to know someone, but it might be the start of something beautiful— or at least unpredictable!

Office worker Emiko Tamaki has become more optimistic ever since she began modeling for the awkward but self-assured artist Shunsui Ishihara. With a budding awareness that she’s the subject of his gaze, Tamaki has a new spring in her step and puts effort into being a better model for Ishihara—not realizing it makes him worry! And inspired by her, Ishihara branches out and takes on new artistic challenges…but is he prepared for the changes tied to his recent work?