Review:
Four characters - Corouyuki, who loves fish, Benben, who's constantly reading the dictionary, Himepoyo, a spoiled young lady who's used to getting others to do everything for her, and Guchan, who's always sleeping and talks via snot bubbles - move to one of Tom Nook's deserted islands. They were expecting a proper vacation near actual civilization, but they soon adapt to their situation, learn what sorts of things they can do on the island, enjoy island life, and just generally drive Tom Nook crazy.
This weird manga is basically a combination of ad and game guide. It introduces several villagers, including Dom and Raymond, as well as a bunch of NPCs players of the game will encounter, such as Blathers, Tom Nook, Timmy and Tommy, Wisp the ghost, Gulliver, and more.
A little over a third of this volume is explicitly game guide stuff, paired with humorous four-panel comics - lots of ACNH character introductions (including a bunch of villagers I've never met), and gameplay tips like setting up your home, using a vaulting pole to get across rivers, catching bugs, fishing, and more.
It doesn't manage to get through everything you can do in the game (I assume this manga was published prior to the updates that added new activities), but it does get through a huge chunk of the basics, so I wonder if future volumes in this series will be more focused on Coroyuki, Benben, Himepoyo, Guchan, and their interactions with villagers.
Other than the chance to see a few villagers in action that I might never meet, there isn't a lot here to make me want to read the next volume. The humor is aimed at kids (Japanese kids, at that, so there are probably jokes lost in translation) and never really hit the mark with me. It was kind of fun seeing the characters drive Tom Nook nuts, though.
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