
Artist's commentary
おしえて! 健康のひみつ!
ちょっと乱暴でぶっきらぼう、
冬でも半ズボンで元気な少年アルくん。
彼のことが少し気になる活発朗らか少女アルトちゃん。
二人を中心とした仲良しメンバーが送る賑やかな日々の中、健康とお薬のことは何でもお任せ! たまに笑顔が怪しいぞ! な謎のマスコット、健康博士が二人の健康に関する疑問に答えたり豆知識を授けたりする姿をわかりやすくも可愛らしいタッチで描く健康啓蒙漫画。
一見子供向けのように見えるが、描かれた健康知識は正確であり実践的。万人のタメになる一冊。
なお第一稿ではアルトリア換算表なる巻末付録があると表紙に記されていたが、諸事情により実際に頒布された本の表紙からは消され、巻末の換算表は黒塗りにされている。
しかし欄外に小さく書かれている案内に従って奥付の連絡先に電話すれば、ぶっきらぼうなお医者さんのような口調の誰かが問題なく換算値を教えてくれるという。
『最終的に正しい知識、正しいデータが伝わるのであれば、別に経路にはこだわらずとも良い。……だろう?』
Teach Us! Secrets to Health!
He's a little rough around the edges, but Al is an energetic boy who wears short pants even in winter, and Artie is an active and cheerful girl who is a little interested in him. This is an adorable, yet educational health awareness manga that centers one these two, as the story follows them in their every day lives! There's even a mysterious mascot whose smile is a bit suspicious and a health professor who answers the characters' health and medical questions in easy-to-understand ways, as well as teaching the readers useful medical tidbits!
Although it appears to be aimed at children, the health knowledge depicted is accurate and practical, making this a book anyone could benefit from reading.
The first draft of the book notes that there is a bonus booklet included with the doujin called the Artoria Conversion Table, but for some reason, the wording was removed from the actual published book cover and the conversion table is blacked out. However, if readers follow the fine print and try to call the contact information written on the back, someone with a blunt, doctoral tone will not hesitate to tell you the conversion value without any problem.
"Ultimately, it doesn't matter how the information is relayed as long as the correct data is shared some way or another...right?"
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