There are fourteen English-language collections of the manga series NURSE HITOMI'S MONSTER INFIRMARY, but reading the first didn't fill me with the desire to check out any more. The titular Hitomi is a cyclops who works as a high school nurse-attendant, in a world where various monsters just pop up every once in a while and all the norms just accept their presence. The stories in Volume 1 are all about the same: a teenager is at odds with his or her developing monster-nature-- invisibility, an elastic tongue, turning into a giantess or a Thomasina Thumb-- and Nurse makes it all better with reassuring words. Not much humor or horror.
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