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The Manga Thread: Unlimited

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I recently read a scanlation of the first three chapters of Living Together in Scandinavia, a manga about a Japanese couple who moves to Sweden, and has to learn about Swedish customs, Swedish food and the Swedish language. As someone who is fascinated by foreign depictions of my home country, I am of course eating it up.

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It's especially interesting to read the translation, since the original manga have occasional speech balloons with Swedish words, with the Japanese translation underneath, and I can imagine that it must be an extra difficulty for a translator to keep track of three languages at once.

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I'm a little curious: Is this a unique premise for a manga, or are there other similar "learning about a another country" mangas like it?
 
There are, but I don't know of any myself. You might try browsing the tags that users have applied to it at MangaUpdates, though some of those might be too specific and focused on plot details. For instance, the "Living Abroad" tag is a thing, but that doesn't cover cases where there's a cultural focus that uses a different framing device than Japanese expats.

I'd be remiss if I didn't praise A Bride's Story, which I love. It is not quite what you asked about, because it's set in the mid-19th century rather than modern day. But it's got a high-fidelity ethnographic depiction of its setting (various central Asian countries) and is consistently gorgeous and dramatic.
 
Yeah Bride’s Story is great. It’s by the same author as Victorian Romance Emma, which is a similarly meticulously researched dive into (obviously) a Victorian England setting (and also has a good anime adaptation).
 
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