One Fine Day
One Fine Day is a slice-of-life comic with little in the way of continuous plotline between issues. The stories center around bachelor No-Ah and his pets; Nanai, a dog, Guru, a cat, and Rang, a mouse. The Calvin and Hobbesian twist is that the animals are alternately depicted as actual animals and as children dressed similarly to the animals they are apparently supposed to be.
Probably the greatest criticism which could be legitimately raised about One Fine Day is that the art is so inconsistent. Not just in that the children can change back and forth from “animal mode” to “child mode” from panel to panel; you’ll get used to that fairly quick. The problem is that creator Sirial can clearly draw well, as evidenced in many of the more detailed panels, but these panels are in between others which are not fully rendered and instead done in a “sketchy” title with simple rounded characters, incorrect perspective, little or no backgrounds and little shading. Other panels are somewhere in between. The end result can come off as looking somewhat neurotic. That aside, assuming you’re not looking for anything resembling a traditional continuous plot arc, One Fine Day is entirely inoffensive and even kind of fun sometimes.
