It is my duty to report that a person with no background in "higher" math cannot, in fact teach themselves calculus using only a comic book. This becomes obvious long before the halfway point, and the manga format is occasionally dropped for pages at a time. All available space becomes filled with variables and you are essentially reading a textbook. It turns out, the lack of a manga guide is not the cause of my lack of calculus aptitude.

What I did appreciate, however, was the convenient visualization of what it is that differential and integral calculations actually do. It must be a marvelous thing to hold all those variables in place, because their manifestations are evidently impressive. Math really is a wonderful thing; it's just a shame I'm not accustomed to mathematical reasoning.

The story was cute too. Did I occasionally skip a few equation pages to get back to the funny pictures? Can you blame me?