The Gorgeous Life of Strawberry-Chan is about Strawberry-chan, a frog whose human owner likes to stick a straw up its butt and blow it up. The frog likes this in a masochistic sort of way, but is also mutually in love with its owner's roommate, though it cannot bring itself to leave its owner as, again, it likes the straw. Its owner also has another admirer of his own, one of his classmates who keeps trying to dress up as/turn into/etc a frog in order to make Strawberry-chan's master like him, but it never works because he is too enthusiastic and the master likes Strawberry-chan's unhappy, tortured, tearful faces.

This manga is pure random. Most chapters don't exceed ten pages and detail things such as Strawberry-chan switching bodies with a human, being taken care of by a friend and dehydrating into a mummy, or growing human-sized and disturbingly muscular and then sleeping in the same bed as his master. The humor is more of the “be as bizarre as possible” category than the actual clever sort. While I'm not a fan of that usually, I will admit this manga takes ADD randomness to heights higher than any other I've read, and that is sort of, kind of, maybe, a compliment. It never slows down enough to let you get tired of an idea, either.

Personally, I only cracked a smile once the entire time reading it. You don't really need a sense of humor to be bizarre, and it's not going to tickle mine if that's all you are. It seems to be one of those cases where reading a summary/description of the manga was more entertaining to me than having to sit through an entire volume of the stuff. Still, for those who do laugh at the purely random, it could very well work. For me the most satisfying part of the reading experience was stopping occasionally to contemplate the fact that someone actually sat down and wrote this odd, crude, bestiality-joke-centered clusterfuck, and that person was a female shoujo mangaka. Because actually, yeah. That is pretty funny. ( )