★ "Half-Hour Comics Adolescence" is a flagship puberty-era popular-science work under the "Half-Hour Comics" blockbuster brand, backed by its 64-million-follower IP. Creator Chen Lei (Hunzi Ge) and his team follow the "Half-Hour Comics" series with this new adolescence-themed title. The "Half-Hour Comics" series has long topped bestseller lists, with a marked brand effect and strong market appeal.

★ Laugh-out-loud comics clarify the four major growth dimensions of adolescence, effortlessly defusing the awkwardness of growing up. The series spans four themes—physical, psychological, social, and safety—turning puberty knowledge that parents struggle to explain and schools hesitate to teach into instantly readable comics and jokes. Equal parts substance and fun, it lets kids understand growth with composure.

★ Critical and commercial success: the series has sold over 250,000 copies, with a complete four-volume IP system. The prior installments won consistent praise from young readers, teachers, and parents; the four volumes systematically cover physical, psychological, social, and safety topics, forming a complete puberty safeguard system. One set accompanies a child from bodily changes to self-protection.

The set comprises four volumes:
Vol.1 Physiology
Vol.2 Psychology
Vol.3 Social Skills
Vol.4 Safety

What do you do when friends give you a nickname? When someone spreads a rumor about you? Can you be friends with a struggling student? How do you handle the teacher-student relationship? The author researched the problems adolescent readers actually face, interviewing many middle-school students and teachers, then explains in comics the causes and coping strategies behind each issue. Why do you feel a pang of jealousy when a friend outshines you everywhere? It turns out jealousy is social comparison at work. How do you quickly find like-minded friends in a new environment? Ten friendship secrets—all revealed today! No dry, abstruse theory, no annoying dogma; watch adolescence lurch from stumbling toward smooth growth, so youth is not lost and growing up is not troubled.

Chen Lei (pen name: Erhunzi / Hunzi Ge)
A pioneer of comic-based popular science and chairman of Shanghai Hunzhi Culture Communication Co., Ltd. He holds a master's degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University and is a senior science-communication researcher. After earning his master's from Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2009, he joined Shanghai Volkswagen as a designer; from 2012 he began publishing original popular-science comics online. In 2014 he received a 1.47-million-yuan angel investment from CCTV host Zhang Quanling, and with additional 15-million-yuan funding from Xu Xiaoping founded a comics studio. In 2015 he launched the "Hunzhi" WeChat account; by 2025 his total social-media following reached 64 million, with total reads exceeding 500 million. After "Half-Hour Comics Chinese History" published in 2017 and sold out within seven hours, he propelled history titles to three consecutive years as national bestsellers. In 2021 he won the China Animation Golden Dragon Award for Best Comics Publishing. His representative works include the "Half-Hour Comics Chinese History" series (cumulative sales exceeding 30 million copies), the "Half-Hour Comics World History" series, and the "Half-Hour Comics Science History" series (winner of the 2022 Shanghai Outstanding Popular-Science Book), as well as "Half-Hour Comics Universe Big Bang" (selected for the 2022 National Outstanding Popular-Science Works) and "Comics: A Century of the Party · Creation of Heaven and Earth." He also serves as a member of the All-China Youth Federation, the Shanghai Youth Federation, and vice president of the Shanghai Youth Literature and Art Federation.

Prologue: Youth Means Not Just Taking Exams, but Making Friends!
1. I'm Fine—Why Give Me Such an Ugly Nickname? So Annoying
2. A Best Friend Outshines Me—and I Feel a Little... Off
3. Baseless Rumors Make Me Everyone's Gossip Target? What the Heck!
4. Poor Grades Mean You Can't Do Anything, Not Even Make Friends? Really?
5. Girls Can't Do Science, Boys Can't Be Considerate? Nonsense!
6. Always Worried I'm Not Good-Looking Enough, So Fewer People Like Me
7. The Issues Between My Teacher and Me
8. Friendship Secrets Revealed—All Passed to You Today!