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A short but inspiring manga. Taneda's dead got me by surprise, I thought he was going to be alright after that accident but nope. Asano Inio did a fantastic job drawing the sad and tragic moments, I'm going to read more of his work.

Beatnik is right, I saw the Solanin film adaptation trailer, and they gave everything away, not worth watching.

☺ 8-9/10

same here. i thought he'd just end up alright in hospital or something. still, i really, really enjoyed it. awesome story.

shame about the film trailer though, haha.

I'm the minority here but I thought this manga sucked. The angsty female protagonist and her loser boyfriend who supposedly a guitar player. Maybe I'm just being an elitist because I'm in college and wonder why the couple preferred to skip the option of college and lay around doing nothing and rely on being in a relationship and hoping that it won't end. On top of that, Meiko is dumb enough to think that her shaky relationship with her boyfriend will make her forget about real life troubles, such as money and having a good social life.

My bias made this manga torture to read because it's stupid choice after stupid choice made by the characters. However, the mangaka was good enough to make me care enough about the characters to judge them.

At its best, the manga illustrates the worst of what can happen when twenty somethings don't have a set goal in life that they want to pursue and simply lounge around.

At its worst, it's another drama manga with a tragic situation thrown in to pander for the readers' sympathy.

7/10 (Good. +/- 1 Point)

*Warning to people who have not read "Solanin": Some of this is put into spoilers due to a very high amount of direct story discussion. I do not want to ruin it for you. Thank you. Unto the post now~




Hmmm...everyone here has really great arguments, especially "arimakenshin".



Now, I would like to discuss the serious downfalls to "Solanin".



The good things about "Solanin", please.






......well, I have probably typed a loooooooot more than I needed to. But, that's okay. Just try to read it all or glance at it, please. As well, even though I have seemed to really rant about this manga I really enjoyed it acutely. I thought it was pretty well done and I do suggest it to anyone who is willing to read it. So, yep! :3

P.S: arimakenshin, I must say that they did not skip college all together. "Solanin" is set right after they graduated. So, this is post-college. Just wanted to point that out. Sorry if this bothered you ^^;
Also, writing this entire post....makes me want to change my score for it acutely. *drops score from 9 to 8*

Thanks for the correction. When I look at the manga after several months since I completed it, what really rubbed me the wrong way is when I asked the question, "What purpose does this manga have?" Does it really improve the reader's understand of different lifestyles? Entertainment? Is it unique compared to other manga?

There are way too many manga, especially in the Seinen genre, that discuss the same "twenty something existentialism". It gets quite boring after the first few masterpieces. Solanin offered nothing more than a short quick form of entertainment that can be completed in twenty minutes without any deep message.

I agree wholeheartedly with arimakenshin and sillyker0nian. But I am interested in what has been done right in this genre; what are the other 'masterpieces' that you mentioned above? :D

Very good, but sad.
Well, things need to go on.
Solanin almost made me cry.

Solanin goes to my top list of mangas. Its very beautiful, touching and so realistic. Solanin is a manga about life and the struggles within it. Read it and you wont be dissapointed.

+1

They pointed out exactly all my issues with this manga. I still enjoyed it but not as much as the others.

I think it was just decent. The death of her boyfriend was a significant incident and a turning point of the story but it didn't seem to have much impact on her- not enough impact anyway.

The death was really really confusing, he's lying down after the crash THEN it goes into the story about him playing guitar and stuff.. which is all apparently a flash back he had right before dying.. but how the heck are you supposed to know that?

I dunno what's wrong with all of you. This is one of the most beautiful mangas I have ever read.

I normally don't read much manga, but this... goddamn. This was something amazing. It make me experience just about every emotion possible and ended beautifully. This is my first 10/10 for a manga.

This was great.

Inspiring manga, great character and so damn realistic story.

After the first posts I was wondering if I really missed something about it. I can fully agree with those who loved the story.

It's extremely realistic, maybe that's the bad part there? The whole story gives you a feeling of unaccomplishment, lack of hope and ideas for the future, but underneath it all it really shows off the positive side of life - what is enjoying whatever you have, under whatever circumstances you get.

It's true that their lives seemed to be pretty much nothing but a failure, because they couldn't find a place for themselves after finishing college - I can fully sympathize with them.

In this bitter-sweet story there was on line that really inspired me: "if you ad zero to zero you get eternity"

@sillyker0nian you misinterpreted a few things:
She quitted the job she hated to make Taneda think about their future.
Taneda didn't die before the concert, the idea came out after his death, and had nothing to do with Meiko starting guitar.
She started working 2 months after Taneda's death
The boy asked Meiko out few months after Taneda's death - that's why she didn't agree.

Sorry for pointing those out but they seem quite important to the story(^__^ )