Marie no Kanaderu Ongaku (The Music of Marie)

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Japanese: Marieの奏でる音楽

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 2

Chapters: 17

Status: Finished

Published: Dec 10, 1999 to Sep 12, 2001

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Comic Birz

Authors: Furuya, Usamaru (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #1006²

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Popularity: #1427

Members: 13,662

Favorites: 268

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Ranked #1006Popularity #1427Members 13,662

MangaComic BirzFuruya, Usamaru (Story & Art)

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In a surreal world of abundant wonders, Gil is a workshop town specialized in mechanical craftsmanship, boasting the largest population in the land of Piril. People lead simple lives with little to no advancement in technology, worshipping Marie, a mechanical Goddess who keeps vigil of Piril from the sky.

Daughter of the top mechanical artisan of Gil, Pipi is a cheerful and popular young girl. She likes her childhood friend, Kai, who has an extraordinary ability to hear sounds inaudible to the human ear. He is the only one in town who can listen to Marie's "music." The soothing sounds that come from her are said to retain the peace and harmony of the land. Kai's affection for Marie deepens as he continues to experience these sounds and see visions of himself through her eyes.

Exploring the fantasy world of Kai and Pipi, Marie no Kanaderu Ongaku tackles concepts of religion, technology, and what it truly means to be happy.

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Marie no Kanaderu Ongaku was published in English as The Music of Marie by One Peace Books on May 17, 2022. It was also released in French by Casterman Manga from 2004 to 2005; in Spanish as La música de Marie by Milky Way Ediciones in a complete omnibus on December 19, 2016; and in Brazilian Portuguese as A Música de Marie by NewPOP in a complete omnibus on June 10, 2022.

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Sep 16, 2022

skylucario

Recommended

I don’t think you should go into this manga taking everything the author says at face value. I prefer to read it as a portrayal of the author’s complex relationship with his own reality, especially the anguish he feels when he tries to reconcile himself with it. It’s more of a cry for help than it is applicable to real life, I guess, but it’s detached from reality for a reason—heavy stuff can hard to think about and confront directly. In the end, it was easier for him to continue his escape with fallacious portrayals of human nature than it was to make any constructive ...

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Jan 20, 2024

YoRHa_9z

Mixed Feelings

Let's get the good out of the way first here. The art is incredible and very creative here. It's not to be understated how wonderful it is and how easy it is to immerse yourself into the world solely off of the art alone. Without a doubt the best part of the manga is its artwork and visual aspects. Props should also be given to this manga when it comes to the general idea and concept of the story itself. Wouldn't get into it in order to avoid spoilers, but the concepts for this story could have worked if it wasn't for one thing...

That ... being it really feels like the author thinks the reader is a complete idiot. The dialogue/writing in this manga actively frustrates me to no end. At every chance the author gets, instead of letting the reader understand what is being shown, there is a dialogue box to tell us what is being shown. It is hard to explain without an example. SLIGHT chapter 1 spoilers. So our ML is walking up to the workshop where our FL builds robots. When he gets there, he tells us that all of the 10s of robots were partially maintained by her constantly. This is fine internal dialogue by the ML. Not the most creative way to tell us that, especially when you were already showing us that. Then, the ML says something along the lines of "There are so many of them. It must be hard work" and then while looking at her smiling "She looks so happy laughing like that". See...this is annoying to me. You just SHOWED her working. The art perfectly shows how much effort she puts into maintaining the robots, and how much she cares for them. You don't need to say it too. SHE IS LITERALLY SMILING. YOU DON'T NEED TO TELL ME SHE IS SMILING AND LAUGHING. IT IS A MANGA!! I CAN SEE HER LAUGHING AND SMILING!!

...Okay. Now what if I told you it was like this for the rest of the manga. Every chapter. Practically every page. This example is like from the 2 and 3 page.

**This is Important** For the most part, anime/manga isn't a particularly subtle medium in what it tries to do for the most part. I can stand some stupid dialogue or something lazily explained in manga. It's a medium in which showing the story can sometimes be difficult to convey without an explanation. However, this manga far overcorrects for this problem. It partially removes all subtly and interpretation on the readers end. It feels like the author is holding my hand and doesn't respect the reader to interpret the work in any way. I know I am being harsh, but it genuinely ruined my experience reading this manga. It has interesting ideas and incredible artwork, but it doesn't let it speak for itself. Which is especially disappointing for this manga, since the artwork really does say so much for this manga in particular. It's too bad that the author didn't trust the reader to find the meaning by ourselves. This manga could easily be a 7 or 8 out of 10 manga if 40% of the dialogue boxes were removed.

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Feb 19, 2014

jyagan0

Not Recommended

I disagree with most of the fans of this.
Is it good?
Yes
Is it underrated?
Yes.

Do I like it?
no.
The art style felt way too shoujo which distracted me from what could have been very good looking artwork
The story took too long to go anywhere, half of the entire thing and even then it wasnt satisfying considering I had to slough through half slice of nothing happening.
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