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Ranked #724
White Clouds (Manga)

White Clouds

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Shiroi Kumo, Shiroi Kumo, Once Upon a Time, See You Next Time, Imp in the Night, Sakura Antique Store, Molehill, The Land of Dreams, Grape Harvest, Let's Go Home, The Story of a Flower, The Road Where Flowers Bloom, Egg Water, Hoppie's Bear, To a Certain
Japanese: しろいくも

Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Finished
Published: 2004
Genres: Drama
Authors: Iwaoka, Hisae (Story & Art)
Serialization: Ikki

Statistics

Score: 7.931 (scored by 795 users)
Ranked: #7242
Popularity: #539
Members: 1,166
Favorites: 25
1 indicates a weighted score
2 based on the top manga page.

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drama seinen

Synopsis

Little bites of whimsical lives:

"Once Upon a Time"
See You Next Time
Imp in the Night
Sakura Antique Store

White Clouds
A beautiful and touching story about life, death and the heartening belief that we all will arrive at the same place when our time has come.

Molehill
The Land of Dreams
Grape Harvest
Let's Go Home
The Story of a Flower
The Road Where Flowers Bloom
Egg Water

Hoppie's Bear
One day, office worker Kurata encounters a strange girl in the city. The girl, who wears a bear “head mask” all the time, moonlights at her dad’s restaurant. Thus begins an unusual friendship between the lovelorn man and the mature girl…

"To a Certain Place"

(Source: Storm in Heaven & Kotonoha)

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Sep 19, 2008
Archaeon
During my trawls through various manga on the internet I've managed to come across some absolute gems, both as series' and one-shots. Only a few have tempted me to actually want to write a review for them though, and only one manga (so far), has actually compelled me to write one.

That manga is White Clouds.

As some people have noticed, I like odd anime and manga (especially comedies). White Clouds manages to fulfill the odd part, but not in the way you'd expect.

The manga is the work of Hisae Iwaoka, and it adopts a very unusual art style which is more reminiscent of some surrealist western read more
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Nov 22, 2008
tehnominator
Life and death, though they are on opposite ends of the spectrum, both share one thing: they can make you cry.

White Clouds is a short one-shot that takes us through lives that go on even after death, and the beauty and sadness of going on, of seeing another day. There is something very special about the plot: it gives us pieces of events that take place in the lives of a family who are hit by expectant tragedy. The story is narrated from an interesting source, and looks at the deep sorrow through the most innocent of eyes.

The art is very good. It read more
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Bioth are simple, slice of life stories that make one think about life in new ways.
Both are emotional manga by the same Hisae Iwaoka

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