Alternative TitlesEnglish: My Girl Japanese: マイガール
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 5
Chapters: 44
Status: Finished
Published: Jun 2, 2006 to Sep 3, 2010
StatisticsScore: 8.441 (scored by 1467 users)
Ranked: #1862
Popularity: #662
Members: 3,917
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SynopsisSingle 23-year-old Kazama Masamune ...has a kid? During the season of cherry blossoms, his beloved passes away. He happens to meet a little girl outside work and realizes she is his daughter who was raised in secrecy by his lover. The worst spring of his life is transformed into a painful yet vivid spring. |
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Ri-chan
33 of 40 people found this review helpful
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19 of 44 chapters read
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10 |
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My Girl is about a man and his daughter. The man in question is 23 years old at the beginning of our story. He works at a novelties company, designing product. He specializes in lady bugs, which remind him of his ex-girlfriend, who went over seas to study and never came back. He still doesn't know why she left him and has never been able to really stop loving her.
One day he gets a call from the girls mother, telling him that she's been in an accident and has died. He rushes to the funeral and finds out the girl had a daughter who had to be his. He refuses to believe it until he meets the girl and finds that he wants to take care of her.
First I'd like to say the art is AMAZING! The watercolor is vivid and full of the mangaka's style and her art is gentle and soft, with no necessarily sharp edges on any of the characters' faces or hair (something I find quite annoying in other similar series). It also succeeds in being expressive of whats happening in the story. There are full pages with out text that work to continue the story and build on characters. Something difficult to accomplish unless the artist and/or editor is very skilled.
The young characters are deep, accurately portraying the complexities of understanding children, who have very strong emotions, but are not always skilled enough to express them comprehensibly. The older characters are constantly maturing and growing up just as much as the children. A refreshing cast that sometimes frustrates you, but is never all bad.
The only thing that can be wrong with this series is that some people complain it is to mopey and angsty. I personally think that, like all well written stories, there are certain parts that are sad and a little agnsty, but in the end those moments of depression are overcome and dealt with. Even if they weren't, the rest of this series is well worth the few passages of angst, just because it's that good. read more
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an older man having to look after a young girl, for different reasons. The two have very similar stories, but perhaps a different mood to how they tell them. My Girl seems a lot more like it has many morals to share with the viewers, while usagi drop seems to be more realistic in terms of drama, and comedic. Both are good reads.
Both series are about a man who meets and raises a young girl he hadn't previously known to exist after the death of her parent -- in My Girl it's his daughter whose mother has died, in Usagi Drop it's his late grandfather's child. Very much the same slice-of-life-ish 'children raise you' kind of series.
A man suddenly starts taking care of a elementary school age girl and has to balance his career with his new responsibilities.
Both stories feature the father-daughter relationship between a little girl (already past the age of 5) and a business man who had no knowledge of her existence. The relationships are also taboo socially. In Usagi Drop, because she is not really his daughter, and in My Girl, because he'd have to have been 18 when she was conceived.
The main difference between the two mangas is their over all feel. Usagi Drop is rougher than My Girl. The interaction is less subtle and the characters are less complicated. Even the art style has more hard edges and thick lines. And the main character is gruff when compared to teh main character of my girl
My Girl is softer, with complex emotions and and more meek and timid main character.
I highly suggest both!
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Both manga focus on a relationship between a kid and an adult (in the case of flat, a teenager) and how they begin to bond and understand each other.
Touching stories about how a simple meeting with a child brings forth significant difference into the everyday life of an adult. While My Girl leans more on melancholy, flat concentrates on lighthearted comedy. They are both cute and nice slice of life reads nonetheless.
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