Ashizuri Suizokukan

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Synonyms: Ashizuri Aquarium, Kanzen Shoutengai, Sugoroku, Atarashii Sekai, Innocent World, 2012-nen 4-gatsu 19-nichi no Yume, Meido, Sputnik, Mudai, Machine Jidai no Doubutsu-tachi, Kimi no Sakana, Ending Theme

Japanese: 足摺り水族館

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 1

Chapters: 14

Status: Finished

Published: May 5, 2009 to Aug 30, 2013

Genres: Slice of Life, Supernatural

Serialization: None

Authors: panpanya (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.36¹ (scored by 1,581 users)

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Ranked: #4272²

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Popularity: #3626

Members: 5,698

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1. Ashizuri Suizokukan
2. Kanzen Shoutengai
3. Sugoroku
4. Atarashii Sekai
5. Innocent World
6. 2012-nen 4-gatsu 19-nichi no Yume
7. Ashizuri Suizokukan
8. Meido
9. Sputnik
10. Mudai
11. Machine Jidai no Doubutsu-tachi
12. Ashizuri Suizokukan
13. Kimi no Sakana
14. Ending Theme

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Ashizuri Suizokukan was nominated for the seventh Manga Taisho Award in 2014 and placed ninth in the final ranking. In the same year, it also ranked 14th in the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! for the Male Readers division.

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Sep 21, 2016

PunkChinaDoll

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Ashizuri Suizokukan is a collection of short stories. Some of them are very short (7-10 pages) and some of them are one shot length (40-50 pages). All of them are interesting and show a bizarre world mixed in with our "normal" world.

The story doesn't really exist here. Most of the stories feature some kind of little girl that goes to an adventure or interact with the bizarre creatures of her world. The stories feel like everything is a dream, there isn't a clear distinction between reality and a dream. Is everything merely an illusion or it really happened? ... Some stories have some vague massages about them (sometimes it's less vague) but the real interest is the amazing world that we can experience and see more aspects of it.
For example in the story "the complete shopping district" the girl need to find an item for her mom but cannot read her note. So she search for a man that can read it and overhear conversion about a shopping district that you can find there everything you want:stuff from the past, the future, stuff that disappeared already. Or the time when she go to the newseum, the museum where everything is new, and is in constant construction to continue being new.

The characters are also bizarre, sometimes has animal heads or star shaped body. In one of my favorite from the collection, "city of the dead", we can see a city will all kind of abnormal creatures that seem to roam the streets. And they would be very kind to you if you give them a small piece of baguette!

The main character itself is a great choice in my opinion. Being a little girl, she accept all that happen around her in a very neutral, childlike way. She is curios, and interested in the way the world works, and her interactions with the other characters are very amusing. We can see in "the complete shopping district" that she tries to find a man who can read the note from her mom, and one man suggest her that the note might be in Russian. In response to her question "where can I find a man who can speak Russian?" the man says "you just need to go to Russia."
And that she does.
Through her we discover the wonderful world in very accepting eyes, we can accept everything that happen thanks to her.

As for the art, without a doubt the strongest aspect of the manga. As written in the MAL page the artist use detailed background with simplistic characters. This contradiction is beautiful. We can see sometimes zoom shoots on the hands of the characters and suddenly it's very detailed. We have also sometimes very rough, sketch like art, contributing to the bizarre, dream like feeling. Sometimes the art looks like it was drawn in a pencil, like the story "The innocent world". The art complete the experience and without it the manga wouldn't be the same.

Overall, this is a great read. Very short one too. Just take a time off and try to read it, you will have fun with it, and you can take from it whatever you like-the manga is open to interpretations. And even if it doesn't have a deeper meaning, just take it as a wild journey in a brand new-old world.

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Dec 10, 2020

marcos813

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A set of stories with a weird fixation on fish, the sea, and the abstraction of the everyday world.

Beautiful art that makes excellent use of contrast and white spaces, with the human characters drawn in a cutesy and really really simplified way, almost doodle-like, while the backgrounds have this eerie, realistic-but-out-of-this-world feeling to it, creepy and full with detail. When it comes to the abstraction, this is probably the best aspect of the artstyle, the mangaka really nails it when it comes to the deformation of the normal world into an alien space, and how the abstraction takes a role in the plot, items ...

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